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@ergot.bsky.social
https://www.ergot.press/
: Innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions open :
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: Innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions open :
: A paying venue :
: Merch https://www.teepublic.com/user/ergot :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
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ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
Moth:
The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning.
Dirt:
And what about it?
Moth:
The sky used to hardly swallow anything.
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning.
Dirt:
And what about it?
Moth:
The sky used to hardly swallow anything.
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
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one of three poems by yours truly published in Apocalypse Confidential today
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
one of three poems by yours truly published in Apocalypse Confidential today
ergot. work of the day: 'Foreclosure Gothic' by Harris Lahti
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Foreclosure Gothic - Astra Publishing House
“Lyrical and eerie . . . the prose is subtly alluring, such as the author’s description of nature as ‘a witch’s brew of mistrust.’ This sly and creepy drama is […]
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November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
ergot. work of the day: 'Foreclosure Gothic' by Harris Lahti
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Always Crashing Reading and Performance Series / Chicago / 13 Dec 2025, 7pm / Comfort Station, 2579 Milwaukee / See you there
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Always Crashing Reading and Performance Series / Chicago / 13 Dec 2025, 7pm / Comfort Station, 2579 Milwaukee / See you there
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I feel like it is important to let you know that tomorrow we will be publishing a poem called "Ass-Up in the Garden [Missouri Pastoral 69]"
(It is a very good poem)
(It is a very good poem)
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I feel like it is important to let you know that tomorrow we will be publishing a poem called "Ass-Up in the Garden [Missouri Pastoral 69]"
(It is a very good poem)
(It is a very good poem)
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"Moth (standing):
I want to choose different.
Dirt:
There is no different.
Moth:
There exists small choices.
Dirt:
If you wish to believe."
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
I want to choose different.
Dirt:
There is no different.
Moth:
There exists small choices.
Dirt:
If you wish to believe."
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Moth (standing):
I want to choose different.
Dirt:
There is no different.
Moth:
There exists small choices.
Dirt:
If you wish to believe."
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
I want to choose different.
Dirt:
There is no different.
Moth:
There exists small choices.
Dirt:
If you wish to believe."
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
Moth:
The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning.
Dirt:
And what about it?
Moth:
The sky used to hardly swallow anything.
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning.
Dirt:
And what about it?
Moth:
The sky used to hardly swallow anything.
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Moth:
The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning.
Dirt:
And what about it?
Moth:
The sky used to hardly swallow anything.
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning.
Dirt:
And what about it?
Moth:
The sky used to hardly swallow anything.
Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...
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How many products have to “enshitify” before we question if it’s the system itself and not individual people that are responsible? How much of the environment has to be wrecked, how many people unhoused, how many jobless, how many without healthcare, before we realize the problem is capitalism?
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
How many products have to “enshitify” before we question if it’s the system itself and not individual people that are responsible? How much of the environment has to be wrecked, how many people unhoused, how many jobless, how many without healthcare, before we realize the problem is capitalism?
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Niche request, but does anyone have any Tubi original horror recommendations? I’ve found these to have some hidden gems
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Niche request, but does anyone have any Tubi original horror recommendations? I’ve found these to have some hidden gems
Tomorrow on ergot.: just two old friends chatting in the sun with Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Tomorrow on ergot.: just two old friends chatting in the sun with Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social
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Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use are predicted to rise 1.1% in 2025, putting a record high 38.1 Gt of CO2 into the atmosphere. It has never been more clear that we can't continue to rely on the logic of capitalism and expect this problem to resolve itself.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use are predicted to rise 1.1% in 2025, putting a record high 38.1 Gt of CO2 into the atmosphere. It has never been more clear that we can't continue to rely on the logic of capitalism and expect this problem to resolve itself.
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Meteorological winter this, astronomical winter that. It’s float coat season baby
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Meteorological winter this, astronomical winter that. It’s float coat season baby
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"Franz Kafka once called his writing a form of prayer. He also reprimanded the long-suffering Felice Bauer in a letter: 'I did not say that writing ought to make everything clearer, but instead makes everything worse; what I said was that writing makes everything clearer and worse.'" —Joy Williams
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Franz Kafka once called his writing a form of prayer. He also reprimanded the long-suffering Felice Bauer in a letter: 'I did not say that writing ought to make everything clearer, but instead makes everything worse; what I said was that writing makes everything clearer and worse.'" —Joy Williams
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🥹😿 Please buy these books so they’re not on my floor anymore. Thank you.
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🥹😿 Please buy these books so they’re not on my floor anymore. Thank you.
Cat is out of the bag.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
One of my all-time favorite fiction venues (@ergot.bsky.social) is selling merch, y'all!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Cat is out of the bag.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
All proceeds go to paying contributors.
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A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
Of the Lovers | Issue 33
By Addison Zeller — "They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently, it is to be supposed, in a slow lateral glide along the surface of the...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
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I am, as always, taking suggestions and heads ups and etc from publishers and authors and unassociated but interested parties.
An ongoing thread of short story collections coming in 2026, of work weird/surreal/dark/uncanny/unsettling/ghostly/ghastly, across genres, so that they're all in one place that I can refer back to when I inevitably forget what books I was meaning to request review copies of:
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I am, as always, taking suggestions and heads ups and etc from publishers and authors and unassociated but interested parties.
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Sometimes writing a story is so easy and sometimes it's really hard and I truly don't know why.
And you wouldn't believe which stories I just pooped out really fast versus those I labored over like a terrible alien pregnancy.
Anyway, this one is a hard one and I'm very tired.
And you wouldn't believe which stories I just pooped out really fast versus those I labored over like a terrible alien pregnancy.
Anyway, this one is a hard one and I'm very tired.
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sometimes writing a story is so easy and sometimes it's really hard and I truly don't know why.
And you wouldn't believe which stories I just pooped out really fast versus those I labored over like a terrible alien pregnancy.
Anyway, this one is a hard one and I'm very tired.
And you wouldn't believe which stories I just pooped out really fast versus those I labored over like a terrible alien pregnancy.
Anyway, this one is a hard one and I'm very tired.
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SHRIKE. ~4.4k words. published in @ergot.bsky.social. gothic rot, narrative distortions, true crime survivor rage, sadomasochistic gay speculative erotics, frat house murders, the occult, obsession; my most experimental piece from this year & maybe the one i'm most proud of
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
SHRIKE. ~4.4k words. published in @ergot.bsky.social. gothic rot, narrative distortions, true crime survivor rage, sadomasochistic gay speculative erotics, frat house murders, the occult, obsession; my most experimental piece from this year & maybe the one i'm most proud of
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"Solar Temple. Adam House. Jonestown. So many dead people, most with no names."
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
SARP SOZDINLER / FISTLIKE MOUTH AND ROTATING THOUGHTS — always crashing
She goes over the list of men she’s hooked up with over the past nine months: The guy who worked the ice-cream truck in Elmhurst Park. The redheaded Subway cashier who had a constellation of pimples...
www.alwayscrashing.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Solar Temple. Adam House. Jonestown. So many dead people, most with no names."
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC
"Mother says we can resume our prior living arrangement (and Movie Night, poor Mother) when I’ve gone one month without an emission. I can understand her point of view, of course."
Today on ergot.: 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
Today on ergot.: 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Mother says we can resume our prior living arrangement (and Movie Night, poor Mother) when I’ve gone one month without an emission. I can understand her point of view, of course."
Today on ergot.: 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
Today on ergot.: 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
"Mother found the Life Ledger yesterday. I heard her stop her cleaning, and she came to the laundry room to ask me what it was. I told her, of course – there’s no fooling Mother..."
Today on ergot 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
Today on ergot 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Mother found the Life Ledger yesterday. I heard her stop her cleaning, and she came to the laundry room to ask me what it was. I told her, of course – there’s no fooling Mother..."
Today on ergot 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
Today on ergot 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....
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crucks. oil painting on linen, 2020
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
crucks. oil painting on linen, 2020
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Thrilled to announce the White House has asked me to come up with an unemployment rate for this month. It’s probably like 5% or something? Ballpark. Anyway, feel free to put that in the news. Cheers.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Thrilled to announce the White House has asked me to come up with an unemployment rate for this month. It’s probably like 5% or something? Ballpark. Anyway, feel free to put that in the news. Cheers.