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A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Fiction section of @briefecology.bsky.social Read: www.briefecology.com Submit: www.briefecology.com/submissions

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Everett leaving in pieces again: a bridge fastener, a surgical clamp, a municipal bus carrying strangers who never knew his wrist ached before rain." - @nettirw.bsky.social in Reclamation, from Brief Ecology No. 32 👇 www.briefecology.com/life-after-w...
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Reclamation — Brief Ecology
by Michael Bailey They returned him to Willow as twelve pounds of amended soil in a biodegradable sack, along with a sapling of a western red cedar whose roots had already begun feeding from him. T...
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If you like eco-fiction, you should read this one. It’s very good.
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Everett leaving in pieces again: a bridge fastener, a surgical clamp, a municipal bus carrying strangers who never knew his wrist ached before rain." - @nettirw.bsky.social in Reclamation, from Brief Ecology No. 32 👇 www.briefecology.com/life-after-w...
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Reclamation — Brief Ecology
by Michael Bailey They returned him to Willow as twelve pounds of amended soil in a biodegradable sack, along with a sapling of a western red cedar whose roots had already begun feeding from him. T...
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We have hit our submission quota for the month and are now closed until November. BUT–we are experimenting with short-form poetry. For a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue, write an eco-inspired haiku, use the tag #TheRottingHaiku, and tag us in the post!
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Larkin said green trees Are a kind of grief, but he killed them to say it. #TheRottingHaiku @rottingleafmag.bsky.social
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Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Falling autumn leaves Pass like open submissions For eco haiku
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Markella Paradissis-Healy @markella-ph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pain blooms bright and loud Like fall leaves aglow in death Maybe I am too #TheRottingHaiku @rottingleafmag.bsky.social
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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Milkweed spat Tattoos inked in leaves A skin home #TheRottingHaiku @rottingleafmag.bsky.social
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We have hit our submission quota for the month and are now closed until November. BUT–we are experimenting with short-form poetry. For a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue, write an eco-inspired haiku, use the tag #TheRottingHaiku, and tag us in the post!
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mere rain @mererain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Behind dying leaves the winter of the soul waits I'm afraid of fall #TheRottingHaiku
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We need more weird nature to read. It sustains us.
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The leaves are falling. Soon they'll be rotting. Send some our way. Submissions open tonight at midnight, EST 🍂
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The leaves are falling. Soon they'll be rotting. Send some our way. Submissions open tonight at midnight, EST 🍂
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This issue features our latest piece, Reclamation, by @nettirw.bsky.social 👇🍂
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This issue features our latest piece, Reclamation, by @nettirw.bsky.social 👇🍂
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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our latest issue is here! Life After Waste is a collection of essays, interview, fiction, and poetry, all exploring the concept of ecological waste from different perspectives. Pick up a copy here 🌎 🚮 ♻️ 👇 www.briefecology.com/store/p/life...
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Life After Waste | Brief Ecology #32 (eBook) — Brief Ecology
In This Issue Non-fiction Introduction: Life After Waste | Ben Lockwood Beyond Clean-Ups | Professor Ria Dunkley What it takes to give diapers a life after waste | Dr. Jason Graham-N...
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hi Kamen, we just wanted to let you know that we included this poem in the upcoming issue of @briefecology.bsky.social. If send us your email address we'll get you a free contributor's copy!
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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
COVER REVEAL Our September issue is coming soon
Cover of September issue of Brief Ecology. Image of person carrying garbage bags with text: Life After Waste
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Kamen Nedev @kamen.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
it buzzes, it whines, it hums this ancient EV now a bug hotel /cc @rottingleafmag.bsky.social #TheRotthenHaiku #haiku #ku
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Kamen Nedev @kamen.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
sleepless night before the Chorus at daybreak we sing with the birds /cc @rottingleafmag.bsky.social #TheRottingHaiku #haiku #ku
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Genre is advertising. Market an expression. Sell it to a wide audience. Think of your brand. Think of your angle. Monetize that primordial urge to make sense of the world around you and hope the endless work will pay off in a career that shows just how wise you really are." - Alexia Tiches
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Alexia Tiches on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology
Genre is advertising. Market an expression. Sell it to a wide audience. Think of your brand. Think of your angle. Monetize that primordial urge to make sense of the world around you and hope the endl...
