wishing everyone a very happy day ☃️ lots of good things to read and joy and bones 💀🫶

yes we are so excited to see you and have you and eat your bones... uh, not that last 💀 just the excited part 🖤 we swear and seriously, you'll get a copy of AFTERLIVES 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social ✨🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

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omg!! Juggernaut by Alyza Taguilaso is up for best collection of poetry in the Philippine National Book Awards!! and that collection includes "Time Skip" published in our issue 16! read the poem here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... or get the collection: www.philippinebooks.com/products/jug...

Hoping to see more submissions from under-repped groups in my submissions—don't self-reject, it's easier to send me a story about death. We're open until 12/31 (midnight eastern). psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world! bookshop.org/p/books/one-...

we skellies agree SO GOOD

Here's my story in @thedeadlands.com from @psychopomp.com from this year! Mind the CWs. 💙📚 If you like their stuff, consider becoming a patron. They're constantly putting out amazing content! psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Hey folks, The Deadlands is not just a magazine I love reading, it's one I love working for. One of the great ways to keep it going is to join the Patreon. Join (or up your pledge!) before the end of the year to avoid the $1 price increase that starts January 1. www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

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

thank you so much @cypayseur.bsky.social!! ✨🖤💀 we are so proud of issue 40 and so grateful for the reviews 💞

My other original short stories for the year: "The Path She Sings" in @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

I boosted my Patreon tier, because The Deadlands is cool as hell.

hello. bsky friends we just published a newsletter about recent updates + news to our electronic mail friends and thought we'd post it here as well in case you are interested in deadlands NEWS link:

you've been waiting and it's finally HERE!! AFTERLIVES curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social ✨🖤💀 get your ebook here! psychopomp.com/product/afte...

I have no idea if these award eligibility posts actually DO anything other than lay bare the good and silly work I've been lucky to achieve in 2025. 11 short stories published (on top of finishing my first novel)! I'm very grateful to all the editors and publications who've given my words a go!

join us? 💀 The mountain is high, the valley is low And you're confused on which way to go So I've come here to give you a hand And lead you into the promised land, (Ooh, ooh) come on and take a free ride so come on and sit here by my side www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFy...

gifts are important, especially for YOURSELF! and all of our titles are available digitally, so you can have an instant treat 🖤 here ⬇️ psychopomp.com/books/

I'm so giddy - still - to be in this kind of company. The whole issue is lush and complicated. Find some time to sit with all these works, as a curated experience. You'll be glad you opened yourself that way.

good morning, beloveds 🖤 would you like to read some of our deathly beautiful issue 40? well, here it is! fully rolled-out and yours to read 💀 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

good morning, beloveds 🖤 would you like to read some of our deathly beautiful issue 40? well, here it is! fully rolled-out and yours to read 💀 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

I want to be clear yet again: @thedeadlands.com is not looking for murder stories.

catastrophe! survival! and the spaces death leaves behind 💀 we dearly ADORE this novella 🖤 get yours today: psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...

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Fractionated Doses Don’t Quench the Thirst of Those Who Knew the Whole, a short story by @le-werner.bsky.social, published at @thedeadlands.com. Along with Jana's, one of the most Brazilian-centered pieces I've read in English this year! psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

@thedeadlands.com got 177 fiction submissions in 24 hours. This is 7.5 years of fiction at the rate we publish. Imagine if every submitter were also a patron—we would be funded. Prices increase in 2026, get the best rate now. www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

YOU CAN DO IT

our sibling is so cool 🥹💖

60 submissions...

Dark, irregular cracks spread outward from the hole like seeking roots, penetrating the otherwise perfectly azure sky." today, beloveds!! our final story of issue 40! Liminalities of the Second Contraction by Scott Payne read it here 🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

@thedeadlands.com already has 50 submissions in the queue—can you imagine if all 50 people also signed up for our Patreon? $5/month supports our mission to explore death in all forms. It keeps us paying authors and staff. www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

SUBMIT 💀🖤💀

Dark, irregular cracks spread outward from the hole like seeking roots, penetrating the otherwise perfectly azure sky." today, beloveds!! our final story of issue 40! Liminalities of the Second Contraction by Scott Payne read it here 🖤 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

the skull says no touching

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in case you missed it 🥀

thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲 thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support 🙏🏻🖤💀 if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link: psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...

"My friend’s dead father visits her as a bird, but my husband is the light in the kitchen that comes on all by himself" Not a Bird by Ellen Romano 😭 we are weeping, beloveds 🖤 read this beautiful poem here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

"My friend’s dead father visits her as a bird, but my husband is the light in the kitchen that comes on all by himself" Not a Bird by Ellen Romano 😭 we are weeping, beloveds 🖤 read this beautiful poem here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

sunday promotionday reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is AVAILABLE 4 READING 6 stories posted on our website 3 poems 1 nonfiction get the ePub/print @ Patreon OR READ ONLINE👇

bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu PATRONS support us and get access to our ePub/print issues YOU CAN DO THAT, really. also support tiers increasing in new year 😿 but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE, really.

bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu PATRONS support us and get access to our ePub/print issues YOU CAN DO THAT, really. also support tiers increasing in new year 😿 but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE, really.

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

in case you missed it 🖤 happy friday everyone 💀

"Stepan comes to me in a dream, sullen, with a bleeding lower lip split just where his lower canine has been knocked out." today, beloveds!! Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social read it here 🥀 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

*checks pockets* 🪲🦴🪱🍬 🤷🏽‍♀️

check out @vanessafogg.bsky.social's short fiction recs, beloveds!! we are SO DELIGHTED to see the truly beautiful Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey from issue 40 on this list 🖤

My reading fell off a cliff these last 2 months, so this list is shorter than usual. But here are recent stories I loved, from @renanbernardo.com @isabel.kim @wiswell.bsky.social Testimony Odey @kristinaten.bsky.social and @champwongs.bsky.social itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/11/shor...

it's hard for us to express how much we love this book "lovely and melancholy" @acwise.bsky.social "searing, intensely evocative" @davegoodman.bsky.social "a moving elegy" @ivygrimes.bsky.social YES No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social psychopomp.com/product/no-o...