Readers are calling this one “surreal” and “enchanting”. We agree. Give it a read 👇🍃

Add “like Mary Oliver but weird” to the list of ways readers have described this one 🌎👇

Maro Reus fuckin rules. Now you know.

Add “like Mary Oliver but weird” to the list of ways readers have described this one 🌎👇

Maro Reus on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology The commercially dominant modern world is one of falsity. Advertising is a thick smog. It leaks through our window screens and oozes out of the linoleum. In our most densely populated places, it’s lou...

"There was a time when all our stories were about birds and stars and our grand, infinitesimal home. Eco fiction makes the deliberate choice to tell those stories again—and acknowledges that we never stopped."

- Maro Reus on Ecofiction
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Maro Reus on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology The commercially dominant modern world is one of falsity. Advertising is a thick smog. It leaks through our window screens and oozes out of the linoleum. In our most densely populated places, it’s lou...

"There was a time when all our stories were about birds and stars and our grand, infinitesimal home. Eco fiction makes the deliberate choice to tell those stories again—and acknowledges that we never stopped."

- Maro Reus on Ecofiction
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Spring Equinox — Brief Ecology by Maro Reus

"Singer puts two tiny hands on my cheek. She smiles at me, and I smile back, and she packs magic into my mouth. Petals. Moss. Down in my pink gums, inside my narrow lips."

- Maro Reus in "Spring Equinox"
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Readers are calling this one “surreal” and “enchanting”. We agree. Give it a read 👇🍃

Spring Equinox — Brief Ecology by Maro Reus

"Singer puts two tiny hands on my cheek. She smiles at me, and I smile back, and she packs magic into my mouth. Petals. Moss. Down in my pink gums, inside my narrow lips."

- Maro Reus in "Spring Equinox"
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

when boiled down, there is only you and i — Blood+Honey Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “If / everything is random, I’ll awake with it, / a guitar in my hands. Melodic vibration kills / loneliness. Saves me.”

Golden Shovel Poem "When Boiled Down, There's Only You and I" by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)

“If / everything is random, I’ll awake with it, / a guitar in my hands. Melodic vibration kills / loneliness. Saves me.”

www.bloodhoneylit.com/jordan-treth...

My favorite part of running @rottingleafmag.bsky.social is reading all of the messed up, weird, hopeful, and horrific ecofiction people come up with. I love it. I wish we could afford to publish all of it.

She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not upset about the mess or the rotting stench, her tragedy is the neighbors gossiping over her weird gar

We've got a new rotting leaf dropping on Saturday, but in the meantime don't miss our previous one, "She Burrows and Invites", by @linardos.bsky.social.

It's fully rotten.

www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not upset about the mess or the rotting stench, her tragedy is the neighbors gossiping over her weird gar

We've got a new rotting leaf dropping on Saturday, but in the meantime don't miss our previous one, "She Burrows and Invites", by @linardos.bsky.social.

It's fully rotten.

www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

We're still a few submissions short of our monthly quota–send more weird nature!

We open to submissions at midnight (EST) tonight. Send us your unknowable terrains and horrific habitats

We are aware of the glitch on our website that causes the tree outside your window to begin moving menacingly if you click “submit” without having first read one of our stories. Our engineers are working on a fix. Thank you.

She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...

“Spindly fingers tickle his neck, reminding him of skittering cockroaches. The massive presence latches on his back, flapping a cold draft with its wings.”

- @linardos.bsky.social in She Burrows and Invites

www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...

“Spindly fingers tickle his neck, reminding him of skittering cockroaches. The massive presence latches on his back, flapping a cold draft with its wings.”

- @linardos.bsky.social in She Burrows and Invites

www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Akis Linardos on ecofiction — Brief Ecology If we’re clinical about it, eco-fiction is any sort of story where nature plays an important role in the plot. It can’t just be a fantastical environment in a space setting unless the flora or fauna m...

“Writing is an outlet for me, and I have both envisioned nature taking revenge, or characters larger-than-life protecting what I feel powerless to protect in the real world, and both shades are ecofiction.”

- @linardos.bsky.social on Ecofiction

www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Have you read this one yet? It’s very cool and strange and only a little fucked up we promise 👇

Akis Linardos on ecofiction — Brief Ecology If we’re clinical about it, eco-fiction is any sort of story where nature plays an important role in the plot. It can’t just be a fantastical environment in a space setting unless the flora or fauna m...

“Writing is an outlet for me, and I have both envisioned nature taking revenge, or characters larger-than-life protecting what I feel powerless to protect in the real world, and both shades are ecofiction.”

- @linardos.bsky.social on Ecofiction

www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Have you read this one yet? It’s very cool and strange and only a little fucked up we promise 👇

She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...

"'Down here, you.'

Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish."

- @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"

If publishing weird, unsettling, horrific pieces of ecofiction is wrong, then I don’t want to be right

A friendly reminder to HWA members, tomorrow is the last day to vote on the Stoker Award Ballot!

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I have a new one out ✨

She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...

"'Down here, you.'

Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish."

- @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"

It's Friday and you deserve a distraction from The Horrors. Check out these horrors instead

Take a break from The Horrors by sending us some different horrors to read

Get your dead forests and grassland corpses ready, we open to submissions at midnight (EST)!