Grilled Cheese

ExploreLog inSign up

The Rotting Leaf

@rottingleafmag.bsky.social

188 Following438 Followers

A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Fiction section of @briefecology.bsky.social

Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf

Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions

PostsRepliesMedia
@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:19 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

We have hit our submission quota for the month and are now closed until November. BUT–we are experimenting with short-form poetry. For a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue, write an eco-inspired haiku, use the tag #TheRottingHaiku, and tag us in the post!

@dorsalstream.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:51 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

Larkin said green trees
Are a kind of grief, but he
killed them to say it.

#TheRottingHaiku
@rottingleafmag.bsky.social

@chrisrmuscato.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:33 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

Falling autumn leaves Pass like open submissions For eco haiku

@markella-ph.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:32 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

Pain blooms bright and loud
Like fall leaves aglow in death
Maybe I am too

#TheRottingHaiku
@rottingleafmag.bsky.social

@ezhang77.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:27 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

Milkweed spat
Tattoos inked in leaves
A skin home

#TheRottingHaiku
@rottingleafmag.bsky.social

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:19 PM

We have hit our submission quota for the month and are now closed until November. BUT–we are experimenting with short-form poetry. For a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue, write an eco-inspired haiku, use the tag #TheRottingHaiku, and tag us in the post!

@mererain.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 4:47 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

Behind dying leaves
the winter of the soul waits
I'm afraid of fall
#TheRottingHaiku

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:56 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

@benlockwood.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 8:37 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

We need more weird nature to read. It sustains us.

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:56 PM

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:55 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

The leaves are falling. Soon they'll be rotting. Send some our way. Submissions open tonight at midnight, EST 🍂

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:55 PM

The leaves are falling. Soon they'll be rotting. Send some our way. Submissions open tonight at midnight, EST 🍂

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 2:14 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

This issue features our latest piece, Reclamation, by @nettirw.bsky.social 👇🍂

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 2:14 PM

This issue features our latest piece, Reclamation, by @nettirw.bsky.social 👇🍂

@briefecology.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 1:19 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

Our latest issue is here! Life After Waste is a collection of essays, interview, fiction, and poetry, all exploring the concept of ecological waste from different perspectives.

Pick up a copy here
🌎 🚮 ♻️ 👇

www.briefecology.com/store/p/life...

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 5:07 PM

Hi Kamen, we just wanted to let you know that we included this poem in the upcoming issue of @briefecology.bsky.social. If send us your email address we'll get you a free contributor's copy!

@briefecology.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:28 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

COVER REVEAL Our September issue is coming soon

Cover of September issue of Brief Ecology. Image of person carrying garbage bags with text: Life After Waste
@kamen.eurosky.socialSep 23, 2026, 3:52 AMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

it buzzes, it whines, it hums
this ancient EV
now a bug hotel

/cc @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

#TheRotthenHaiku #haiku #ku

@kamen.eurosky.socialSep 23, 2026, 3:50 AMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

sleepless night before the Chorus
at daybreak
we sing with the birds

/cc @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

#TheRottingHaiku #haiku #ku

@rottingleafmag.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 6:42 PMReposted by @rottingleafmag.bsky.social

"Genre is advertising. Market an expression. Sell it to a wide audience. Think of your brand. Think of your angle. Monetize that primordial urge to make sense of the world around you and hope the endless work will pay off in a career that shows just how wise you really are." - Alexia Tiches

Older posts
Terms of UsePrivacy PolicyCommunity StandardsHelpGet the app

Grilled Cheese is a product of Village Compute

Version devBuilt at: 2026-10-12 04:31:30 EDT