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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To Seek Out New Life and Shoot It: Josh Pearce Reviews Hope locusmag.com/review/...

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The Daily Tomorrow @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“What does it want?” “Normal.” Halfway and we realise we’ve lost all sense of what’s normal and what’s not. But, like good soldiers, we blast on through the lyrical the weird the ‘Situation Normal’!

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Situation Normal — Part Four

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My surrealistic military SF story "Situation Normal" is being serialized all this week over on @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social. Check it out here! www.thedailytomorrow.com/stories/situ...

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The Daily Tomorrow @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When poetry meets surrealism meets philosophy meets alien warfare, what else can you get but the mindwarping, magnificent ‘Situation Normal’ by Josh Pearce? Just don’t forget what the last three letters of SNAFU stand for. Atten-hut!

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Situation Normal — Part One

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's a whole universe waiting for you in "Carina Sagittarius" by @fictionaljosh.bsky.social! kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...

“I can spawn and destroy entire worlds, watch eons pass and rewind causality,” Carina said, “but what purpose does life serve? I thought perhaps it’s a matter of scale. Maybe I was living too far removed to understand. So I came here, got a job, got a cat, started a garden.”

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Horrific Scribblings @horrificscribs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW SCRIBE ALERT! HORRIFIC SCRIBES welcomes Josh Pearce and his trio of dark poems _Deathwatch and Others_. Clocks, insects, webs, warheads, time, death, inevitability... horrificscribblings.com #darkpoetry #horrorpoetry #experimentalpoetry #horror @fictionaljosh.bsky.social

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's been a busy writing month, so i have much to announce: upcoming fiction in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social and @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social ! poetry in @analogsf.bsky.social, @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, @sfpoetry.bsky.social's StarLine, @horrificscribs.bsky.social and more! Stay tuned

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

hey. looking for erotic scifi poetry, maybe? go read "A Garden on Enceladus" over in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social : Here at the beginning of time I'll start a new calendar based on your nudity and mark our own holy days in your notch magazine.trollbreath.com/a-garden-on-...

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New #poetry! {Ape Thoughts} in @mudroommag.bsky.social www.mudroommag.com/josh-pearce Mare Nectaris in @chicagowrites.bsky.social chicagowrites.substack.com/p/mare-necta... The Boss in @moocat.net moocat.net/poetry/the-b...

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JOSH PEARCE — MudRoom

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Crooked Spine Press @crookedspinepress.com · 04/09/2026

📢💀 Last Exit is out today and available in print and as an ebook! Issue Three includes twelve stories of American horror. Thank you to the writers who trusted us with their work and to everyone supporting the press. You can order a copy through the link in our bio.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Slash Back to Reality: Josh Pearce Reviews Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma locusmag.com/review/...

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i sold another story full of bugs, sorry

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Chicago Writers Association @chicagowrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Catch up on some of our latest #poetry & more from the CWA writing community. Explore the latest: chicagowrites.substack.com/s/write-city-ezine Have new work? Submit to Write City Magazine: chicagowrites.substack.com/p/submission-guidelines #WriteCityMagazine #litmag #submit

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MudRoom | Submissions OPEN @mudroommag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Issue 22 is live! Check out incredible work by @fictionaljosh, Kate Penvari, Sarah Turbin, marion eames white, Esra Jackson, Grace McGovern, Z. T. Corley, Nicholas León, and Salena Casha. mudroommag.com

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moocat.net @moocat.net · 30/08/2026

Hallo. THE RELAUNCH HAS HAPPENED! Happy Second Twenty-Five YEars!! Check it out!

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

SEE U IN THE TREE'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

A MAD SKLETEAN "ITS TOO HARD TO BE ALIVE, WE SHOULD BE IN THE WOODS, WE SOULD BE EATING THE PEOPLE WHO SET EVERYTHING UP THIS WAY " - ITS HARD TO WAKE UP ITS HARD TO GO TO SLEEP ITS HARD TO EAT ITS HARD TO STOP EATING ITS HARD TO ESCAPE THE FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AND THE BUZZ OF THE SURVEILLANCE GRID THAT SURROUNDS US , THE COMPUTER ONCE OUR BEST FRIEND HAS TURNED TO A BOOT ON OUR NECK , WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? COMPLAIN - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As usual, poetry inverts prose. Write sober, edit high; chemicals may bring violent salience to rhyme, to rhythm, to disharmonies and pattern

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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here's a way to follow the people I've reviewed! They're all incredible and you should check out their work!! go.bsky.app/FhQQN2i

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

More faves of 2026 so far from other mags: A Dirge for the Mirrorbirds - Emily C. Skaftun (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) Scion - Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld) Atomic Chess - Josh Pearce (Bourbon Penn) Foreign Objects - Karlo Yeager Rodríguez (Typebar) Please Turn on Your Magic Beam - Orrin Grey (The Dark)

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sometimes a story perfectly reifies a specific feeling I have about moving through life. Fiction at its best, an art that gives form to something nebulous inside you and makes it feel solid. "Please Turn on Your Magic Beam" by Orrin Grey was that for me. Sad, beautiful, deeply profound horror.

