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Jennifer Crow @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 9h

Another fresh poem out in the world for your delectation.

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10h

And more thank yous! @christinasng.bsky.social, Gerri Leen, @dianedooley.bsky.social, Sonali Roy, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, Gordon Linzner, Warren Muzak, @ghostlyverse.bsky.social, Parker McIntosh ...

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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 · 10h

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

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10h

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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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 10h

"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 🕯️
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Penumbric October 2k25, Queer for All That Jazz

Edgy speculative fiction magazine

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10h

And yet more thanks! Richard Magahiz and Vekhan Sametyaza. And to Ron Sanders for the cover art!

We couldn't do this without all of you! 🥰🥰🥰

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

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10h

And still more thanks! @fjbergmann.bsky.social, @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social, @avramargariti.bsky.social, Marge Simon, @neekapwrites.bsky.social, Melissa Bezan ...

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10h

And more thank yous! @christinasng.bsky.social, Gerri Leen, @dianedooley.bsky.social, Sonali Roy, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, Gordon Linzner, Warren Muzak, @ghostlyverse.bsky.social, Parker McIntosh ...

www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

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

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10h

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

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 13h

Includes my story "Kraken Memories" 🐙✨
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Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social · 15h

Yours truly in this issue with my tale The Sun Shines Down On England alongside a bunch of good eggs.

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 1d

The October issue is up! You can find it at the usual place (www.penumbric.com/currentissue...), and of course a pdf version at www.penumbric.com/currentissue....

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

The cover of the October 2025 issue of Penumbric, found at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/cover.html

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Diane Dooley @dianedooley.bsky.social · 16h

'Alice Lives Here Forevermore': new story from me in the current issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social
Come meet poor wee Alice :)

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 1d

The October issue is up! You can find it at the usual place (www.penumbric.com/currentissue...), and of course a pdf version at www.penumbric.com/currentissue....

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Second, my fairy tale-esque fantasy short story, "The Backwards Princess of Unusual Parentage" (originally published at @lunastation.bsky.social ) will be reprinted at @penumbricmag.bsky.social in the future!

And can I just say, announcing this while reading Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher... ;D

a cartoon of winnie the pooh looking at himself in the mirror

Alt: a cartoon of winnie the pooh looking at himself in the mirror and dancing.

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 1d

The October issue is up! You can find it at the usual place (www.penumbric.com/currentissue...), and of course a pdf version at www.penumbric.com/currentissue....

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 2d

Art from August's #Penumbric: "Raveled Lovers" by Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#art #artwork #fantasy #myth

"Raveled Lovers" by Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/resurreccionLovers.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 4d

Ryan was no longer backed up on the cloud.

-from "Traffic Patterns" by Brian D. Hinson, in #Penumbric's Aug issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#scifi #shortstory

"Traffic Patterns" by Brian D. Hinson, in Penumbric's Aug issue at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/hinsonTraffic.html

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Here's my re-imagining of Chang'e, published in the April 2025 issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social #poetry #JeniverseWritings #mythology www.penumbric.com/archives/Apr...

Penumbric April 2k25, Woman on the Moon

Edgy speculative fiction magazine

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 5d

“I stop people finding out things that would disturb the balance of their minds.”

-from "Censors of Titan" by Mike Morgan (@culttvmike.bsky.social), in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#scifi #shortstories

"Censors of Titan" by Mike Morgan, in Aug's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/morganCensors.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 6d

Sunday #art: "The Arrival" by Christina Sng (@christinasng.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's August issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#artist #artwork #scifi #horror

"The Arrival" by Christina Sng (@christinasng.bsky.social), in Penumbric's August issue at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/sngArrival.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 6d

His voice smokes from the burns of his last life.

-from "The Crow Who Owns the Stop Sign" by MC Childs, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poetry #scifi #fantasy #myth

"The Crow Who Owns the Stop Sign" by MC Childs, in Aug's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/childsCrow.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 7d

Saturday #art from August's #Penumbric: "Wisp Warbler" by Camellia Paul, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#artwork #artist #fantasy #myth

"Wisp Warbler" by Camellia Paul, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/paulWarbler.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 11d

Javonte: a warning?
we can talk if you tell me who this is

God: It’s God.

-from "The God Bot" by Tamika Thompson (@tamikathompson.bsky.social), in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#scifi #shortstory

"The God Bot" by Tamika Thompson (@tamikathompson.bsky.social), in August's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/thompsonGod.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 12d

A little #art from August's #Penumbric: "Bifurcation" by Carl Scharwath, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#artwork #scifi #scifiart #myth

"Bifurcation" by Carl Scharwath, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/scharwathBifurcation.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 14d

The words are colorless knobbly jots
we fire at one another from
opposite ends of creation.

-from "A tour of our superconducting word collider" by Richard Magahiz, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...)

#poem #poetry #scifi #fantasy

"A tour of our superconducting word collider" by Richard Magahiz, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/magahizTour.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 15d

Art in August's #Penumbric: "Killjoys Inc." by Ritiksha Sharma, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#art #artwork #scifi #scifiart

"Killjoys Inc." by Ritiksha Sharma, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/sharmaKilljoys.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 17d

Wearing an exoskeleton was like being spooned by a squid.

-from "Vagabond" by EJ Kavounas, in #Penumbric's August issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#scifi #shortstories

"Vagabond" by EJ Kavounas, in Penumbric's August issue at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/kavounasVagabond.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 18d

i toppled planets
i stacked three feet high

-from "Astronaut Ice Cream" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (@spires.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poetry #poet #scifi

"Astronaut Ice Cream" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, in August's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/spiresAstronaut.html

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