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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The sun was going down on his third day without proper food ... -from "One Who Helps" by Cecil Fenn (@cecilfenn.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #fantasy

"One Who Helps" by Cecil Fenn (@cecilfenn.bsky.social), in August's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/fennOne.html

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror is number 1 on Amazon New Release in Hispanic American Literature & Fiction AND WHAT IS SO COOL is the Spanish language version is ranking too!! Lo que nos siguió a casa / Cuentos de terror Latiné! Is number 7. Available now 💗

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday #art from August's #Penumbric: "Those Who Left in Winter" by Irina Tall, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #artist #horror

"Those Who Left in Winter" by Irina Tall, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/tallWinter.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Best of #Penumbric, vol ix is now under review at Amazon! Assuming all goes well, it should be available in the next 72 hours. Thank you again to all our wonderful contributors! We'll start sending contributor copies next week. 🥰 #anthology #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The flower does not like Being my metaphor— -from "Villain Origin Story" by Hibah Shabkhez, in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poetry #horror

"Villain Origin Story" by Hibah Shabkhez, in August's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/shabkhezOrigin.html

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the mood for some tragic sapphic horror this Halloween season? My story "As Sweet" is in the latest issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social 🥀

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Deep down, Pearl and I both knew she was going to come home in a box. -from "As Sweet" by Jess Gofton (@jessgofton.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #horror #horrorstory

"As Sweet" by Jess Gofton (@jessgofton.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/goftonSweet.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For most people, magic is more of a liability than anything. -from "Low Spirits" by Gordon Sun, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #horror #HorrorStory

"Low Spirits" by Gordon Sun, in Aug's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/sunSpirits.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it safe to wash the cup I made from the skull of my nemesis in the dishwasher? -from "Product Warnings" by Jennifer Crow (@writerjencrow.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's Aug issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poetry #poet #poem #horror

"Product Warnings" by Jennifer Crow (@writerjencrow.bsky.social), in Penumbric's Aug issue at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/crowWarnings.html

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Read the excerpt from "El Jíbaro de Puerto Rico" in SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME in @crimereads.bsky.social now. Thank you so very much, CrimeReads for this feature. SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is available Tuesday, September 29th. crimereads.com/something-fo...

Read the excerpt from "El Jíbaro de Puerto Rico" in SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME in @crimereads now. Thank you very much, CrimeReads for this feature. - Black and white picture after the Ponce Massacre in Puerto Rico. "READ THE EXCERPT - CRIMEREADS - "What more does America want from us? They took our land. They took our language. They've now taken our right to display our own flag."

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am honored to contribute two book bundles to this fundraiser: EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com & RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR @press-android.bsky.social + stickers, bookmarks, & assorted goodies 🦇 Support below & spread the word!

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

she carried no weapons only an offering of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies -from "Better Monster" by Beth Cato (@bethcato.bsky.social), in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poetry #horror #monster

"Better Monster" by Beth Cato, in Aug's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/catoMonster.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Best of #Penumbric, volume ix is almost here! Just have to do a final check and then send the file to Amazon. (And then check the physical proofs.) Estimating it will be available at the end of September. #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

Draft cover for the Best of Penumbric, volume nine.

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Friday #art from August's #Penumbric: "Ogopogo" by Kasia Runté, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #artist #artwork #horror #horrorart

"Ogopogo" by Kasia Runté, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/runteOgopogo.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s been long enough for a hell of a lot of change, even a shift in the timeline if you subscribe to the weasel in the Large Hadron Collider theory of why it’s all gone weird. -from "Moon Lodge" by @alycelomax.bsky.social, in Aug's #Penumbric, www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #horror

"Moon Lodge" by @alycelomax.bsky.social, in August's Penumbric, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/lomaxMoon.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm a myth you've created in your mind - from "Reality" by Deborah Davitt (@deborahldavitt.bsky.social), in August's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poetry #poet #scifi #scifipoetry

"Reality" by Deborah Davitt (@deborahldavitt.bsky.social), in August's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/davittReality.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Art from August's #Penumbric: "The Enlightened One" by Jennifer Weigel, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #art #artist #fantasy #myth

"The Enlightened One" by Jennifer Weigel, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/weigelEnlightened.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We've reached the limit for written subs for this submissions window! Thank you all so much! 🥰 The next written subs window opens 15 December. We are still happily accepting art, music, and graphic narrative submissions! #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We're up to 188 of 200 written submissions for this window! Only 12 spots left ...

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

ICYMI ‼️ I shall have a new book coming 2028 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social / @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social 👀✨ 🏮👻VESSEL EATER👻🏮 🎐 dark fantasy 🎐 Chinese folklore 🎐Mulan meets THE GHOST BRIDE

Publishers marketplace deal for VESSEL EATER on backdrop of character art

Folklore art pieces of Bai Ze and Zhong Kui + quotes

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're up to 149 of 200 written #submissions for this submissions period (closing 15 Sep or before)! Check out www.penumbric.com/subs.html for submissions info. #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

She could pretend, more poignantly than usual, that her childhood friend, the love of her life, sat with her ... -from "Asleep in the Graveyard, Asleep by the Sea" by Lyra Meurer, in Aug's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory

"Asleep in the Graveyard, Asleep by the Sea" by Lyra Meurer, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/meurerAsleep.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We've already received 108 of 200 written submissions for this "month" (potentially lasting through 15 September). I anticipate we'll be full before the end of August, so if you want to submit before this subs period ends, do it soon! See our guidelines at www.penumbric.com/subs.html

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Anyway, all this to very selfishly say that if you like queer tragedy, my sapphic horror "As Sweet" is in the latest issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social and is available to read online. (TW for allusions sui*cide) www.penumbric.com/currentissue... 6/6

A painting of a woman lying on a bed in a white dress, surrounded by white, red, and pink roses. White text in the top left corner reads:

Deep down, Pearl and I both knew she was going to come home in a box.

