Abominations

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Abominations will be available February 14th!

Mysterious cosmic skyseeds...

...an epidemic of monstrous transformations, trans-sapphic Cinderellas, ancient god devices, crypto-werefoxes, dryad orgies, transgender scions of ancient witching lineages, lapine lawnmower revenge fantasies, cursed toys, a cruel remaking, and the atavistic certainty that something is stalking you in the darkness. This short collection of speculative poetry straddles the line between body horror and euphoria. By turns mythic and mundane, these poems blend queer embodiment, feminine monstrosity, and magick into a potent brew of imagery and feelings sure to make your skin crawl and your imagination soar.

List of poems

Gorgon’s Daughter | With all due credit to Kafka, etc | Nested | If you love something, let it go | Artifact | Baby Bunny | Like a Disney Princess | Side Effects | The Foxhunters | Exorcism of a Cursed Toy | Blood. Magick | Vision | Ancestral Memory | Vulpis Celestis | The only fanfic I’ve ever written is deeply messed up | The Court of Dryads

Content Warning

The poems in this collection include adult themes, body horror, gender dysphoria, sexual assault, alienation, monstrosity, nonconsensual body modification, cannibalism, and spiders. Reader discretion is advised.

About the Author

Theresa Jean Tanenbaum (“Tess”) is a queer, polyamorous, neurodivergent, disabled, transgender woman, and a witch. She writes and produces music under the name of Moth Mother, creates weird single-player RPGs, writes cozy queer romance novels and speculative poetry, and brews her own homemade black walnut ink. In a previous life she was a tenured professor at a major research university but now she lives in the woods with her wife, four cats, bearded dragon, seven chickens, five ducks, and her increasingly feral son.

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Publication Info

a Moth Mother Studios publication Metamora | Illinois

Cover art and interior Illustrations Copyright © 2026  Theresa Jean Tanenbaum

BlueSky:@mothmother.com

Created using handmade black walnut ink from Cauldron Fire Studios:  https://cauldronfirestudios.com/

Heading Font is P22 Morris | Body Font is Cupidus

ISBN: 979-8-9946911-0-6 (electronic)

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Paperback copies will be released on Amazon on February 14th
BONUS: Listen to the audio version of Gorgon's Daughter here.