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a journal of ends and beginnings
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"Sole" by Aliya Whiteley in
@thedeadlands.com
, a sorrow spiralling inward in search of its own name. (Unrelatedly I recently picked up Whiteley's latest novel on the recommendation of someone on here and now I'm really looking forward to it - thanks, whoever you are!)
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Sole - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Will this letter reach you? I don’t know yet.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/sole/
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COINS MORE !!!!
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Coins are starting to ship from
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"There’s nothing out there beyond the fence except the old house and the woods. Nothing to be scared of, I guess." OUR FINAL piece of issue 41! The Breeze & the Black Door by Mack W. Mani read and enjoy here:
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The Breeze & the Black Door - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
I heard some movement at my front door / but it was just a storm.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/the-breeze-the-black-door/
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"There’s nothing out there beyond the fence except the old house and the woods. Nothing to be scared of, I guess." OUR FINAL piece of issue 41! The Breeze & the Black Door by Mack W. Mani read and enjoy here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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The Breeze & the Black Door - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
I heard some movement at my front door / but it was just a storm.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/the-breeze-the-black-door/
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Rebecca Roanhorse
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This interview is one of my most honest and upfront. I also wax poetic a few times bc I’m old. Anyway, thank you Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Great questions!
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"You walk down the hill to draw water, and you have to watch your footing. Navigating your father’s corpse is a perilous affair." TODAY, beloveds!! a new story for you 🖤 You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse by Sadoeuphemist read it here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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You Build Your House on Your Father's Corpse - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You build your house on your father’s corpse.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/you-build-your-house-on-your-fathers-corpse/
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carlydraws
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Don't forget to check out
@thedeadlands.com
for some excellent stories. The skulls demand it! :-) Here is a pair of covers I illustrated- oil pastel, acrylic paint and digital colour. Fun to design a themed set!
#art
#horror
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"You walk down the hill to draw water, and you have to watch your footing. Navigating your father’s corpse is a perilous affair." TODAY, beloveds!! a new story for you 🖤 You Build Your House on Your Father’s Corpse by Sadoeuphemist read it here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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You Build Your House on Your Father's Corpse - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You build your house on your father’s corpse.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/you-build-your-house-on-your-fathers-corpse/
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it's march, beloveds which means we are currently open for POETRY SUBMISSIONS read the guidelines and send in those poems 🖤💀
psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
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The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Fiction
https://psychopomp.com/the-deadlands-guidelines/#poetry
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Psychopomp
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hey buds this promotion ends today we'd love it if you could pick up a BOOK ON SALE then read it and love it links in the quoted tweet if you're interested...
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writers, take note! 🫶
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Psychopomp
28 days ago
what's The Big IDEA?? it's
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social
talking all things House, Body, Bird for
@scalzi.com
's blog!! READ ON, beloveds:
whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/26/t...
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The Big Idea: Bernie Jean Schiebeling
Like blue eyes, height, or left-handedness, how much of our temper and ill manners can we contribute to our genetics? Author Bernie Jean Schiebeling explores the breakage of inherited anger, and wh…
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/26/the-big-idea-bernie-jean-schiebeling/
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Laura Blackwell
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This book is creepy and weird, but it *also* has a good heart and doesn't let anybody off the hook. Well worth your time and dollars!
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writers, take note! 🫶
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"Will this letter reach you? I don’t know yet." today's new FICTION, beloveds!! Sole by Aliya Whiteley read it here 🖤
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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Sole - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Will this letter reach you? I don’t know yet.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/sole/
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"Will this letter reach you? I don’t know yet." today's new FICTION, beloveds!! Sole by Aliya Whiteley read it here 🖤
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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Sole - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Will this letter reach you? I don’t know yet.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/sole/
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Psychopomp
29 days ago
The House allowed Birdie to escape once. It refuses to let her shame the family again. 😱 House, Body, Bird by
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social
is out NOW 💀 get yours here:
psychopomp.com/product/hous...
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House, Body, Bird | Psychopomp
Raised in her family’s dollhouse museum, Birdie grew up surrounded by models of perfect daughters that she could never be, haunted by a father who refused to accept her and a mother who wouldn’t prote...
https://psychopomp.com/product/house-body-bird/
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!!! if you ⚰️ The Deadlands, you'll 💀 this book GUARANTEED!
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K8 Léchler
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I love the Deadlands so i joined their Patreon!
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Psychopomp
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tomorrow, released from Psychopomp by
@bernie-jsyk.bsky.social
HOUSE BODY BIRD book preorder your ebook now and get it as soon as it is released tomorrow! REALLY
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we are 80% funded (if you were curious) 80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey 80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear 80% off is a going out of business sale please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u join us! get fiction! 👇
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Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/patreon/
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😱 BE NICE TO SKELETON
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we are 80% funded (if you were curious) 80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey 80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear 80% off is a going out of business sale please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u join us! get fiction! 👇
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a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/patreon/
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"A job for every corpse; a cadaver for every school!" join us, beloveds, for a very special Ask a Necromancer with
@stillsostrange.bsky.social
C’est ici de l’empire de la Mort read on!
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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Ask a Necromancer: C’est ici de l’empire de la Mort - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Like any necromancer, I’ve dreamed of building an empire of the dead.
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have you read this story yet? IT'S ONLY 1,000 WORDS LONG SURELY THAT IS BELOW YOUR DAILY LIMIT OF WORDS YOU'RE ALLOWED TO READ ABOUT DEATH??????💀??🖤?? (even if you go over, we won't say anything to... ANYone. about ANYthing). 1. go read 2. SHARE 🙏🏻 3. this is from issue 41 MANY OTHER GOOD STORIES
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The Skull of Francisco Xalbec - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Every time I died, I received another coin to place in the skull of Francisco Xalbec.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/the-skull-of-francisco-xalbec/
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have you read this story yet? IT'S ONLY 1,000 WORDS LONG SURELY THAT IS BELOW YOUR DAILY LIMIT OF WORDS YOU'RE ALLOWED TO READ ABOUT DEATH??????💀??🖤?? (even if you go over, we won't say anything to... ANYone. about ANYthing). 1. go read 2. SHARE 🙏🏻 3. this is from issue 41 MANY OTHER GOOD STORIES
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The Skull of Francisco Xalbec - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Every time I died, I received another coin to place in the skull of Francisco Xalbec.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/the-skull-of-francisco-xalbec/
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this is SO COOL so proud of our skelly fam!! 💀🖤
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a REMINDER to READERS though Psychopomp is no longer publishing standalone novelettes and novellas the DEADLANDS *will* be publishing such things. new for 2026 we've got an upcoming novelette by
@dianadima.com
and a novella by
@amalsingh.bsky.social
SUBSCRIBE TO THE DEADLANDS as PATRON 👇👀😲
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Psychopomp
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you're gonna love this one, we just know it 🖤 "a fascinating fractal of hauntings and houses" -
@aimeeogdenwrites.com
"a gorgeous Gothic jewel of a book" - Waverly SM "both cheerfully gory and cheerfully queer" -
@bogiperson.bsky.social
out on tuesday!! preorder below ⬇️
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
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Featuring stories from
@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
, The Dark,
@lightspeedmagazine.com
,
@foofarawpress.bsky.social
,
@reckoningmag.bsky.social
,
@havenspec.bsky.social
,
@smallwondersmag.com
,
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,
@morningtransport.bsky.social
, and
@thedeadlands.com
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Joe Koch
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"A Woman Is Screaming" is now free to read in The Deadlands.
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"If she goes inside, she knows how the story goes." TODAY, beloveds!! 😱 A Woman Is Screaming by
@horrorsong.blog
read this fantastic piece here! 💀
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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A Woman Is Screaming - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Someone must have broken in.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/a-woman-is-screaming/
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SO DELIGHTED to see “On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-colour”” by
@prairieandzoyd.bsky.social
from our issue #41 in
@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
's Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: January 2026 see all the reviews here ⬇️
reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: January 2026 - Reactor
This month's short fiction recs include strange tales, near future explorations, and at least one giant.
https://reactormag.com/must-read-short-speculative-fiction-january-2026/
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"If she goes inside, she knows how the story goes." TODAY, beloveds!! 😱 A Woman Is Screaming by
@horrorsong.blog
read this fantastic piece here! 💀
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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A Woman Is Screaming - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Someone must have broken in.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/a-woman-is-screaming/
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in case you missed it 🥀
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"First I have you, like a good idea or nightmare, clinging, clinging" TODAY, beloveds!! Babe by gray lindsey read here 💀🖤 :
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Babe - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
First I have you, / like a good idea or nightmare
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/babe/
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Ali Trotta
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Darlings, do you want to order a signed copy of my forthcoming poetry collection? Well, you can!! Order from Inkwood Books (
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) and when you go to check out, there’s a box for Instructions/comments. Write in if you want it signed and/or personalized, an voila!
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we've got some shout-outs in the latest
@locusmag.bsky.social
for issue #40! 🎉
locusmag.com/review/the-d...
read Malena Salazar Maciá's The Last Minute Before the Rooster Crows
@esedia.bsky.social
's Punks Don’t Die and ALL of issue 40 here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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The Deadlands - Issue 40 | Psychopomp
Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Malena Salazar Maciá, Belle Biscotti, Testimony Odey, Shana Ross, Erin Ulm, Matthew Wollin, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, R.B. Lemberg, Kat Sed...
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-40/
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"The sun set as they climbed back to the campsite. They pulled off their wetsuits like selkies. Like second skins. They hadn’t bathed in days. But the cold made her hair smell new." SWOOOOON need some gorgeous prose? we got you. NEW: Mushaboom by Jeremy Morris
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The river went nowhere.
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"The sun set as they climbed back to the campsite. They pulled off their wetsuits like selkies. Like second skins. They hadn’t bathed in days. But the cold made her hair smell new." SWOOOOON need some gorgeous prose? we got you. NEW: Mushaboom by Jeremy Morris
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The river went nowhere.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/mushaboom/
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Psychopomp
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it's that time of year! and we'd be SO DELIGHTED if you considered us when filling out your nomination ballot. here's our full eligibility post (including
@thedeadlands.com
@fantasymagazine.bsky.social
and our novelettes and novellas and collections!) 🫶
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strikes pose 🏹 🍐
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👀 we like creepy dollhouses ALMOST as much as we like bones
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Jen Donohue
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Got a 3D printed ship of bones!! cc
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