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Please Turn on Your Magic Beam - The Dark Magazine

It’s a dark and stormy night, and the residents of the Castle Arms apartments are watching a scary movie. On the small, bulbous screens of their television sets, a killer stalks in scratchy chiaroscur...

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

more free-to-read, recent #scifi #poetry! PLASTIC PARADISE AWAITS: @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES: @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social www.justkeepupmagazine.com/the-heavens-... LIFECYCLES: Amazing Stories amazingstories.com/2026/03/life...

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Plastic Paradise Awaits

Inject direct / the petroleum of salvation

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

some of my recent #scifi #poetry, free to read! A GARDEN ON ENCELADUS: @trollbreathmag.bsky.social magazine.trollbreath.com/a-garden-on-... OUR CHILD: @radonjournal.bsky.social www.radonjournal.com/issue-13/our... COLD WAR SUBMARINES: @zoeticpress.bsky.social www.zoeticpress.com/an-17-crazy-...

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A Garden on Enceladus - Trollbreath Magazine

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Our Dope Future" by Tony Tulathimutte is wild, y'all. Tulathimutte perfectly captures the sort of batshit entrepreneurial manosphere chud I hope to never encounter in person. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/our-...

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Our Dope Future

Waddap! So this is sort of a long one, but I figured all you good folks might help me get a couple things straight that have been nagging at me recently. I (37M) am a serial entrepreneur, inventor, an...

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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A Garden on Enceladus - Trollbreath Magazine

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No Way Home: Josh Pearce Reviews The Odyssey locusmag.com/review/...

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Free Fiction Friday! Two lush and haunting poems to savor before the weekend: magazine.trollbreath.com/a-garden-on-... magazine.trollbreath.com/fall-o-clean...

Trollbreath Magazine, A Garden on Enceladus and Fall, O Cleansing Rain
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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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...)

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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...

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If YOU would like to get into reading more speculative poetry, please check out my list of speculative poets and markets that publish speculative poetry! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

THE SPIDER AT THE HEART OF IT may very well be one of my weirdest stories yet. It's got a sexy snail lady in it! I get to use the word "escargatoire"! The Goddess of the Moon shoots down oneirockets with her cannons! You can read it in Interzone #305: interzone.press/iz-305/

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promotional image for Interzone 305, featuring Alyia Whiteley, Nick Lowe, Josh Pearce, E.G. Conde, Ben Tufnell, Mame Bougouma Diene, Rachael Cupp, Corey Jae White, Rebecca Zahabi, Una McCormack, Kelly Jennings, Paul Kincaid, Nick Mamatas, Paul McAuley, Val Nolan, Alexander Glass. Cover art based on a detail from Philoctetes in the Island of Lemnos by James Barry. Interzone.press/patreon

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I just finished reading it and this book is good

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 17/07/2026

Here's what you can enjoy in Interzone 305! Stories by - Josh Pearce - E.G. Condé - Ben Tufnell - Mame Bougouma Diene - Rachael Cupp - Corey Jae White and - Rebecca Zahabi 1/7

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Interzone 305 - Scarlet Ferret

Featuring short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16/07/2026

Protecting Your Neighbors by Following ICE Vehicles crimethinc.com/ICEvehicles People around the country have developed models for defending their communities from federal agents intent on kidnapping and terrorizing. This is a guide from the Bay Area.

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Protecting Your Neighbors by Following ICE Vehicles

A guide to following Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles developed in the Bay Area.

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Here's CARINA SAGITTARIUS, my new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! She's a locally bounded pocket universe, a person-shaped cutout in spacetime. He's a man from a mysterious government agency. Watch the sparks fly! kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Stroll Around Until You Feel at Home: Josh Pearce Reviews Backrooms locusmag.com/review/...

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 01/07/2026

Fiction publications! Submission Grinder and @inkfoundry.bsky.social have a new collaboration to help fiction pubs that meet certain criteria reach new readers! Read more here! www.diabolicalplots.com/new-feature-...

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New Submission Grinder Feature: Market Story Links! – Diabolical Plots

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Summer 2026 issue of Kaleidotrope has now gone live at www.kaleidotrope.net, and if I do say myself, it's out of this world!

