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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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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines." Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🥳📧BACKER SURVEYS HAVE GONE OUT📧🎉

But this is the first time @backerkit.com has ever tried merging multiple campaigns and so we have a pair of hiccups.

Please find details in the screencap (too much text for one post). You'll also find these details and more in the campaign updates we just posted.
PHYSICAL BACKER SHIPPING ISSUE: Some people are being told the maximum possible shipping instead of the correct shipping. One backer had this problem as part of the earlier test, and he says he just clicked through to step four and it resolved itself. Please try that and if the cost remains the same, please contact our fulfillment person at saramchenry@hey.com DIGITAL BACKER SHIPPING ISSUE: Some digital only pledges are being asked to pay for shipping. This is because a kink has caused digital only pledges to still have physical crowdfund rewards like early backer postcards attached. Turns out we can't fix this ourselves, but Backerit tell us it'll be resolved by end of day - which for them is 5pm PST, or 8pm EST etc. Just hang tight and come back to your survey later today.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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mcardlejeanne.bsky.social
This is probably the best-written of what I've published this year. And it's free to read www.baublesfrombones.com/westward-i-r...
Westward I Reach Baubles from Bones Issue 6 historical dark fantasy/6000 words They smelled of rot, of diarrhea, of sicknesses too foul to name, and the fungus inside me thought maybe they were food, but we did not, and Mamma says we won’t ever eat human flesh because we may be different but we’re still good souls. From our carriage, I watch lines of the poor in the distance, waiting, huddling with children unable to keep their eyes open, wailing for the government men to give them food, trying to prove they are both desperate and dignified enough to deserve charity. On the roads, men and women slap stones with rusted hammers, attempting to earn their relief, as their naked skin fries in the weak sunlight. The hungriest and most naked are wandering, like dying bees at the end of summer, buzzing in circles, their homes destroyed by their landlord and no one willing to care for walking corpses.
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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joellekillian.bsky.social
I did the thing :)
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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linardos.bsky.social
It's that time of the year 😜

Find links to all short fiction on my site: akislinardos.com/short-fiction/
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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wnwagner.bsky.social
It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
If you like your horror strange and sad and beautiful with a focus on ordinary people, you'll love Lupus in Fabula. These stories drip with atmosphere and aren't eager to answer all the questions they pose. In short, this book absolutely rules. #BookSky
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Lupus in Fabula ebook | Cursed Morsels Press
Lupus In Fabula collects thirteen stories about the interplay of lust, violence, yearning, and grief; about becoming a monster and loving monsters; about transformation; about strange occurrences in s...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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abigailkemske.bsky.social
It's award eligibility season! Here's a list of everything I've published in 2025. This is also my first year of eligibility for the Astounding Award! 💫

Follow the thread below for links and info on my stories. Or see my website/linktree in my bio. 🔗

DM me for copies. 👩‍💻

Thank you for reading! 🙏
Graphic with pictures of space in background that reads: Abigail Kemske 2025 Award Eligibility. Short fiction - Nebula, Hugo, Locus & Stoker. "The earth will not consume our bones" (SF / 956 w) Nature: Futures, Sept 2025. "Someone to Feed You" (H / 900 w) Apex Magazine issue #148, Jan 2025. "Still Waters" (SFF / 6500 w) Friction issue #24: Oceans, July 2025. "The Beast of Boma Road" (H / 4200 w) Fraidy Cat quarterly issue #7: Rage, Nov 2025. "The Darkness Inside Her" (h / 3500 w) Harvestt he Night: An Anthology of Folk Horror - CM Muller, Oct 2025. A graphic with stars in space in the background that reads: Abigail Kemske 2025 Award Eligibility Astounding Award. First year of eligibility.
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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nmwhitley.bsky.social
Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark!
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/
Enselfening - The Dark Magazine
For several years, Winnie had been living on the north side of a town where nobody oriented themselves in terms of north, south, east, or west but rather in relation to the sea, the hills, and two riv...
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October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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It's Award Season, and this is Baby's First Award Eligibility Post 🖤👻

If my publications have made an impression on you, please consider my work for your nominations this year! Below I'll spotlight each piece with more detail.

Publication Links: xochiltavila.carrd.co

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#booksky #indiebooks
A text graphic listing Xochilt Avila's award eligibility for 2025. Short Fiction "A Tall Glass of Water" published July 2025 by Night Shades. "Welcome to Alexandria" published September 2025 by NYGEL in their first inaugural issue (18+). "As Much as I Please" published September 2025 in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Issue #63. "Closed for Maintenance" published October 2025 by Whisper House Press in the Dread Mondays anthology. Creative Non-Fiction "Felt, Fur, and Frightful Things: An Autistic Love of Mascot Horror." published January 2025 by Tenebrous Press in The Skull & Laurel, Issue 2. Just a Little Bit of Dirt" published July 2025 by Farmerish. "Strange Things Happen in Nowhere: An Ode to Courage the Cowardly Dog," to be published December 2025 by Brigids Gate Press in the Poisoned Soup Anthology.
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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]dualsimmm[

Pens + ink + digital
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November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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marissavu.bsky.social
It's nearly time to nominate your best speculative ecofiction for ECO25! Full guidelines here: www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines
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🚨 And don't miss your 30% preorder discount on ECO4. Only a couple days left to preorder - release day is Nov 18!
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A graphic with surreal pink/violet plantlife and butterflies with the text: Nominations open December 01 - January 31 ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction For more info visit www.violetlichen.com/ecofiction-guidelines
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
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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In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
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“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
We're coming up on five years of Cursed Morsels, which feels absolutely wild! If you don't know us, our whole thing is anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and pro-queer short horror and Weird fiction. If that sounds like your thing, grab something(s) from our store!
www.cursedmorselspress.com
Graphic depicts all Cursed Morsels books, sorted by year. 2022 features Antifa Splatterpunk and Shredded. 2023 features Bitter Apples and No Trouble at All. 2024 features Why Didn't You Just Leave and The Nightmare Box. 2025 features Lupus in Fabula, Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, and The Writhing, Verdant End. 2026 (will) feature Gore Poetics, Under a Malevolent Eye, and Lonesome and Festering. Graphic says, "Cursed Morsels is celebrating five years of great short horror and weird fiction!"
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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undertow.bsky.social
Coming Spring 2026, issue 12! Art by @marcpotts.bsky.social Design by Vince Haig. Words by @rajivmote.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social and more.

Pre-orders will go up early in the new year.
Cover for issue 12 of Weird Horror. Cover shows art by Marc Potts called "Frost Witch". Blue/Grey color scheme of witch floating or moving above the grounds as their harir and garments trail
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
A black starlit cosmos, descending to a vague green glow. Text: YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY Companion Volume (crossed out) Follow-up (crossed out) Sequel (crossed out) EVOLUTION Title Reveal Cover Art Reveal Submissions Details Coming Next Week
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
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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This story by @perfidiousscript.bsky.social is a congealed vibe, little esoteric symbols pressed in delicately all over its surface. Read "Private Notary" and feel loss at something you didn't even know you were really missing.
seizethepress.bsky.social Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · May 22
"In the years of his appointment, the Private Notary has never met his Patron, or in fact notarized any document. This time, all these years, have been spent in study and preparation for when his services will be needed. When this may happen, and how it will manifest, he does not know."
“Private Notary” by Samuel M. Moss - Seize The Press
The Private Notary wakes in darkness. It is November already and though there is no snow on the ground the cold seeps into his quarters. Out in the front room, he stokes up some embers in the wood sto...
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May 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
This is gonna be great. @spicycloaca.bsky.social is a Brave New Weird award winner, an incredible writer, & a hell of an interior art designer for THE SKULL & LAUREL magazines to boot🖤☠️
cursedmorsels.bsky.social Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19d
A little preview of how fucking cool Gore Poetics is going to be. Can't wait to publish this one next year.
A fraternity massacre births rewritten history, a supernatural entity, and a survivor obsessed with both. Two bog bodies ponder their star-crossed love. A chronically ill house consumes its unwilling, equally unwell tenant. A housewife discovers she's made of several million ticks—but only after they leak from her new nipple piercings. The stories in Gore Poetics explore intimacy and annihilation through visceral, wet prose. Samir Sirk Morató makes a name for themself as a master of strange, erotic, and transgressive horror in this stunning debut collection.
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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kayv.bsky.social
New story in Fraidy Cat Quarterly issue 7! ☀️🐕🚀
fraidycatpress.bsky.social Fraidy Cat Press @fraidycatpress.bsky.social · 24d
FCQ7 is our rage-themed volume and features excellent writing by:
@kayv.bsky.social
@nicholeon.bsky.social
C.O. Davidson
@abigailkemske.bsky.social
@alexhoeft.bsky.social
C. Lenz
@corriehaldane.bsky.social
@jdlskie.bsky.social
@nicowritesbooks.bsky.social
Myra Stephenson
Rachel Desiree Felix
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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secondatbest.bsky.social
Whale fall, and a few creatures that thrive at them

This month’s riso print subscription print, join my Patreon to get this for half off, and weigh in on what I do for future print themes.
July 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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sanzuniur.bsky.social
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November 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
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
spicycloaca.bsky.social
this story is an intricate, pensive, and ultimately kind look at the concept of a woman as a carnivorous plant that extends far beyond rage. the body horror and its sensuality are also great. would recommend reading
ghoulpus.bsky.social A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 27d
🌿 NEW STORY DAY🩸

“Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not.

Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...

Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina

Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social
Art by Becca Snow. A woman struggles to keep her head above water as she in ensnared by various objects: a boat, a hammer, a helmet, etc. Sundew stalks surround her head. The men knew before she did. Before this boy, before sophomore year, before even her twelfth birthday, they had jostled her on the sidewalk and hooted from cars, searching for something just past her skin. But now, with her panties stripped off and the boy’s eyes on her, Jackie felt a strange prickling. A warning pacing behind her ribs. A mouth about to drip.
November 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM