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this ticket entitles you to one (1) novella next month from: THE DEADLANDS by:
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*twirls* we are HUGO finalists!! so some real talk: we ADORE the gorgeous work that graces our pages it makes us weep, it makes our hearts soar, it makes us think and reconsider in startling ways VOTING is open and we would be so honored for your support π€
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Hugo Award Finalists β LAcon V
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I'm so proud to be a part of team skelly and I would be SO DELIGHTED to see the team win for Best Semiprozine!!
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*twirls* we are HUGO finalists!! so some real talk: we ADORE the gorgeous work that graces our pages it makes us weep, it makes our hearts soar, it makes us think and reconsider in startling ways VOTING is open and we would be so honored for your support π€
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Hugo Award Finalists β LAcon V
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Psychopomp
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Fantastic story. Go read it!
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CONGRATULATIONS
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!! we are so excited that "his loveβs ashes on his tongue" from our issue 37 is a finalist for this year's Sturgeon award!! read the story here:
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and check out all the amazing finalists!
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2026 Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists
The 2026 finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been selected. βSix People to Revise You,β J.R. Dawson, Uncanny Magazine, Jan 2025 βThe Ninβ¦
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Uncanny Magazine
18 days ago
Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Managing Editor Monte Lin! Monte's short story βhis loveβs ashes on his tongueβ from The Deadlands is a Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist! You can read it here! ttps://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-37/his-loves-ashes/
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skeleton squeeeee!!! congratulations Ishita Basu Mali and
@angelaliu.bsky.social
for your Ignyte nominations!! read these gorgeous poems here: After The Storm:
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The Language of Fireflies:
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sliiiiides issue 42 your way
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The Deadlands - Issue 42 | Psychopomp
Includes the work of Nosawema O., |A. E. Weisgerber, Phoenix Mendoza, R.B. Lemberg, Maya Ysabel Ng, Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr., Diana Dima, and Kelsey Dean
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/
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Kiszkiloszki: Skeleton Fairy & Unicorn
Alt: Kiszkiloszki: Skeleton Fairy & Unicorn
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we heard that HUGO VOTING is now open and hey, WE are up for Best Semiprozine!!!!! and and well, we would love your vote π₯Ή π π«Ά
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Hugo Awards β LAcon V
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we heard that HUGO VOTING is now open and hey, WE are up for Best Semiprozine!!!!! and and well, we would love your vote π₯Ή π π«Ά
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Featuring stories from Reactor, The Dark,
@bafflingmag.bsky.social
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@fusionfragment.bsky.social
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@thedeadlands.com
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@diabolicalplots.com
, and
@kaleidotrope.bsky.social
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It's me, Nico.
about 1 month ago
Never over this cover art by
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issue 42 is fully out in the world and we know you need it because we do the gorgeous work getting us through helping us carry on yours to read π€
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issue 42 is fully out in the world and we know you need it because we do the gorgeous work getting us through helping us carry on yours to read π€
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"We will count the cries and the last drops of water. We will count the stones thrown. We will add up whatβs left of hospitals and schools" such a poem for you TODAY, beloveds π€ Weβre Running out of Fingers for All This Counting by Kelsey Dean read it here π:
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Weβre Running out of Fingers for All This Counting - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
We will not negate. Weβll avoid but entirely / when we speak
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/were-running-out-of-fingers-for-all-this-counting/
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"We will count the cries and the last drops of water. We will count the stones thrown. We will add up whatβs left of hospitals and schools" such a poem for you TODAY, beloveds π€ Weβre Running out of Fingers for All This Counting by Kelsey Dean read it here π:
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Weβre Running out of Fingers for All This Counting - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
We will not negate. Weβll avoid but entirely / when we speak
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/were-running-out-of-fingers-for-all-this-counting/
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CONSUMED WHOLE BONES AND ALL cronch
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in case you missed it π₯ our rollout of issue 42 continues!
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βThought things would be better here,β she says. I donβt respond to that. What could I say? Weβre here because of her." today, beloveds!! a NEW STORY π The City in White by
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The City in White - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
βIt snowed again,β my sister says.
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βThought things would be better here,β she says. I donβt respond to that. What could I say? Weβre here because of her." today, beloveds!! a NEW STORY π The City in White by
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The City in White - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
βIt snowed again,β my sister says.
