Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine

Everyone admires a good tea ...

-from "Your Guide to the Four Blends of Penumbral Faeryland Tea ..." by M. E. Garber, in August's #Penumbric (https://www.penumbric.com/...

#amreading #fiction #horror #prose #HorrorFamily #WritingCommunity

06:16 PM - Aug 15, 2023

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Have you read our #interview with Lenore Sagaskie yet? You know what I'm gonna say...

https://www.penumbric.com/... or pdf https://www.penumbric.com/...

#amreading #WritingCommunity #filmmakers #fantasy #horror #novels #films #saturdayreads

Interview with Lenore Sagaskie, first page

02:36 PM - Aug 12, 2023

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#Saturday #art series from the June issue of #Penumbric : "Shadows" by Christina Sng, at https://www.penumbric.com/... or pdf https://www.penumbric.com/... p. 67)

#amreading #horror #artist #SelfPromoSaturday #magazine #HorrorCommunity

11:57 AM - Aug 05, 2023

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rabid moonbeats
become fancy
become flight

-from "the darkest art" by Megan Denese Mealor, in June's #Penumbric (https://www.penumbric.com/... or pdf https://www.penumbric.com/... )

#Poetry #Poet #poem #horror #HorrorCommunity

07:17 PM - Aug 04, 2023

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Fed up, she curls her fingers around the alien
rib, resects the offensive bone from her torso.

-from "Date Night" by Mariel Herbert, in June's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/...

#amreading #Poetry #Poet #poem #myth #mythic #magazine

05:34 PM - Aug 03, 2023

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I notice one glimmer of light
flare up just before me in the void

-from "Adventure in the Dark of the Mind" by Melissa Ridley Elmes, in June's #Penumbric (https://www.penumbric.com/...

#amreading #Poetry #poem #horror #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity #magazine

01:26 PM - Jul 31, 2023

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Saturday #art for you from June's #Penumbric ! "Shadow Man" by Sydnie Beaupré, at https://penumbric.com/curr... and pdf https://penumbric.com/curr... (p.62)

#artist #horror #SelfPromoSaturday #amreading #magazine #HorrorCommunity

03:45 PM - Jul 29, 2023

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Saturday #horror #art ! "Radioaspiration" by Desmond Rhae, in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/... and https://www.penumbric.com/...

#HorrorArt #artist #SaturdayVibes #amreading

05:50 AM - Apr 22, 2023

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In time I'd run everything, firing his heart, timing his respirations, and deciding when to evacuate his bowels.

-from "The Ultimate Dying Machine" by Sonny Zae, in Feb's #Penumbric , now in our free archives at https://www.penumbric.com/...

#scifi #ShortStories

08:16 AM - Apr 17, 2023

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Oh yes, #Penumbric accepts #animation as well! Check out "A Full Bowl" by A.P. Sessler in the Feb issue: https://penumbric.com/arch... (or as a comic: https://penumbric.com/arch... p 60)

#amreading #horror #art #artist #magazine

11:28 AM - Apr 14, 2023

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It's alive!!! The April issue of #Penumbric is online! You can find it at:

https://www.penumbric.com/...
https://www.penumbric.com/...

Yay! 🥰

#amreading #scifi #fantasy #horror #Poetry #ShortStories #art #artists #poets #writers #magazine

06:08 AM - Apr 10, 2023

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Is it an Easter egg to have a #coverreveal the day before Easter? Maybe an egg that has already been found ... 🐰🥚

(Full issue out Monday!)

#Penumbric #magazine #scifi #horror #fantasy #art #fiction #Poetry #SelfPromoSaturday

09:10 AM - Apr 08, 2023

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Does "Normal 9%" mean I'm 9 percent robot or 9 percent normal? Because an argument could be made either way lol. #Spoutible #normal

06:46 AM - Apr 02, 2023

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this is a deep brain thing
not a big brain thing

-from "Do Not Flee" by Marc Phillips, in Feb's #Penumbric at https://www.penumbric.com/... or pdf https://www.penumbric.com/...

#Poetry #poem #Poet #scifi #science #amreading #magazine

06:43 AM - Apr 02, 2023

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Friday #art from February's #Penumbric ... "Raindrops" by Nicola Brayan (@an.aesthetic.mirror)! Find it at https://www.penumbric.com/... and pdf https://www.penumbric.com/...

#artist #artwork #fantasy #magazine

05:25 AM - Mar 17, 2023

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Wicked faeries gather at the racetrack
drinking champagne in a luxury box

-from "Potential" by Sara Backer, in February's #Penumbric (https://www.penumbric.com/... or pdf https://www.penumbric.com/... )

#amreading #Poetry #fantasy

02:24 PM - Mar 09, 2023

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Its pale, shriveled eyes are sunk deep into calcified sockets; skin, a gangrene yellow.

-from "The Mirror" by John C. Mannone, in February's #Penumbric (https://www.penumbric.com/... )

#amreading #flashfiction #fiction #shortstory #horror

02:13 PM - Mar 08, 2023

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The main distinction between animals and humans, for Richter, at least, is the uncanny psychic ability to embrace death.

-from "Pickled Lotus" by Glenn Dungan, in #Penumbric 's February issue (https://www.penumbric.com/... )

#amreading #horror #scifi #ShortStories

01:40 PM - Mar 07, 2023

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Saturday #art from the February issue of #Penumbric ! "Dive Little Creatures" by R. Mac Jones, at https://www.penumbric.com/... or pdf https://www.penumbric.com/...

#artist #artwork #horror #fantasy #magazine #SelfPromoSaturday #amreading

02:54 PM - Mar 04, 2023

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Never in my life did I think I'd see "pro-Russia" and "Republican" as bedfellows.

(Of course, we can just add that to "anti-education," "anti-freedom," & "pro-conspiracy" in the clown car that is now American conservatism.)

#Ukraine

theguardian.com

Rightwing Republicans rail against US aid for Ukraine: ‘We’ve done enough’ | CPAC | The Guardian

War emerges as a wedge issue in the forthcoming Republican primary election as far right at CPAC call for US to end support

02:38 PM - Mar 04, 2023

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Raven and Coyote meet in a culvert
on a wind-blown night and whisper secrets

-from "Trickster Juice" by Jennifer Crow, in February's #Penumbric at https://penumbric.com/curr...

#amreading #Poetry #poem #Poet #myth #fantasy #magazine

02:13 PM - Mar 03, 2023

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He comes upon me by the riverbank, the man with the face like Jack Palance.

-from "Radio Sounds" by Jay Caselberg, at https://penumbric.com/curr... or pdf https://penumbric.com/curr...

#amreading #fiction #shortstory #horror #magazine

06:36 PM - Mar 01, 2023

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Tuesday #art from #Penumbric 's February issue: "Cosmic Energy" by Carl Scharwath, at https://www.penumbric.com/... (or pdf https://www.penumbric.com/...

#artist #scifi #amreading

03:18 PM - Feb 28, 2023

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Walls absorb The Life,
the fog forbids escape
from an oil painting
hung above the desk.

-from "The Portrait" by Dean Schreck, in February's #Penumbric (https://www.penumbric.com/... )

#amreading #horror #Poetry #poem #HorrorFamily

01:42 PM - Feb 27, 2023

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More #Spoutible html link issues ... If I have a period or parenthesis at the end of a URL, the link breaks because it somehow includes the punctuation. This doesn't happen on other platforms.

#spoutiblesupport #spoutiblesuggestions

06:21 PM - Feb 25, 2023

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"You may have been following the news about something that’s, ah, been going around."

-from "Three Months" by Gordon Sun, in February's #Penumbric (https://www.penumbric.com/... )
#amreading #SelfPromoSaturday #fiction #horror #scifi #shortstory

06:18 PM - Feb 25, 2023 (Edited)

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Congratulations to Douglas Gwilym, Bram Stoker Award nominee for "Poppy's Poppy"! You can find it in #Penumbric 's April 2k22 issue, https://www.penumbric.com/... .

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#amreading #fiction #shortstory #horror #HorrorCommunity #HorrorFamily

03:12 PM - Feb 25, 2023 (Edited)

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Florida: No university may teach courses “with a curriculum based on unproven, theoretical or exploratory content.”

So I guess DeSantis is happy to throw out Bible/religious studies, too?

(Actually, I don't really know what you *could* teach.)

cnn.com

Ron DeSantis: Florida bill would give governor more power over state universities and ban gender studies | CNN Politics

A new bill overhauling Florida universities to match Gov. Ron DeSantis' vision for higher education would shift power at state schools into the hands of the Republican leader's political appointees and ban gender studies as a field of study.

07:21 PM - Feb 24, 2023

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