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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 15h

"Only the first blood could show me the future, I learned, after spending hours hunched over the toilet, like a fortune-teller and her crystal ball. On my second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth days, nothing resembling anything ever came out."

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 5d

We're kicking off October appropriately with some more Steve Gerson fiction.

"Above, through a moment of cloud break, Georgie thought she saw a star, first a dim white, next flickering pink, then pulsing red, but it disappeared behind a passing cloud."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson...

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 8d

We're going subterranean today. Learn about all the complications of having two taints with 'Spelunker' by Tex Gresham and KKUURRTT.

godscrueljokelit.com/tex-g-kkuurr...

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 8d

Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5!

"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."

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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 12d

THERES GONNA BE REALLY COOL SHIT FOR SALE IN GETTYSBURG IN OCTOBER

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 12d

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 12d

Hey sickos, here's your hole

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 12d

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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Ollie Swasey @olliews.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks very much to Lee @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social for his tireless work on this gem of a magazine, and for making space for fucked up art in a culture that sorely needs it.

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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social · 12d

Issue #5 of @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social is out today and the theme is speculative erotica, and yes I wrote a story in this one. There’s a paid option and a free download: www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

The cover of speculative erotics Issue 5 with the text: Issue 5 of God's Cruel Joke, SPECULATIVE EROTICS, features art and writing from twenty-seven contributors which explores the farthest thresholds of eroticism. Each piece within is an exercise in rapturous disintegration, blending and meditating on themes of identity, sexuality, technology, faith, war and existence. printed above the cover. There are also links to purchase the book or download the free PDF

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junkyard ambrose 🔜 VOIDCON @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 12d

BUY (or read4free) NOW & get some good sicko shit about recovering from anorexia via divine feederism & gayboy Jesus coming back to blow off a cop’s dick
+++ 26 other filth visionaries

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 12d

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 12d

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 12d

TODAY!!! Buy it in print or download it (for free???) at the link - www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 13d

SPECULATIVE EROTICS dropping tomorrow!

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 22d

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 14d

Last feature this week are fun ones, 3 poems from @malikbtxt.bsky.social .

"my ex asked / “did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life, walk into your living room and find you had no life left?” / I didn’t at all and now i miss the company"

www.godscrueljokelit.com/malik-berry-...

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Ollie Swasey @olliews.bsky.social · 19d

Hard to overstate how psyched I am for this issue, no one is doing it like GCJ. Look for my new story "Butterfly Stitch" when this comes out next week--if you think you can stomach it.

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 22d

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 19d

Read 'Magnolia Light' from Benjamin Ray Allee!

"Then he looked at me, and in his eyes I saw my own throat slit, my eyes plunged into by greasy thumbs, my stomach bitten by caried teeth. What the hell?"

godscrueljokelit.com/ben-r-allee-magnolia-light

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 19d

ONE WEEK
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a.d. 🌖 @godstained.bsky.social · 22d

thrilled to have 2 poems in here 🖤 sometimes being a sick freak pays off :)

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 22d

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

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junkyard ambrose 🔜 VOIDCON @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 22d

we in this bitch & by we I mean me, @horrorsong.blog @lormaggot.ca & @probablyharmless.bsky.social together in a
special issue thick enough to bludgeon a twink with

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 22d

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 22d

I may have mentioned before that my boyfriend is a bit squeamish, but I was so excited for this one I made a special version for him to read with all the gross stuff cut out.

If you have a stronger stomach, you should buy this book to read the rest. (And much, much more from so many cool folks!!!)

A screenshot of a word document, heavily redacted. Amongst the nine black bars, the only words that can be read are "This would be easier with a knife, but when have you ever wanted it easy?" and "your tongue stays where it is."

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 22d

Includes my contribution "How To Fuck A Genocide" in which I explain how to become the word of god in ten easy steps.

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 22d

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 22d

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

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God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · 29d

Read 'The Procedure' by the phenomenal Erin Elizabeth Williams: www.godscrueljokelit.com/erin-e-willi...

"We see hundreds of women in every day for this. It’s a quick in and out. Nothing to worry about, not at all. My own daughter had it done just last year, and she’s never felt better."

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today's new Doughboy piece cuts — 10:19.

"So it goes and goes and goes until it doesn’t. 10:06. He suspects she masturbates in the shower. Often exits more flushed than the heat warrants. He’s not jealous. Just wishes for an invitation."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/doughboy-1019

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gerson refuses to stop sending me gold.

"From the second story, askew in rusted bolts, our family name hung like a victim on a gallows. On the front porch, a menu board memorialized a last meal in partial letters, an acrostic to a past generation's dream."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson-2

God's Cruel Joke literary magazine @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social · Aug 20

"But now the holy strip away the smoke, / the skin, the prayers, the / uneasy past and all the dirt, / besmirching tombs of your forebears. They / release your vanished breath, lay bare - / your shroud-caress, your laughter / trapped in stone."

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