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P is for post, which is how we like to apocalypse A is for anything, which we publish about death T is for time. there is never enough R is for readers, which we love very much E is for eternity, the length and breadth of death O is for Osseous the only matter that matters N is for necessary β¬οΈ
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P is for post, which is how we like to apocalypse A is for anything, which we publish about death T is for time. there is never enough R is for readers, which we love very much E is for eternity, the length and breadth of death O is for Osseous the only matter that matters N is for necessary β¬οΈ
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"The first thing Zuo noticed was the smell. It was not the smell of rain, wet leaves, or red earth. It was sharp and chemical, like vinegar burned too long over fire." TODAY, beloveds! What the Trees Took Back by Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. read it here ππ
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What the Trees Took Back - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The first thing Zuo noticed was the smell.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/what-the-trees-took-back/
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Angela Liu
about 2 months ago
Super psyched to have two poems selected as Rhysling Award Finalists! βThe Language of Firefliesβ (in
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@uncannymagazine.bsky.social
). Thanks so much to everyone who nominated and congrats to all the wonderful finalists!
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"The first thing Zuo noticed was the smell. It was not the smell of rain, wet leaves, or red earth. It was sharp and chemical, like vinegar burned too long over fire." TODAY, beloveds! What the Trees Took Back by Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. read it here ππ
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What the Trees Took Back - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The first thing Zuo noticed was the smell.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/what-the-trees-took-back/
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's The Language of Fireflies from our issue 37 is a Rhysling Award Finalist!!! Congratulations Angela πππ«Ά you can read the full poem here:
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skeleton flail!!
@angelaliu.bsky.social
's The Language of Fireflies from our issue 37 is a Rhysling Award Finalist!!! Congratulations Angela πππ«Ά you can read the full poem here:
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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in case you missed it π₯ read the latest story here β¬οΈ
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"She had always run too hot, your mother. Her insides were a growling furnace that snapped away at her entrails; all too eager to set her ablaze from within, like an arsonist without an escape plan." TODAY, beloveds!! Lurid Parts by
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Lurid Parts - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Some of your mother remained burning in the wick of the candle she had lit for you while you wrung out tattered rags to daub the sweat from her forehead. She had always run too hot, your mother.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/lurid-parts/
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"She had always run too hot, your mother. Her insides were a growling furnace that snapped away at her entrails; all too eager to set her ablaze from within, like an arsonist without an escape plan." TODAY, beloveds!! Lurid Parts by
@aquaticteal.bsky.social
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Lurid Parts - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Some of your mother remained burning in the wick of the candle she had lit for you while you wrung out tattered rags to daub the sweat from her forehead. She had always run too hot, your mother.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/lurid-parts/
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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
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and a novella by
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in case you missed it π₯ yesterday's glorious poem, yours to read π€
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas
about 2 months ago
New poem about the music Messiaen wrote as a prisoner of war
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βAgain, the book of peace is sealed. The first lock is a birdβs voice. Thereβs always a bird, but itβs been a year two. three. unendingβ today, beloveds π€ After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time by
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After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Someone once asked why / My mother's portrait guards the doorway
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/after-messiaen-a-quartet-for-the-end-of-time/
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we've started rolling out issue 42 and we can't stop swooning so many great pieces and THAT COVER in case you missed it:
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The Deadlands - Issue 42 | Psychopomp
Includes the work of Nosawema O., |A. E. Weisgerber, Phoenix Mendoza, R.B. Lemberg, Maya Ysabel Ng, Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr., Diana Dima, and Kelsey Dean
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/
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THIS STORY
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in case you missed it π₯ and trust us, you'll want to read this one π€
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"Itβs not really a dog; we just call it a dog for lack of other things to call it. We call it a dog the way Christians call church collapses and wars and children with cancer 'divine mysteries.'" today, beloveds! NEW FICTION π The Dog by Phoenix Mendoza β¬οΈ β¬οΈ β¬οΈ
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The Dog - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The dog dies on Christmas Eve. I spot its body at dawn: a dark, peculiar smudge on the hillside I first mistake for a fallen oak branch blackened with rain.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/the-dog/
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"Itβs not really a dog; we just call it a dog for lack of other things to call it. We call it a dog the way Christians call church collapses and wars and children with cancer 'divine mysteries.'" today, beloveds! NEW FICTION π The Dog by Phoenix Mendoza β¬οΈ β¬οΈ β¬οΈ
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The Dog - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The dog dies on Christmas Eve. I spot its body at dawn: a dark, peculiar smudge on the hillside I first mistake for a fallen oak branch blackened with rain.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-42/the-dog/
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Premee Mohamed
2 months ago
The original story that kicked off the whole book is still up here, at
@thedeadlands.com
-- and is still one of my favourite things I've ever written. :) THE GENERAL'S TURN asks whether you'll know Death when you see it... and how to rig the game if you don't.
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The General's Turn, by Premee Mohamed - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
So it begins. And the play is conducted upon the gears of a clock. Constructed inside this ancient cathedral the [β¦]
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-03/the-generals-turn/
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