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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) is out Autumn 2026 🥩
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Dungeon
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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In 4 months, my stabby sapphics will be out in the UK from Penguin Michael Joseph. I have *feelings*. Mostly of gratitude, and disbelief, and primordial fear laced with hope. Thank you to everyone who has helped along the way, to the authors who read and blurbed!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/470416...
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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It's December and people are reading for awards.

I only had one publication this year, and it's about loneliness and gender and sexual assault and girlhood and Americana and carnivorous plants.

Enjoy: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Without exaggeration, one of the finest pieces of paleofiction I've found anywhere. Weird Stone Age horror as high art.
In Perfection’s Shape I Writhe. ~5k words. to be published by @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. pleistocene paleohorror, ammonite worship, disapora feelings, ritual mutilation, comfort by any means; this one isn't out yet or free to read but NESS issues are so gorgeous i couldn't overlook it
New Edge Sword & Sorcery – Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling!
newedgeswordandsorcery.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Opening up for subs at midnight tonight assuming that I have set up Submittable correctly....
Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st!

More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
justify yourself. mixed media. textile, thread, paint, posca pens, marker, sneaker grommets, adhesives.
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#fiberart #mixedmedia
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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27/11/25 - nocturn
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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succulent meats .
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The Bundle With Benefits is now LIVE!
33 items are available for $10, with an extra 18 items available at a $15 tier! Contributors include @leaftilde.bsky.social, @beedokfern.bsky.social, @grumpy-tg.bsky.social, @ela-bambust.bsky.social, @autumnwolff.bsky.social, and more!

itch.io/b/3377/bundl...
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Frustrated about being beset by AI slop in the reading queue and other places over the past few days. I know it's been said a million times before, but I feel like it's always worth saying again: Stories written by you will always be better than stories written by the robot.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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just read twilight tide by @spicycloaca.bsky.social in the dark magazine and im obsessed. lushly written, disgusting, full of strange magic as well as rage. a gorgeous, disquieting story
Twilight Tide - The Dark Magazine
The redfish is remarkable because despite the fact it’s dead, it is still moving. Opal, straw flip-flops in hand, watches it arrive. The dimmed, bloated body (once golden, once maroon) pushes itself o...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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parker s jackson -- this black friday support the corpse of your local jester
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This marketing targeted me, and I bought the black Black Friday shirt to support ergot writers like @spicycloaca.bsky.social and @kayv.bsky.social.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡

prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
a feast, a star, a howl, a wound
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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wanna make sure you never miss a letter from your odd, deep-sea penpal? I got you, babe:
Hark! — K.C. Mead-Brewer
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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HOUSE / HAUNT / HEME
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🥳📧BACKER SURVEYS HAVE GONE OUT📧🎉

But this is the first time @backerkit.com has ever tried merging multiple campaigns and so we have a pair of hiccups.

Please find details in the screencap (too much text for one post). You'll also find these details and more in the campaign updates we just posted.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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This is probably the best-written of what I've published this year. And it's free to read www.baublesfrombones.com/westward-i-r...
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I did the thing :)
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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It's that time of the year 😜

Find links to all short fiction on my site: akislinardos.com/short-fiction/
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
adamant.moksha.io
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you like your horror strange and sad and beautiful with a focus on ordinary people, you'll love Lupus in Fabula. These stories drip with atmosphere and aren't eager to answer all the questions they pose. In short, this book absolutely rules. #BookSky
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...
Lupus in Fabula ebook | Cursed Morsels Press
Lupus In Fabula collects thirteen stories about the interplay of lust, violence, yearning, and grief; about becoming a monster and loving monsters; about transformation; about strange occurrences in s...
www.cursedmorselspress.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM