God's Cruel Joke literary magazine

We're kicking off October appropriately with some more Steve Gerson fiction.

"Above, through a moment of cloud break, Georgie thought she saw a star, first a dim white, next flickering pink, then pulsing red, but it disappeared behind a passing cloud."

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We're going subterranean today. Learn about all the complications of having two taints with 'Spelunker' by Tex Gresham and KKUURRTT.

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Read @horrorsong.blog's 'How to Fuck a Genocide' in GCJ5!

"Ascending into a conglomerate, hand over hand, these instantaneous eunuchs devour fetal tissue to build a new city. All roads converge and fail to provide access or egress. All time is an accident."

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THERES GONNA BE REALLY COOL SHIT FOR SALE IN GETTYSBURG IN OCTOBER

Hey sickos, here's your hole

Thanks very much to Lee @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social for his tireless work on this gem of a magazine, and for making space for fucked up art in a culture that sorely needs it.

The cover of speculative erotics Issue 5 with the text: Issue 5 of God's Cruel Joke, SPECULATIVE EROTICS, features art and writing from twenty-seven contributors which explores the farthest thresholds of eroticism. Each piece within is an exercise in rapturous disintegration, blending and meditating on themes of identity, sexuality, technology, faith, war and existence. printed above the cover. There are also links to purchase the book or download the free PDF

Issue #5 of @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social is out today and the theme is speculative erotica, and yes I wrote a story in this one. There’s a paid option and a free download: www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

BUY (or read4free) NOW & get some good sicko shit about recovering from anorexia via divine feederism & gayboy Jesus coming back to blow off a cop’s dick
+++ 26 other filth visionaries

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here!
This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks.
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TODAY!!! Buy it in print or download it (for free???) at the link - www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

SPECULATIVE EROTICS dropping tomorrow!

Last feature this week are fun ones, 3 poems from @malikbtxt.bsky.social .

"my ex asked / “did you ever think you'd come back from your splendid life, walk into your living room and find you had no life left?” / I didn’t at all and now i miss the company"

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Hard to overstate how psyched I am for this issue, no one is doing it like GCJ. Look for my new story "Butterfly Stitch" when this comes out next week--if you think you can stomach it.

Read 'Magnolia Light' from Benjamin Ray Allee!

"Then he looked at me, and in his eyes I saw my own throat slit, my eyes plunged into by greasy thumbs, my stomach bitten by caried teeth. What the hell?"

godscrueljokelit.com/ben-r-allee-magnolia-light

ONE WEEK
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thrilled to have 2 poems in here 🖤 sometimes being a sick freak pays off :)

we in this bitch & by we I mean me, @horrorsong.blog @lormaggot.ca & @probablyharmless.bsky.social together in a
special issue thick enough to bludgeon a twink with

I may have mentioned before that my boyfriend is a bit squeamish, but I was so excited for this one I made a special version for him to read with all the gross stuff cut out.

If you have a stronger stomach, you should buy this book to read the rest. (And much, much more from so many cool folks!!!)

Includes my contribution "How To Fuck A Genocide" in which I explain how to become the word of god in ten easy steps.

It is a pleasure to finally announce that Issue 5 - Speculative Erotics is complete and will be releasing 9/26, with back-to-back bruisers from 27 contributors!
Saying this issue is gnarly is a massive understatement - unprecedented levels of depravity and dissolution.

Read 'The Procedure' by the phenomenal Erin Elizabeth Williams: www.godscrueljokelit.com/erin-e-willi...

"We see hundreds of women in every day for this. It’s a quick in and out. Nothing to worry about, not at all. My own daughter had it done just last year, and she’s never felt better."

Today's new Doughboy piece cuts — 10:19.

"So it goes and goes and goes until it doesn’t. 10:06. He suspects she masturbates in the shower. Often exits more flushed than the heat warrants. He’s not jealous. Just wishes for an invitation."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/doughboy-1019

Gerson refuses to stop sending me gold.

"From the second story, askew in rusted bolts, our family name hung like a victim on a gallows. On the front porch, a menu board memorialized a last meal in partial letters, an acrostic to a past generation's dream."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/steve-gerson-2

"But now the holy strip away the smoke, / the skin, the prayers, the / uneasy past and all the dirt, / besmirching tombs of your forebears. They / release your vanished breath, lay bare - / your shroud-caress, your laughter / trapped in stone."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/a-w-earl-2-p...

"These feathered, airborne rats caused trouble throughout the town, but there was something peculiar about my position, perhaps the proximity of the church tower, which offered them the perfect launch point from where they could orchestrate their raids."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/jeremy-dixon...

3 very short and very very good flash fictions today from Caleb Weinhardt.

"He was covered in it, that’s what I remember. Like iridescent scales all over his body. It made the flashing nightclub lights shimmer off of him through the haze."

www.godscrueljokelit.com/caleb-weinha...

2 new pieces up today at God's Cruel Joke @godscrueljokelp.bsky.social. Thanks, as always, to Lee Pearson for supporting and publishing my work. Check them out!

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Busted link in original post cos I'm a dumbass.
Read Joshua Martin here: godscrueljokelit.com/joshua-marti...

Two heavy experiments today from @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social!
These bad bois hit like a pair of bricks to the dome.

'for the confined, improperly intent, even virtually afflicted' & 'chewed, clenched against a sagging face, opened up to reveal the exit'

www.godscrueljokelit.com/joshua-marti...

"Now, the question prying on my mind is where to get ‘really hot red lipstick.’ Gwyneth Paltrow calls it ‘the essence of beauty.’"

Jingling the Jackass, or How Dr. Danforth Löwengruber Got “Really Hot Red Lipstick” in Terre Bleue, Missouri
by Peter Geier

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