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Flyer for Always Crashing Reading and Performance Series at Comfort Station, 2579 N Milwaukee Ave. Event on 12/13/25, 7-9 PM. Readers: Moni Garcia, Anne K. Yoder, Benjamin Niespodziany. Performers: Twilight Furniture, Jacob Stovall, Wolf3000. Free, all ages.

Always Crashing Reading and Performance Series / Chicago / 13 Dec 2025, 7pm / Comfort Station, 2579 Milwaukee / See you there

I feel like it is important to let you know that tomorrow we will be publishing a poem called "Ass-Up in the Garden [Missouri Pastoral 69]"

(It is a very good poem)

greater honeyguide, by fraufraulein 5 track album

ergot. work of the day: 'Greater Honeyguide' by Fraulfraulein

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it is breathing

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"Moth (standing):
I want to choose different.

Dirt:
There is no different.

Moth:
There exists small choices.

Dirt:
If you wish to believe."

Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social

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Moth:
The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning.

Dirt:
And what about it?

Moth:
The sky used to hardly swallow anything.

Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...

How many products have to “enshitify” before we question if it’s the system itself and not individual people that are responsible? How much of the environment has to be wrecked, how many people unhoused, how many jobless, how many without healthcare, before we realize the problem is capitalism?

Niche request, but does anyone have any Tubi original horror recommendations? I’ve found these to have some hidden gems

Tomorrow on ergot.: just two old friends chatting in the sun with Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social

Figure from Global Carbon Budget depicting the rise in CO2 emissions from 1990-2025

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use are predicted to rise 1.1% in 2025, putting a record high 38.1 Gt of CO2 into the atmosphere. It has never been more clear that we can't continue to rely on the logic of capitalism and expect this problem to resolve itself.

Dawn at an industrial yard, red and white tugboat up on an orange-painted whirley crane

Meteorological winter this, astronomical winter that. It’s float coat season baby

"Franz Kafka once called his writing a form of prayer. He also reprimanded the long-suffering Felice Bauer in a letter: 'I did not say that writing ought to make everything clearer, but instead makes everything worse; what I said was that writing makes everything clearer and worse.'" —Joy Williams

🥹😿 Please buy these books so they’re not on my floor anymore. Thank you.

Cat is out of the bag.

All proceeds go to paying contributors.

Of the Lovers | Issue 33 By Addison Zeller — "They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently, it is to be supposed, in a slow lateral glide along the surface of the...

A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
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I am, as always, taking suggestions and heads ups and etc from publishers and authors and unassociated but interested parties.

Sometimes writing a story is so easy and sometimes it's really hard and I truly don't know why.

And you wouldn't believe which stories I just pooped out really fast versus those I labored over like a terrible alien pregnancy.

Anyway, this one is a hard one and I'm very tired.

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SHRIKE. ~4.4k words. published in @ergot.bsky.social. gothic rot, narrative distortions, true crime survivor rage, sadomasochistic gay speculative erotics, frat house murders, the occult, obsession; my most experimental piece from this year & maybe the one i'm most proud of

SARP SOZDINLER / FISTLIKE MOUTH AND ROTATING THOUGHTS — always crashing She goes over the list of men she’s hooked up with over the past nine months: The guy who worked the ice-cream truck in Elmhurst Park. The redheaded Subway cashier who had a constellation of pimples...

"Solar Temple. Adam House. Jonestown. So many dead people, most with no names."

>>> "Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts" by Sarp Sozdinler (@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social) >>> New today at AC

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"Mother says we can resume our prior living arrangement (and Movie Night, poor Mother) when I’ve gone one month without an emission. I can understand her point of view, of course."

Today on ergot.: 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....

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"Mother found the Life Ledger yesterday. I heard her stop her cleaning, and she came to the laundry room to ask me what it was. I told her, of course – there’s no fooling Mother..."

Today on ergot 'The Life Ledger' by W.T. Laverack @wtlaverack.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/W.T....

crucks. oil painting on linen, 2020

Thrilled to announce the White House has asked me to come up with an unemployment rate for this month. It’s probably like 5% or something? Ballpark. Anyway, feel free to put that in the news. Cheers.

Thomas Ha 2025 Eligibility List Collection UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES Novelette "Uncertain Sons," Undertow Short Story "In My Country," Clarkesworld "The Cephalophore," The Dark "Old Wells," 3LBE "Cry, the Carob King," BCS "The Patron," Sunday Morning Transport

2025 Eligibility List

passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.

undertow publications 2025 award eligibility Short Story Collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, by Thomas Ha Magazines/Periodicals Artists Non-Fiction Weird Horror #10 Weird Horror #11 Ove Tøpfer Valin Mattheis MK Cooper Shikhar Dixit “Transcendence in Horror” by Simon Strantzas “Gargoyles, Grotesques, Monster Toys” by Orrin Grey “The Four Quadrants” by Simon Strantzas “Tokusatsu Terror” by Orrin Grey (From issues 10 & 11 of Weird Horror) Short Stories “St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls” by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece “In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful” by Spencer Nitkey “Her Alberta” by Malcolm Devlin “Silver Wires and Sweet Water” by Alexander James “Nothing Good Without a Price” by Martin Cahill “Scratch Dinner” by Françoise Harvey “The Waite People” by Meg Elison “Seven Cups” by Rebecca Kuder “No Light in The Trees” by John Patrick Higgins From Weird Horror #10 “The Start of Something” by David Demchuk “Invasive Species” by Mary Kuryla “A Cruelty” by Rory Say “Another Mother Again” by Cyan Katz “Wine-Dark Eyes” by Juniper White “We Dwell in Its Many-Chambered Heart” by A.C. Wise “Dark Water” by Andrew Humphrey “Foreword to Occult Methods of Investigation” by David Peak “The God of Rust” by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece “We Didn’t Used to Be Like This” by Jack Klausner From Weird Horror #11 Anthology The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, edited by Michael Kelly Novelette Uncertain Sons, by Thomas Ha Undertow Publications is eligible in the Professional, and Non-Professional award categories Michael Kelly is eligible in Best Editor categories Weird Horror magazine is eligible in Best Semi-Prozine/Periodical categories

Our 2025 award eligibility post! If you've liked anything we've done this year, please consider it in your recommendations.

Thank you for your generous consideration.

A fraternity massacre births rewritten history, a supernatural entity, and a survivor obsessed with both. Two bog bodies ponder their star-crossed love. A chronically ill house consumes its unwilling, equally unwell tenant. A housewife discovers she's made of several million ticks—but only after they leak from her new nipple piercings. The stories in Gore Poetics explore intimacy and annihilation through visceral, wet prose. Samir Sirk Morató makes a name for themself as a master of strange, erotic, and transgressive horror in this stunning debut collection.

A little preview of how fucking cool Gore Poetics is going to be. Can't wait to publish this one next year.

This is gonna be great. @spicycloaca.bsky.social is a Brave New Weird award winner, an incredible writer, & a hell of an interior art designer for THE SKULL & LAUREL magazines to boot🖤☠️

Hey, if you have an MM (especially SF, fantasy, and horror) book out in 2026, let me know!

Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova stay for a moment hey november as slipping through your fingers but moving on movement tilts a stroke of time moving as it is one after another which blows statues as if immune to others for you ha…

"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..."

ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova

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