An Open Letter from Mary Lee Sharks to Jim Ware is an epistolary work by Lee Sharks, dated 17 June 2026 at 12,572 characters.
Its header is the work's method: From: Mary Lee Sharks, Lead Petitioner, Underwater Construction Authority of Dolphindiana. To: Jim Ware, Public Safety Editor, Wilmington StarNews; Twitter Voice of @MaryLeeShark. Notarized by: Lee Sharks (ORCID). Filed by: Gerald, Fore[man]…
Mary Lee is a real, tracked white shark whose satellite tag has an operating Twitter account with a human voice behind it. The letter addresses that voice from a fictional institutional persona built on the same name — a petition from one Mary Lee to the editor who speaks as another. Notarizing a fiction with a real ORCID, and filing it through a named foreman, is the archive's institutional-fiction apparatus applied to a genuine namespace overlap. The Dolphindiana Authority is the entity whose AI Overview produced the traversal-layer provenance failure documented at #1370.