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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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since it's that time of year, here's a list of my free-to-read award eligible works. links will be below. read and/or nominate something to please the eternal worm (or not, he's not your boss & neither am i)
Image ID: the words "award eligibility 2025" are transposed over a monochrome celestial illustration. Image ID: a part 1 list of award eligible works are listed over the same monochrome celestial background. it reads as follows: Pearlescent Tickwad. Fiction. Strange Horizons, January 2025. galactic oracle eulogy. Fiction. Flash Fiction Online, February 2025. sharp house. Fiction. NIGHTMARE Magazine, March 2025. Image ID: this is part 2 of the awards eligible works list. It reads as follows: möbius loop. Fiction. khōréō magazine, March 2025. SHRIKE. Fiction. ergot. press, April 2025. In Perfection's Shape I Writhe. Fiction. New Edge Sword and Sorcery, December 2025.
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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non writing news: i'm going to be in my first gallery show next year! 🩸🪡 if you're in the Denver area, then come see me and 20+ other queer artists at 303 Boards on Jan 2nd 2026. i'm going to have some fiber art up alongside other cool people's shit. it'll be fun!
Image ID: it's a promotional poster with a friendly skinned person surrounded by sparkles. The show title "Not So Straightforward II" arches over them. The location listed is 303 Boards, The Annex. The show is January 2nd, 2026. Other text reads "Art for sale, food, DJ, vendors" and "20+ featured artists." Image ID: large cream colored text that reads "Meet the artists." A list of names below reads "Taylor Barbarosa, Syd Bruner, Steffie Notion, Samir Sirk Morató, Aj Lopez" Image ID: the name "Samir Sirk Morató" is above a photo of fiber art. The art depicts two needle-pierced hands with thread blood handling a piece of fabric.
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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although Theo needs zero help writing something gnarly, i'm always happy to aid in making something wetter & worse! but from the jump, this one was (and is) a ragged little peel of prose. pleased to see it out in the wild
Image ID: Tumblr user dragongirlbunny posts "maybe this time picking at Textures on my skin will lead to being silky smooth". She replies to her own post shortly afterwards with "bleeding".
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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relevant
Image ID: this is the cover for Issue 126 of The Dark, published November 2025. It features ghouls romping beneath a full moon. Image ID: an Animal Crossing player character looks directly at the viewer while holding a fishing pole and oarfish. In text below, they ask, "Is this my husband?"
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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y'all have been giving us a lot to chew on! today is the last day to add to the heap, so if you haven't gotten your submission in, slither on over to your email inbox and do that!
Image id: an image of marbled flesh is overlaid on a group of people standing together. Text over them reads "Fuck being an individual. All my homies contort and slither eternally in the warm of the united flesh."
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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24 hours left before the call for FLESH closes! if you have something gnawing at your braincase and fingertips but haven't submitted it yet, now is the time!
Image ID: an ominous, Cenobite-like armored person ccmpletely covered in armor and spikes stands behind text that reads "i desire more flesh."
October 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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a little sneak peak of the artwork in Gore Poetics (autumn 2026). slivers, if you will
Image ID: a grey, monochrome image shows diagonal sneak peaks of 10 collage pieces. The collection title "Gore Poetics" is imposed over it. Image ID: a grey, monochrome image shows diagonal sneak peaks of 9 collage pieces. The collection title "Gore Poetics" is imposed over it.
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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progress!! #workingwounds #fiberart #WIP
This is a photograph of a mutilated hand made from textile. It's suspended in an embroidery hoop. Tubes of beads, a pair of scissors, a needle and thread, and a little plastic container are all sitting on it. This is a photograph of a mutilated hand made from textile. It's the same fiber art piece from the prior image, but with knuckles and folds beaded on with tiny pink beads.
August 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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not only are the Strangies in full swing, but my flash fiction about coastal angelic roadkill is up for Best Weird Fantasy! 😇🫀💫 read it & vote for it, if you're so inclined, and definitely check out everyone else on the ballot
www.drabblecast.org/2024/10/14/d...
Image ID: this is a promotional image for a magazine's awards. The magazine is The Drabblecast. Text on this infographic reads "Drabblecast, 2025. Best Weird Fantasy. Strangies." There is a white tentacle above "Strangies."
July 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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the woodworker (i) / fluorescein. mixed media. fabric, pipe cleaner, highlighter, beads, wood, bag handle, quilt batting, straw. part 5 of the #workingwounds series 👁 #mixedmedia #embroidery #fiberart
May 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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sorry for the lack of writing - i've been busy elsewhere 👁 #workingwounds #fiberart #embroidery #beading
A large embroidery hoop with colorful fabric sits on a couch surrounded by sewing supplies and colorful beads. There's a large embroidery hoop with fabric stretched in it. The fabric is light blue, neon green, yellow, and navy. It's covered in beads of similar colors. A giant fabric eyeball sits on a desk. It's near a sewing machine and other sewing supplies. This is a close up of the previously mentioned giant fabric eyeball. It now has pipecleaner eyelashes that are green, navy, dark blue, and yellow.
May 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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promo images / alternatives for SHRIKE #digitalcollage
Image ID: the word "Shrike" is written in gothic text and overlaid on a grainy close up photograph of a person's bare lower back. The text in this image is black and silver. Image ID: the word "Shrike" is written in gothic text and overlaid on a grainy close up photograph of a person's bare lower back. The text in this image is silver. Image ID: the word "Shrike" is written in gothic text and overlaid on a grainy close up photograph of a person's bare lower back. The text in this image is red.
April 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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cat's out of the bag: my debut short story collection, "Gore Poetics", is going to be published by @cursedmorsels.bsky.social next year! ✨️🥩 to say i'm elated & stunned is an understatement
Image ID: the phrase "Gore Poetics" is written in gothic text. It's placed over a grainy close-up illustration of meat.
April 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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finally writing for the most widespread audience: true crime critics & frathouse slasher fans that can't enjoy violent gay speculative erotica unless it's permeated with gothic rot, confusion, halloween kitsch, and bitterness

anyway! i'll have something for you freaks next Friday
Image ID: this is a grainy close up of a man's back with the word "SHRIKE" in silver and black overlaid on it.
April 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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the electric lineman. mixed media. fabric, beads, paint, yarn, rhinestones, metal hooks. 🌩 part 4 of the #workingwounds series.
Image ID: this is a hanging textile art piece depicting the rib cage of a man struck by lightning and covered in fractal scars.
March 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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the escort. mixed media. fabric, yarn, paper, wood, bandaids, grommets, plastic tubing, paint beads, lace, earrings, nylon stocking. 🦋 part 3 of my #workingwounds series. #embroidery #fiberart #mixedmedia
March 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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the forester. mixed media. fabric, yarn, beads, paint, lace ⛓️ #mixedmedia #fiberart #embroidery 🌲 part 2 of my #workingwounds series
February 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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the pallbearer. mixed media. yarn, beads, thread, fabric, disposable bandaid, & wood ⚰️ part 1 of my Working Wounds series #embroidery #fiberart #workingwounds
February 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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unused alternatives for the @flashfictiononline.bsky.social february cover. i had a lot of fun designing this one! full issue here: www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
February 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM