Fran, Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
@cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social
sf/f, myth, & eldritch stories, podcasts, art, & articles from around the world. We stand with Ukraine & all whose freedoms are under assault.
Also supporting animal & environmental rights.
Artist, writer, editor.
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/
Also supporting animal & environmental rights.
Artist, writer, editor.
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/
Three white male criminals in their seventies are wreaking havoc on our planet as they struggle to stay in power and out of jail.
November 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Three white male criminals in their seventies are wreaking havoc on our planet as they struggle to stay in power and out of jail.
Liam, did you secretly travel there before writing "The Icy Breath of Enceladus"?
October 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Liam, did you secretly travel there before writing "The Icy Breath of Enceladus"?
Our 2024 Kepler Award winner!
"Asylum", by David Whitmarsh
“She wants to claim asylum as an unwilling passenger on her mother’s ship.”
375 years since she was born, all but 16 or 18 spent in the relativistic timelessness of interstellar displacements
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
"Asylum", by David Whitmarsh
“She wants to claim asylum as an unwilling passenger on her mother’s ship.”
375 years since she was born, all but 16 or 18 spent in the relativistic timelessness of interstellar displacements
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
July 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Our 2024 Kepler Award winner!
"Asylum", by David Whitmarsh
“She wants to claim asylum as an unwilling passenger on her mother’s ship.”
375 years since she was born, all but 16 or 18 spent in the relativistic timelessness of interstellar displacements
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
"Asylum", by David Whitmarsh
“She wants to claim asylum as an unwilling passenger on her mother’s ship.”
375 years since she was born, all but 16 or 18 spent in the relativistic timelessness of interstellar displacements
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
We have a review of our latest poem, "Nightmare Eater", by Silvatiicus Riddle. You can read the poem here: cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
and read the review here:
gravenink.com/2025/06/01/n...
and here:
medium.com/@tara.grimra...
and read the review here:
gravenink.com/2025/06/01/n...
and here:
medium.com/@tara.grimra...
June 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
We have a review of our latest poem, "Nightmare Eater", by Silvatiicus Riddle. You can read the poem here: cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
and read the review here:
gravenink.com/2025/06/01/n...
and here:
medium.com/@tara.grimra...
and read the review here:
gravenink.com/2025/06/01/n...
and here:
medium.com/@tara.grimra...
Our benefit anthology To Ukraine, With Love, has made it's second donation, this time to World Central Kitchen for Ukraine.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
Available also from other online sellers, actual bookshops, & libraries.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
Available also from other online sellers, actual bookshops, & libraries.
November 16, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Our benefit anthology To Ukraine, With Love, has made it's second donation, this time to World Central Kitchen for Ukraine.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
Available also from other online sellers, actual bookshops, & libraries.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
Available also from other online sellers, actual bookshops, & libraries.
A review of A Place Between Waking & Sleeping, Eugen Bacon's just published short story collection
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/rev...
Available from the publisher rawdogscreaming.com/books/a-plac...
Cover art by Bizhan Khodabandeh
www.facebook.com/bizhank
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/rev...
Available from the publisher rawdogscreaming.com/books/a-plac...
Cover art by Bizhan Khodabandeh
www.facebook.com/bizhank
September 24, 2024 at 8:34 PM
A review of A Place Between Waking & Sleeping, Eugen Bacon's just published short story collection
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/rev...
Available from the publisher rawdogscreaming.com/books/a-plac...
Cover art by Bizhan Khodabandeh
www.facebook.com/bizhank
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/rev...
Available from the publisher rawdogscreaming.com/books/a-plac...
Cover art by Bizhan Khodabandeh
www.facebook.com/bizhank
Frontispiece to our Ukraine benefit anthology, To Ukraine, With Love
fully illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
fully illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
fully illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
fully illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
September 13, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Frontispiece to our Ukraine benefit anthology, To Ukraine, With Love
fully illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
fully illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
fully illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
fully illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
Thank you so much!
September 13, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Thank you so much!
@mariahaskins.bsky.social Hi. I heard you were doing starter packs that helped increase followers. Please include us -- bsky.app/profile/cosm... & if possible focus on our benefit anthology for Ukraine, all work donated, all profits to Ukraine - cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
September 11, 2024 at 12:17 AM
@mariahaskins.bsky.social Hi. I heard you were doing starter packs that helped increase followers. Please include us -- bsky.app/profile/cosm... & if possible focus on our benefit anthology for Ukraine, all work donated, all profits to Ukraine - cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
We've published a benefit anthology, To Ukraine, With Love. Stories & artwork were donated, all profits go to Ukraine.
So far we've donated IFAKs through White Stork.
Audiobook to come next!.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
So far we've donated IFAKs through White Stork.
Audiobook to come next!.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
September 7, 2024 at 7:14 AM
We've published a benefit anthology, To Ukraine, With Love. Stories & artwork were donated, all profits go to Ukraine.
So far we've donated IFAKs through White Stork.
Audiobook to come next!.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
So far we've donated IFAKs through White Stork.
Audiobook to come next!.
illustrated paperback:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
illustrated ebook:
www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Love...
Kepler Award winner "The Ninth Tentacle", by Geoffrey Hart
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com
The mussels dragged us to a coral shape with 8 radiating branches resembling octopods
One by one, they drove spikes through our tentacles splayed out on the rough coral
Their work done, they left us to die.
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com
The mussels dragged us to a coral shape with 8 radiating branches resembling octopods
One by one, they drove spikes through our tentacles splayed out on the rough coral
Their work done, they left us to die.
June 29, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Kepler Award winner "The Ninth Tentacle", by Geoffrey Hart
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com
The mussels dragged us to a coral shape with 8 radiating branches resembling octopods
One by one, they drove spikes through our tentacles splayed out on the rough coral
Their work done, they left us to die.
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com
The mussels dragged us to a coral shape with 8 radiating branches resembling octopods
One by one, they drove spikes through our tentacles splayed out on the rough coral
Their work done, they left us to die.
"A Promise of Salt and Sky", by Robert Luke Wilkins,
new fantasy at Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/.../a-promis...
new fantasy at Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/.../a-promis...
June 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM
"A Promise of Salt and Sky", by Robert Luke Wilkins,
new fantasy at Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/.../a-promis...
new fantasy at Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/.../a-promis...
The wonderful writer/songwriter E. Don Harpe, coauthor with Eugen Bacon of the highly reviewed "Danged Black Thing", has passed away unexpectedly, and his family is reeling and struggling to gather funeral expenses. Please help in Don's memory: www.gofundme.com/f/wfyqka-paw...
June 9, 2024 at 8:33 PM
The wonderful writer/songwriter E. Don Harpe, coauthor with Eugen Bacon of the highly reviewed "Danged Black Thing", has passed away unexpectedly, and his family is reeling and struggling to gather funeral expenses. Please help in Don's memory: www.gofundme.com/f/wfyqka-paw...
For those who might like it, I'll be starting a peaceful goat brushing ASMR channel on my Patreon, with my three Pygora goats. Pygoras are small, friendly, & playful, a mix of Angora & pygmy goat, with long silky/fluffy coats. Here you see Silver when he was a kid.
www.patreon.com/posts/goat-c...
www.patreon.com/posts/goat-c...
March 23, 2024 at 3:58 AM
For those who might like it, I'll be starting a peaceful goat brushing ASMR channel on my Patreon, with my three Pygora goats. Pygoras are small, friendly, & playful, a mix of Angora & pygmy goat, with long silky/fluffy coats. Here you see Silver when he was a kid.
www.patreon.com/posts/goat-c...
www.patreon.com/posts/goat-c...
Free regular submissions March 1 & 2
sf/f/myth, legend, & fairy tales/eldritch stories & poetry
8¢/word new, 2¢/word reprint, poetry $1/line to 40 lines
Kepler Award: writers in dire straits can indicate & skip reading fee
Judges include: Geoffrey Landis, Prof. Trimble, Andrew Burt, Douglas Dluzen
sf/f/myth, legend, & fairy tales/eldritch stories & poetry
8¢/word new, 2¢/word reprint, poetry $1/line to 40 lines
Kepler Award: writers in dire straits can indicate & skip reading fee
Judges include: Geoffrey Landis, Prof. Trimble, Andrew Burt, Douglas Dluzen
February 29, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Free regular submissions March 1 & 2
sf/f/myth, legend, & fairy tales/eldritch stories & poetry
8¢/word new, 2¢/word reprint, poetry $1/line to 40 lines
Kepler Award: writers in dire straits can indicate & skip reading fee
Judges include: Geoffrey Landis, Prof. Trimble, Andrew Burt, Douglas Dluzen
sf/f/myth, legend, & fairy tales/eldritch stories & poetry
8¢/word new, 2¢/word reprint, poetry $1/line to 40 lines
Kepler Award: writers in dire straits can indicate & skip reading fee
Judges include: Geoffrey Landis, Prof. Trimble, Andrew Burt, Douglas Dluzen
“Under the Ghost Star”, by Erik VanBezooijen
A Vlakk witch’s 13th birthday is momentous.
But on Kuma’s, the Death Spirit told her “Here in the dark earth the roots of this place shall feed on your soul forever.”
And Kuma answered the Death Spirit...
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
A Vlakk witch’s 13th birthday is momentous.
But on Kuma’s, the Death Spirit told her “Here in the dark earth the roots of this place shall feed on your soul forever.”
And Kuma answered the Death Spirit...
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
January 31, 2024 at 2:43 AM
“Under the Ghost Star”, by Erik VanBezooijen
A Vlakk witch’s 13th birthday is momentous.
But on Kuma’s, the Death Spirit told her “Here in the dark earth the roots of this place shall feed on your soul forever.”
And Kuma answered the Death Spirit...
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
A Vlakk witch’s 13th birthday is momentous.
But on Kuma’s, the Death Spirit told her “Here in the dark earth the roots of this place shall feed on your soul forever.”
And Kuma answered the Death Spirit...
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/...
November 9, 2023 at 6:48 PM
I think this is the newsletter of Terri's that mentions our Ukraine benefit anthology:)
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
October 30, 2023 at 2:43 AM
I think this is the newsletter of Terri's that mentions our Ukraine benefit anthology:)
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
Please consider our benefit anthology for Ukraine. From Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores. All stories and artwork were donated, all profits go to Ukraine. Here's something of a media kit page: cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
October 16, 2023 at 11:54 PM
Please consider our benefit anthology for Ukraine. From Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores. All stories and artwork were donated, all profits go to Ukraine. Here's something of a media kit page: cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/features/to-...
Writers!! Your chance to #AskTheEditors for answers to all those writing/publishing questions - next session Sept. 2, 8 AM Pacific, includes @waltboyes.bsky.social, @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social, @khoreo.bsky.social, and Metaphorosis. More info: industry.metaphorosis.com/ask-the-edit...
August 22, 2023 at 8:43 AM
Writers!! Your chance to #AskTheEditors for answers to all those writing/publishing questions - next session Sept. 2, 8 AM Pacific, includes @waltboyes.bsky.social, @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social, @khoreo.bsky.social, and Metaphorosis. More info: industry.metaphorosis.com/ask-the-edit...
Hello everyone. I've just joined and am looking around the new sky.
July 3, 2023 at 11:12 PM
Hello everyone. I've just joined and am looking around the new sky.