"Directive" by Rebekah Postupak, in Feb's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/postupakDirective.html

I scrape the unsafe oatmeal, tastes normal, into my bowl and eat it all ...

-from "Directive" by Rebekah Postupak (@postupak.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #scifi #horror

"Chains of History" by Alison McBain, in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/mcbainChains.html

The taste of independence
releases mechanical eruptions

-from "Chains of History" by Alison McBain, in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poetry #poet #scifi #horror

"Corporeal Form" by Kit Harding (@kitharding.bsky.social), in Feb's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/hardingCorporeal.html & pdf https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/Issue_February2k26.pdf#page=37

Normally I was only a vague haunting, a mist-woman who appeared wreathed in fog only for a moment before fading back into the sea.

-from "Corporeal Form" by Kit Harding (@kitharding.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror

"Blood and Tea Leaves" by Lisa Cai (@lisacai.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/caiBlood.html

I am unlike other marionettes. My form is made of flesh and bones and my hair grows from my scalp.

-from "Blood and Tea Leaves" by Lisa Cai (@lisacai.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror

"Trauma Is Carried in the Body" by Christina Sng (@christinasng.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/sngTrauma.html

It explodes
In a bloody mess.

-from "Trauma Is Carried in the Body" by Christina Sng (@christinasng.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poet #poetry #horror

"Deathless" by Karina Steffens (@karinasteffens.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/steffensDeathless.html

Each night, I took Baba Yaga’s horses out to pasture beyond Smorodina, the fire river.

-from "Deathless" by Karina Steffens (@karinasteffens.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror

"A Bird Is Just One Voice" by Ian Li (@ianli.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/liVoice.html

A bluebird whispers
of a ghost’s impending death,

-from "A Bird Is Just One Voice" by Ian Li (@ianli.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poetry #poet #horror

"A Skull in the Wood" by Viviana De Cecco, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/dececcoWood.html

Art from Feb's #Penumbric! "A Skull in the Wood" by Viviana De Cecco, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#art #artist #horror #horrorart

"What She Left Behind" by Kai Delmas (@kaidelmas.bsky.social), in Feb's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/delmasLeft.html

I am not this boy’s mother. I’m not who he remembers. I’m a body. That’s all.

- from "What She Left Behind" by Kai Delmas (@kaidelmas.bsky.social), in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror

"Encounter" by Carl Scharwath, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/scharwathEncounter.html

Saturday #art from Feb's #Penumbric: "Encounter" by Carl Scharwath, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#artwork #artist #horror

"Neon Wanderer" by Vekhan Sametyaza, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/sametyazaNeon.html

Tuesday #art from Feb's #Penumbric: "Neon Wanderer" by Vekhan Sametyaza, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#artist #artwork #horror

"Arbitration" by Noah Isherwood, in Feb's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/isherwoodArbitration.html

Penitents and Disputees flicker up my nostrils along invisible threads of wasting-away tar and ash, auspices burning my sinuses.

-from "Arbitration" by @nershwood.bsky.social, in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... or pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #horror

"Bones" by Kathryn Ptacek, in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/ptacekBones.html

As the day hours go by, the bones
return to my body until, once more,
at night I am complete.

- from "Bones" by Kathryn Ptacek, in Feb's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poetry #poet #poem #horror

Penumbric October 2k25, Look in My Eyes Edgy speculative fiction magazine

Two poems by Gerri Leen (@gerrileen.bsky.social) featured in #Penumbric have been nominated for the #Rhysling! "Look in My Eyes" (Oct 2025, www.penumbric.com/archives/Oct...) and "The Separation Was Not Mutual" (Feb 2025, www.penumbric.com/archives/Feb...). So awesome! 🥰

Table of contents for the February 2026 issue of Penumbric, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/ToC.html

Thank you to all the contributors in February's #Penumbric! Kathryn Ptacek, Vekhan Sametyaza, @nershwood.bsky.social, Carl Scharwath, @kaidelmas.bsky.social, Viviana De Cecco, @ianli.bsky.social ...

www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#reading #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

"Cloaked in Starlight and Doom" by Jennifer Crow (@writerjencrow.bsky.social), in December's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/crowStarlight.html

... Endings
weave from beginnings ...

