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a journal of ends and beginnings

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omg @foxesandroses.bsky.social we hope you feel better!!

and we are so excite to see The Wanderer by @chidomuchemwa.bsky.social

AND

his love's ashes on his tongue by @montelin.bsky.social

on this FANTASTIC list 🖤
Crawling back from a very nasty bout of flu by posting some of my favorite stories I read last year. Is it a perfect list? No, there's a ton of amazing stuff out there. But I am happy with it and I hope you can find something in here for you <3
AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF GLORIOUS SHORT FICTION THAT I ENJOYED IN 2025 (BY PUBLICATION MONTH).
his love’s ashes on his tongue, by Monte Lin, in The Deadlands (January) I love how this story explores grief and death. It’s a journey in a strange city. A journey inside our minds and the v…
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January 16, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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hey Fantasy lovers

did you know that both @arleysorg.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are eligible for this year's Hugo award, Best Editor Short Form?

THEY ARE

and

Best Editor Locus Awards, and the Special Award for World Fantasy

just saying

for REASONS 💖💜🦄

(get those noms in!)
January 16, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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And here is the companion piece for the previous issue! A golden skull and an ominous labyrinth...

Please check them out, so many great stories!

Oil pastels and digital colour

#art #fantasy
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
did you miss Table of Contents O' Tuesday? 🌮??

who doesn't love TOC'Os 😂 🫶💀
it's HERE

our issue 41 table of contents!!

TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤

so let's start with POETRY

thread/
January 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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details! bone white and silver tones against midnight blues. Oil pastel plus digital colour.

#art
January 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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I’m deathly delighted to have a new story forthcoming in the next issue of @thedeadlands.com 🖤🔪🕯️
it's HERE

our issue 41 table of contents!!

TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤

so let's start with POETRY

thread/
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Well, well, well, what do we have here?
FICTION

The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher

The Self-Made Women's Circle by @marisca.bsky.social

On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” Dmitri Akers

Mushaboom by Jeremy Morris
January 13, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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it's HERE

our issue 41 table of contents!!

TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤

so let's start with POETRY

thread/
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Here's my cover for the deadlands! Check out the beautiful sinister stories inside :-)

oil pastel and digital colour
AND THE COVER

Silver Island by @carlydraws.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Oh hey, oh geez, MORE Deadlands??? We're killing it! (See...what..I did....there...) 🖤💀🖤 Join us via our Patreon (@thedeadlands.com) for PRINT ISSUES.
AND THE COVER

Silver Island by @carlydraws.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM
AND THE COVER

Silver Island by @carlydraws.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
NON FICTION

Bible Verses for the Dying and the Heathen by Robin Wheeler

Ask a Necromancer: C’est ici de l’empire de la Mort by @stillsostrange.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
FICTION continued

A Woman Is Screaming by @horrorsong.blog

Sole by Aliya Whiteley

You Build Your House on Your Father's Corpse by Sadoeuphemist
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
FICTION

The Skull of Francisco Xalbec by Alan M. Fisher

The Self-Made Women's Circle by @marisca.bsky.social

On the Anthology Entitled “Frames of Colour and Un-Colour” Dmitri Akers

Mushaboom by Jeremy Morris
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
POETRY

bark! by @sutteca0.bsky.social

in which orpheus is a hmong daughter by Phoua Lee

Babe by gray lindsey

The Breeze & The Black Door by Mack W. Mani
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
it's HERE

our issue 41 table of contents!!

TOC'o tuesday is the best, we know 🌮 🖤

so let's start with POETRY

thread/
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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📚🚀💀🧚‍♂️It’s that time again! I lost track of how many stories this is (what are numbers? why are numbers?). Flash is heavily represented this year, for people who want a quick read ⏳

#speclit #scifilit #shortfiction #amreading #horrorrecs #horror #weirdlit

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2025 Recommended Short Stories
It’s January somehow, which means it’s time to share my annual list of Sci-fi, Horror, Slipstream, and Fantasy stories I enjoyed. Fair…
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January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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do you need an amazing read??

“Beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s sadly rare to find an author like Schroeder who approaches the non-human with such compassion and respect. A must read.”

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

get it here! psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
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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January 12, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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we are so proud of all we did in 2025!

and our intrepid @ecatherine.com gathered it all for you to see 👀

give this post a look!!

find something amazing to read

and consider us when you fill out those nomination forms this year 🙏🖤

psychopomp.com/2025-for-you...
2025 - For Your Consideration: Psychopomp Award Eligibility - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
2025 was a year of big changes around here, and we can't imagine where 2026 will take us. Before we do, let's look back at what we did in 2025. We did some
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January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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I also had two poems in @thedeadlands.com , and I love both of them.

"Things for which I have not ascertained your consent" - this is a poem for my friend Corey Alexander, who passed away in 2020.
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Things for which I have not ascertained your consent, by R.B. Lemberg - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
for Corey 1. Traveling to the underworld to retrieve you I do not know if you are there, but the […]
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January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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My second poem in @thedeadlands.com is "Bay nakht afn altn mark: A rehearsal" about a very old Yiddish play which haunts me

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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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January 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
*sips morning bone juice*

*glances at calendar*

wait, it's JANUARY?! we've got new deadlands in january!!

COMING SOON

issue 41

we can't wait for you to read this one!!! 🫶💀
January 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Ahhh!! My Canadian lady pirate & shark-thing love story is listed!

Give Them No Quarter, Tell Them All Lies pubb’d @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/32/giv...
January 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM