Maria Schrater

To Be the Change When the heir becomes a daughter…

Nebula nominations close soon! I hope you'll consider my two Rhysling nominees for your Poetry category:

TO BE THE CHANGE: trans autonomy / intergenerational prophecies / harbingers tinyurl.com/ToBeTheChange

EAGLE-EYED: slipstream fantasy / distorted vision / body horror
tinyurl.com/EagleNMN

To read 👀👀

In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center - Small Wonders In the corner once stacked with torture tools / Now stands the curving sofa like a snake / In velvet blue.

We can't stop thinking about Lillian Tsay's poem, "In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center", and how it evokes a past that isn't really past.

The Pause on Hunger: How America Teaches Families to Starve Politely When my mother texts me now, she doesn’t ask how I am. She asks if I can send money for groceries.

A really powerful personal essay by a colleague.

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Me: If sisyphus was american he would make the rock into a dangerous theme park ride

Best friend: Sisyphus Flags

I got so sick of the long ogling body shots that wasted narrative time

THANK YOU it was almost unwatchable by the end

I'm so happy you found her!!!

THE SWEETEST BABY 🥰🥰💜🥰💜🥰💜💜

My partner had to stop me from actually checking on them 💀

KITTEN? 👀👀💜

I love the celery, genius

These people put up a bloody HELP ME sign in the window IN JULYYYYY

Neighbors' 8 foot tall skeleton started cooing at me at 5:30 in the morning and. Not to be the resident stick in the mud. But based on the shriek I shrucked they should. Not be allowed to do that.

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

AMAZING

A pumpkin shaped like Enoch from Over the Garden Wall sitting on top of a stall of celeries in the kitchen.

A pumpkin shaped like Enoch from Over the Garden Wall sitting on top of a stall of celeries.

"Oh, well. You'll join us someday."

My hot take is The Substance is a bad movie. It doesn't execute on its premise well enough and winds up being toothless. Great body horror though jesus christ

a woman wearing a pink headband and a white shirt looks down Alt: a woman wearing a pink headband and a white shirt looks down

Companion is my favorite ever robot movie I think and not just because Sophie Thatcher is STELLARRRRR

a man in a white shirt and brown suspenders is smiling and talking . Alt: Brendan Fraser in the Mummy movie is lifting up a white cat to scare off the mummy. The caption says Look what I got.

Who doesn't love The Mummy 🥰

Ah that's so kind to tag me! Hi Anwen 😊

Amanita Season - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Beneath the necrotic oak / the Death / Caps flourish their flesh-umbrellaed skulls

TODAY, beloveds, new poetry 💀🖤🍄

"Beneath the necrotic oak
the Death

Caps flourish their flesh-
umbrellaed skulls

in the inhuman hours
of the morning—"

Amanita Season by Belle Biscotti

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POETRY by CP Nwankwo ERROR 404: Expiation Not Found Quote "the gate gapes, always hungry— its teeth are CCTV lenses, rusted wide." 20 October 2025 Strange Horizons

ERROR 404: Expiation Not Found
by CP Nwankwo

"the gate gapes, always hungry—

its teeth are CCTV lenses, rusted wide."

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Banner text of image says Jess Cho: Poetry Editor. Image of Jess Cho on the left, with short hair and glasses in a black shirt. Text to the right of Jess’s photo: Jess Cho is a Rhysling Award-winning author of short fiction and poetry. Their work can be found in khōréō, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Apparition, Nightmare, and elsewhere. They like their fiction dark and their poetry with teeth.

We are so thrilled to announce that Jess Cho will be joining the OTHERSIDE team as a Poetry Editor! Jess is a Rhysling Award-winning author with work in khōréō, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Fiction, Apparition, Nightmare, and elsewhere. They can't wait to read your work when we open in January!

An embroidery landscape in a hoop frame - it depicts an embroidered aerial-view landscape of wild moorland, which includes a soft stream/brook, shrubs, scrubland and 'rocks' made from painted pine bark chips.

'Brooks and boulders' - the third piece of my aerial embroidery series incorporating pine bark chip 'rocks'! The contrasts between the hard rocks and soft embroidery, dark and pale shades and terrain makes this landscape my favourite 😊 will be available Friday with all the others! 1/2

The photo was taken underwater. It shows a partially uncovered mosaic on the ground of the sea and a fish swimming above it.

For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish 🐟) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.

Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei

Love it!!!! So glad Heartlines got this poem 💜

My poem What the Birds Taught Me is now free to read from Heartlines Spec!

🌿 A small glimpse into a peaceful future in harmony with nature
🪶 Caring for and learning from birds

I loved writing this poem and I'm so happy that it found a home with Heartlines!

A woman in red holds a lantern. "Welcome to the Night Market. The Market opens soon."

My new fantasy fiction magazine now has a website. We're still very fledgling, much baby. So please consider supporting us!

www.nightmarketmag.com

Failed to find salsify. Ate sassafras though!