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thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 6d
"Stepan comes to me in a dream, sullen, with a bleeding lower lip split just where his lower canine has been knocked out."

today, beloveds!!

Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social

read it here 🥀

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The last time I saw Stepan was at St. Petersburg Central Station.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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thanks so much for including these amazing stories!!

Knife Plus by @teemcbee.bsky.social from @fantasymagazine.bsky.social issue 98

AND

The Pretendian by @fictionaljosh.bsky.social from @thedeadlands.com issue 40!!
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Check out the must-read short fiction of October 2025 if you:

- are a short fiction author
- love reading short stories
- could not be located at 12:35 AM on Wednesday, April 4th, in 1945
Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: October 2025 - Reactor
This month's short fiction recommendations include ghosts and grief, recipes and multiverses...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲

thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon

this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support

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a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
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November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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"My friend’s dead father
visits her as a bird,

but my husband is the light in the kitchen
that comes on all by himself"

Not a Bird by Ellen Romano

😭 we are weeping, beloveds 🖤 read this beautiful poem here:

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My friend’s dead father / visits her as a bird
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November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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"My friend’s dead father
visits her as a bird,

but my husband is the light in the kitchen
that comes on all by himself"

Not a Bird by Ellen Romano

😭 we are weeping, beloveds 🖤 read this beautiful poem here:

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Not a Bird - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
My friend’s dead father / visits her as a bird
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November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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sunday promotionday

reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is

AVAILABLE 4 READING

6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction

get the ePub/print @ Patreon

OR READ ONLINE👇
The Deadlands - Issue 40 | Psychopomp
Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Malena Salazar Maciá, Belle Biscotti, Testimony Odey, Shana Ross, Erin Ulm, Matthew Wollin, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, R.B. Lemberg, Kat Sed...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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psychopomp.com Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 4d
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲

thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon

this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support

🙏🏻🖤💀

if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:

psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
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November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

PATRONS

support us and get access to our ePub/print issues

YOU CAN DO THAT, really.

also support tiers increasing in new year 😿

but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,

really.
psychopomp.com Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 4d
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲

thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon

this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support

🙏🏻🖤💀

if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:

psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
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November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026

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what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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in case you missed it 🖤

happy friday everyone 💀
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 6d
"Stepan comes to me in a dream, sullen, with a bleeding lower lip split just where his lower canine has been knocked out."

today, beloveds!!

Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social

read it here 🥀

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Punks Don't Die - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The last time I saw Stepan was at St. Petersburg Central Station.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"Stepan comes to me in a dream, sullen, with a bleeding lower lip split just where his lower canine has been knocked out."

today, beloveds!!

Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social

read it here 🥀

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Punks Don't Die - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The last time I saw Stepan was at St. Petersburg Central Station.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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*checks pockets*

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November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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check out @vanessafogg.bsky.social's short fiction recs, beloveds!!

we are SO DELIGHTED to see the truly beautiful Hamaka, Leave Me Alone by Testimony Odey from issue 40 on this list 🖤
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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My reading fell off a cliff these last 2 months, so this list is shorter than usual. But here are recent stories I loved, from @renanbernardo.com @isabel.kim @wiswell.bsky.social Testimony Odey @kristinaten.bsky.social and @champwongs.bsky.social

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Short fiction recs! Sept-Oct 2025
This reading round-up is shorter than usual, as I admit that my short fiction reading fell off a cliff these last two months, due to trave...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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it's hard for us to express how much we love this book

"lovely and melancholy" @acwise.bsky.social

"searing, intensely evocative" @davegoodman.bsky.social

"a moving elegy" @ivygrimes.bsky.social

YES

No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social

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As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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DOOOOO

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ecatherine.com E. Catherine Tobler @ecatherine.com · 8d
fyi @thedeadlands.com will be open to fiction submissions from Dec 1 to Dec 31, so maybe you want to put that on your calendar and study the guidelines and ring out this horrible year making something beautiful. psychopomp.com/the-deadland...
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Fiction
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November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Today at @thedeadlands.com one of the favorite poems I've written lately, and 2025 has been a good year for my poetry. This poem is about a Yiddish play that haunts me, Night in the Old Marketplace, which was never performed as written. Some critics say it is not a play at all.
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 8d
“This is a story: there’s a marketplace
at midnight. Your voice
calls the dead to awaken.”

today’s new poetry, beloveds! 🖤💀

Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal by @rblemberg.bsky.social

read it here:

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Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is a story: there’s a marketplace at midnight. Your voice calls the dead to awaken.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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“This is a story: there’s a marketplace
at midnight. Your voice
calls the dead to awaken.”

today’s new poetry, beloveds! 🖤💀

Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal by @rblemberg.bsky.social

read it here:

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is a story: there’s a marketplace at midnight. Your voice calls the dead to awaken.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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This one's been on my mind today. The main character keeps waking up after losing time, and has to parse the notes his past self left to say "this is who you are." But maybe the person writing the notes has left something out.
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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"Life has a way of taking over the vulgar business of existing. You develop an entitlement to the story you tell."

TODAY, beloveds!

The Pretendian by Jason Pearce

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There is no magic without the procedure. Three steps, each as important as the other and beautiful in their simplicity. But simple things are easily forgotten after so many years. And with each phase ...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"Life has a way of taking over the vulgar business of existing. You develop an entitlement to the story you tell."

TODAY, beloveds!

The Pretendian by Jason Pearce

read today's fiction here:

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The Pretendian - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
There is no magic without the procedure. Three steps, each as important as the other and beautiful in their simplicity. But simple things are easily forgotten after so many years. And with each phase ...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
Happy book birthday to @klschroeder.bsky.social! No One to Hold the Distant Dead is a lovely novella that contemplates what it means to mourn an entire planet and how one finds hope when things seem hopeless.

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As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY

to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL

No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!

download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤

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No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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This piece says so much with so little 😭 Check out poetry by @shanaross.bsky.social published in @thedeadlands.com

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#poetry #hope #dying
I had a dream and in the dream I knew I was dreaming so I believed I could change things - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This could be a good day.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM