Sometimes a story perfectly reifies a specific feeling I have about moving through life. Fiction at its best, an art that gives form to something nebulous inside you and makes it feel solid. "Please Turn on Your Magic Beam" by Orrin Grey was that for me. Sad, beautiful, deeply profound horror.

more free-to-read, recent #scifi #poetry! PLASTIC PARADISE AWAITS: @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES: @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social www.justkeepupmagazine.com/the-heavens-... LIFECYCLES: Amazing Stories amazingstories.com/2026/03/life...

Plastic Paradise Awaits

Inject direct / the petroleum of salvation

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some of my recent #scifi #poetry, free to read! A GARDEN ON ENCELADUS: @trollbreathmag.bsky.social magazine.trollbreath.com/a-garden-on-... OUR CHILD: @radonjournal.bsky.social www.radonjournal.com/issue-13/our... COLD WAR SUBMARINES: @zoeticpress.bsky.social www.zoeticpress.com/an-17-crazy-...

A Garden on Enceladus - Trollbreath Magazine

A Garden on Enceladus

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and you can read some of my poems from this year for free in @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/touch... @radonjournal.bsky.social www.radonjournal.com/issue9/lacus... & www.radonjournal.com/issue9/butto... and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won’t Bite - Nightmare Magazine

This piece comes from a childhood of taking piano lessons. I switched to other instruments after high school, but I still remember how to read sheet music.

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"Our Dope Future" by Tony Tulathimutte is wild, y'all. Tulathimutte perfectly captures the sort of batshit entrepreneurial manosphere chud I hope to never encounter in person. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/our-...

Our Dope Future

Waddap! So this is sort of a long one, but I figured all you good folks might help me get a couple things straight that have been nagging at me recently. I (37M) am a serial entrepreneur, inventor, an...

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hey. looking for erotic scifi poetry, maybe? go read "A Garden on Enceladus" over in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social : Here at the beginning of time I'll start a new calendar based on your nudity and mark our own holy days in your notch magazine.trollbreath.com/a-garden-on-...

A Garden on Enceladus - Trollbreath Magazine

A Garden on Enceladus

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No Way Home: Josh Pearce Reviews The Odyssey locusmag.com/review/...

Free Fiction Friday! Two lush and haunting poems to savor before the weekend: magazine.trollbreath.com/a-garden-on-... magazine.trollbreath.com/fall-o-clean...

ATOMIC CHESS (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/ato...) my new submarine/chess story in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social features the same shadow organization previously found in UNNAMED GOVERNMENT AGENCY (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/21/unn...) and in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social (kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...)

Josh Pearce > Atomic Chess > Bourbon Penn

Cold, damp bones; a hard cot too short for his aching back; prostate problems. The old physicist ran through the litany every morning: claustrophobic corridors; smell of engine grease; the head consta...

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If YOU would like to get into reading more speculative poetry, please check out my list of speculative poets and markets that publish speculative poetry! bsky.app/profile/did:...

THE SPIDER AT THE HEART OF IT may very well be one of my weirdest stories yet. It's got a sexy snail lady in it! I get to use the word "escargatoire"! The Goddess of the Moon shoots down oneirockets with her cannons! You can read it in Interzone #305: interzone.press/iz-305/

I just finished reading it and this book is good

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You all may not have heard since I talk about it so rarely, but I wrote a novel. It's very good. Of course I would say that, but if I hadn't written it, I would still be obliged by hater's code to admit that that that uppity-ass quirk chungus bitch actually wrote a great novel.

THE SPIDER AT THE HEART OF IT may very well be one of my weirdest stories yet. It's got a sexy snail lady in it! I get to use the word "escargatoire"! The Goddess of the Moon shoots down oneirockets with her cannons! You can read it in Interzone #305: interzone.press/iz-305/

Here's what you can enjoy in Interzone 305! Stories by - Josh Pearce - E.G. Condé - Ben Tufnell - Mame Bougouma Diene - Rachael Cupp - Corey Jae White and - Rebecca Zahabi 1/7

Interzone 305 - Scarlet Ferret

Featuring short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more.

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Protecting Your Neighbors by Following ICE Vehicles crimethinc.com/ICEvehicles People around the country have developed models for defending their communities from federal agents intent on kidnapping and terrorizing. This is a guide from the Bay Area.

Protecting Your Neighbors by Following ICE Vehicles

A guide to following Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles developed in the Bay Area.

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A wild Interzone appeared! We will review it soon... shop.interzone.press/b/h2rDl

Interzone #305

In this issue of Interzone: stories by E.G. Condé, Rachael Cupp, Mame Bougouma Diene, Josh Pearce, Ben Tufnell, Corey Jae White, and Rebecca Zahabi; columns by Alexander Glass, Una McCormack, Val Nola...

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R.T. Ester@shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · last mo.

Interzone 305 is here!

Here's CARINA SAGITTARIUS, my new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! She's a locally bounded pocket universe, a person-shaped cutout in spacetime. He's a man from a mysterious government agency. Watch the sparks fly! kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...

Stroll Around Until You Feel at Home: Josh Pearce Reviews Backrooms locusmag.com/review/...

Fiction publications! Submission Grinder and @inkfoundry.bsky.social have a new collaboration to help fiction pubs that meet certain criteria reach new readers! Read more here! www.diabolicalplots.com/new-feature-...

The Summer 2026 issue of Kaleidotrope has now gone live at www.kaleidotrope.net, and if I do say myself, it's out of this world!

Reposting to make sure magazines see this!! I'm so excited for this award and for the fiction community :D :D

InkFoundry@inkfoundry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LAUNCH DAY! There's no fee to enter, and on top of the winning publication, EIGHT authors will receive $100 each. THAT'S $2,300 of community-raised funds! See inkfoundry.net/the-inkmark/ for more details!

The new Summer issue of Kaleidotrope launches on July 1. Would you like to know what's in it?

My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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This means you can get a cheap copy of The Skull & Laurel #3, that has Josh Pearce’s “Witches in Cold Mountain Halls” in it. One of the best short stories I’ve read in years that’s a sort of New Weird dark fantasy dungeon crawl told in postmodern epic prose poetry. It’s fucking sick.

Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥SALE🔥 Prime Day is now thru the 26th? COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY, ALL OUR E-BOOKS & MAGAZINES ARE 50% OFF THRU THE 26TH. Buy from our webstore, get your books & mags delivered INSTANTLY, + you own them outright! (Sorry, not applicable to preorders) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

To borrow a little wisdom from Gandalf: a publisher is never late. Nor is she early. She publishes precisely when she means to. That said, Space & Time Issue No. 151 (June 2026) is now available: Ebook · Standard Print · Large Print · Dyslexia-Friendly Print!!! authortunitiespress.com/b/snt151

"'What are these?' he asked. 'Pearls?' Dozens, each the size of a futbol. 'Worlds.'" "Microcosmus of Mystery" by @fictionaljosh.bsky.social

Joanne Rixon@joannerixon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here: Josh Pearce Reviews Exit 8 locusmag.com/review/...

Diabolical Plots, Bourbon Penn, and Escape Pods: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...

“The Weather on Other Planets” by Josh Pearce “You wear an earbud tuned to radio static of lightning strikes on Saturn”

Our Free Fiction Friday schedule is set for Issue 8. We'll be releasing titles from behind the paywall for public enjoyment on the following dates, starting this Friday: