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spicycloaca.bsky.social
Samir Sirk Morató
@spicycloaca.bsky.social
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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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olliemnjones.bsky.social
Dungeon
digital painting of a teenaged boy playing World of Warcraft on a computer
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
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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danaiwrites.bsky.social
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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ghoulpus.bsky.social
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...
A.L. Goldfuss Awards eligibility 2025 Drosera regina Short fiction. Horror. Fantasy. Lightspeed, October 2025. Background image: American Bog Plants by Robert John Thornton, 1807.
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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jonolfert.bsky.social
Without exaggeration, one of the finest pieces of paleofiction I've found anywhere. Weird Stone Age horror as high art.
spicycloaca.bsky.social Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 15d
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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rottingleafmag.bsky.social
The whispers are true. We open to submissions at midnight (12am EST)
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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neonhemlock.bsky.social
Opening up for subs at midnight tonight assuming that I have set up Submittable correctly....
neonhemlock.bsky.social Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 13d
Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st!

More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
Yellow/purple ink blobs. Open to submissions: Dec 1-15. arrows pointing to "unthemed" and "timefuckery" (the two themes for issues we're reading for).
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
justify yourself. mixed media. textile, thread, paint, posca pens, marker, sneaker grommets, adhesives.
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#fiberart #mixedmedia
This is a photo of a fiber art piece. It consists of floral patterned letters outlined in black and sewn onto a yuletide blanket. They read, "Our water gave my cousin cancer. Why don't you deserve cancer?" The word "cancer" is outlined in fuzzy pink fabric and has an ill palor surrounding it. This is a close-up of the left side of the artwork. This is a close-up of the right side of the artwork.
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
27/11/25 - nocturn
small hours big time darkness / flint / memory 3am scenes at Lincolnshire barrows walking a tight circle round Bad Hill with Jupiter from different angles
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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sloppjockey.bsky.social
succulent meats .
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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sabrinatvband.bsky.social
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!

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A promotional image for the Bundle With Benefits
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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fusionfragment.bsky.social
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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rosemaxwell.bsky.social
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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michaelcisco.bsky.social
parker s jackson -- this black friday support the corpse of your local jester
an ambulatory nervous system with a shopping bag gives a coin to a begging jester with a skull face
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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nicholeon.bsky.social
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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kcmeadbrewer.com
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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kcmeadbrewer.com
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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creekdontrise.bsky.social
HOUSE / HAUNT / HEME
Digital painting of an old, worn interior. We are viewing a dark doorway from across the room, tattered rugs laying crookedly. To the right of the canvas is a yawning black stairway going up, from which a glittering thread ascends, tied to a ceiling beam, and supporting an old farm sickle. A dark figure is barely visible peeking from behind the stairwell door. Tiny glowing eyes, like those of an animal, peer from the dark doorway across from us. The atmosphere is tense, quiet, and uncomfortable.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
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/...
Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines." Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
🥳📧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.
PHYSICAL BACKER SHIPPING ISSUE: Some people are being told the maximum possible shipping instead of the correct shipping. One backer had this problem as part of the earlier test, and he says he just clicked through to step four and it resolved itself. Please try that and if the cost remains the same, please contact our fulfillment person at saramchenry@hey.com DIGITAL BACKER SHIPPING ISSUE: Some digital only pledges are being asked to pay for shipping. This is because a kink has caused digital only pledges to still have physical crowdfund rewards like early backer postcards attached. Turns out we can't fix this ourselves, but Backerit tell us it'll be resolved by end of day - which for them is 5pm PST, or 8pm EST etc. Just hang tight and come back to your survey later today.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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mcardlejeanne.bsky.social
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...
Westward I Reach Baubles from Bones Issue 6 historical dark fantasy/6000 words They smelled of rot, of diarrhea, of sicknesses too foul to name, and the fungus inside me thought maybe they were food, but we did not, and Mamma says we won’t ever eat human flesh because we may be different but we’re still good souls. From our carriage, I watch lines of the poor in the distance, waiting, huddling with children unable to keep their eyes open, wailing for the government men to give them food, trying to prove they are both desperate and dignified enough to deserve charity. On the roads, men and women slap stones with rusted hammers, attempting to earn their relief, as their naked skin fries in the weak sunlight. The hungriest and most naked are wandering, like dying bees at the end of summer, buzzing in circles, their homes destroyed by their landlord and no one willing to care for walking corpses.
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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joellekillian.bsky.social
I did the thing :)
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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linardos.bsky.social
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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wnwagner.bsky.social
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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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
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