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A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
Have you read this one yet? It’s very cool and strange and only a little fucked up we promise 👇
"'Down here, you.'
Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish."
- @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"
If publishing weird, unsettling, horrific pieces of ecofiction is wrong, then I don’t want to be right
A friendly reminder to HWA members, tomorrow is the last day to vote on the Stoker Award Ballot!
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I have a new one out ✨
"'Down here, you.'
Feminine voice. Seductive rasp. The manchild kneels over the hole, carefully avoiding the blackened earth. An insect skitters the hole’s rim—beetle body, but a drooping antenna carries a bulb reminding him of angler fish."
- @linardos.bsky.social in "She Burrows and Invites"
It's Friday and you deserve a distraction from The Horrors. Check out these horrors instead
Take a break from The Horrors by sending us some different horrors to read
Get your dead forests and grassland corpses ready, we open to submissions at midnight (EST)!
Get your dead forests and grassland corpses ready, we open to submissions at midnight (EST)!
Did you know that you could read a free ghost story in @rottingleafmag.bsky.social?
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
#ecohorror #shortstory #ghoststory
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80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey
80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear
80% off is a going out of business sale
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Have you read our February piece from K.M. Greyburn, yet? You should.
Have you read our February piece from K.M. Greyburn, yet? You should.
"Through a gap in the barn wall a coyote’s amber eye tracks me. The feral gaze clashes with the smell of old hay and dust, the wild peering into the mundane."
This month from The Rotting Leaf: "The Find" by K.M. Greyburn
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
Chocolate and flowers are OUT
Visceral, gruesome metamorphoses from Scavenger to Hunter are IN
This Valentine's Day, give your loved one what they really want: a strange, horrific tale of transformation.
The Find, by K.M. Greyburn 🐺🫀👇
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
If you like a bit of body horror with your ecofiction, this very cool piece delivers the goods.
"Through a gap in the barn wall a coyote’s amber eye tracks me. The feral gaze clashes with the smell of old hay and dust, the wild peering into the mundane."
This month from The Rotting Leaf: "The Find" by K.M. Greyburn
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
It's always a bit jarring when I'm birdwatching and I spot a bird with tiny binoculars staring right at me crossing "big nerd" off his list.
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
"Seared by its attentions, they understood this knowing mind for the pressure they’d felt for what, now, seemed a span of hours becoming days becoming weeks becoming, becoming."
Today on ergot.: 'Valediction' by Jason Baltazar @jasonbaltazar.bsky.social
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“Our motives are as opaque to a tree as the tree’s motives are to us. And yet we are surrounded by them” - @jsdouglas.bsky.social on ecofiction
Read the full essay 👇🍂
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This essay was a lot of fun to write, I hope you enjoy it!
“Our motives are as opaque to a tree as the tree’s motives are to us. And yet we are surrounded by them” - @jsdouglas.bsky.social on ecofiction
Read the full essay 👇🍂
www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...
We've got a new rotten leaf dropping soon, but in the meantime, make sure you don't miss last month's "When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In" by @jsdouglas.bsky.social
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We hit our submission quota and are now closed until March! Very much looking forward to reading all these weird natures
We are currently open to submissions! Send us your rotten ecosystems and haunted biomes
Submissions to The Rotting Leaf open at midnight (EST)
"There’s this idea that you never actually see the present. By the time your brain catches up to what your eyes saw, the present has already passed. I guess it’s not even a theory."
Today on ergot.: 'True Circle' by Austin Goodmanson
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