11. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "Sensorium"

Amelia visits a different world, too dangerous for the people she loves.

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10. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "Selections from the Wolfmonth Catalog of the Fairyland Regional Fürni Store”

The narrator buys magical furniture to help try and assuage their grief and loneliness.

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Cover of The Porcelain Sisters by Daryl Gregory: A close-up of a procelain doll, showing one green glass eye, red lips, and a white face riddled with cracks.

Cover reveal! My novella THE PORCELAIN SISTERS will be out Oct 27 from @tachyonpub.bsky.social . Two sisters, one of whom happens to be a haunted doll, take on a French witch mafia, demons, an unkillable assassin... all to reclaim their birthright. Preorder! tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

A screenshot of the front page of the Municipal Adhesives website: a black header with the words Municipal Adhesives atop a logo askew, followed by a red-tinted picture of scattered stickers and stencils with the words, "Making Revolution Irresistible; Transform the flat surfaces of your community! Bring the walls to life! Together, they can’t stop us! Grab your slap pack today." a black button follows with the words, "Start Your Adventure"

The order summary block from the Municipal Adhesives website cart. It shows a 1 ounce slap pack in the cart. Below, a menu header "Add coupons" sits atop a text field. The code 5YEARSOLD is entered into this field. The subtotal ($8) is followed by the discount (-$8), Free shipping, and a total of $0.00

The anarchist public beautification project, Municipal Adhesives, has a new website:

www.municipaladhesives.com

To celebrate five years of activity, they are offering you an ounce of stickers, free of charge!

Throw a 1-ounce Slap Pack in the cart and enter 5YEARSOLD into the coupon field.

9. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "Polydactyl"

When hands fractal into mouths and vice-versa, and they want to kiss you.

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8. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "Philemaphobia" @castofwonders.org

Webs keep growing in Amanda’s mouth, and her parents don’t know how to help her.

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7. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "Unnamed Government Agency"

Three government agents investigates a missing child case.

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6. WSYR "Deus Ex Parasitus"

Dexter is forced into a heist that involves hacking someone’s brain with modded parasites.

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5. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "Play Devil" @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

It’s Jessie’s turn to play the Devil this week. Except then, more devils show up.

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4. Why You Should Read (WYSR) "Microscosmus of Mystery" @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

An archaeologist is sent to find an artifact rumored to change reality.

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3. Why You Should Read (WYSR) “Someday Someone’s Gonna Steal Your Carbon” @mythaxis.bsky.social

Are there any downsides to a world where anyone can grow a clone of themselves like a pregnancy?

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2. Why You Should Read (WYSR) Review "Atomic Chess" @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

A chess game played with elements from the periodic table and more.

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New week, new author thread! This week I'm featuring Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social

1. Why You Should Read (WSYR) "A Clockwork Gun"

Lenore and her sister, living in her chest, acquire a gun that forces them to kill its targets.

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I've got a sex and submarines poem out now in @zoeticpress.bsky.social's 4LPH4NUM3R1C: "COLD WAR SUBMARINES"

It's a whole new genre! ASW erotica!

There's also an audio version, read by their talented staff

www.zoeticpress.com/an-17-crazy-...

Good overview of some great speculative poetry markets. Good for poets to read as well as curious folks wondering what the poetry scene in the Industry looks like

"'‘We’re All Mad Here’' by Marisca Pichette (@orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social) shows Alice, ‘baby blue dress torn / cesarean scars,’ descending into a much more mature Wonderland."

Discover speculative poetry galore in Josh Pearce's survey in @locusmag.bsky.social 🚀

Speculative Poetry Feature: A Brief Survey of Speculative Poetry Markets by Josh Pearce locusmag.com/feature...

covers of bourbon penn, cold war submarines, the making of the atomic bomb, and karpov's my best games

page of handwritten text in a spiral-bound notebook, largely illegible

Contributor copies of my story ATOMIC CHESS in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social , some of the reading that went into it, and a bit of the first draft. Read the full story here: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/ato...

Two pages in a spiral-bound notebook, covered in handwritten scrawl

WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Skull & Laurel came from playing God of War and listening to In the Hall of the Mountain King (here's a version I like: youtu.be/zpUWXz9ptcc). Then I opened a thesaurus, a rhyming dictionary, and etymonline and just followed the sounds

Noem. Bondi. Doesn't matter. Another sycophant will replace them. Nothing changes until he and his servile, bootlicking fascist regime is destroyed; and until there's equal distribution of wealth and resources, separation of church and state, and a truly independent free press.

my review of PROJECT HAIL MARY also contains NO political or social commentary!

Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won’t Bite - Nightmare Magazine This piece comes from a childhood of taking piano lessons. I switched to other instruments after high school, but I still remember how to read sheet music.

I've got a poem out in @nightmare-magazine.com : "Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won't Bite"
www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/touch...

Issue 783 Table of Contents, April 2026 locusmag.com/2026/04...

3. Dress as belligerently as a large lunatic who is planning to start writing poetry. (With a woodcut collage showing what appears to be a beast-headed large lunatic with a lantern. Diogenes reference, anyone?)

7. Make banners that will inevitably fail to represent the wishes of all involved. [Photo of a banner reading "Steal what you need and burn the rest"]

Oh, for the good old days.

crimethinc.com/bots

In Space, No One Can Hear You Echolocate: Josh Pearce Reviews Project Hail Mary locusmag.com/review/...

Bourbon Penn 38 Stories by Thomas Ha, Cody Goodfellow, Michael Kelly, Charity Ogechi, Jan Stinchcomb, Josh Pearce, Salini Vineeth, and Jim Marino. Cover art by Lix North.

Bourbon Penn 38 is live! Featuring new fiction from Thomas Ha, Cody Goodfellow, Michael Kelly, Charity Ogechi, Jan Stinchcomb, Josh Pearce, Salini Vineeth, and Jim Marino.

@thomasha.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social @janstinchcomb.bsky.social @fictionaljosh.bsky.social @jamesjmarino.bsky.social

handwritten text in a spiral-bound notebook, with most of the lines crossed out

handwritten outline in a spiral-bound notebook. paper shows signs of water damage

handwritten text in a spiral-bound notebook. paper shows signs of water damage

Path to publication for MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY: brainstorming -> outline -> first draft

First sent on submission Sept. '23, and picked up 11 rejections before selling. Read the final product in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

Put on a Happy Face: Josh Pearce Reviews Slanted locusmag.com/review/...

Josh Pearce > Atomic Chess > Bourbon Penn Cold, damp bones; a hard cot too short for his aching back; prostate problems. The old physicist ran through the litany every morning: claustrophobic corridors; smell of engine grease; the head consta...

ATOMIC CHESS (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/ato...) my new submarine/chess story in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social features the same shadow organization previously found in UNNAMED GOVERNMENT AGENCY (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/21/unn...) and in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social (kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...)

Bourbon Penn masthead showing artwork of a goldfinch with a steampunkish helmet/diving bell.

Delighted to have a new story, "Rope," published in one of my favourite magazines alongside this powerhouse ToC. It's short and strange, and I hope you'll give it a read.

www.bourbonpenn.com

@bourbonpenn.bsky.social