i love this 300 word story by Kate Catinella ! it's about a girl that goes on a date with a guy who piles his plate with shredded parmesan what a good ending ! the role reversal in 300 words is impressive & memorable & thoughtful - read this pronto xraylitmag.com/cheese-drawe...

Posting this again for all of you who may have missed. I wrote a weird thing, and I GREATLY appreciate that @xraylitmag.bsky.social saw fit to publish it. Look at those illustrations! xraylitmag.com/diplomats-by...

we have a short story by Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social ! set in a vaguely apocalyptic world, a married couple visits a travel agency: “We just want the best journey of our lives." things quickly go sideways - gives funny & weird Yorgos Lanthimos vibes xraylitmag.com/diplomats-by...

John Berger on the presence of ”boy unknown to you or me.”

"Big Man, star of Big Man, Bigger Man, Big Man: Biggest, and Still Big, Still Man, sadly passed away last night in a dog-sledding-related incident." I don't want to spoil too much of "Big Man, Dead at 37" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social. Hilarious and tender, wonderfully written. Don't miss it! 👇

I've been Buried. burialmagazine.neocities.org/amomentinpet...

This is probably my favorite thing I have ever written, and I am SO happy it found a home at HAD.

Louise Bourgeois, Cleavage, 1991

amazing linguistic recursion today from Libby Banks "I reach for the word— mirror [window] window [mirror] Glass reflects. Glass transmits. The brain knows they're the same before language splits them." https://www.havehashad.com/9pdcw

A new little piece of @joshuahebburn.bsky.social magic yesterday on @hexliterary.bsky.social! hexliterary.com?p=3269

"I’d slept for only four hours that day." The man the myth the legend, @joshuahebburn.bsky.social, is back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Don't miss this delirious wonder!

Tonight's goodnight image is 'She Did Not Turn', David Inshaw, oil on canvas, 1974. Sleep tight.

"I’d slept for only four hours that day." This week on hex, @joshuahebburn.bsky.social is back with a brief, perfectly written bit of delirium. A ripple in perception. A face and another face. Don't miss this wonder, "The Invisible Man," up now on the site! 🤔😐😶

today from KIRSTEN MOSHER !! https://www.havehashad.com/4glv9

Don't miss this one. A favorite.

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

"Dolores’s realization that Dolores can assume a sort of invincibility if only Dolores is willing to desire nothing more than exactly what Dolores already has is alluring, then calming." little 🔥 today from gg roland https://www.havehashad.com/fjcwx

How about a cento of... lines from The Bachelor Season 22, Episode 8?! today from Adrian Acu! "he felt like he was falling for me[iii] I do feel myself falling for him[iv] I was falling in love with him[v] I feel like I'm falling in love with him[vi]" https://www.havehashad.com/8p601

"If you walk for long enough with your eyes closed it begins to feel like you’re walking on the spot." today from Billie J Daniel!! https://www.havehashad.com/f0n64

New Grouse County novel coming from Tom Drury. bookshop.org/p/books/west...

been a minute, but super excited to feature Tyler Barton back on the site again today! "Knowing there will always be audiences for Sunday, this is about Sunday. For this day of the week we have this name. Sunday, which resists visitation..." https://www.havehashad.com/u73e6

Celebrating my first skull today. Immense gratitude and thanks to the always amazing @havehashad.com for taking this one and to @joshuahebburn.bsky.social for the edit. Shout out to Cleveland, Ohio - my heart away from home. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sta...

straight lane hole, castle park golf, sherman oaks, california, 1981

Today from Jeffrey H. MacLachlan! https://www.havehashad.com/6z0h7

"Hey Google, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Hey Google, play the news. Hey Google, what should you preheat the oven to for grocery store sausages. Hey Google, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Hey Google, are we technically at war or...." Tom Snarsky !!! https://www.havehashad.com/s5g00

Many of you have heard that my editor Sean McDonald will no longer be working at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I wrote a little bit about my feelings at the end of an era.

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

it’s friday

Repetitions-themed stories I selected beginning today @havehashad.com Here's a thread starting with @zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social walk. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

'Fruit Cutting Factory' by Chuckie Smith is so good ! it's about a person who loves to cut fruit...until a new kind of fruit arrives that looks like human hands. a really well written, funny, weird, surreal story that will stick with u all day xraylitmag.com/fruit-cuttin...

Sandy Berrigan

I liked Bugonia.

Cheers.

ICYMI

Reading a short story (almost) every day in April.

i love this weirdo story Tyler Plofker ! it's blog posts by a man who either invented a board game, or is having a manic break with reality, or both. a very funny story. i love writers who experiment with voice. read it ! xraylitmag.com/the-board-ga...

My best friend spent 3 months watching this back in 2022. There’s an article out there that says that they are the only film critic to ever make the claim that they sat down to watch the entire thing and it’s “impossible to know” if they actually did.” I was there, they totally did, and wrote this:

It's interesting to come to love something after its prime.

ICYMI

extremely honored to be back in @xraylitmag.bsky.social today with a short story about a young mathematician — a thousand thanks to the good folks at X-R-A-Y for hosting this one, and to the one & only @joshuahebburn.bsky.social for accepting & editing it!

i love this story by Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ! it's about a math prodigy who is hyper-observant of others around him, but struggles to connect. i love the math talk in this story & the details. the sentences are killer <3 xraylitmag.com/dessins-denf...

F is for First time.

Directions in the desert

Cheers.

Incredible cowboy at the bar last night.

My favorite painting, probably. Hammershoi.

Art by David B. Mattingly for “The World Next Door" by Brad Ferguson (1990)