Sorry it took me this long to get here, folks

Ever been gay or something? Ever gotten dislodged from the objective sightline, newly adrift in the frigidity of the possibility for actual love? I repeat myself. No Love Can Keep You Kept: 600 words of ecstatic weird horror, live on ergot. Start the year right.

At The Rotting Leaf, we believe stories belong to the writer. That's why we don't ask for *any* exclusivity period. If a writer sells a story the day after we published it, we'll celebrate it. Writing belongs to the writer, not the publisher.

In “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” @jsdouglas.bsky.social takes us on a strange, beautiful, tumbling journey 👇

In “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” @jsdouglas.bsky.social takes us on a strange, beautiful, tumbling journey 👇

"Like so many others, this tumbleweed is released from its anchoring root, the wind flinging it into the air. It lands on a grasshopper mouse, trapping it and killing it with sharp thorns and percussive bouncing." When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

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It’s here! Take a break from your human horrors and read my eco horror short story. #horrorstory #shortstory 📚👀😱

The first piece of ecofiction from @rottingleafmag.bsky.social is out! A mouse, a beetle, and a haunted tumbleweed.

"Like so many others, this tumbleweed is released from its anchoring root, the wind flinging it into the air. It lands on a grasshopper mouse, trapping it and killing it with sharp thorns and percussive bouncing." When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

I’m so excited!

Our first rotten leaf drops tomorrow. Keep your eyes on this space for “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings' inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...

"One of my favorite pieces of craft advice is that anything you’re told you should not (or should) do should just be taken as a challenge rather than a rule." -interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

A quick update: Submissions to RLM will re-open on January 1st at midnight (EST), and our first piece will be published on January 10th! 👀

A quick update: Submissions to RLM will re-open on January 1st at midnight (EST), and our first piece will be published on January 10th! 👀

If you want to help us pay the real, human writers who submitted real, human-crafted fiction to @rottingleafmag.bsky.social, become a paid subscriber to Brief Ecology. Be a patron of the human arts. www.briefecology.com/subscribe

The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)

It is currently Black Friday. This shirt is also black, but it says 'ergot.' If you buy this shirt, you will support ergot. writers. www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8357...

The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)

the rot is opening, submit submit

It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST

New cover art, with BCS #446, out today: “Ice Quest” by returning BCS artist Jereme Peabody. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/artwork/ice-...

Art by • Calder Moore

It’s pub day for Monstrous Angels featuring my short story Heedless Flames 🔥 I love religious horror. I love fucked up, morally gray angels. And I love this anthology! All proceeds will be donated to the Avian Haven Wildlife Rehabilitation Center so you can’t go wrong picking this one up 🦅🦆🦃🦉🪶🪽

It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST

It's nearly time to nominate your best speculative ecofiction for ECO25! Full guidelines here: www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18! www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

Any favorite flash fiction/short short stories?

"Mother says we can resume our prior living arrangement (and Movie Night, poor Mother) when I’ve gone one month without an emission. I can understand her point of view, of course." Today on ergot.: 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....

Here's the aurora-filled novella for anyone who is particularly into auroras right now: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

TLDR: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

"I am struck by the possibility--no, a certainty--that there are ideas within me which will only see fruition long after my material body has rotted away." Samuel M. Moss, THE VELDT INSTITUTE

Did you know that FF is on Instagram? Trying to get more active there as I attempt to hedge my bets against inevitable future platform death by actually being present on more than one service. You could be follower #500! www.instagram.com/fusionfragme...

Reminder: Today at 11 am Eastern I'll be streaming "The Long Dark" to raise money for NY Common Pantry! With giveaways for each goal! Let's see how long I last. www.twitch.tv/nkjemisin If you don't feel like watching the game, you can also donate directly at tiltify.com/@nkjemisin/s...

Our full submission guidelines are now available. Put it on you calendar: Submissions will open on December 1st! www.briefecology.com/p/rlm-submis...

As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... 🌕🏚️🌌 Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!

We’re only about a month out from the release of the weirdest thing I’ve ever written! Get excited for The Writhing, Verdant End, a split eco-horror collection from me, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and @ericraglin1992.bsky.social :)

"...the idea behind Rotting Leaf Magazine is to explore the nature-society binary. To break it down and move it and challenge it. That’s the pretentious answer. I could also say that there’s just not enough weird shit getting published so why not some more?"

"Something I’ve learned is to be relentless about only writing things I want to write and not worrying about what someone else may or may not want to read. There’s no other way to write honestly." -interview with @benlockwood.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

Just finished The Black Vampyre (1819). It's the first American vampire story and features a Black vampire who enacts revenge for his enslavement during the lead up to the Haitian Revolution. There's a lot to think through, but... 1/2

Excited to see TWO NEW MAGS (!!) launched by past and present FF reading team members this week. @rottingleafmag.bsky.social edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social <1.5k word eco-fiction @thephantompulse.bsky.social co-edited by @jexewizabee.bsky.social <3k originals/<5k reprints horror/dark fantasy

"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse." Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...

Ooo this is very cool, very Scavengers Reign

writers take note - new outlet sprouting/unfurling...

This is very exciting to me.

Some things we’ll be looking for: - Eco-Horror - Eco-Gothic/Anti-Gothic - Haunted & Unhaunted Landscapes - Eco-Surrealism - Eco-Weird - Metaficton - Unreliable Narrators More details here 👇

We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December. - Published by @briefecology.bsky.social - Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website - $ 0.06/word - 1,500 words or less - More details at the link 👇

We're here! www.briefecology.com/p/annoucemen...