Three stories to get to know my writing Quote & share your own 1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the... 2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... 3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...

"The latter half of the roll was tainted by light. From red glares, to pallid frames of exposure, like blood pouring into the whiteness of hell." NEW FICTION, beloveds!! On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” by @prairieandzoyd.bsky.social 💀🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

"The latter half of the roll was tainted by light. From red glares, to pallid frames of exposure, like blood pouring into the whiteness of hell." NEW FICTION, beloveds!! On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” by @prairieandzoyd.bsky.social 💀🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

in case you missed it 🥀 Phoua Lee's in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter 🖤

a marketplace for souls trading in paper money for an item from their loved ones. something small something unnoticed. today, beloveds!! new POETRY: in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter by Phoua Lee psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

GUESS WHAT we are OPEN for 2025 AFTERLIVES: The Year's Best Death Stories subs!! BUT (and this is SUPER IMPORTANT) we are asking EDITORS to send us work this time so WRITERS, be in touch with your editors and READ ON for more info: psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...

a marketplace for souls trading in paper money for an item from their loved ones. something small something unnoticed. today, beloveds!! new POETRY: in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter by Phoua Lee psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

would you look at that!! we have a couple stories on the Locus recommended reading list and they are absolute bangers!! “Highway 1, Past Hope“ by @mariahaskins.com “his love’s ashes on his tongue“ by @montelin.bsky.social locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

so excited to see these on the Locus recommended reading list!! One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com Starstruck by @aimeeogdenwrites.com No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social “Garden of the Bloodpotter“ by @babblewocky.bsky.social locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Also I didn't look at this on my telefone while I was in bed but I am up and making breakfast now so: eyyyyy thank you @locusmag.bsky.social for including ONE MESSAGE REMAINS in best collection on the recommended reading list! :) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

You can read the story in @thedeadlands.com - psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Absolutely floored and honoured to see my short story "Highway 1, Past Hope" (bones! bones! bones!) from The Deadlands on the Locus Recommended Reading List.🤩 locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

"My sister’s hooks are steel: cold and fierce. The five I traded connect fingers to my right hand. In the winter, they grow so cold they burn." You can now read "The Self-Made Women's Circle" online @thedeadlands.com 🔪

“Today we are taking my daughter apart.” TODAY beloveds The Self-Made Women’s Circle by @marisca.bsky.social read this gorgeous story here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

“Today we are taking my daughter apart.” TODAY beloveds The Self-Made Women’s Circle by @marisca.bsky.social read this gorgeous story here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

3) The Language of Fireflies (in @thedeadlands.com) - if you’ve ever wondered why there are no fireflies in the winter

in case you missed it! check out this fantastic flash story by @amfisher.bsky.social 💀🖤

in case you missed it! check out this fantastic flash story by @amfisher.bsky.social 💀🖤

My very short story, "The Skull of Francisco Xalbec," is now available at The Deadlands. Please give it a read.

"I’d dropped hundreds, maybe thousands, of coins into the skull of Francisco Xalbec, and I still wasn’t sure how full it was, but I knew with profound certainty that I had to fill it." TODAY beloveds!! new fiction 🖤💀 The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

YES

in case you missed it 🥀 the FIRST poem of issue 41 is live and yours to read 🖤

HOLD THE PHONE our very own EXTRAORDINARY copy editor @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social's Breathing Night (@spacecowboy17.bsky.social books) is on the BFSA longlist!!!! SKELETON SO PROUD!!! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

"awoken! by the opening blow of a shut thing— the latch! of a short-sighted dog" oh, beloveds WHAT a poem! bark! by Charlotte Suttee read on 🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

ICYMI: I have a new body horror flash out in @thedeadlands.com! Read "The Self-Made Women's Circle" in issue 41 🔪

Day 20! I read The Self-Made Women's Circle by @marisca.bsky.social published in @thedeadlands.com. A harrowing tale of sorority and cruel necessity. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/s...

Full of gratitude to have a story selected by Vajra. "A Woman Is Screaming" is out now in The Deadlands.

New issue of @thedeadlands.com is here! weightlessbooks.com/the-deadland...

You can get the issue at Weightless Books (might not be live yet but will be soon if so) or the Deadlands Patreon. www.patreon.com/the_deadlands weightlessbooks.com/category/for...

Several of these authors are on bsky and you can (and should) follow them! Alan Fisher is @amfisher.bsky.social, Marisca Pichette at @marisca.bsky.social, Dmitri Akers on @prairieandzoyd.bsky.social, and Joe Koch's @horrorsong.blog.

This is the second (of two!) issue of the Deadlands for which I was guest editor for fiction! Stories by Alan Fisher, Marischa Pichette, Dmitri Akers, Jeremy Morris, Joe Koch, Aliya Whiteley, and Sadoeuphemist, and with another lovely, stark cover from @carlydraws.bsky.social

the deadlands ISSUE 41 with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:

omg @foxesandroses.bsky.social we hope you feel better!! and we are so excite to see The Wanderer by @chidomuchemwa.bsky.social AND his love's ashes on his tongue by @montelin.bsky.social on this FANTASTIC list 🖤

And hey, check out this full list of @psychopomp.com eligible wonders!! so much good stuff psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...

hey Fantasy lovers did you know that both @arleysorg.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are eligible for this year's Hugo award, Best Editor Short Form? THEY ARE and Best Editor Locus Awards, and the Special Award for World Fantasy just saying for REASONS 💖💜🦄 (get those noms in!)

And here is the companion piece for the previous issue! A golden skull and an ominous labyrinth... Please check them out, so many great stories! Oil pastels and digital colour #art #fantasy

did you miss Table of Contents O' Tuesday? 🌮?? who doesn't love TOC'Os 😂 🫶💀

details! bone white and silver tones against midnight blues. Oil pastel plus digital colour. #art

I’m deathly delighted to have a new story forthcoming in the next issue of @thedeadlands.com 🖤🔪🕯️

Well, well, well, what do we have here?

it's HERE our issue 41 table of contents!! TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤 so let's start with POETRY thread/

Here's my cover for the deadlands! Check out the beautiful sinister stories inside :-) oil pastel and digital colour

Oh hey, oh geez, MORE Deadlands??? We're killing it! (See...what..I did....there...) 🖤💀🖤 Join us via our Patreon (@thedeadlands.com) for PRINT ISSUES.

it's HERE our issue 41 table of contents!! TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤 so let's start with POETRY thread/

📚🚀💀🧚‍♂️It’s that time again! I lost track of how many stories this is (what are numbers? why are numbers?). Flash is heavily represented this year, for people who want a quick read ⏳ #speclit #scifilit #shortfiction #amreading #horrorrecs #horror #weirdlit idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recomme...

do you need an amazing read?? “Beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s sadly rare to find an author like Schroeder who approaches the non-human with such compassion and respect. A must read.” No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social get it here! psychopomp.com/product/no-o...

we are so proud of all we did in 2025! and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀 give this post a look!! find something amazing to read and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤 psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...

I also had two poems in @thedeadlands.com , and I love both of them. "Things for which I have not ascertained your consent" - this is a poem for my friend Corey Alexander, who passed away in 2020. psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

My second poem in @thedeadlands.com is "Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal" about a very old Yiddish play which haunts me psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

*sips morning bone juice* *glances at calendar* wait, it's JANUARY?! we've got new deadlands in january!! COMING SOON issue 41 we can't wait for you to read this one!!! 🫶💀