"…and each time there was a story in the end..." Thus begins @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social's perfectly honed "Been on a Train Five Times," a dream-like series of train happenings written with such precision. Pattnaik is such an incredible writer and we are so stoked to feature this wonder! Peep it!

"The children saw their chance." This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!" Go check it out!

Wow, and in such amazing company! Thank you @hexliterary.bsky.social

"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day." We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!

Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp... Here’s one:

Completely shocked and honored to find myself on this list with so many incredible writers. Thank you to the amazing folks at hex!! And good luck to all the nominees here and elsewhere!

"The lectern of the conference room is emanating darkness. Profits are down. I know this because we all know this." Surprise after surprise at this hilarious and horrifying marketing conference, we're so fired up to feature @johnchrostek.com's latest, Inclement Weather this week! Bring a jacket!! 🧥

today we have a story by Cortez ! 'Would You Tremble in the Presence of the Virgin Should She Come To Your Town?' is about the narrator's mother, who keeps getting pregnant. brilliant themes of creation, scandal, & power in here <3 great sentences xraylitmag.com/would-you-tr...

"The cat stretched in the sunlight and talked to us, eyes narrowed, while Marco demonstrated the library machines." Incredible restraint, a sense of mystery that lingers, a lazing library cat! @addisonzeller.bsky.social is back in hex with an absolute wonder that we can't stop thinking about! Go! 🐈‍⬛

"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss." Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶‍🌫️

“… or / I must change my understanding of what it means to be satisfied.” —from the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social

this Julián Martinez poem is a little different, yet just as amazing, than I've come to expect from him "See, our lips bend: we are always moving warmthward through and beyond what we forgot we would say: I’m so about being buried together." https://www.havehashad.com/rx442

“I don’t know why I always imagined the fields in dusk—the little flame- tailed foxes dragging their torches behind.” Reyzl Grace, with a gorgeous, new #SummerRiot poem 🦊🔥 @reyzlgrace.bsky.social

"Most humans are selfish clumps of afflictions and grievances." Love this!

‘Her body south-facing always, a spirit searching for union, for extension, for vegetable tranquillity; unpractised in green ways, in rootedness, but sapful, exalted and germinal.’

speaking of @joshuahebburn.bsky.social, here's another semi-recent banger... www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

"The scientists were holding a press conference. They often did this and were often ignored. The public was sick of novel findings." Feeling crabby? Anneke Schwob (and several scientists) have the cure! This week on hex, "Carcinisation" is hilarious, strange, wonderful and very timely! Go read! 🦀

We are feeling lucky today... Open now! Submissions capped at 200. Send us something cool! 😈💜

"So today Mena’s got a bucket, and a bright, sharp trowel, and a scary-sharp gleam in her eye." Oh, friends, this week we offer a quiet creeper, rivulets of unease tracing through impeccably crafted prose. "Mena, Until," by Patricia Russo is one you won't want to miss. 🪣 hexliterary.com?p=2553

Tupelo Press’ response to new NEA restrictions is inspiring and should serve as an industry standard. @tupelopress.bsky.social

Please check out my latest piece @hexliterary.bsky.social It’s got a bovine specter.

Who up reading ghost-cow fiction??? If not, you are missing out... New @barickme.bsky.social, for the afternoon crowd! Go get it!

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I’m so excited to be back in one of my very favorite lit mags @hexliterary.bsky.social today with a little tale about capitalists and cow-ghosts.

today we have a teriffic story by Rylie Farr !! in this story, the narrator's girlfriend is slowly turning into an insect. i loved how caring & supportive the narrator is as this happens -- turning a horror story into a love story. xraylitmag.com/she-transmog...

"I want to look (inside) and see that the (centre) leads to a different world." Dreamy, wondrous, a linguistic treat, a mysterious [email protected]'s "at the (centre) of it all" hits all the bases! We love this delightfully strange story, up now! Go read it! 👇

“The only hope is in knowing there’s no cure.”

I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

"Sailor Moon doesn’t need a magical wand or an idiot with roses." We are BEYOND thrilled to share a new @angelaliu.bsky.social story with you this week, featuring a familiar 90s icon searching for change in her life! The prose in this one is so sharp! Hit it!👇🌙

"It isn’t like what I see online." We are so stoked to have @calebbethea.bsky.social back this week with a new horror! Glorious and disturbing in equal measure, you won't want to miss this sharp little sleep paralysis demon! "Glitter in Your Eyes" is up now!😈✨👇