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ALT HAPPY RELEASE DAY The Suture Cycle by C. C. Rayne
ALT Love Frakenstein? The Suture Cycle is a futuristic, spacey story tackling many of the same issues of Frankenstein. Complete with a protagonist built from parts, scavenging the planets for survival.
ALT THE SUTURE CYCLE BY C. C. RAYNE releases November 21st from dogleech books
ALT The Suture Cycle by C.C. Rayne is calibrated distant and curiouscold. The nameless protagonist searches across planets for bones in this gothic, transMad, post-apocalyptic chapbook. It decodes mysteries of existence and the Self through dissociation, displacement, and discovery. —tommy wyatt blake, author of FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! (Troublemaker Firestarter) and MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION (Ethel Zine)
ALT dogleech books chapbook subs open nov 1 to nov 30 capped at 50 submissions
ALT poetry & fiction approx 15 to 40 pages we like: gothic, horror, weird, stream of consciousness, bloody, haunted, supernatural, witchy, pagan, science fiction, urban fantasy
ALT I am a contagion / loving me / Will destroy you / - from "I am a Contagion" by Sadee Bee (@sadee__bee)
ALT My Hurt Shall Devour You is a collection exploring the thin line between love, lust, anger, and hate. It is gut-punching, raw, and enticing. It is lyrical and in your face and equally subversive—a queer, genderless expression of what it means to want to love and to want to be free.
ALT i’m touching you through our shared oxygen, i’m touching everything, i’m molded against all species of pressure, baby." - from "zoological specimen as one-bedroom apartment" by Liam Strong
ALT Strong bodies the ordinary into the fantastical in this collection of prose poems. Through dialogue with nature, music, and culture, this book feels immediate, bloody and fleshy - these poems sing with the dirt under your feet and hum with the marrow in your bones, leaving you feeling like you've been punched in the gut and kissed on the forehead.
ALT "Tell them that you love them, too, despite their not believing the fact that cuts actually make you bleed." - from "Sweet Girl, Fun Guy, Attitude Projectors" by Lydia Rae Bush
ALT Free Bleeding is a collection of poems centered on fear, rage, hormones, and justice. Deeply felt, deeply unapologetic, this book tackles the complexities of a monthly cycle and revels in its own autonomy.
ALT pulp. by Cole Martin is a delightful romp of horrors. Composed of 5 short stories, these tales will make you squeal, gag, and want for more. From an interdimensional bus ride from hell to a supernatural assassination, these stories are entrancing, comedic, and deeply unnerving.
ALT "It’s tough to describe the essence of a human, the nuances of flesh. Sometimes they mix, and sometimes they separate, like oil and water." - from "Lucy, Lucy" by Cole Martin
ALT "you may never blot out each blemish, but you can shred yourself to pulp again, mold yourself anew out of the scraps of your former self." - from "address to a past version of my body" by nat raum
ALT this book will not save you by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell) is a full length book of poetry that illustrates the multifaceted experience of living with bpd in the past, present, and future. queer in its DNA, this book explores identity, trauma, resilience. raum's mastery of lyricism is searing and bright, cutting and unforgettable.
ALT "Amidst the flames and the screams, there she was. Like a bloody, broken angel, there she was." - from "Someone Else's Blood, Someone Else's Love" by Dori Lumpkin
ALT Mary Catherine has spent her whole life waiting for this moment. Father Osborne has had his eye on Mary Catherine since she was a young girl, and she's always said that she's more than ready to do her duty to her home and become his bride. But when the mysterious Jane comes to town, Mary Catherine's world is turned upside down and back again as she tumbles head over heels into a fascination for this dangerous stranger.