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Genre is advertising. Market an expression. Sell it to a wide audience. Think of your brand. Think of your angle. Monetize that primordial urge to make sense of the world around you and hope the endless work will pay off in a career that shows just how wise you really are." - Alexia Tiches
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Alexia Tiches on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology
Genre is advertising. Market an expression. Sell it to a wide audience. Think of your brand. Think of your angle. Monetize that primordial urge to make sense of the world around you and hope the endl...
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have you read the latest from @rottingleafmag.bsky.social? It’s gross and visceral and very cool 👇
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our August story is now live! "No one will help Carcass. No one will come save her. She yearns to swaddle herself in her decomposing intestines, protection against the world, against Vulture, yet she can’t move." - Alexia Tiches, "Carry On, Carrion" www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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Carry On, Carrion — Brief Ecology
by Alexia Tiches
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is our second piece in a row to feature original artwork from the author. It’s very cool and you should check it out
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our August story is now live! "No one will help Carcass. No one will come save her. She yearns to swaddle herself in her decomposing intestines, protection against the world, against Vulture, yet she can’t move." - Alexia Tiches, "Carry On, Carrion" www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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Carry On, Carrion — Brief Ecology
by Alexia Tiches
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
By technical difficulties we mean that I forgot to reset our submission form. Oops. Send us some stuff to read!
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We had a few technical difficulties this morning, but those have been resolved and we are now open for submissions!
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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We’ve got something new coming soon
Cover of issue 31 of The Eco Update
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hey, I’m part of this. If you’re a fan of weird fiction, worker collectives, or literary experimentation, give us a follow 👇
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Quotidian Unreal is here. What are we? We're a literary experiment. We're an embodiment of the unknown. We're writers, editors, and publishers, all simultaneously. And collectively. We came together to try something new, and we're very, very excited to share it with you soon.
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Academy was founded in 1937, but is also much older. And newer.
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fact: The Academy has a wealth of entrances but a significantly smaller number of exits.
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
we are coming
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Nature is weird and we want to read about it 👇
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Heads up: we open to submissions tonight at midnight, EST
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Just as taking a hike reminds you of the three-dimensionality of life outside the flat plane of your phone screen, good ecofiction reminds us of our place in this broad and bustling world.” Jared Oliver Adams on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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Jared Oliver Adams on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology
Demon Ecofiction: Ecofiction in Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead”
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Just as taking a hike reminds you of the three-dimensionality of life outside the flat plane of your phone screen, good ecofiction reminds us of our place in this broad and bustling world.” Jared Oliver Adams on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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Jared Oliver Adams on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology
Demon Ecofiction: Ecofiction in Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead”
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sand and rice and a guy who is definitely not going to eat your arm whole
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New Fiction: "The Hut Upon the Sands" by Jared Oliver Adams, also featuring original artwork by the author 🍂 www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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The Hut Upon the Sands — Brief Ecology
by Jared Oliver Adams
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New Fiction: "The Hut Upon the Sands" by Jared Oliver Adams, also featuring original artwork by the author 🍂 www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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The Hut Upon the Sands — Brief Ecology
by Jared Oliver Adams
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We've got a new rotting leaf dropping this coming Saturday, but in the meantime don't miss out on our latest by @lynnesargent.bsky.social 🍂 www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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The Once-Green Forest of My Lungs — Brief Ecology
by Lynne Sargent
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We've got a new rotting leaf dropping this coming Saturday, but in the meantime don't miss out on our latest by @lynnesargent.bsky.social 🍂 www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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The Once-Green Forest of My Lungs — Brief Ecology
by Lynne Sargent
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B. Zelkovich is peering out of their cave @bzelkovich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Day 3: "She burrows and invites" by Akis Linardos in @rottingleafmag.bsky.social. Whew, this one goes hard. Bugs and filth and hoarding and toxic masculinity and somehow the bugs are not the grossest part... #StoryADay www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
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She burrows and invites — Brief Ecology
Smoke hisses out of the wrinkled, larva-ridden pomegranates lying under the shadow of their withered tree. The manchild stares at the hole pulling fruit and dirt within, as Mother wails beside. Not u...
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Have you read our latest? It's the perfect read for this heat wave
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 03/07/2026
Today's listing of the day is: Rotting Leaf Mag #WritingCommunity
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Listing of the Day
Today's listing of the day is: Rotting Leaf Mag #WritingCommunity
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey that’s us, and we’re also open right now!
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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We are actually open now! And this is our dedicated Rotting Leaf Bluesky account that you can tag in the future
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