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Weird friends! It's publication day for the beautiful grotesquerie that is Weird Horror 10! An unbelievably stacked ToC! Provocative and transcendent fiction. Head on over to our site and grab a print or digital copy. Indie publishing can use your support. Thank you! www.weirdhorrormagazine.com

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Joining a union is one of the sickest things you can do. It immediately levels up your cool factor. 10x your street cred overnight

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ergot. work of the day: 'PLEASE COME TO ME' by Masma Dream World masmadreamworld.bandcamp.com/album/please...

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"No, stay inside, press your ear upon the door and seek those sounds without, can you make them out? Those shrieks are building, they are no longer kept at bay, perhaps I have gone after all..." Today on ergot.: 'Do You See' by Zachary Gary www.ergot.press/authors/Zach...

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seeing too many posts regarding the boycott from authors panicking about nobody buying their books because they only distribute through amazon. I would love to suggest taking today to ponder the nightmarish reality of allowing the biggest corporation in the world to hold your art hostage.

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"Who had done it; or is it whose who had done the doing, or will do it, beginning at the end as we do there has yet to be a doing done." Today on ergot.: 'Do You See' by Zachary Gary www.ergot.press/authors/Zach...

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Tomorrow on ergot.: a new hear here from Zachary Gary.

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▪️ stone-held secrets ▪️

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Oops, thought I'd filled both 2025 issues of Weird Horror. I am 8k words shy in issue 11 (Fall). Instead of opening for a full month for 2 slots I am open today til Feb. 28, end of day. No reprints. 5k words max. 2-cents per word. Simul subs okay. Send to weirdhorrormag (at) gmail (dot) com

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We must keep the graves walled off to prevent them spreading.

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Working on longer stories in a time of shrinking word limits

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I read "Alabama Circus Punk" by @thomasha.bsky.social. Solid worldbuilding and playing with perceptions in a shaorter story. Published by @ergot.bsky.social

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Last up this ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY: contributor @inauthenticity.bsky.social ‬ 's piece "A Haunting" was published in @ergot.bsky.social !! For an extra eerie evening, you can find it here: https://buff.ly/4gNPxC9

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"I think you’ll prefer everything neat, defined, bounded. When we see each other next, I want to hear how very much you like it." Today on ergot.: 'Eclipsing' by Jason Baltazar ( jasonbaltazar.com ) www.ergot.press/authors/Jaso...

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"This is my faith: When we observe something long enough, with focused intention, observer and observed blend together. This is my faith." Today on ergot.: 'Eclipsing' by Jason Baltazar (jasonbaltazar.com) www.ergot.press/authors/Jaso...

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This is your new house.

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“How the fuck have these highly-driven ghouls become so ubiquitous in our scene? Who gave them a pass? They have no idea of how writing works, and what they preach is just banal tripe, so who actually benefits from their grift?” Read Sdrigotti’s righteous rant. open.substack.com/pub/fernando...

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death to the careerists

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Ok, my next @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy is on Drone. It needs to be historical, definitive... educational? 😶 W. Basinski, E. Radigue, Earth, K. Drumm, P. Oliveros, T. Hecker, SunnO)))??? Any help appreciated. What r your fave drone long players? Best submissions will be quoted in the mag.

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To many Americans who live in the middle of nowhere (as I have for most of my life), DC politics can seem like a soap opera filmed in another country. It's tragically easy to forget about our collective reliance on the federal government for regulations, benefits, protections that keep us alive.

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I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

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Tomorrow on ergot.: a new eclipse from Jason Baltazar (jasonbaltazar.com)

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"In allowing others to choose our faiths for us... We view the choices of others as the groundwork, take that faith for granted, and build our worlds atop those choices without ever once choosing to question the decisions made by others, or why those faiths were formed.”

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Whatever this thing is by Barry Charman it’s amazing. ergot puts out some incredible, genuinely experimental and offbeat fiction man, read this and let it seep into your dreams.

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There is weird fiction everywhere for those with the eyes to see

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I am starting a newsletter! I intend for the first post to be about how to get started submitting your work--and the connections between publishing and the motivation to finish work. Sign up ahead of time if you would like to get that one. christi-nogle.kit.com/a0aa447dc5

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now in Garden Scenery, for subscribers only, a story about a bus ride of great importance

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Grotesque apparition

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Recently I've been writing stories with very long sentences, mostly about death. This is one of those, but also about a terrible Italian horror movie from the 80s that I have somehow fallen in love with. Enjoy!

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"It was as if he were watching someone’s attempt, however clumsy, to put to film the details of a buried but recurring dream which he was only now beginning to remember..." Today on ergot.: 'A Haunting' by James Tadd Adcox ( @inauthenticity.bsky.social ) www.ergot.press/authors/Jame...

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"Late in his life, long after he’d stopped being afraid of monsters in the dark, he found himself haunted by a certain movie..." Today on ergot.: 'A Haunting' by James Tadd Adcox ( @inauthenticity.bsky.social ) www.ergot.press/authors/Jame...

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Tomorrow on ergot.: a new cinematic memory from James Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social

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If you'd like an epub ARC of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion (my strange Southern Gothic debut novel with @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social) to write a review, please DM me! A classic country song to whet your appetite: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRC...

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after a 4 year hiatus, New Session, the telnet literary magazine, is returning for a third issue, this summer this will be the first issue of New Session to present interactive stories; the theme is Adaptations and the stories themselves will adapt read more and submit here: anewsession.com/issue3

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New work coming this Friday/Valentine's Day at @ergot.bsky.social, keep an 👁️ out

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"And the man, now less a distinct creature than a host for the Idea, continued proselytizing apace...Spread its gospel to even the farthest, formerly Idea-forsaken, corners of the globe." Today on ergot.: 'A Short History of An Idea' by Jon Doughboy www.ergot.press/authors/Jon_...

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"The man first glimpsed the Idea in all its seductive splendor as it sashayed down an alley behind his favorite jazz club. Hello, stranger." Today on ergot.: 'A Short History of an Idea' by Jon Doughboy www.ergot.press/authors/Jon_...

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Tomorrow on ergot.: a new dance with the Ideal (and Jon Doughboy).

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Here’s a special Black History Month edition of my perpetual quest: what are the upcoming weird/horror/sf/fantasy short story collections by Black authors that I should try to get and review?

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"Every man has some errant want inside him, something that's just plain wrong."

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“the Gawain Poet, Shirley Jackson, and now, Ivy Grimes!”

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Throwing this one out and hoping: Does anyone have a referral on a small run newspaper press? A place that runs an actual newspaper press, printing on actual newsprint, that will do relatively small jobs of just a few bundles, for eg props for a movie or play, or as a promotional item.

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Submissions are coming in fast and furious. We love to see it. As with all venues, make sure to do the following before submitting: - Read a few pieces from the archive, available for free and found here: www.ergot.press/authors - Read the submission guidelines: www.ergot.press/about

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Absolutely unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but if you'd like to vote for my story "The End of the Middle" in the Apex Magazine's Reader's Choice poll, I will not stop you.

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I think we can be pretty confident that all this this shit is going to continue until we decide we’ve had enough

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now in Garden Scenery, for all readers, a story about a lumber yard

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Just letting you folks know I'm reading fiction subs for The Dodge again starting March 1, looking to fill out our summer and fall issues. Send me something. And I'm talking to you, now.

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