Including a triplet of oceanic poems by me! "threnody, adrift" - sisters, grief, abyss 🌊🫁🦢 "triboluminescence: a firsthand account" - lost love, shipwrecks, sacrifice 🪨⛵️🫀 "two hundred miles from Long Beach" - dead seas, fairytales, dunes 🌵🌅🧜‍♀️ F(r)iction

If you're a Gothic lover, we've got plenty of choice for you. Encounter buried mysteries, romantic obsessions, and enigmatic characters with Ashthorne by April Yates, DuMort by Michelle Tang, and The Belladonna Invitation by Rose Biggin. Shop here: ghostorchidpress.square.site

Noon eastern time is the end of our Kickstarter! Last chance for great rewards - and a chance to support hope, community and wonderful stories.go.dfstory.com/open-channel

We all need an occasional reminder, so listen up. Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

Our Spotlighted Contributor today is the amazing Marisca Pichette, back once more with a new gorgeous poem, What the Unicorn's Horn Feels! Fall in love with it in full in Our Dearest Devotions now 💜

Print Issue 16 is called Each and Other. Whether hiding from others or sharing homes, exploring inner truths or back rooms, we find that vulnerability and understanding bind us. SUBSCRIBE: dreamforgemagazine.com/subscribe BUY on Amazon: go.dfstory.com/Amazon

Build Your #Horror TBR with these #newreleases! Inanimate Things – Stephen Rhoades Stephen Rhoades Legend Has It – DJ Slater DJ Slater Noro- William F. Gray Polybius – Collin Armstrong Through the Realm of the Vacant Prince – Lowell Jameson Vial Darkness – Beck Browning

The Castaway and the Witch is the new novella from Ioanna Papadopoulou, author of Winter Harvest. Coming 23rd September. Preorder now from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ Or your preferred retailer: books2read.com/u/bO0XrJ

Thank you for including Ghost Orchid Press EVERY DARK CLOUD 🖤🖤

Print Issue 16 is called Each and Other. speculative tales reveal unexpected insights into human connections. SUBSCRIBE: dreamforgemagazine.com/subscribe BUY on Amazon: go.dfstory.com/Amazon

Happy 6 month book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD!!! 🍄☁️🖤 Hard to believe this novella has been in the world for half a year. Thank you to everyone who’s read, reviewed, gifted, and listened to these words. Keep it up ⛅️ Ghost Orchid Press

Our final author reveal for Wednesday's Issue 11 We double-dip into the vibrant poetic mind of Mark Dimaisip 🇵🇭, explore some wholesome space-love with Marisca Pichette (she/they) 🐦‍⬛🌧️🕯️🪻, and read an underground (literally) resistance battle with Bryn Farrar.

The Castaway and the Witch has been out for one week! Have you got your copy yet? Order now from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ Or your preferred retailer: books2read.com/u/bO0XrJ

Reconnect with the darker side of nature with our eco-horror anthology, Chlorophobia. Shop here: ghostorchidpress.square.site

Take a look into humanity's dark future with Marisca Pichette's Every Dark Cloud. Shop here: ghostorchidpress.square.site

You don’t get darker than The Clouding ☁️🖤☁️

Happy Halloween ghosts and ghouls! Wishing you a fabulously spooky day. 👻