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a journal of ends and beginnings
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Steve Toase
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Three stories to get to know my writing Quote & share your own 1. The Charcoal Sovereign at
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social
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2. Crumpled at
@thedeadlands.com
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3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at
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"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
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On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
I write this to you now, under appreciable mental malady. Forgive me.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/on-the-anthology-entitled-frames-of-colour-and-un-colour/
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"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
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On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
I write this to you now, under appreciable mental malady. Forgive me.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/on-the-anthology-entitled-frames-of-colour-and-un-colour/
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in case you missed it 🥀 Phoua Lee's in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter 🖤
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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
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in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
a marketplace for souls trading in paper money / for an item from their loved ones.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/in-which-orpheus-is-a-hmong-daughter/
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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:
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Afterlives 2025: Reprint Call - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You may have read about Psychopomp’s recent reorg, but we are still doing Afterlives 2025: The Year’s Best Death Stories!
https://psychopomp.com/afterlives-2025-reprint-call/
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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
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in which Orpheus is a Hmong daughter - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
a marketplace for souls trading in paper money / for an item from their loved ones.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/in-which-orpheus-is-a-hmong-daughter/
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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
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2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/
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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
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2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/
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Premee Mohamed
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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! :)
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2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/
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Maria Haskins
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You can read the story in
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Highway 1, Past Hope - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
SPRING 2025, SHORT STORY, 3400 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly […]
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Maria Haskins
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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.🤩
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Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
https://locusmag.com/2026/02/2025-recommended-reading/
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Marisca Pichette (she/they)
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"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
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“Today we are taking my daughter apart.” TODAY beloveds The Self-Made Women’s Circle by
@marisca.bsky.social
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The Self-Made Women’s Circle - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Today we are taking my daughter apart.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/the-self-made-womens-circle/
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“Today we are taking my daughter apart.” TODAY beloveds The Self-Made Women’s Circle by
@marisca.bsky.social
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The Self-Made Women’s Circle - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Today we are taking my daughter apart.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-41/the-self-made-womens-circle/
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Angela Liu
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3) The Language of Fireflies (in
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The Language of Fireflies - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The streets are lined with glass treesWe weave through their false light for a taste of a real moon, fold […]
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-37/the-language-of-fireflies/
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in case you missed it! check out this fantastic flash story by
@amfisher.bsky.social
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in case you missed it! check out this fantastic flash story by
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💀🖤
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Alan Fisher
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My very short story, "The Skull of Francisco Xalbec," is now available at The Deadlands. Please give it a read.
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"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
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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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in case you missed it 🥀 the FIRST poem of issue 41 is live and yours to read 🖤
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HOLD THE PHONE our very own EXTRAORDINARY copy editor
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's Breathing Night (
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books) is on the BFSA longlist!!!! SKELETON SO PROUD!!!
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Vote for the BSFA Awards
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"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 🖤
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bark! - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
bark! / awoken! / by the opening blow / of a shut thing
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Marisca Pichette (she/they)
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ICYMI: I have a new body horror flash out in
@thedeadlands.com
! Read "The Self-Made Women's Circle" in issue 41 🔪
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Michael Staniforth
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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:
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S/D/Y Jan 20 – The Self-Made Women’s Circle by Marisca Pichette – The Deadlands
The Self-Made Women’s Circle is not what I would call an easy read, at least in terms of the content. The prose is very much an easy read, flowing and intelligent and creative. But the story …
https://mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/s-d-y-jan-20-the-self-made-womens-circle-by-marisca-pichette-the-deadlands/
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Joe Koch
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Full of gratitude to have a story selected by Vajra. "A Woman Is Screaming" is out now in The Deadlands.
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Weightless Books
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New issue of
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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You can get the issue at Weightless Books (might not be live yet but will be soon if so) or the Deadlands Patreon.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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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
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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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
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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:
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The Deadlands - Issue 41 | Psychopomp
Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Charlotte Suttee, Phoua Lee, Joe Koch, Jeremy Morris, gray lindsey, Dmitri Akers, Aliya Whiteley, Marisca Pichette, Alan M. Fisher, Sadoeuph...
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omg
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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 🖤
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Fantasy Magazine
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And hey, check out this full list of
@psychopomp.com
eligible wonders!! so much good stuff
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2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some
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Fantasy Magazine
24 days ago
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!)
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carlydraws
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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
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did you miss Table of Contents O' Tuesday? 🌮?? who doesn't love TOC'Os 😂 🫶💀
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carlydraws
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details! bone white and silver tones against midnight blues. Oil pastel plus digital colour.
#art
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Marisca Pichette (she/they)
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I’m deathly delighted to have a new story forthcoming in the next issue of
@thedeadlands.com
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Alan Fisher
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Well, well, well, what do we have here?
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it's HERE our issue 41 table of contents!! TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤 so let's start with POETRY thread/
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carlydraws
26 days ago
Here's my cover for the deadlands! Check out the beautiful sinister stories inside :-) oil pastel and digital colour
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E. Catherine Tobler
27 days ago
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.
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it's HERE our issue 41 table of contents!! TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤 so let's start with POETRY thread/
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Íde “of March” Hennessy
27 days ago
📚🚀💀🧚♂️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
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2025 Recommended Short Stories
It’s January somehow, which means it’s time to share my annual list of Sci-fi, Horror, Slipstream, and Fantasy stories I enjoyed. Fair…
https://idehennessy.medium.com/2025-recommended-short-stories-b03bb5aa0d7a
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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!
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No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
https://psychopomp.com/product/no-one-to-hold-the-distant-dead/
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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 🙏🖤
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2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some
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R.B. Lemberg YOKE OF STARS WON THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!!!!!!
about 1 month ago
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.
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Things for which I have not ascertained your consent, by R.B. Lemberg - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
for Corey 1. Traveling to the underworld to retrieve you I do not know if you are there, but the […]
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-37/things-for-which/
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R.B. Lemberg YOKE OF STARS WON THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!!!!!!
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My second poem in
@thedeadlands.com
is "Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal" about a very old Yiddish play which haunts me
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Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is a story: there’s a marketplace at midnight. Your voice calls the dead to awaken.
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/issue-40/bay-nakht-afn-altn-mark-a-rehearsal/
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*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!!! 🫶💀
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