God's Cruel Joke literary magazine
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God's Cruel Joke propagates writing that explores the uncanny intersection of the profound and the profane.
Submissions are OPEN.
God's Cruel Joke propagates writing that explores the uncanny intersection of the profound and the profane.
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SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
"For the eight quiet and progressive years that Hog Hollow had been in operation, Darrel had been instructing the herd in simple English. The pigs caught on quickly and were soon able to recognize many verbal and written commands."
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"For the eight quiet and progressive years that Hog Hollow had been in operation, Darrel had been instructing the herd in simple English. The pigs caught on quickly and were soon able to recognize many verbal and written commands."
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"What we’re talking here like to come from a Mary Poppins portmanteau: Romantasy! Bodice-rippers with pixie dust! And this john-ray’s got it all: Werewolf- and vampire-adjacent princesses languishing in Tudorbethan castles from structural gaslighting"
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November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"What we’re talking here like to come from a Mary Poppins portmanteau: Romantasy! Bodice-rippers with pixie dust! And this john-ray’s got it all: Werewolf- and vampire-adjacent princesses languishing in Tudorbethan castles from structural gaslighting"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/peter-geier-...
www.godscrueljokelit.com/peter-geier-...
Read Boy/Girl by Tommy Cheis in GCJ5—about a Palestinian sleeper agent in the earliest phases of schizophrenia who, on discovering that a female member of his terrorist cell is an undercover FBI agent, must decide what to do about her.
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculative-erotics
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculative-erotics
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Read Boy/Girl by Tommy Cheis in GCJ5—about a Palestinian sleeper agent in the earliest phases of schizophrenia who, on discovering that a female member of his terrorist cell is an undercover FBI agent, must decide what to do about her.
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculative-erotics
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculative-erotics
"All those precious secrets
in that closet in that pocket
in the back of that head.
Not so long ago I was in
need of a sign but I have
stripped all surplus pain
of attention so now it only
shrieks if I glance that way
with my sunbuttoned eyes."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/lindsay-mcle...
in that closet in that pocket
in the back of that head.
Not so long ago I was in
need of a sign but I have
stripped all surplus pain
of attention so now it only
shrieks if I glance that way
with my sunbuttoned eyes."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/lindsay-mcle...
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"All those precious secrets
in that closet in that pocket
in the back of that head.
Not so long ago I was in
need of a sign but I have
stripped all surplus pain
of attention so now it only
shrieks if I glance that way
with my sunbuttoned eyes."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/lindsay-mcle...
in that closet in that pocket
in the back of that head.
Not so long ago I was in
need of a sign but I have
stripped all surplus pain
of attention so now it only
shrieks if I glance that way
with my sunbuttoned eyes."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/lindsay-mcle...
Gregory Wallace is wrapping our October up with some fun ones.
"The happy peacock's cool comments/ red breasted feather girl at my tables / carpeted butter of the sun countries / long crepe of phantom sphinx / east of cracking ember / the gas immolated you"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/greg-wallace...
"The happy peacock's cool comments/ red breasted feather girl at my tables / carpeted butter of the sun countries / long crepe of phantom sphinx / east of cracking ember / the gas immolated you"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/greg-wallace...
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Gregory Wallace is wrapping our October up with some fun ones.
"The happy peacock's cool comments/ red breasted feather girl at my tables / carpeted butter of the sun countries / long crepe of phantom sphinx / east of cracking ember / the gas immolated you"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/greg-wallace...
"The happy peacock's cool comments/ red breasted feather girl at my tables / carpeted butter of the sun countries / long crepe of phantom sphinx / east of cracking ember / the gas immolated you"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/greg-wallace...
"Lunacy served as our sextant beneath a low, dead sky. When night fell, the grim crusaders howled like wolves. They pounded their fists against the ground and danced, beating themselves as if trying to exorcise a deeper pain harbored beneath their skin."
godscrueljokelit.com/copal-stephen-myer
godscrueljokelit.com/copal-stephen-myer
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Lunacy served as our sextant beneath a low, dead sky. When night fell, the grim crusaders howled like wolves. They pounded their fists against the ground and danced, beating themselves as if trying to exorcise a deeper pain harbored beneath their skin."
godscrueljokelit.com/copal-stephen-myer
godscrueljokelit.com/copal-stephen-myer
2 new poems from Nicholas Grooms!
