Lifers: A micro-novel is the short prose work JEF distributes under the byline Jeffrey Scott Weisman. It uses incarceration as a metaphorical framework, asking how individual human nature shapes the course of a life — the prison frame doing in compressed form the work a longer book would spread across chapters.

The byline here is the more formal version of the name Weisman prints on his JEF series novel, the absurdist Trump-era allegory The Greatest Place on Earth (Journal of Experimental Fiction vol. 91, 2021). Lifers runs alongside that novel as the shorter test of the same writer's interest in confinement and selfhood.