Snark Floats | Jenifer Jorgenson | Substack

🪵 Getting Started with Snark Floats

You’ve joined the cool kids (or wandered in by mistake — no judgment). Either way, here’s how to navigate the unsettling tales, opinionated essays, and…

Sep 7, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

Deleted Tomorrows

Janice just wanted to see her son again. Instead, she found the kind of home movie no parent should ever have to watch.

Jan 14 • Jenifer Jorgenson

Keeping the Light

In an isolated lighthouse shrouded in fog, an immortal woman keeps a light burning — not as duty, but as payment. A gothic horror story about power…

Jan 11 • Jenifer Jorgenson

A Horror Anthology for a Reason

A group of Substack fiction writers came together to create a horror anthology for a real reason, with proceeds supporting a fellow writer.

Jan 9 • Jenifer Jorgenson

SNARK FLOATS on: “Reality” Television

A short rant on the bullshit we call reality television, spectacle, and why we keep watching

Jan 7

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When the Levee Breaks

Nov 24, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

🕯️Unquiet World

Oct 31, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

SNARK FLOATS on: Why Firefly was Really Canceled

Dec 19, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

Integrity Is a Quiet Revolution

Sep 2, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

A beloved childhood companion leads a woman back to his home in the jungle — and to the truth about what he really is.

Jan 4 • Jenifer Jorgenson

Things I Learned by Accidentally Writing 200K+ Words on Substack

In 6 months on Substack, I accidentally wrote over 200K words. This essay looks at how it happened, what surprised me, and what I learned about writing…

Dec 31, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

In a deserted amusement park turned ghost town, a disgraced former deputy hunts a man the law cannot reach. Surrounded by the ruins of justice, she must…

Dec 29, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

SNARK FLOATS on: Special Edition Flavors and the Illusion of Choice

A short rant about novelty, marketing, and the death of “good enough”

Dec 26, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

The Forest Keeps

When a child breaks the village’s oldest rule to help her family, the forest answers — not with cruelty, but with judgment.

Dec 24, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

The (Mostly True) Adventures of Harold the Christmas Mouse

A Christmas memory from the Jorgenson home, involving a bathtub, four cats, and a very odd family. Oh, and one very brave mouse.

Dec 22, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

As the universe collapses, humanity makes one last choice: not to survive, but to live long enough for it to matter.

Dec 20, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

SNARK FLOATS on: Why Firefly was Really Canceled

One fan’s conspiracy theory about why the Alliance won — and why some of us are still fighting

Dec 19, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

In a walled metropolis protected by heroes, a new power forces a young man to face the difference between safety, belonging, and truth.

Dec 17, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

Fire of Forgotten Gods

A circle of forgotten gods gathers at an autumn fire — only to be joined by a new god of AI who wants nothing to do with divinity. A mythic, modern tale…

Dec 15, 2025 • Jenifer Jorgenson

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Snark Floats

Snark Floats

Snark Floats is what happens when a Gen X voice finally snaps. My fiction stabs, my essays prod, and my brain leaks gloriously into your eyeballs. It’s not always pretty, but it’s always real. And usually kinda fun.

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