"All of the people who are underneath my skin / like the tumor I try and avoid touching / while petting the belly of my elderly beagle / Knowing her time is nearing end / sick with the thought of holding her limp body"
godscrueljokelit.com/2-poems-nicholas-grooms
"All of the people who are underneath my skin / like the tumor I try and avoid touching / while petting the belly of my elderly beagle / Knowing her time is nearing end / sick with the thought of holding her limp body"
godscrueljokelit.com/2-poems-nicholas-grooms
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
2 new poems from Nicholas Grooms!
"All of the people who are underneath my skin / like the tumor I try and avoid touching / while petting the belly of my elderly beagle / Knowing her time is nearing end / sick with the thought of holding her limp body"
godscrueljokelit.com/2-poems-nicholas-grooms
"All of the people who are underneath my skin / like the tumor I try and avoid touching / while petting the belly of my elderly beagle / Knowing her time is nearing end / sick with the thought of holding her limp body"
godscrueljokelit.com/2-poems-nicholas-grooms
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This weekend at Voidcon 3 I walked the battlefields in Gettysburg before the festivities experiencing an unexpected sense of outrage & loss, and shared a piece of writing about war that terrified me to speak. The creators I met inspired me and gave me the courage to do this reading. Thank you all.
Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5!
"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
October 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This weekend at Voidcon 3 I walked the battlefields in Gettysburg before the festivities experiencing an unexpected sense of outrage & loss, and shared a piece of writing about war that terrified me to speak. The creators I met inspired me and gave me the courage to do this reading. Thank you all.
"I got shipped to the zoo in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to mate with the dominant male, Iago. He was a fervent Catholic and had a pet truffle pig called Aldo. He was a hunk but wore eyeliner."
- 'Normalmaxxing' by Tempest Miller in GCJ5
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
- 'Normalmaxxing' by Tempest Miller in GCJ5
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
October 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"I got shipped to the zoo in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to mate with the dominant male, Iago. He was a fervent Catholic and had a pet truffle pig called Aldo. He was a hunk but wore eyeliner."
- 'Normalmaxxing' by Tempest Miller in GCJ5
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
- 'Normalmaxxing' by Tempest Miller in GCJ5
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
"Only the first blood could show me the future, I learned, after spending hours hunched over the toilet, like a fortune-teller and her crystal ball. On my second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth days, nothing resembling anything ever came out."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/3-stories-ne...
www.godscrueljokelit.com/3-stories-ne...
October 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Only the first blood could show me the future, I learned, after spending hours hunched over the toilet, like a fortune-teller and her crystal ball. On my second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth days, nothing resembling anything ever came out."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/3-stories-ne...
www.godscrueljokelit.com/3-stories-ne...
We're kicking off October appropriately with some more Steve Gerson fiction.
"Above, through a moment of cloud break, Georgie thought she saw a star, first a dim white, next flickering pink, then pulsing red, but it disappeared behind a passing cloud."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson...
"Above, through a moment of cloud break, Georgie thought she saw a star, first a dim white, next flickering pink, then pulsing red, but it disappeared behind a passing cloud."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson...
October 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We're kicking off October appropriately with some more Steve Gerson fiction.
"Above, through a moment of cloud break, Georgie thought she saw a star, first a dim white, next flickering pink, then pulsing red, but it disappeared behind a passing cloud."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson...
"Above, through a moment of cloud break, Georgie thought she saw a star, first a dim white, next flickering pink, then pulsing red, but it disappeared behind a passing cloud."
www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson...
We're going subterranean today. Learn about all the complications of having two taints with 'Spelunker' by Tex Gresham and KKUURRTT.
godscrueljokelit.com/tex-g-kkuurr...
godscrueljokelit.com/tex-g-kkuurr...
