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Josh Pearce
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stories, poems, & reviews—most recently in Analog, Kaleidotrope, Locus, Mythaxis, and Utopia. fictionaljosh.com
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"The Pretendian" is by Jason Pearce, not me! This guy -> www.jasonpearcefiction.com

Good story, though!
Jason Pearce
I'm just a giant squeeze bottle of awesome sauce.
www.jasonpearcefiction.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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-"A Clockwork Gun" (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/a-c...) in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #35
-"Microcosmus of Mystery" (kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...) in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Spring 2025
- "Someday Someone's Gonna Steal Your Carbon" (mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/som...) in @mythaxis.bsky.social #42!
Josh Pearce > A Clockwork Gun > Bourbon Penn
Along the edges of the collapsed cities, safely enough away from their ground zero downtowns, Lenore Briar prospected through layers of Fordite and plastiglomerate. She used pick and spade and hand-tw...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Josh Pearce
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“The Weather on Other Planets” by Josh Pearce

The music is unbearable.
You wear an earbud tuned to radio static of lightning strikes on Saturn
“The Weather on Other Planets” by Josh Pearce
kaleidotrope.net
July 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Josh Pearce
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The Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope also features amazing new poems by Chris Clemens, @mimulus.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @shanaross.bsky.social, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, Robert Borski, and @jamesjosephbrown.bsky.social!
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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and you can read some of my poems from this year for free in

@nightmare-magazine.com
www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/touch...

@radonjournal.bsky.social
www.radonjournal.com/issue9/lacus...
& www.radonjournal.com/issue9/butto...

and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...
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.
www.nightmare-magazine.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM