Thoughts on what we're doing here in March Sadness by @angermonsoon.bsky.social on the substack (which you wanna get on if you're not already): open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

Excited to have another essay on @havehashad.com today. Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for the prompt and selection!

another piece of magic & wonder, today from Andrew Maynard! "...and there was something so romantic about a wingless jet, about succumbing to loneliness, surrendering to isolation, and if I were braver and more original I would’ve broken into the jet..." https://www.havehashad.com/4jzvg

beautiful new Natalie Warther today! "Perhaps each household is allotted a finite amount of joy, as if the wizard’s hands are tied, this is simply the rule of beginnings: Should you acquire giggle and coo, you must forfeit fetch and wag." https://www.havehashad.com/8e7il

Reposting my Christmas / Big Rudolph epic, "My Monument," on account of it being Christmas eve: creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-m...

crow & aaron doing a last call of the year. open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.) especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings" all genre 500 word max havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...

Love these new essays on motherhood in @therumpus.net. "I was afraid to invite death into the room. I was afraid of what it would take with it when it left." -Elizabeth Austin therumpus.net/2025/12/10/g...

"...Kyle and Annie both understand that the heart is a spider web capable of trapping and feasting on small, beautiful joys..." It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs

Set out to create the most literary one-sentence story ever written about the intersection of hand jobs and the Olive Garden. Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. And my nephew for making the art. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Digging Toward the Sun” by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social is now up! Art by Franziska Hofhansel flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/d...

"The castle sways more and more, and the father says they must remain diligent. No cutting corners. Each floor must be stronger than the last."

Very excited to have a story in @flashfrog.bsky.social, a journal I’ve long admired. Thank you @ericscottryon.bsky.social for the edits and commissioning such perfect artwork! I hope you give it a read

"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?" @andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...

over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!

NEW ESSAY DAILY NEW MAYNARD LET'S GO

Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!

A fascinating way to think of numbers (and people by extension). In particular, what it says about the those who like 1 because it means they mirror what they encounter.

XNESS ESSAYS IN A BOOK???????

oh, wow, everything about today's Andrew Maynard short is wonderful, and then that ending!! "She continues: I like five because you never lose it when it multiplies with something odd. And I think about saying, What if I’m even?" https://www.havehashad.com/envc8

Thanks to @havehashad.com for publishing my new short! Give it a read!

5 year anniversary sub call on Thursday! Five (5!!) hour submission window, 8/21, 7am - noon ET Theme: "5" (What does that mean? Up to you!) Thx. We (heart) (and (skull)) you. -Aaron & Crow

Flash Nonfiction Time! brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/b...

This "thought experiment" from George Saunders has been on my mind often of late: "Is it possible that we have come to feel responsible for too much, for everything, even things outside of our control, and that this makes us feel like gods who have been unfairly disempowered?"

I wrote about the myriad number of people who worked hard with me for the election and who kept me from the pit of despair after for Essay Daily's Advent Calendar, which already has some amazing essays for your December countdown to solstice. www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

So we are here and we want you to know that we are returning in 2025 starting with the 2024 Advent Calendar. We know you need it: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...

An amazing, beautiful, moving, perfect shortie today from Andrew Maynard Not everyone understands the ceremonial value in high-fiving bare bellies while chanting, “Belly bump, belly bump, Clyde and Dada belly bump.” https://www.havehashad.com/i8rxt