September 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We're going subterranean today. Learn about all the complications of having two taints with 'Spelunker' by Tex Gresham and KKUURRTT.
godscrueljokelit.com/tex-g-kkuurr...
godscrueljokelit.com/tex-g-kkuurr...
Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5!
"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5!
"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."
godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
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THERES GONNA BE REALLY COOL SHIT FOR SALE IN GETTYSBURG IN OCTOBER
SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
THERES GONNA BE REALLY COOL SHIT FOR SALE IN GETTYSBURG IN OCTOBER
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Hey sickos, here's your hole
SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hey sickos, here's your hole
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Thanks very much to Lee @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social for his tireless work on this gem of a magazine, and for making space for fucked up art in a culture that sorely needs it.
September 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Thanks very much to Lee @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social for his tireless work on this gem of a magazine, and for making space for fucked up art in a culture that sorely needs it.
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Issue #5 of @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social is out today and the theme is speculative erotica, and yes I wrote a story in this one. There’s a paid option and a free download: www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Issue #5 of @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social is out today and the theme is speculative erotica, and yes I wrote a story in this one. There’s a paid option and a free download: www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
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BUY (or read4free) NOW & get some good sicko shit about recovering from anorexia via divine feederism & gayboy Jesus coming back to blow off a cop’s dick
+++ 26 other filth visionaries
+++ 26 other filth visionaries
SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
BUY (or read4free) NOW & get some good sicko shit about recovering from anorexia via divine feederism & gayboy Jesus coming back to blow off a cop’s dick
+++ 26 other filth visionaries
+++ 26 other filth visionaries
SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
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TODAY!!! Buy it in print or download it (for free???) at the link - www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
September 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
TODAY!!! Buy it in print or download it (for free???) at the link - www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...
SPECULATIVE EROTICS dropping tomorrow!
It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.
September 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
SPECULATIVE EROTICS dropping tomorrow!
Last feature this week are fun ones, 3 poems from @malikbtxt.bsky.social .
"my ex asked / “did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life, walk into your living room and find you had no life left?” / I didn’t at all and now i miss the company"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/malik-berry-...
"my ex asked / “did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life, walk into your living room and find you had no life left?” / I didn’t at all and now i miss the company"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/malik-berry-...
September 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Last feature this week are fun ones, 3 poems from @malikbtxt.bsky.social .
"my ex asked / “did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life, walk into your living room and find you had no life left?” / I didn’t at all and now i miss the company"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/malik-berry-...
"my ex asked / “did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life, walk into your living room and find you had no life left?” / I didn’t at all and now i miss the company"
www.godscrueljokelit.com/malik-berry-...
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Hard to overstate how psyched I am for this issue, no one is doing it like GCJ. Look for my new story "Butterfly Stitch" when this comes out next week--if you think you can stomach it.
It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hard to overstate how psyched I am for this issue, no one is doing it like GCJ. Look for my new story "Butterfly Stitch" when this comes out next week--if you think you can stomach it.
Read 'Magnolia Light' from Benjamin Ray Allee!
"Then he looked at me, and in his eyes I saw my own throat slit, my eyes plunged into by greasy thumbs, my stomach bitten by caried teeth. What the hell?"
godscrueljokelit.com/ben-r-allee-magnolia-light
"Then he looked at me, and in his eyes I saw my own throat slit, my eyes plunged into by greasy thumbs, my stomach bitten by caried teeth. What the hell?"
godscrueljokelit.com/ben-r-allee-magnolia-light
September 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Read 'Magnolia Light' from Benjamin Ray Allee!
"Then he looked at me, and in his eyes I saw my own throat slit, my eyes plunged into by greasy thumbs, my stomach bitten by caried teeth. What the hell?"
godscrueljokelit.com/ben-r-allee-magnolia-light
"Then he looked at me, and in his eyes I saw my own throat slit, my eyes plunged into by greasy thumbs, my stomach bitten by caried teeth. What the hell?"
godscrueljokelit.com/ben-r-allee-magnolia-light
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM