Josh Pearce

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New issue up today, featuring a range of stories, poetry, and non-fiction, and the winners of our art contest. Plus interviews with Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social and Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social #sciencefiction

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Do You Believe in Love After Life? Josh Pearce Reviews The Shrouds David Cronenberg returns to what he does best—uncomfortable medical procedures and filming in Toronto—for his latest scifi horror, The Shrouds. A quieter, more somber affair than his earlier movies…

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the man who was occasionally Gordon Holland

from “Microcosmus of Mystery” by Josh Pearce

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The August @utopiascifi.bsky.social is out!! We're now printing 5 poems/issue and this one features themes of florals and the natural world. Poems from @rkduncan.bsky.social @epapasoulioti.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social Josh Pearce & Kelley Tai!

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Re-upping this recent thread in honor of the #PoetryHugo motion passing.

“The Weather on Other Planets” by Josh Pearce

The music is unbearable.
You wear an earbud tuned to radio static of lightning strikes on Saturn

Four magazine covers all together. Each says "The Skull and Laurel" in a color that matches the art and each displays the tenebrous logo.

Today is the official release of The S&L #4— and the completion of the set of four we'd originally funded!
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀

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hitting you with another weird one. here's SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON in @mythaxis.bsky.social
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"How long would it take to regenerate a lost limb? Well, humans can grow entire bodies in 9 months and if they can do that why bother replacing just an arm?"

“You find artifacts of entire dead civilizations, but you’re just scratching the surface. There are also artifacts of reality. The agency has known about this one for some time, but hasn’t had a place to start before now. If you’re interested, I encoded the map in today’s newspaper.”

Strange days indeed in “Microcosmus of Mystery” by @fictionaljosh.bsky.social

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Another reminder that Mythaxis i42 has been released:

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Thanks to all our contributors, but in particular to @awinterplace.bsky.social and @fictionaljosh.bsky.social (criminally overlooked in my post tagging first time around!)

i42 ToC

Tag, You’re It - Sean MacKendrick
Listen, Don’t Touch - Cheryl Ntumy
Lay-offs - Anna Ziegelhof
Swimming With Elephants - Travis Ezell
The House We Built Together, Yesterday - Charlie Winter
Someday Someone’s Gonna Steal Your Carbon - Josh Pearce
Strange Pictures, by Uketsu - by Bill Ryan

Issue 42 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
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Six new stories in text and audio formats, and reviews too!

Many thanks to @SeanMacKendrick.bsky.social, Cheryl Ntumy, Anna Ziegelhof, Travis Ezell, Charlie Winter, Josh Pearce, @faceyouhate.bsky.social, and Micah Hyatt on voice!

Risky Business: Josh Pearce Reviews Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning Amazing action, convoluted writing. Recommended for the spectacle and the stunts, just don’t expect anything to make much sense. Though the franchise started out as spy-action, over the decad…

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14) Obscurity is a blessing. Don’t ever think otherwise.

Our Jul/Aug issue is on sale now! Pick up a copy to read more great science fiction from David Gerrold, Marie Vibbert, James Dick, Sean Monaghan, and AnLab winners Jay Werkheiser and Frank Wu.

Hey! My poem OUR LADY OF THE ATOM is in the July/August issue of @analogsf.bsky.social and for a short time you can read it online:
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Border Angels, too.

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

oh, your magazine is open for submissions? okay i'm sending you a bunch of horny poems, look out

If you put a Shell station to your ear you can hear the ocean dying

WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in Skull & Laurel #3 (from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social)

A CLOCKWORK GUN in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #35

and of course MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY in Kaleidotrope's latest!

Two pages in a spiral-bound notebook, covered in handwritten scrawl

WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Skull & Laurel came from playing God of War and listening to In the Hall of the Mountain King (here's a version I like: youtu.be/zpUWXz9ptcc). Then I opened a thesaurus, a rhyming dictionary, and etymonline and just followed the sounds

A weird and wonderful volume... that includes my story "The Liminal Space Dating Agency"

handwritten text in a spiral-bound notebook, with most of the lines crossed out

handwritten outline in a spiral-bound notebook. paper shows signs of water damage

handwritten text in a spiral-bound notebook. paper shows signs of water damage

Path to publication for MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY: brainstorming -> outline -> first draft

First sent on submission Sept. '23, and picked up 11 rejections before selling. Read the final product in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social !

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Josh Pearce’s “Witches in Cold Mountain Halls,” in The Skull&Laurel - Issue 003 (from Tenebrous Press) is utterly magnificent. And deeply weird.

Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won’t Bite - Nightmare Magazine This piece comes from a childhood of taking piano lessons. I switched to other instruments after high school, but I still remember how to read sheet music.

I've got a poem out in @nightmare-magazine.com : "Touch This Cancer, It Probably Won't Bite"
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DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero, with a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

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Devil's Right Hand - Johnny Cash
First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen
Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby - Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
Ain't No Grave - Johnny Cash
My Shit's Fucked Up - Warren Zevon!
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