"As Sweet" by Jess Gofton
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine
Vol X, Issue 2

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We're open for the final 200 written submissions of this subs window (15 Aug through 15 Sep)! We've received 3 of 200 submissions. See our Submissions page for details: www.penumbric.com/subs.html #Penumbric #submissions

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thursday #art from #Penumbric! "The Mourner" by Brian Malachy Quinn, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #artist #art #horror #horrorart

"The Mourner" by Brian Malachy Quinn, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/quinnMourner.html

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Jennifer ScareCrow @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Got a poem out today in the latest issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social. You can read it here”Product Warnings” here: https//:www.penumbric.com/currentissue/crowWarnings.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thank you to all the contributors in August's #Penumbric! Brian Malachy Quinn, Lyra Meurer, Jennifer Weigel, @deborahldavitt.bsky.social, @alycelomax.bsky.social, Kasia Runté, @sljohnson.bsky.social, Gordon Sun ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Table of contents for the August 2026 issue of Penumbric

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Jess Gofton @jessgofton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thrilled that my sapphic horror short story, "As Sweet", is in this issue! 🥀 👉🏻 www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

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cecil fenn @cecilfenn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Extremely happy to have my seiðr-inspired short story “One Who Helps” in this issue of Penumbric. Recommended for lovers of tragedy, Norse god cameos, and the intersection of queerness, criminality and shamanism in the Viking era. Hope you’ll check it out!

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S.L.Johnson @sljohnson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hey, I have a poem in the August issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social , why don’t you go read it? I promise it’s good!

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Abby Nicole Yee 🫥 @abbynicoleyee.com · 11/08/2026

I have a reprint out! Read “Blank” at Penumbric!! It’s about a mentally ill teacher who sees a new color 👀😱

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The August issue is here! Find it at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror #magazine

The August 2026 cover of Penumbric, found at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/cover.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We've received all of the written submissions we can take for this second "month" (15 July to 14 August) of the submissions period. Thank you! 🥰 We reopen for another 200 written submissions on 15 August.

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Art from #Penumbric's June issue: "Galactic Cataclysm" by Brian Malachy Quinn, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #art #artist #scifi #scifiart

"Galactic Cataclysm" by Brian Malachy Quinn, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/quinnGalactic.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So the job comes naturally to you, brushing the Undark onto the clockface -from "Over Time" by Amelia Gorman (@gormanghast.bsky.social) in June's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poetry #scifi #poet #poem

"Over Time" by Amelia Gorman (@gormanghast.bsky.social) in June's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/gormanTime.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

AI is just quality assurance backup. - from "A Post-Times Dispatch" by Doug Donovan, in #Penumbric's June issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #scifi #ai

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The wind-swept plains of Helicon twist in the naked full-dark sky -from "Xenowicker" by Richard Magahiz, in June's #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poet #poetry #scifi

"Xenowicker" by Richard Magahiz, in June's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/magahizXenowicker.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We're open for our second batch of written submissions for this subs window! Already up to 54 out of 200 ... wow. 🥰 Keep track on our subs page (www.penumbric.com/subs.html) #fiction #poetry #submissions

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

More #art from our June issue: "Alien Toxic Spray" by Denny E. Marshall, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #Penumbric #artwork #artist #scifi

"Alien Toxic Spray" by Denny E. Marshall, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/marshallSpray.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We've received all the written submissions we can handle for this "month" [15 June to 14 July] of the submissions period. Thank you so much! 🥰 Our written subs call reopens for another 200 subs on 15 July 2026. Again, this doesn't affect art or music. We're still open for those.

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Art in June's #Penumbric: "Moody Alien Teen" by Janis Butler Holm, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #art #artwork #artist #scifi

"Moody Alien Teen" by Janis Butler Holm, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/holmTeen.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

His holographic eyes were on her, and she reckoned she could detect a hint of sadness in them. - from "A God in Binary" by A.D. Ross, in the June issue of #Penumbric at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstory #scifi #AI

"A God in Binary" by A.D. Ross, in Penumbric's June issue at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/rossBinary.html

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Breaking out with some fancy news on this fine day with @variety.com 👀✨ Honoured to have Matthias Schweighofer and Sascha Rosemann pick this one up! 💫 @shortwavebooks.bsky.social variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Cover of I AM AI and MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST: STORIES graphic for feature film adaption option article with Variety

I AM AI and MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST: STORIES covers graphic

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I AM AI IS INCLUDED IN
AI JIANG'S DEBUT COLLECTION, MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST, AS 1 OF 40 TOTAL STORIES!

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Remember, we publish graphic narratives, both a few pages long (such as "21st Century Bride" by Patrick McEvoy and Andrea Montano, in April's issue at www.penumbric.com/archives/Apr... & pdf www.penumbric.com/archives/Apr...) and longer, multi-issue "serials." See www.penumbric.com/subs.html!

"21st Century Bride" by Patrick McEvoy and Andrea Montano, in April's Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/archives/April2k26/mcevoyBride.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We are now open for written submissions (through 15 September)! We are always open for art, graphic narrative, and music submissions. See our submissions page for details! www.penumbric.com/subs.html

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Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sunday #art from June's #Penumbric: "Cosmic Skater" by Barbara Candiotti, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #artist #artwork #scifi #cyberpunk

"Cosmic Skater" by Barbara Candiotti, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/candiottiSkater.html

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Andrew Fraknoi @fraknoi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thank you for publishing my short story "Elegy" in this issue. It is about love in a future so distant that even the stars have gone out.

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