As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down. trib.al/059XHbZ

Of Men and Monsters: Josh Pearce Reviews Dust Bunny locusmag.com/review/...

I suppose I should do a year-end round up? I wasn't going to, because I hadn't sold any new stories this year but yesterday I got a flash piece accepted, just under the wire!

On this, the day of my birth, I am pleased to announce that I will be launching my next publication, THE GREATER REALITY AREA, on JANUARY 3RD, 2026. It has been several years since NORTH OF REALITY, and here shall begin my long awaited return to the fray! New logo by @tinyobscurae.bsky.social

got a new moon poem out!

We just need a few more subscribers and we'll be able to raise our fiction payment rates in the new year. Help us out. We're so close!

"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...

Planet of the Apiarists: Josh Pearce Reviews Bugonia

Shoot for the moon in @fictionaljosh.bsky.social’s new poem “Lacus Solitudinis.” kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

New movie review for @locusmag.bsky.social I've used Nine Inch Nails lyrics as titles for three of my movie reviews before, but this is the first time I actually get to talk about NIN music! TRON: ARES review: locusmag.com/review/all-y...

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

“Injustice requires a witness / or else, did it ever even happen?” Explore @fictionaljosh.bsky.social’s “Lacus Odii (Lake of Hate),” out now in Issue 9. Read it now on our website—bit.ly/4kjY1no

Issue 9 author @fictionaljosh.bsky.social does some interesting things with structure in "Buttons and Soap." The text inside and outside the parentheses can be read separately or together, each reading revealing its own story. Read "Buttons and Soap" here: www.radonjournal.com

Bourbon Penn 35 is live with brand new stories by Benjamin Parzybok, Steve Toase, Margaret Roach, Josh Pearce, Gretchen Tessmer, Andrew Zhou, and Jennifer Hykes. @sparkwatson.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @margaretroach.bsky.social @fictionaljosh.bsky.social

Risky Business: Josh Pearce Reviews Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning locusmag.com/2025/06...

Strange days indeed in “Microcosmus of Mystery” by @fictionaljosh.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...

Issue 42 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now! mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/ Six new stories in text and audio formats, and reviews too! Many thanks to @SeanMacKendrick.bsky.social, Cheryl Ntumy, Anna Ziegelhof, Travis Ezell, Charlie Winter, Josh Pearce, @faceyouhate.bsky.social, and Micah Hyatt on voice!

“The Weather on Other Planets” by Josh Pearce The music is unbearable. You wear an earbud tuned to radio static of lightning strikes on Saturn

Do You Believe in Love After Life? Josh Pearce Reviews The Shrouds locusmag.com/2025/07...

The August @utopiascifi.bsky.social is out!! We're now printing 5 poems/issue and this one features themes of florals and the natural world. Poems from @rkduncan.bsky.social @epapasoulioti.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social Josh Pearce & Kelley Tai! www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

Long Live the New Flesh! Josh Pearce Reviews Together

There are 7 poems in the new Kaleidotrope and 579 different words between them.

If you're in the Bay please consider signing up to get texts from Bay Resistance. NY has been keeping it tight, Chicago organized, Portland weird. We need our own flavor. bayresistance.org?source=direc...

There are so many amazing stories and poems in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope!

The Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope also features amazing new poems by Chris Clemens, @mimulus.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @shanaross.bsky.social, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, Robert Borski, and @jamesjosephbrown.bsky.social!

Drumroll for our Best of the Net nominees @virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social @andrewkozma.net @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @fictionaljosh.bsky.social @thomasbehan.bsky.social @haywall.bsky.social

whatever, fuck that dead fascist. in other good news, i've got new poetry coming out soon in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social (Lacus Solitudinis) and New Myths (Friendship 1)

I have written many stories. They are inside this book, TALISNAM. Read it, and it will always be part of you! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPVNPL2T

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

New issue up today, featuring a range of stories, poetry, and non-fiction, and the winners of our art contest. Plus interviews with Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social and Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social #sciencefiction www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

the man who was occasionally Gordon Holland from “Microcosmus of Mystery” by Josh Pearce

Re-upping this recent thread in honor of the #PoetryHugo motion passing.

Today is the official release of The S&L #4— and the completion of the set of four we'd originally funded! With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible. Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀 store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

hitting you with another weird one. here's SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON in @mythaxis.bsky.social mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/som... "How long would it take to regenerate a lost limb? Well, humans can grow entire bodies in 9 months and if they can do that why bother replacing just an arm?"

Another reminder that Mythaxis i42 has been released: mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/ Thanks to all our contributors, but in particular to @awinterplace.bsky.social and @fictionaljosh.bsky.social (criminally overlooked in my post tagging first time around!)

i42 ToC Tag, You’re It - Sean MacKendrick Listen, Don’t Touch - Cheryl Ntumy Lay-offs - Anna Ziegelhof Swimming With Elephants - Travis Ezell The House We Built Together, Yesterday - Charlie Winter Someday Someone’s Gonna Steal Your Carbon - Josh Pearce Strange Pictures, by Uketsu - by Bill Ryan

14) Obscurity is a blessing. Don’t ever think otherwise.

Our Jul/Aug issue is on sale now! Pick up a copy to read more great science fiction from David Gerrold, Marie Vibbert, James Dick, Sean Monaghan, and AnLab winners Jay Werkheiser and Frank Wu.

yep! unpaywalled:

www.norcalresist.org/bail-fund.html Border Angels, too.

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

oh, your magazine is open for submissions? okay i'm sending you a bunch of horny poems, look out

If you put a Shell station to your ear you can hear the ocean dying

WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Skull & Laurel came from playing God of War and listening to In the Hall of the Mountain King (here's a version I like: youtu.be/zpUWXz9ptcc). Then I opened a thesaurus, a rhyming dictionary, and etymonline and just followed the sounds

A weird and wonderful volume... that includes my story "The Liminal Space Dating Agency"

Path to publication for MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY: brainstorming -> outline -> first draft First sent on submission Sept. '23, and picked up 11 rejections before selling. Read the final product in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

Josh Pearce’s “Witches in Cold Mountain Halls,” in The Skull&Laurel - Issue 003 (from Tenebrous Press) is utterly magnificent. And deeply weird.

I've got a poem out in @nightmare-magazine.com : "Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won't Bite" www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/touch...