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Samir Sirk Morató
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your friendly neighborhood offal pile. works in Strange Horizons, ergot, The Dark, khōréō, & more 🦷🫀 "Gore Poetics" (collection, Cursed Morsels Press) emerges April 14th; pre-orders open now 🥩
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 23d
surprise: it's pre-order time! 🥩✨️ seeing this collection emerge into the world makes me feel so loved. a lot of passion & effort from multiple people went into creating this. i hope that you're all as excited for it as i am
cursedmorsels.bsky.social Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 23d
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER ANNOUNCEMENT!

Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!

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The cover for Gore Poetics, Stories by Samir Sirk Morató. The cover features glistening intestines with two black pearls at the center. The text is a dark pink and flows with the texture of the intestines.
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We're closing submissions 20FEB through mid-March to catch up on the backlog.

We'll continue publishing as normal.

If you already submitted work, you'll receive a response.

If you submit on 19/20FEB, your work will be considered.

Work submitted after 20FEB will not be considered.
February 19, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣

If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call.
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Submission Calls
Special sub call (open now through march 31st) Later this year, we’re putting out a surveillance horror/Weird fiction anthology. I’ve loved the stories I’ve solicited and their di…
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February 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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spicycloaca.bsky.social
collection collage 3/19—🧠🪱🕳️

"It should have ended when you killed yourself."

Gore Poetics (@cursedmorsels.bsky.social) debuts April 14th
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February 19, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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parkparr.bsky.social
The Lovers, 2024
a heart shaped painting against an off-white background. painting depicts a pink snowy landscape of road and trees, two white stars with blue tails and subtle pink halos float above either side of the road
December 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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anatomoth.bsky.social
Anatomy moths up for tattoo grabz too!
Poor things I keep forgetting telling that they are available as designs as well!
February 8, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
Attention, sickos: preorder Gore Poetics for your own good!
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore...
Text reads: Preorder today. https://www.cursedmorselspress.com A fraternity massacre births rewritten history, a supernatural entity, and a survivor obsessed with both. Two bog bodies ponder their star-crossed love. A chronically ill house consumes its unwilling, equally unwell tenant. A housewife discovers she's made of several million ticks—but only after they leak from her new nipple piercings. The stories in Gore Poetics explore intimacy and annihilation through visceral, wet prose. Samir Sirk Morató makes a name for themself as a master of strange, erotic, and transgressive horror in this stunning debut collection. Image depicts the cover of Gore Poetics, which is an illustration of glistening intestines with two black pearls at the center.
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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arthur.baron-clement.com
Rusty, a one-month-break allegory.
Rough digital painting of an old rusty sword lost in a flowery landscape.
January 12, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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sheydgarden.bsky.social
i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter
a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose" a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.
February 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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teresa-ardrey.bsky.social
I finally signed up for book sirens for reasons and I know I set my preferences correctly when Gore Poetics showed up as most recommended.
February 10, 2026 at 11:39 PM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
happy valentine's day! 💘 if you want a horny-sad fantasy romance to wrap your coils around—one about monstrosity, disability, understanding, and what it means to love post the "happily ever after"—then i've got you covered
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#PC857: Ecdysis by Samir Sirk Morató, read by Amanda Ching. A #PodCastleOriginial! Rated R, Content warning for ableism (including ableist language) and scenes of a sexual nature

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#PC857: Ecdysis by Samir Sirk Morató, read by Amanda Ching. A #PodCastleOriginial! Rated R, Content warning for ableism (including ableist language) and scenes of a sexual nature My husband never got over being a lindworm. Understandably. For over two decades, he was a serpent wider than an oak barrel and longer than a warship; for under two years, he’s been human. Had someone changed me from a shark-swallowing, black-and-blood-banded titan to a naked, knobbly beast with limbs, I would’ve killed them and myself, even if we were wed. Yet wed we were. Our betrothal was as crushing as my husband’s past coils: because he was a princess-eating monster, he needed to be murdered; because he was a princely man, he needed to be married. “My eldest needs a bride or a coffin,” the queen told my father. “He’s forbidding his younger brother from marrying before he does, and no more princesses will come. We’re out of options. Surrender your daughter.”
February 15, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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brainmage.bsky.social
Roses are red,
These times are quite trying
A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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editrixemma.bsky.social
Samir is an incredible writer, you should read this!
February 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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What’s better than some creepy crawly love on this Valentine’s Day?? Support this mag and find my story “The Brood Thanks You for Your Service” inside this awesome issue. 💕🕷️💕
dielaughingmag.bsky.social Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 5d
Finally! It's Here! Happy Valentine's Day from the clowns at Die Laughing Mag. We're hoping to win your hearts with six hilarifying tales the likes of which you've never seen before (because love is blind, and all that). Get the full issue for $5 here! ko-fi.com/s/222d278cc8
Cover of Die Laughing Issue 6. The cover art features a variety of colorful clown-like creatures, shaped as hearts and also some kind of bug. Tongues are also involved.
February 14, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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lamantia.bsky.social
morning
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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dielaughingmag.bsky.social
Finally! It's Here! Happy Valentine's Day from the clowns at Die Laughing Mag. We're hoping to win your hearts with six hilarifying tales the likes of which you've never seen before (because love is blind, and all that). Get the full issue for $5 here! ko-fi.com/s/222d278cc8
Cover of Die Laughing Issue 6. The cover art features a variety of colorful clown-like creatures, shaped as hearts and also some kind of bug. Tongues are also involved.
February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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dielaughingmag.bsky.social
Find out more about Die Laughing Magazine at our website, and read stories from previous issues for FREE
Die Laughing Literary Magazine
Horror stories so hilarious they'll kill you!
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February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
this collection has a lovely mixture of the brutal & delicate, the holy & anxious, and the human & otherworldly. go wade around in inexplicable horrors!
February 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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khoreo.bsky.social
Just wanted to put this out there: if you’re reading and voting for awards, here's our incredible slate of stories (and essays 🙌) from this past year! We’re so proud of our authors and artists and we hope you consider their stellar work 🧡✨
khōréō: Awards Eligibility 2025
Introduction   This year, khōréō celebrates our fifth anniversary and we are blessed to continue to have our stories be so loved and well-received! As a magazine dedicated to diversity and elevating t...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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seizethepress.bsky.social
If you want to read individual issues of the magazine you can now buy them from our Patreon page for a few quid, including the new issue with stories from Samir Sirk Morató, LC von Hessen, and more.

Gonna be thinking of other ways to make individual issues available, so keep your eyes peeled.
Get more from Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon
creating an anticapitalist dark fiction magazine.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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sloppjockey.bsky.social
chorus. oil painting on wood, 3x3 inches
February 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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horrorsong.blog
You want to read this. A unique & beautiful example of the gnarly empathy genre.
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
Today's paperback sale: The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social is only $9.99 through our online store! Buy a copy of this dark, feminist, literary horror collection and get a free copy of the Solidarity Forever zine. Rad deal!
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The Nightmare Box and Other Stories paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. A witch who makes custom nightmares wonders why all her victims are connected to the Black P...
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February 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
📣NEW PLEDGE / ADD-ON ALERT📣
🖌️ @carlydraws.bsky.social will draw you into a story! You may end up a guard, a recently slain sorcerer, a pirate...who knows? 🏴‍☠️

✨Available as a pledge and an add-on 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Cropped screenshot of the pledge to get your face drawn into a story by Carly A-F. Details on the crowdfund itself.
February 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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It's issue 10's cover! Illustrated by @smuggerby.bsky.social
💀TIMEWORN TERRA🌏️ is our special issue of tales set in futures so far they feel ancient, where magic & technology blur together, and Earth's days are short yet still we lust & laugh!
Learn more here👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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spicycloaca.bsky.social
collection collage 2/19—🪰👩‍❤️‍👩🪺

"When does a chrysalis become a grave instead of a changing place?"

Gore Poetics (@cursedmorsels.bsky.social) debuts April 14th
This is a blurred image of a collage with one clear image spotlight floating in it. In the spotlight, a woman's grainy cleavage and a beetle crawling over it are visible.
February 11, 2026 at 11:07 PM