Josh Pearce

Josh Pearce

@fictionaljosh.bsky.social

stories, poems, & reviews—most recently in Crooked Spine, The Daily Tomorrow, ergot., Horrific Scribes, and Locus. fictionaljosh.com

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Josh Pearce
@fictionaljosh.bsky.social

Lovely spotlight reviews of some of my weirdest pieces! Big thanks to @emmiechristie33.bsky.social for doing these and to @inkfoundry.bsky.social for hosting them! Check out the full thread for 14! free-to-read! stories! and an author interview!

Emmie Christie@emmiechristie33.bsky.social

And lastly, my Spotlight review for Josh Pearce! @fictionaljosh.bsky.social I'll be taking a two week break as I finish the rough draft of my novel. Looking forward to reviewing more then!! www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...

emmiechristie.comWriter Spotlight: Josh Pearce — Emmie ChristieWelcome to the 16th installment of Writer Spotlight. This week’s focus is Josh Pearce . I’ve reviewed 14 of Pearce’s pieces, all of them individually on Inkfoundry’s “Get WYSR” feed. (In case you...
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Josh Pearce
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for some print #weirdfiction, be sure to pick up an issue of Interzone #305, featuring my story THE SPIDER AT THE HEART OF IT interzone.press/iz-305/ and The Skull & Laurel #3, which has my epic dungeon crawler narrative poem WITCHES IN COLD MOUNTAIN HALLS! store.tenebrouspress.com/products/the...

interzone.pressINTERZONE #305In this issue: stories by E.G. Condé, Rachael Cupp, Mame Bougouma Diene, Josh Pearce, Ben Tufnell, Corey Jae White, and Rebecca Zahabi; columns by Alexander Glass, Una McCormack, Val Nolan, and Aliya ...
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Josh Pearce
@fictionaljosh.bsky.social

New movie review for @locusmag.bsky.social I've used Nine Inch Nails lyrics as titles for three of my movie reviews before, but this is the first time I actually get to talk about NIN music! TRON: ARES review: locusmag.com/review/all-y...

locusmag.comAll Your Bass Are Belong to Us: Josh Pearce Reviews Tron: AresTron: Ares, the new Nine Inch Nails visual album, is best experienced on the biggest screen with the loudest sound system available. You want to feel it throbbing in your brain, you want to feel it…

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Crooked Spine Press
@crookedspinepress.com

📢💀 Last Exit is out today and available in print and as an ebook! Issue Three includes twelve stories of American horror. Thank you to the writers who trusted us with their work and to everyone supporting the press. You can order a copy through the link in our bio.

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neotl
@ctrlcreep.bsky.social

As usual, poetry inverts prose. Write sober, edit high; chemicals may bring violent salience to rhyme, to rhythm, to disharmonies and pattern

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jonny
@misterbloat.bsky.social

More faves of 2026 so far from other mags: A Dirge for the Mirrorbirds - Emily C. Skaftun (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) Scion - Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld) Atomic Chess - Josh Pearce (Bourbon Penn) Foreign Objects - Karlo Yeager Rodríguez (Typebar) Please Turn on Your Magic Beam - Orrin Grey (The Dark)

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ergot. has published several of the best stories of the year so far imo. Valediction - Jason Baltazar Sisyphus, Bound - David Stevens Late Bloomer - Ian Kappos The Professor of Desire Presents - Anneke Schwob Rolliecoaster Meadow - J F Gleeson Read the archive, it's full of gems.

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jonny
@misterbloat.bsky.social

Sometimes a story perfectly reifies a specific feeling I have about moving through life. Fiction at its best, an art that gives form to something nebulous inside you and makes it feel solid. "Please Turn on Your Magic Beam" by Orrin Grey was that for me. Sad, beautiful, deeply profound horror.

thedarkmagazine.comPlease Turn on Your Magic Beam - The Dark MagazineIt’s a dark and stormy night, and the residents of the Castle Arms apartments are watching a scary movie. On the small, bulbous screens of their television sets, a killer stalks in scratchy chiaroscur...

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Cursed Morsels
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social

"Our Dope Future" by Tony Tulathimutte is wild, y'all. Tulathimutte perfectly captures the sort of batshit entrepreneurial manosphere chud I hope to never encounter in person. joylandpublishing.com/fiction/our-...

joylandpublishing.comOur Dope FutureWaddap! So this is sort of a long one, but I figured all you good folks might help me get a couple things straight that have been nagging at me recently. I (37M) am a serial entrepreneur, inventor, an...

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Josh Pearce
@fictionaljosh.bsky.social

ATOMIC CHESS (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/ato...) my new submarine/chess story in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social features the same shadow organization previously found in UNNAMED GOVERNMENT AGENCY (www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/21/unn...) and in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social (kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/s...)

bourbonpenn.comJosh Pearce > Atomic Chess > Bourbon PennCold, damp bones; a hard cot too short for his aching back; prostate problems. The old physicist ran through the litany every morning: claustrophobic corridors; smell of engine grease; the head consta...

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Josh Pearce
@fictionaljosh.bsky.social

THE SPIDER AT THE HEART OF IT may very well be one of my weirdest stories yet. It's got a sexy snail lady in it! I get to use the word "escargatoire"! The Goddess of the Moon shoots down oneirockets with her cannons! You can read it in Interzone #305: interzone.press/iz-305/

Josh Pearce
@fictionaljosh.bsky.social

I just finished reading it and this book is good

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

You all may not have heard since I talk about it so rarely, but I wrote a novel. It's very good. Of course I would say that, but if I hadn't written it, I would still be obliged by hater's code to admit that that that uppity-ass quirk chungus bitch actually wrote a great novel.

littlepuss.netPlastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss PressA time-skipping quick-quipping trans romantasy supernova! "An utterly essential, astounding new voice." —Charlie Jane Anders