If you enjoy the polar opposite vibes Poe and Pratchett, this one’s for you ⬇️

If you enjoy the polar opposite vibes Poe and Pratchett, this one’s for you ⬇️

FFer Read of the Day: "The House of Us" by @marisca.bsky.social in @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social dreamforgemagazine.com/story/the-ho...

"'I’m sorry. I can’t wait any longer.' Ynes didn’t know if this is what Luca wanted. Maybe they would have preferred Steph’s scaffold. It burned her, not knowing this final detail. All the years & she couldn’t figure out how to keep them, how to let them fall apart." ⬇️🖤new bones story🖤⬇️

"'I’m sorry. I can’t wait any longer.' Ynes didn’t know if this is what Luca wanted. Maybe they would have preferred Steph’s scaffold. It burned her, not knowing this final detail. All the years & she couldn’t figure out how to keep them, how to let them fall apart." ⬇️🖤new bones story🖤⬇️

"At the beginning, she’d cried every time she visited the Quietus. She’d cried when Luca’s eyes sank & their teeth fell out. She’d cried when mold covered their chest, replacing the dress she should have brought to cover them." ICYMI: my latest story "Nature Morte" in HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES 🍂

"At the beginning, she’d cried every time she visited the Quietus. She’d cried when Luca’s eyes sank & their teeth fell out. She’d cried when mold covered their chest, replacing the dress she should have brought to cover them." ICYMI: my latest story "Nature Morte" in HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES 🍂

Check out this eerie anthology, including my corpse garden story, "Nature Morte" 🪴🦴🦇

Check out this eerie anthology, including my corpse garden story, "Nature Morte" 🪴🦴🦇

Following on from our amazing launch it's our book birthday for Hiding Under the Leaves! Support your local independent bookstore by ordering ISBN: 9781738426867 Or buy from us direct! We can ship paperbacks from stock in the UK, and from the publisher on demand in UK & US.

Farewell October, hello October 2025 sub stats! poems accepted: 5 poems published: 4 stories accepted: 0 👻 stories published: 1 🕸️ 🕷️ 🕸️

Farewell October, hello October 2025 sub stats! poems accepted: 5 poems published: 4 stories accepted: 0 👻 stories published: 1 🕸️ 🕷️ 🕸️

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NEW STORY DAY!!!! I have a cursed film/cosmic horror story up in @nocturnemag.bsky.social just in time for Halloween!!! www.nocturnezine.com/issue-5

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A reading roundup for October 2025. 📚💙 I read EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social in one sitting, at a nature park in Vermont. A really lovely novella. THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS was an effort to read something unusual for me, and it was a pretty fun time. Not my favorite but a good change of pace.

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

List will be going up in the next day or two so get on it people!

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's August's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

Friends in the art, poetry, and author community, come support others in your field by buying the Best of Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, vol viii www.amazon.com/Best-Penumbr... A lot of hard work has been put into print by Jeff at Penumbric and all the amazing creatives who have contributed

Thank you!!! 💚 🍄 ☁️

Thank you!!! 💚 🍄 ☁️

Book Review! EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social is a deep and atmospheric eco-apocalyptic novella about two people discovering that the world is not quite what they thought it was. I loved my time with this story. At <70 pages, it's easy to add to the TBR💙📚🪐 🔗 fanfiaddict.com/review-every...

"Medusa’s gaze kills nothing now. Her lipless mouth forms no words. Her hair—uprooted, installed, synced with a city—hums a swan song." I've got a new poem out in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Eye to the Telescope #58, themed Cyberpunk: "Medusa Circuit" 🧬 eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

"Medusa’s gaze kills nothing now. Her lipless mouth forms no words. Her hair—uprooted, installed, synced with a city—hums a swan song." I've got a new poem out in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Eye to the Telescope #58, themed Cyberpunk: "Medusa Circuit" 🧬 eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

Check out my immersive mushroom poem, "Let the net grow far and deep" 🍄

"Their pigment-sticky kisses invent more colors than the human eye can see, than there ever were in the sterile-white halls of heaven." Always delighted by a new Avra Margariti poem, in the latest @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🕯️ www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

“The two baby-queer angels aren’t interested in human lovers, not when they have each other and a case full of makeup, an empty stage draped in velvet or back alleys smelling sharp like petrichor and bourbon after dark.” Omg I looove @avramargariti.bsky.social’s work. Glad to see that name again🦋🌌!

Check out my immersive mushroom poem, "Let the net grow far and deep" 🍄

Thank you to all the contributors in October's #Penumbric! Carl Scharwath, @authorjoshuaginsberg.bsky.social, Marisca Pichette, Lydia O’Donnell, Garth Upshaw, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @devanbarlow.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

"Their pigment-sticky kisses invent more colors than the human eye can see, than there ever were in the sterile-white halls of heaven." Always delighted by a new Avra Margariti poem, in the latest @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🕯️ www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Preorders are OPEN for HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES @theslabpress.bsky.social 🍂 Including my flesh garden story, "Nature Morte" ⚰️

ORIGINAL FOLK HORROR AND MONSTROUS FAERIES 🧚🏼 🩻 🍂👁️

Preorders are OPEN for HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES @theslabpress.bsky.social 🍂 Including my flesh garden story, "Nature Morte" ⚰️

📖🚀🦡🦴🦴🍂 - Book rocket badger bones leaves... What could it mean? What if I said it's at World Fantasycon on Friday at noon in the Balmoral panel room? Why, it is only the launch of Hiding Under the Leaves! Quite a few of the authors will be there. Readings, books, drinkies, nibbles. Come! 🍷

In fact this will be the very first book launch of the convention!

Just a month away: join me for ON SUBMISSIONS 📃🖋️ www.practiceofwriting.com/event-detail...

Just a month away: join me for ON SUBMISSIONS 📃🖋️ www.practiceofwriting.com/event-detail...

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Needed a change of scenery, so I took EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social to a park today. Excellent little novella to read on a sunny, cloudless afternoon. 😂

Just over 3 months ago Storyteller was published and interest is still going strong. It’s has been featured on a curated list of indie publishers on Bookshop dot org! You can check out the list here: bookshop.org/lists/short-...

"Jasper had three dragons. One lived in the upstairs bathroom of her house, on a bed of shredded toilet paper. One sat next to a succulent in its pot on the porch. The third lived in an old birdhouse in the backyard.” ICYMI: “How Not to Swallow a Dragon” in @celestialechopress.bsky.social 🐉🌈🏡

"Jasper had three dragons. One lived in the upstairs bathroom of her house, on a bed of shredded toilet paper. One sat next to a succulent in its pot on the porch. The third lived in an old birdhouse in the backyard.” ICYMI: “How Not to Swallow a Dragon” in @celestialechopress.bsky.social 🐉🌈🏡

poem accepted after 48 rejections! 🎉🎨

"Cockle & Foxfire built a spaceship from endangered morpho wings & pull-tabs secreted from Polar Seltzer cans.” Check out my poem "fritillary frigate" in @radonjournal.bsky.social #11! 🎈🦋💫 www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/fri...

poem accepted after 48 rejections! 🎉🎨

"Cockle & Foxfire built a spaceship from endangered morpho wings & pull-tabs secreted from Polar Seltzer cans.” Check out my poem "fritillary frigate" in @radonjournal.bsky.social #11! 🎈🦋💫 www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/fri...

YESSS @angelvleal.bsky.social !!!

Short Poem Winners First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146 Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1 Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60