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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 8h

Check out my immersive mushroom poem, "Let the net grow far and deep" 🍄

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you to all the contributors in October's #Penumbric! Carl Scharwath, @authorjoshuaginsberg.bsky.social, Marisca Pichette, Lydia O’Donnell, Garth Upshaw, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @devanbarlow.bsky.social ...

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#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Table of contents for October's issue of Penumbric, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/ToC.html

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 8h

"Their pigment-sticky kisses invent more colors
than the human eye can see,
than there ever were in the sterile-white halls of heaven."

Always delighted by a new Avra Margariti poem, in the latest @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🕯️
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Penumbric October 2k25, Queer for All That Jazz

Edgy speculative fiction magazine

www.penumbric.com

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 8h

“The two baby-queer angels aren’t interested in human lovers,
not when they have each other and a case full of makeup,
an empty stage draped in velvet or back alleys
smelling sharp like petrichor and bourbon after dark.”

Omg I looove @avramargariti.bsky.social’s work. Glad to see that name again🦋🌌!

Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 8h

"Their pigment-sticky kisses invent more colors
than the human eye can see,
than there ever were in the sterile-white halls of heaven."

Always delighted by a new Avra Margariti poem, in the latest @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🕯️
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Penumbric October 2k25, Queer for All That Jazz

Edgy speculative fiction magazine

www.penumbric.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 8h

Check out my immersive mushroom poem, "Let the net grow far and deep" 🍄

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you to all the contributors in October's #Penumbric! Carl Scharwath, @authorjoshuaginsberg.bsky.social, Marisca Pichette, Lydia O’Donnell, Garth Upshaw, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @devanbarlow.bsky.social ...

www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you to all the contributors in October's #Penumbric! Carl Scharwath, @authorjoshuaginsberg.bsky.social, Marisca Pichette, Lydia O’Donnell, Garth Upshaw, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @devanbarlow.bsky.social ...

www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 8h

"Their pigment-sticky kisses invent more colors
than the human eye can see,
than there ever were in the sterile-white halls of heaven."

Always delighted by a new Avra Margariti poem, in the latest @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🕯️
www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Penumbric October 2k25, Queer for All That Jazz

Edgy speculative fiction magazine

www.penumbric.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 1d

I love every single one of those—so underrated!!

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 3d

Preorders are OPEN for HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES @theslabpress.bsky.social 🍂

Including my flesh garden story, "Nature Morte" ⚰️

Hiding Under the Leaves

Hiding Under the Leaves [Major, Tim, Hogan, Liam, Scott, Donna] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hiding Under the Leaves

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 3d

ORIGINAL FOLK HORROR AND MONSTROUS FAERIES 🧚🏼 🩻 🍂👁️

Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 3d

Preorders are OPEN for HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES @theslabpress.bsky.social 🍂

Including my flesh garden story, "Nature Morte" ⚰️

Hiding Under the Leaves

Hiding Under the Leaves [Major, Tim, Hogan, Liam, Scott, Donna] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hiding Under the Leaves

www.amazon.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 3d

Preorders are OPEN for HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES @theslabpress.bsky.social 🍂

Including my flesh garden story, "Nature Morte" ⚰️

Hiding Under the Leaves

Hiding Under the Leaves [Major, Tim, Hogan, Liam, Scott, Donna] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hiding Under the Leaves

www.amazon.com

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · 5d

📖🚀🦡🦴🦴🍂 - Book rocket badger bones leaves... What could it mean?

What if I said it's at World Fantasycon on Friday at noon in the Balmoral panel room?
Why, it is only the launch of Hiding Under the Leaves!
Quite a few of the authors will be there. Readings, books, drinkies, nibbles. Come! 🍷

Book cover of Hiding Under the Leaves. Black Background, red leaves, and a white badger skeleton.
Reads: Hiding Under the Leaves, edited by Donna Scott, with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

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Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social · 5d

In fact this will be the very first book launch of the convention!

The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · 5d

📖🚀🦡🦴🦴🍂 - Book rocket badger bones leaves... What could it mean?

What if I said it's at World Fantasycon on Friday at noon in the Balmoral panel room?
Why, it is only the launch of Hiding Under the Leaves!
Quite a few of the authors will be there. Readings, books, drinkies, nibbles. Come! 🍷

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 4d

Just a month away: join me for ON SUBMISSIONS 📃🖋️

www.practiceofwriting.com/event-detail...

On Submissions | The Practice Of Writ

We will tackle the question plaguing every author upon finishing a piece: what next? From revision to research and beyond, we will chart the road to publication, considering cover letters, pitches, pa...

www.practiceofwriting.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 4d

Just a month away: join me for ON SUBMISSIONS 📃🖋️

www.practiceofwriting.com/event-detail...

On Submissions | The Practice Of Writ

We will tackle the question plaguing every author upon finishing a piece: what next? From revision to research and beyond, we will chart the road to publication, considering cover letters, pitches, pa...

www.practiceofwriting.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 5d

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 5d

Needed a change of scenery, so I took EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social to a park today. Excellent little novella to read on a sunny, cloudless afternoon. 😂

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 5d

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 5d

Needed a change of scenery, so I took EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social to a park today. Excellent little novella to read on a sunny, cloudless afternoon. 😂

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 5d

Needed a change of scenery, so I took EVERY DARK CLOUD by @marisca.bsky.social to a park today. Excellent little novella to read on a sunny, cloudless afternoon. 😂

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Julie C. Day (Essential Dreams Press) is sleepy @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 5d

Just over 3 months ago Storyteller was published and interest is still going strong.
It’s has been featured on a curated list of indie publishers on Bookshop dot org!
You can check out the list here: bookshop.org/lists/short-...

Short Story Standouts

Check out these gripping, funny, and exciting short story collections & anthologies!

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 8d

"Jasper had three dragons. One lived in the upstairs bathroom of her house, on a bed of shredded toilet paper. One sat next to a succulent in its pot on the porch. The third lived in an old birdhouse in the backyard.”

ICYMI: “How Not to Swallow a Dragon” in @celestialechopress.bsky.social 🐉🌈🏡

Behind the Revolving Door, an Anthology of Choices, Volume I|Paperback

Within these pages are stories about choices made under ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. What happens when a chef decides to cook a vampire filet? Why does a mother desire and, at the same ti...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 8d

"Jasper had three dragons. One lived in the upstairs bathroom of her house, on a bed of shredded toilet paper. One sat next to a succulent in its pot on the porch. The third lived in an old birdhouse in the backyard.”

ICYMI: “How Not to Swallow a Dragon” in @celestialechopress.bsky.social 🐉🌈🏡

Behind the Revolving Door, an Anthology of Choices, Volume I|Paperback

Within these pages are stories about choices made under ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. What happens when a chef decides to cook a vampire filet? Why does a mother desire and, at the same ti...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 9d

🖤🖤🥳🥳 absolutely earned!!

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 9d

poem accepted after 48 rejections! 🎉🎨

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 9d

"Cockle & Foxfire
built a spaceship

from endangered morpho
wings & pull-tabs secreted
from Polar Seltzer cans.”

Check out my poem "fritillary frigate" in @radonjournal.bsky.social #11! 🎈🦋💫

www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/fri...

fritillary frigate | Issue 11

Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

www.radonjournal.com

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 9d

poem accepted after 48 rejections! 🎉🎨

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 9d

"Cockle & Foxfire
built a spaceship

from endangered morpho
wings & pull-tabs secreted
from Polar Seltzer cans.”

Check out my poem "fritillary frigate" in @radonjournal.bsky.social #11! 🎈🦋💫

www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/fri...

fritillary frigate | Issue 11

Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

www.radonjournal.com

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