CJ Erick
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CJ Erick
@cj-5150.bsky.social
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okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!

I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.

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January 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My 100-word drabble "Kansas Road Stop" is up at Panoply Lit Magazine, under yet another pen name. True story! Cheers!

panoplyzine.com/kansas-road-...
Kansas Road Stop – by CJ Mathis
The needle touched “E,” so we pulled off I-70 into a station from the 50’s. Four young cowboys sat on a fence where their pickups cooled, boot-heels hooked on the center rail, dark eyes h…
panoplyzine.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/01/draw...

My story "Drawn by Light" featured for free reading at Abyss and Apex today. One of my personal favorites. Cheers!
Drawn by Light | Abyss & Apex
www.abyssapexzine.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New author copies. Includes my flash horror thing "Old Prairie Home." Chills!
December 30, 2024 at 7:10 PM
My first "real" post on Bluesky!

My story "Land of Aur," about a romance between an ancient Egyptian priestess and a time-traveling researcher, appears in this new antho from Celestial Echo Press. Cheers!
November 15, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Picking myself up and getting back in the writing habit has taken a few days. But I have a couple short stories about to be published, and about a million that are screaming to be written. "Mechanical pencil and notebook in hand, he carries on..."
November 12, 2024 at 5:18 PM