We hit our submission quota and are now closed until March! Very much looking forward to reading all these weird natures

We are currently open to submissions! Send us your rotten ecosystems and haunted biomes

Submissions to The Rotting Leaf open at midnight (EST)

"There’s this idea that you never actually see the present. By the time your brain catches up to what your eyes saw, the present has already passed. I guess it’s not even a theory." Today on ergot.: 'True Circle' by Austin Goodmanson www.ergot.press/authors/Aust...

Mythaxis Magazine is open to submissions again until Jan30! mythaxis.co.uk/submissions.... This is our first subs window in more than half a year! We're looking for all forms of speculative fiction (plus pieces for our next end-of-year crime issue) to appear in 2026 and 2027. Info at the link!

It’s a very cool piece and you should definitely read it, in our unbiased opinion www.briefecology.com/p/when-the-g...

It’s a very cool piece and you should definitely read it, in our unbiased opinion www.briefecology.com/p/when-the-g...

Less than two weeks before we open for horror/Weird fic zine submissions. Get your piece(s) ready! We pay 10 cents per word. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

In case you missed it, our January piece of short ecofiction was “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In”, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social. And it’s a weird one (complimentary) www.briefecology.com/p/when-the-g...

"We decided to film it in my unfenced backyard, in the sparse stretch of the Haunts. We figured that there would be no danger, no trouble here, and that, we wouldn’t be a bother, or a trouble, to anyone..." Today on ergot.: 'Lillie' the debut of TTZ www.ergot.press/authors/TTZ/...

In case you missed it, our January piece of short ecofiction was “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In”, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social. And it’s a weird one (complimentary) www.briefecology.com/p/when-the-g...

“When I write in the eco horror corner of the vast ecofiction genre, I try to strip the natural world of human motivation.” @jsdouglas.bsky.social on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/p/js-douglas...

"Like so many others, this tumbleweed is released from its anchoring root, the wind flinging it into the air. It lands on a grasshopper mouse, trapping it and killing it with sharp thorns and percussive bouncing." When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

I wrote this essay about writing eco fiction. I hope it’s an interesting read! 📚

Did you know that @rottingleafmag.bsky.social is entirely funded by the readers of Brief Ecology? We’re able to pay writers for their work because of our generous supporters. Thank you for being part of a community that still values literature.

“When I write in the eco horror corner of the vast ecofiction genre, I try to strip the natural world of human motivation.” @jsdouglas.bsky.social on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/p/js-douglas...

Sorry it took me this long to get here, folks

Ever been gay or something? Ever gotten dislodged from the objective sightline, newly adrift in the frigidity of the possibility for actual love? I repeat myself. No Love Can Keep You Kept: 600 words of ecstatic weird horror, live on ergot. Start the year right.

At The Rotting Leaf, we believe stories belong to the writer. That's why we don't ask for *any* exclusivity period. If a writer sells a story the day after we published it, we'll celebrate it. Writing belongs to the writer, not the publisher.

In “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” @jsdouglas.bsky.social takes us on a strange, beautiful, tumbling journey 👇

In “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” @jsdouglas.bsky.social takes us on a strange, beautiful, tumbling journey 👇

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It’s here! Take a break from your human horrors and read my eco horror short story. #horrorstory #shortstory 📚👀😱

The first piece of ecofiction from @rottingleafmag.bsky.social is out! A mouse, a beetle, and a haunted tumbleweed.

"Like so many others, this tumbleweed is released from its anchoring root, the wind flinging it into the air. It lands on a grasshopper mouse, trapping it and killing it with sharp thorns and percussive bouncing." When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

I’m so excited!

Our first rotten leaf drops tomorrow. Keep your eyes on this space for “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings' inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

"One of my favorite pieces of craft advice is that anything you’re told you should not (or should) do should just be taken as a challenge rather than a rule." -interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

A quick update: Submissions to RLM will re-open on January 1st at midnight (EST), and our first piece will be published on January 10th! 👀

A quick update: Submissions to RLM will re-open on January 1st at midnight (EST), and our first piece will be published on January 10th! 👀

If you want to help us pay the real, human writers who submitted real, human-crafted fiction to @rottingleafmag.bsky.social, become a paid subscriber to Brief Ecology. Be a patron of the human arts. www.briefecology.com/subscribe

The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)

It is currently Black Friday. This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.' If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers. www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...

The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)

the rot is opening, submit submit

It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST

New cover art, with BCS #446, out today: “Ice Quest” by returning BCS artist Jereme Peabody. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/artwork/ice-...

Art by • Calder Moore

It’s pub day for Monstrous Angels featuring my short story Heedless Flames 🔥 I love religious horror. I love fucked up, morally gray angels. And I love this anthology! All proceeds will be donated to the Avian Haven Wildlife Rehabilitation Center so you can’t go wrong picking this one up 🦅🦆🦃🦉🪶🪽

It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST

It's nearly time to nominate your best speculative ecofiction for ECO25! Full guidelines here: www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

Any favorite flash fiction/short short stories?

"Mother says we can resume our prior living arrangement (and Movie Night, poor Mother) when I’ve gone one month without an emission. I can understand her point of view, of course." Today on ergot.: 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....

Here's the aurora-filled novella for anyone who is particularly into auroras right now: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

TLDR: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

"I am struck by the possibility--no, a certainty--that there are ideas within me which will only see fruition long after my material body has rotted away." Samuel M. Moss, THE VELDT INSTITUTE

Did you know that FF is on Instagram? Trying to get more active there as I attempt to hedge my bets against inevitable future platform death by actually being present on more than one service. You could be follower #500! www.instagram.com/fusionfragme...