-from "Cloaked in Starlight and Doom" by Jennifer Crow (@writerjencrow.bsky.social), in December's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poetry #horror #poem #poet

"Dark Siren" by Irina Tall, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/tallSiren.html

Saturday art from December's #Penumbric: "Dark Siren" by Irina Tall, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#art #artwork #artist #horror #fantasy #HorrorArt

"The Slide" by E.W.H. Thornton, in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/thorntonSlide.html

Consider this your final warning, and feel free to remove yourself from the classroom if you think it'll be too much for you.

-from "The Slide" by E.W.H. Thornton, in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#ShortStory #horror

"Remnants" by Annie Tupek, in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/tupekRemnants.html

A dark shadow walks the road, dim lantern in outstretched hand drooping, feet stumbling in exhaustion.

-from "Remnants" by Annie Tupek, in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstories #horror

"Voyant" by Carl Scharwath, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/scharwathVoyant.html

Art from December's #Penumbric: "Voyant" by Carl Scharwath, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#art #artist #artwork #fantasy #horror

"Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo (@ghostlyverse.bsky.social), in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/loschiavoWolf.html

In January, howling starts before
The Wolf Moon fattens, rouses appetites.

-from "Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo (@ghostlyverse.bsky.social), in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poetry #horror

"I’ve Seen the Movie" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle (@mcardlejeanne.bsky.social), in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/mcardleMovie.html

“Before I had to watch the movie, I had a cat just like this one.”

-from "I’ve Seen the Movie" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle (@mcardlejeanne.bsky.social), in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#shortstory #scifi #dystopia

"Come and Play" by Deborah L. Davitt, in December's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/davittPlay.html

They weren't supposed to be nightmare-fuel

-from "Come and Play" by Deborah L. Davitt, in December's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poet #poetry #horror

"Painted Skin" by Huijia Li, in December's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/liPainted.html

Skin-stealing is an art.

-from "Painted Skin" by Huijia Li, in December's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#horror #poetry #poem #poet

"Dissolution" by Jade Scardham, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/scardhamDissolution.html

Sunday #art from December's #Penumbric: "Dissolution" by Jade Scardham, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#artist #artwork #horror #HorrorArt

"impermanence" by Eva Papasoulioti, in December's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/papasouliotiImpermanence.html

death doesn’t have to be permanent to be
perfect, is what I say after my every death

-from "impermanence" by Eva Papasoulioti (@epapasoulioti.bsky.social), in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poem #poetry #horror #poet

"After Leaping 100 Light Years from Earth" by Aaron Knuckey, in Dec's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/knuckeyLeaping.html

we’ve journeyed beyond Heaven’s jurisdiction.

-from "After Leaping 100 Light Years from Earth" by Aaron Knuckey (@yeahiknowbut.bsky.social), in Dec's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#poetry #poem #poet #scifi #horror

"Quasar Titans" by Flairiart, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/flairiartTitans.html

Art from December's #Penumbric! "Quasar Titans" by Flairiart (@flairiart.bsky.social), at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#art #artwork #scifi

Two pages of #art from December's Penumbric: "Untitled (1)" and "Untitled (2)" by Maia Brown-Jackson, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/brown-jacksonUntitled1.html and https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/brown-jacksonUntitled2.html

Two pages of #art from December's #Penumbric: "Untitled (1)" and "Untitled (2)" by Maia Brown-Jackson, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and www.penumbric.com/currentissue... (or pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue...)

#artwork #artist #fantasy

Parts of the recommendations list for Best Horror of the Year vol 17 including authors in Penumbric

Congrats to @gormanghast.bsky.social, @antoncancre.bsky.social, and @megcathlinwrites.bsky.social for being on the recommendations list for Best Horror of the Year 17! (And to everyone else as well, of course! But these three were for work in #Penumbric 😁)

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#horror