My second ever poetry publication is out today from my dearly beloved God's Cruel Joke if you want something to chew on today that might just chew you back.

Chewy new poem today from @probablyharmless.bsky.social! "If my form / Were as massive as my hunger / And my mouth as colossal as my want / I would crush your beautiful body / Upon the thirty-two jagged peaks that line my jaws" godscrueljokelit.com/theodore-hill-more-famished

Fresh weirdness from Jacob Austin today "His disgust bumps into another breed of thought up in the tangled wires of his mind. Maybe they want to use my seed to impregnate their own women. To bolster their stock. Could use some of my genetic material." godscrueljokelit.com/j-austin-officer-ogen

"I have never felt the love one is inscribed with having to feel. I think movies have ruined that prospect for most. The Lady In The Tramp style of love. The type where if you don’t offer me any of your food, I’ll think something is wrong with this love." www.godscrueljokelit.com/franceschi-3...

5 new poems today from Rus Khomutoff's forthcoming chapbook, Kaos Karma www.godscrueljokelit.com/khomutoff-po...

"For the eight quiet and progressive years that Hog Hollow had been in operation, Darrel had been instructing the herd in simple English. The pigs caught on quickly and were soon able to recognize many verbal and written commands." www.godscrueljokelit.com/seefahrt-the...

"What we’re talking here like to come from a Mary Poppins portmanteau: Romantasy! Bodice-rippers with pixie dust! And this john-ray’s got it all: Werewolf- and vampire-adjacent princesses languishing in Tudorbethan castles from structural gaslighting" www.godscrueljokelit.com/peter-geier-...

Read Boy/Girl by Tommy Cheis in GCJ5—about a Palestinian sleeper agent in the earliest phases of schizophrenia who, on discovering that a female member of his terrorist cell is an undercover FBI agent, must decide what to do about her. godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculative-erotics

"All those precious secrets in that closet in that pocket in the back of that head. Not so long ago I was in need of a sign but I have stripped all surplus pain of attention so now it only shrieks if I glance that way with my sunbuttoned eyes." www.godscrueljokelit.com/lindsay-mcle...

Gregory Wallace is wrapping our October up with some fun ones. "The happy peacock's cool comments/ red breasted feather girl at my tables / carpeted butter of the sun countries / long crepe of phantom sphinx / east of cracking ember / the gas immolated you" www.godscrueljokelit.com/greg-wallace...

"Lunacy served as our sextant beneath a low, dead sky. When night fell, the grim crusaders howled like wolves. They pounded their fists against the ground and danced, beating themselves as if trying to exorcise a deeper pain harbored beneath their skin." godscrueljokelit.com/copal-stephen-myer

2 new poems from Nicholas Grooms! "All of the people who are underneath my skin / like the tumor I try and avoid touching / while petting the belly of my elderly beagle / Knowing her time is nearing end / sick with the thought of holding her limp body" godscrueljokelit.com/2-poems-nicholas-grooms

This weekend at Voidcon 3 I walked the battlefields in Gettysburg before the festivities experiencing an unexpected sense of outrage & loss, and shared a piece of writing about war that terrified me to speak. The creators I met inspired me and gave me the courage to do this reading. Thank you all.

"I got shipped to the zoo in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to mate with the dominant male, Iago. He was a fervent Catholic and had a pet truffle pig called Aldo. He was a hunk but wore eyeliner." - 'Normalmaxxing' by Tempest Miller in GCJ5 www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

"Only the first blood could show me the future, I learned, after spending hours hunched over the toilet, like a fortune-teller and her crystal ball. On my second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth days, nothing resembling anything ever came out." www.godscrueljokelit.com/3-stories-ne...

We're kicking off October appropriately with some more Steve Gerson fiction. "Above, through a moment of cloud break, Georgie thought she saw a star, first a dim white, next flickering pink, then pulsing red, but it disappeared behind a passing cloud." www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson...

We're going subterranean today. Learn about all the complications of having two taints with 'Spelunker' by Tex Gresham and KKUURRTT. godscrueljokelit.com/tex-g-kkuurr...

Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5! "Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident." godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

THERES GONNA BE REALLY COOL SHIT FOR SALE IN GETTYSBURG IN OCTOBER

Hey sickos, here's your hole

Thanks very much to Lee @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social for his tireless work on this gem of a magazine, and for making space for fucked up art in a culture that sorely needs it.

Issue #5 of @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social is out today and the theme is speculative erotica, and yes I wrote a story in this one. There’s a paid option and a free download: www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

BUY (or read4free) NOW & get some good sicko shit about recovering from anorexia via divine feederism & gayboy Jesus coming back to blow off a cop’s dick +++ 26 other filth visionaries

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here! This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks. www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

TODAY!!! Buy it in print or download it (for free???) at the link - www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

SPECULATIVE EROTICS dropping tomorrow!

Last feature this week are fun ones, 3 poems from @malikbtxt.bsky.social . "my ex asked / “did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life, walk into your living room and find you had no life left?” / I didn’t at all and now i miss the company" www.godscrueljokelit.com/malik-berry-...

Hard to overstate how psyched I am for this issue, no one is doing it like GCJ. Look for my new story "Butterfly Stitch" when this comes out next week--if you think you can stomach it.

Read 'Magnolia Light' from Benjamin Ray Allee! "Then he looked at me, and in his eyes I saw my own throat slit, my eyes plunged into by greasy thumbs, my stomach bitten by caried teeth. What the hell?" godscrueljokelit.com/ben-r-allee-magnolia-light

ONE WEEK www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

thrilled to have 2 poems in here 🖤 sometimes being a sick freak pays off :)

we in this bitch & by we I mean me, @horrorsong.blog @lormaggot.ca & @probablyharmless.bsky.social together in a special issue thick enough to bludgeon a twink with

I may have mentioned before that my boyfriend is a bit squeamish, but I was so excited for this one I made a special version for him to read with all the gross stuff cut out. If you have a stronger stomach, you should buy this book to read the rest. (And much, much more from so many cool folks!!!)

Includes my contribution "How To Fuck A Genocide" in which I explain how to become the word of god in ten easy steps.

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors! Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

Read 'The Procedure' by the phenomenal Erin Elizabeth Williams: www.godscrueljokelit.com/erin-e-willi... "We see hundreds of women in every day for this. It’s a quick in and out. Nothing to worry about, not at all. My own daughter had it done just last year, and she’s never felt better."

Today's new Doughboy piece cuts — 10:19. "So it goes and goes and goes until it doesn’t. 10:06. He suspects she masturbates in the shower. Often exits more flushed than the heat warrants. He’s not jealous. Just wishes for an invitation." www.godscrueljokelit.com/doughboy-1019

Gerson refuses to stop sending me gold. "From the second story, askew in rusted bolts, our family name hung like a victim on a gallows. On the front porch, a menu board memorialized a last meal in partial letters, an acrostic to a past generation's dream." www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson-2

"But now the holy strip away the smoke, / the skin, the prayers, the / uneasy past and all the dirt, / besmirching tombs of your forebears. They / release your vanished breath, lay bare - / your shroud-caress, your laughter / trapped in stone." www.godscrueljokelit.com/a-w-earl-2-p...

"These feathered, airborne rats caused trouble throughout the town, but there was something peculiar about my position, perhaps the proximity of the church tower, which offered them the perfect launch point from where they could orchestrate their raids." www.godscrueljokelit.com/jeremy-dixon...

3 very short and very very good flash fictions today from Caleb Weinhardt. "He was covered in it, that’s what I remember. Like iridescent scales all over his body. It made the flashing nightclub lights shimmer off of him through the haze." www.godscrueljokelit.com/caleb-weinha...

2 new pieces up today at God's Cruel Joke @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social. Thanks, as always, to Lee Pearson for supporting and publishing my work. Check them out! www.godscrueljokelit.com/joshua-marti...

Busted link in original post cos I'm a dumbass. Read Joshua Martin here: godscrueljokelit.com/joshua-marti...

Two heavy experiments today from @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social! These bad bois hit like a pair of bricks to the dome. 'for the confined, improperly intent, even virtually afflicted' & 'chewed, clenched against a sagging face, opened up to reveal the exit' www.godscrueljokelit.com/joshua-marti...

"Now, the question prying on my mind is where to get ‘really hot red lipstick.’ Gwyneth Paltrow calls it ‘the essence of beauty.’" Jingling the Jackass, or How Dr. Danforth Löwengruber Got “Really Hot Red Lipstick” in Terre Bleue, Missouri by Peter Geier www.godscrueljokelit.com/peter-geier-...

Two poems today from henry 7. reneau, jr. "like brutes who stumble upon fire / within a shifting geometry of shadow & light : a gathering of blessed lunatics / composing prayers & war songs & the sky chock full of stars" - from 'the propagation of light' www.godscrueljokelit.com/henry-reneau...

Submissions are OPEN today. I'm really wanting for some longer fiction, but anything and everything will be considered. www.godscrueljokelit.com/submissions

Submissions are opening back up FRIDAY. Since I won't be juggling subs for two different projects this go around, the usual guideline limiting stories to 3,000 words or less will be temporarily removed. 100 words or 10,000, send your worst and longest prose.

We got some noirish weirdness from J.T. Ruiter - 'Who Do You Work For?' www.godscrueljokelit.com/jt-ruiter-wh...

3 new poems today from Garrett Speller! "It left nothing but an empty sort of smell / accompanying me / as I dig through muscle, / shearing away, with ironic care." - from Necrotica www.godscrueljokelit.com/garrett-spel...