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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Reposting to make sure magazines see this!! I'm so excited for this award and for the fiction community :D :D

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The new Summer issue of Kaleidotrope launches on July 1. Would you like to know what's in it?

FICTION

• “A Song in a Minor Scale” by Gunnar De Winter
• “Warmer Welcomes” by Mia Xuan
• “The Bee Fairy” by E.B. Sommer
• “Herschel Finds His Way Back to the Road” by Alex Langer
• “A Family Forged” by Aaron Emmel
• “Hark the Herald” by Louis Inglis Hall
• “Itsy Bitsy” by U.M. Agoawike
• “Carina Sagittarius” by Josh Pearce
• “Jurassic Perk” by T. K. Rex
• “Uglifruit Two-Shoes” by Eliezra Schaffzin
• “Rift” by Uchechukwu Nwaka
• “Endless Thirst, Undying Desert” by Alex Yuschik

POETRY

• "Enter Rumor, Painted Full of Tongues" by Jennifer Crow
• "Apostrophe for the Monstrous" by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
• "a minotaur encounters banshees at a summer concert" by Keira Perkins
• "The Moon Makers" by Elena Zhang
• "radon daughter" by A J Dalton
• "Murmurations" by Ian Li
• "Whisper a Prayer Before a Walk in the Woods" by Shelagh Rowan-Legg

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This means you can get a cheap copy of The Skull & Laurel #3, that has Josh Pearce’s “Witches in Cold Mountain Halls” in it. One of the best short stories I’ve read in years that’s a sort of New Weird dark fantasy dungeon crawl told in postmodern epic prose poetry. It’s fucking sick.

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Angela Yuriko Smith @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

To borrow a little wisdom from Gandalf: a publisher is never late. Nor is she early. She publishes precisely when she means to. That said, Space & Time Issue No. 151 (June 2026) is now available: Ebook · Standard Print · Large Print · Dyslexia-Friendly Print!!! authortunitiespress.com/b/snt151

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"'What are these?' he asked. 'Pearls?' Dozens, each the size of a futbol. 'Worlds.'" "Microcosmus of Mystery" by @fictionaljosh.bsky.social

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“Microcosmus of Mystery” by Josh Pearce

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here: Josh Pearce Reviews Exit 8 locusmag.com/review/...

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Diabolical Plots, Bourbon Penn, and Escape Pods: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“The Weather on Other Planets” by Josh Pearce “You wear an earbud tuned to radio static of lightning strikes on Saturn”

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“The Weather on Other Planets” by Josh Pearce

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our Free Fiction Friday schedule is set for Issue 8. We'll be releasing titles from behind the paywall for public enjoyment on the following dates, starting this Friday:

Trollbreath Magazine's Free Fiction Friday schedule for issue 8:

June 5th: The Memory of Tigers, by Mar Vincent
June 12th: Godfall, by Bruno Lombardi
June 19th: Hire Intelligence, by Neurocleric
June 26th: Dust From My Distant World, by Devan Barlow, and Coronal Mass Ejection, by Spencer Keene
July 3rd: Prayskin, by Renan Bernardo
July 10th: The Way to Treasure, by Chey Rivera
July 17th: Or Forever Hold Your Peace, by Louis Inglis Hall
July 24th: The Burning Firmament's Wapr and Weft, by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
July 31st: A Garden on Enceladus, by Josh Pearce, and Fall, O Cleaning Rain, by Sarah E N Kohrs
August 7th: Somewhere Among Fallen Leaves, by Plangdi Neple
August 14th: The Return of the Forest, by Zary Fekete
August 21st: Ill-Fitting Bones, by J. Peri

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

TRANS RIGHT'S ARE HUMAN RIGHT'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKLETON HOLDIN UP A FINGER TO POLITICANS AND THE PEACES OF SHIT WHO WANT TO WRECK EVERYONES LIFES, IF SOME OF US ARE NOT FREE THEN NONE OF US ARE FREE, THE POLITICANS AND BILLIONAIRES WHO RUN THE COUNTRY MEET ON A SECRET ISLAND TO BREED SEX SLAVES BUT THEY WANNA TELL US THAT WE SHOULD BE SCARED OF SOMEONE TAKEN A SHIT IN A PUBLIC BATHROOM, OR MAD AT SOMEONE FOR HAVIN A DRIVERS LICENSE, FASHISM AINT CREEPIN ANY MORE ITS JOGGING, THEY BETTER GET THERE BIG ASS BUNKERS BUILT QUICK CAUSE THERE FULL OF MEAT AND WE GROW HUNGRIER BY THE DAY - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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