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"The money was good. It was good enough. I had college debt. I was still paying off expenses from my mother’s funeral. The money was good, but it was never enough." Today on ergot.: 'Camera Operator Wanted: No Experience Necessary' by Andrew Kozma @andrewkozma.net www.ergot.press/authors/Andr...

All its limbs are wrong, its body warped all to hell, its edges distorted and blurry like a half-forgotten memory. LOCKED UP by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Scott_Locked

We'll be closing submissions Tuesday 27OCT to catch up on the queue. All existing submissions, and anything sent before 0000PT 27OCT, will be considered. Anything sent after 0000PT 27OCT - and before we open again - will be deleted unread. Closure should only last a week or two.

Tomorrow on ergot.: doing some killer gig work with Andrew Kozma @andrewkozma.net

Look, I will never write my fiction as if you're the customer. Forget about that. For one thing, nobody's paying me enough, and for another, more importantly, we're meeting on the page as equals in this very private, intimate endeavor of being human and being weird.

Kicking off Halloween season at @apconmag.bsky.social with a tale of learning too much about your friends and neighbors and their unearthly habits. Hope you’ll give it a look and follow along with the rest of this series. www.apocalypse-confidential.com/shadowboxland/

Addison just does not miss

i currently have three things i'm excited about but 🤐 2/3 of them should be public by the end of October though!

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... The Bear — Imogen Clarke minorliteratures.com/2026/10/13/t... “We’re trying to give to Berliners and to the world a sense of what’s being thought about here and how”: an interview with The Auflauf — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/10/15/w...

and coming up this week ... extracts from: - PROSE SCRAPS by Kent Kosak - JÉRÔME by Jean-Pierre Martinet (tr. @jsief.bsky.social )

"A greedy rabble coagulates at the shore. Jostling. Soaked to the knees. Sifting white-bellied ore through laundry baskets, milk crates, the tines of metal rakes." Today on ergot.: 'Snap of Electric Fish' by Paul Edmonds www.ergot.press/authors/Paul...

Tomorrow on ergot.: some shocking role reversals from Paul Edmonds: www.pauledmondsfiction.com

ergot. work of the day: 'Blonder Tongue Audio Baton' by Swirlies (1993) swirlies.bandcamp.com/album/blonde...

The Cenobite, who has a bong grotesquely incorporated into her body, holds out the 10,000 mg edible. She is not asking.

Who up obstructing they miasma

sorry but the ghost story you wrote is too sad. what if it was about an alive person instead :) and the importance of family :D

i know i keep saying "this might be my weirdest story yet" but this time i swear it's true. check out SEX MAGGOTS, free to read in @ergot.bsky.social ! www.ergot.press/authors/Josh...

I just watched FALLING STARS. Its low-key excellent. An intriguing premise, they build a small world around it and just go for broke. An inventive take on witch folklore. Recommended.

"Clutching the bouquet of sewer rats, Thalia called into the dark, to the ones who were midwifed by corpses, who entangled their passion with corpses, who ate meals prepared by corpses." Today on ergot.: 'Sex Maggots' by Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Josh...

"Have we done something wrong?" Silvanus fretted...None of the usual pollen wasps alighted on his outthrust hips, and only a few insectile legs tickled the insides of Thalia's thighs, disappointingly. Today on ergot. 'Sex Maggots' by @fictionaljosh.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Josh...

Today's announcements: after-school activities today will take place in flames, your parents have been notified of your intent to ask Stacy to the Homecoming Dance, and please ignore the body in locker 451. You will find the locker code written on the back page of your current textbook. Ignore it.

Today's question for consideration: It feels like there’s pressure in both literary and genre fiction to write about “important topics.” Is there a way to offer readers escapism and depth at the same time, though? ivygrimes.substack.com/p/dear-ivy-w...

I was talking to my friend Mae today about how I wish more people cared about and read short stories. A great short story will take only twenty minutes to read but stick with you for twenty years. Wildly powerful artform! What's a short story that fits that description for y'all?

For my Liminal Horror fans, here’s a photo I took of the abandoned dollar store down the street from my home.

Somehow managed to completely forget that I had a new story out in this month’s issue of The Dark.

ergot. is taking another break this week, but we'll be back next week with new work.

It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6

hey if Anyone You Knew.....Anyone At All....wrote some Weird fiction you thought was at once Brave and New in this past year....you should probably submit their story for this award........

Wow! I'm so honored!!!!

Alright you mooks. It's October. The busy season. Time to lock the fuck in.

... save the date: Tuesday, November 10th Paris Gerry Feehily Camille Kingué Daisy Lafarge more details soon ...

Let’s face it: Music sucks. We hate listening to it. Most of us would go our whole lives without experiencing any music at all if we could. Well what if there was an easier way

today in Garden Scenery, a poem

Mysterious monoliths make for poor carving material

Inside the issue, you can also find links to Francis's work in @ergot.bsky.social and CRAFT Literary, as well as notes on why they think you should check out work by Mariana Enríquez and E.Y. Zhao.

It's time for my regularly-scheduled membership drive: ivygrimes.substack.com/p/the-new-se...

There's no new story up on ergot. today but check out our archive or some of the new work from our past contributors that we're reposting today.