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Josh Pearce

@fictionaljosh.bsky.social

640 followers 110 following 42 posts

stories, poems, & reviews—most recently in Crooked Spine, The Daily Tomorrow, ergot., Horrific Scribes, and Locus. fictionaljosh.com

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i know i keep saying "this might be my weirdest story yet" but this time i swear it's true. check out SEX MAGGOTS, free to read in @ergot.bsky.social ! www.ergot.press/authors/Josh...

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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...

pocket notebook filled with illegible handwriting

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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/

spiralbound notebook filled with handwritten, crossed out text

spiralbound notebook filled with handwritten text

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 · 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/...

Notebook pages with handwritten notes and outline. One line reads, "someone hits on her. she warns him she'll spaghettify his dick"

Notebook pages with handwritten outline and draft

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

hoo, buddy, have I got some criminal poetry for you

National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) defines the threat as those espousing anti-american, anti-christian, and anti-capitalism viewpoints. The National Strategy uniquely identifies radically pro-transgender ideologies as terrorists, adding yet another threat group to the federal government's targeting. Source: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre-crime-strategy-unveiled

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

more poetry, recently: COLD WAR SUBMARINES @zoeticpress.bsky.social www.zoeticpress.com/an-17-crazy-... FOOLS' MOON @sfpoetry.bsky.social sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/... THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social www.justkeepupmagazine.com/the-heavens-...

covers of the April 2026 issue of Locus and the Spring 2026 issue of Star*Line

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

poetry, recently: PLASTIC PARADISE AWAITS @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... LIFECYCLES @amazingstories.bsky.social amazingstories.com/2026/03/life... SPECULATIVE POETRY FEATURE @locusmag.bsky.social locusmag.com/feature/spec...

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Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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...

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

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