Josh Pearce

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places” Fiction “Singularities” by Cressida Roe “The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox “Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos “What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris “Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti “My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity “What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen “The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed Poetry “Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens “Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon “Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce “I have been to the market” by Shana Ross “Atomic” by Jennifer Crow “Bedazzled” by Robert Borski “Bestla” by James Joseph Brown Artwork by Carly A-F

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

“Injustice requires a witness / or else, did it ever even happen?” Explore @fictionaljosh.bsky.social’s “Lacus Odii (Lake of Hate),” out now in Issue 9.

Read it now on our website—bit.ly/4kjY1no

Issue 9 author @fictionaljosh.bsky.social does some interesting things with structure in "Buttons and Soap." The text inside and outside the parentheses can be read separately or together, each reading revealing its own story.

Read "Buttons and Soap" here: www.radonjournal.com

Bourbon Penn 35 Stories by Benjamin Parzybok, Steve Toase, Margaret Roach, Josh Pearce, Gretchen Tessmer, Andrew Zhou, and Jennifer Hykes. Cover art by Lisa Lach-Nielsen.

Bourbon Penn 35 is live with brand new stories by Benjamin Parzybok, Steve Toase, Margaret Roach, Josh Pearce, Gretchen Tessmer, Andrew Zhou, and Jennifer Hykes.

@sparkwatson.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @margaretroach.bsky.social @fictionaljosh.bsky.social

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…

Risky Business: Josh Pearce Reviews Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning locusmag.com/2025/06...

“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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Issue 42 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/

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!

“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

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…

Do You Believe in Love After Life? Josh Pearce Reviews The Shrouds locusmag.com/2025/07...

August 2025 | UtopiaScienceFiction August 2025, Vol. 7 Issue 1 Content EditorialLetter from the Editor by Tristan Evarts InterviewsMatthew HolnessPaolo Bacigalupi Short StoriesSylvester is an Asshole and Must Die by Calie VoorhisDamage...

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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Long Live the New Flesh! Josh Pearce Reviews Together “Ew, kissing,” is what my youngest says whenever he sees it happening in front of him. Oh yeah, buddy, you think that’s gross? Wait till you’re old enough to watch this movi…

Long Live the New Flesh! Josh Pearce Reviews Together

Word cloud of 579 different words

There are 7 poems in the new Kaleidotrope and 579 different words between them.

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Fiction “Singularities” by Cressida Roe “The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice “The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox “Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos “What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris “Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti “My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity “What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen “The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen “Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed Poetry “Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens “Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon “Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce “I have been to the market” by Shana Ross “Atomic” by Jennifer Crow “Bedazzled” by Robert Borski “Bestla” by James Joseph Brown Artwork by Carly A-F

There are so many amazing stories and poems in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope!

The Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope also features amazing new poems by Chris Clemens, @mimulus.bsky.social, @fictionaljosh.bsky.social, @shanaross.bsky.social, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, Robert Borski, and @jamesjosephbrown.bsky.social!

Drumroll for our Best of the Net nominees

@virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social @andrewkozma.net @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @fictionaljosh.bsky.social @thomasbehan.bsky.social @haywall.bsky.social

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.

and you can read some of my poems from this year for free in

@nightmare-magazine.com
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@radonjournal.bsky.social
www.radonjournal.com/issue9/lacus...
& www.radonjournal.com/issue9/butto...

and @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
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whatever, fuck that dead fascist. in other good news, i've got new poetry coming out soon in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social (Lacus Solitudinis) and New Myths (Friendship 1)

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I have written many stories. They are inside this book, TALISNAM. Read it, and it will always be part of you!

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

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August 2025 | UtopiaScienceFiction August 2025, Vol. 7 Issue 1 Content EditorialLetter from the Editor by Tristan Evarts InterviewsMatthew HolnessPaolo Bacigalupi Short StoriesSylvester is an Asshole and Must Die by Calie VoorhisDamage...

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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the man who was occasionally Gordon Holland

from “Microcosmus of Mystery” by Josh Pearce

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

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
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/som...

"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?"

Another reminder that Mythaxis i42 has been released:

mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/

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

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.