More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

I hope y’all have a nice time at AWP and I think next year I’ll get my shit together enough to go

"My hands are clutching a pair of knitting needles. My feet weave a deflated soccer ball in-between cones..." This week on hex, Anyu Ching is keeping busy. In this surreal piece, our narrator does whatever they can, everything they can. Don't miss the sharply written "Getting By," up now !!

I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link! gofund.me/ac93c03d5

"Something deep in her bones tells her the ocean she is swimming in isn’t really hers. She is only as strong as her pod..." quick little piece of wonder today from Hannah Kanfer! https://www.havehashad.com/yb3g9

Next call coming soon, from our fave and yours, Joshua Hebburn! Theme: Repetitions March 3rd, 6 a.m. PST, capped at 222 submissions This could be repetition of sounds, phrases, images, a piece of the subject matter—or whatever. Any kind of prose is fine including prose poems.

Had enough coffee that I’m ready to fight god

"Basking in Glory" by @danielmiller.bsky.social is a day in the life of an adult video store employee. With a mysterious encounter, online gambling at Insect Sport World, & the last active Glory Hole in Howard County, it has the makings of a literary classic! doric-literary.com/2026/03/01/b...

It's a brand new month. Doric Literary is (always) open for submissions & we have brilliant new fiction! There's a new story by @danielmiller.bsky.social set in an adult video store that boasts the last active Glory Hole in the county & a reprint of a magical story by @mattjakubowski.bsky.social

I absolutely love this story and y’all should spare whatever time it takes to read

Folks, I’m very proud of this (long) new story. If you can find a spare half hour today, I’d love for you to tuck into Basking in Glory. @courtlandavenue.bsky.social was such an incredible editor to work with! FFO: glory holes, bugs fighting, Midwest sex shops

Who else up at 6am at the abandoned park on the old navy base so their dog can run as fast as he can and experience pure, mindless joy

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Thrilled to be back in the pages of @havehashad.com today with a short one, about two brothers who find one of the Voyager probe golden records in their grandfather's field. Hope you like it.

Obsessed with this

Chris Scott on just an incredible streak of dropping heaters "My brother and I found a golden record in our grandpa’s field. One of the golden records, the ones that had been sent into deep space on the Voyager probes half a century ago." https://www.havehashad.com/vz2e6

My mom worked at a video store when I was a kid, and when I went to work with her all I wanted to watch was Stop Making Sense.

🐜🕳️👀!!!!!!!!!

really good book that everyone should read right now ᵇᵃᶜᵏ ᶜᵒᵛᵉʳ⬇️

A new sentimental flash from me at the amazing @lostballoon.bsky.social

One day I’m going to figure out how to write about all the shit you see in a vet clinic

Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for writing a beautiful little book and celebrating with a call for beautiful little stories!

New Jess Dawn banger today! "Airport’s more like a bus station with a bar inside. Big place, high ceilings, big windows looking out over the runway that could be a parking lot. Bar’s bigger than the rest of the airport." https://www.havehashad.com/9vqmp

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline. Please share. tcpipeline.org

oh you’re “giving me 7 minutes back” now that this unnecessary meeting is over? maybe i’ll cure cancer thanks. fuck you

My favorite work word is “sacculectomy”

here’s the first of my three new poems in @bulbregion.bsky.social, it’s about trying to have a good day, which I suggest you try

today's Tiff M. Z. Lee story takes a kinda familiar promise and gives it such wonderful magic & beauty & wonder "...you finally see it: a turquoise glow rippling across the dark grey sky, faint yet unmistakable. It’s beautiful." https://www.havehashad.com/ix7nt

it's important to have role models!!!

today's Matt Patrick short doesn't at all feel recognizable or relatable or anything, but it's a fun shortie nonetheless! https://www.havehashad.com/zvhtj

Is it even writing time if I can’t feel him breathing on me

The kids discovering Wolf Parade has unlocked the memory of playing a Halloween show as Werewolf Parade and covering like half of Apologies to the Queen Mary back in like, 2010

the piliing up of "maybe"s in today's Jason Davidson short is so hypnotic & magical & perfect "Maybe I'll marry a pilot. Maybe I already did. Maybe I'll stay long enough to not miss the credits this time. Maybe it’s okay if I don’t." https://www.havehashad.com/rfktq

It I got a dollar every time I had to tell someone that “purebred cavapoo” isn’t a thing I’d double my salary

Had me at “in her 143 years at the company”

Find the great Steve Gergley’s absurdist micro, “Telecommunications,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Telecommunic...

Working on his projects

All weekends should be at least three days, probably more

today's Lucia Lu story is such a perfect capturing of the "magic and beauty and wonder" call "The streets glowed beneath my gaze, autumn treetops puffing white mists of soul stuff. Bird song transmuted to a monastic chant: iloveyou, iloveyou, iloveyou." https://www.havehashad.com/f3t2v

We love our writers and we love their books. Get your copy of Aaron Burch’s new novel, TACOMA, now out from the amazing Autofocus Books. @aaronburch.bsky.social 📚 @autofocusbooks.bsky.social autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone." -James Baldwin

I ran into a guy I made out with years ago after my dad died and I was a disaster, and now he has a son and his son has the same name as my dog. So that’s weird.

In about two weeks, we open for general submissions for the first time. It will go live on March 1...and remain that day for only a single day (through midnight EST)! Save the date and spread the word. Looking forward to reading all the great work. bulbregion.com/Submissions

I have a new short story, “Cloisters,” in Short Story, Long, and I’m really proud of it. Share with friends and enemies alike! #authorsky #writingcommunity #writing #fiction open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...

If you somehow haven’t read Hey You Assholes yet, now’s as good a time as any

Happy thunderstorm to me

I would shoot the computer with a handgun five to eight times

A little nervy to share my FIRST EVER published verse poem! I feel so honored and lucky that @burialmagazine.bsky.social thought it decent enough to feature it! This one was inspired by a @toddedillard.bsky.social post! Todd is a phenom poet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THX 4 LOOKING! <3

a knockout of a scream from Adam Gianforcaro that I love more and more every reread "I SAY I’LL BE BETTER BUT I WON’T BE BETTER. HUMANS SAY THAT A LOT. THE FIRST PART AT LEAST. ABOUT BEING BETTER. I’M SORRY ABOUT THAT TOO. WE SAY THINGS WE DON’T MEAN..." https://www.havehashad.com/m7psu