Andrew Maynard
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Teacher & Writer, Richmond, VA.
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an object (and her story) available to bid on (and read). honored to be featured in the prestigious literary pages of ebay.
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about 1 month ago
Just up for read/share/bid: a very short Significant Object 2026 by
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social
:
www.ebay.com/itm/26764806...
@tucsonessayclub.bsky.social
#significantobjects
#significantobjects2026
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an object (and her story) available to bid on (and read). honored to be featured in the prestigious literary pages of ebay.
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about 1 month ago
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DIAGRAM
about 1 month ago
DIAGRAM 26.1
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âhow every shape in my life was pressed at least a little to the side by your theories and delusions, the force of being around you, a gravity.â
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
, steward of Significant Objects, with a gem of a story/object for sale on eBay
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Ander Monson
about 2 months ago
Today's Significant Objects 2026 is mine: Sand Clown (Carletta) You've got a week to read, share, and bid on this weirdo:
www.ebay.com/itm/26763437...
#significantobjects2026
#significantobjects
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Ander Monson
about 2 months ago
New Significant Objects 2026 up: Bud Vase by Jae Towle Vieira:
www.ebay.com/itm/26762871...
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Ander Monson
about 2 months ago
Today's Significant Object 2026 is SIDEWAYS DVD by
@lydiapaar.bsky.social
:
www.ebay.com/itm/26762869...
#significantobjects
#significantobjects2026
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about 2 months ago
Thank you
@brettpribble.bsky.social
at Ghost Parachute, for publishing my little/big story.
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K.C. Mead-Brewer
about 2 months ago
beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely
@bulbregion.bsky.social
! check it out đŠâĄ
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Even After Youâre Gone, by K.C. Mead-Brewer â The Bulb Region
Even After Youâre Gone â K.C. Mead-Brewer RIPLEYâS CAT IS A SMALL CAT. Here,...
https://bulbregion.com/Even-After-You-re-Gone-by-K-C-Mead-Brewer
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Ander Monson
about 2 months ago
Today's
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Significant Object story/listing is Hot Pepper Salsa Dish by Sean Lovelace. This one's an essay which you can read in the listing:
www.ebay.com/itm/26762349...
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Hot Pepper Salsa Dish (Significant Objects 2026) by Sean Lovelace | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Hot Pepper Salsa Dish (Significant Objects 2026) by Sean Lovelace at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/267623498710
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Ander Monson
2 months ago
First object/story up in the Significant Objects 2026 Project is Sparkly Shoe Statue by L. C. J. Owen
www.ebay.com/itm/26761769...
#significantobjects2026
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March Sadness 90s Edition
3 months ago
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...
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Once Again On the Sadnesses of March
Listening to Sadness Songs en route to Baltimore
https://open.substack.com/pub/marchxness/p/once-again-on-the-sadnesses-of-march?r=hzv67&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Excited to have another essay on
@havehashad.com
today. Thanks to
@aaronburch.bsky.social
for the prompt and selection!
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3 months ago
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 wouldâve broken into the jet..."
https://www.havehashad.com/4jzvg
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Wingless by Andrew Maynard
Picture meânineteen, kicked out of collegeâliving in a waterless log cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the far corner of my big sisterâs property next door to a wingless commercial airplane that belonged…
https://www.havehashad.com/4jzvg
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HAD
4 months ago
beautiful new Natalie Warther today! "Perhaps each household is allotted a finite amount of joy, as if the wizardâs 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
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The Old Dog Begins To Leave Us Now That The Baby Is Here by Natalie Warther
âThere you are,â I say to her sweetly, the wriggling boy in my arms. She keeps her head lowered, lifts her foggy eyes, rolls to show me the belly that I have no hands to pet. In our case, the…
https://www.havehashad.com/8e7il
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Ander Monson
5 months ago
Reposting my Christmas / Big Rudolph epic, "My Monument," on account of it being Christmas eve:
creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-m...
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My Monument - Creative Nonfiction
Surrounded by his neighborsâ maximalist holiday displaysâ104 inflatable Christmas decorations in all, with not a repetition among themâAnder Monson ponders the history of spectacle and considers the m...
https://creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-monument/
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HAD
5 months ago
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...
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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...
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Grim - The Rumpus
I didnât know how to be this kind of parent. Until this moment, Iâd followed a prescribed path: packing lunches, ferrying my kids to and from school, serving balanced meals, running baths in the eveni...
https://therumpus.net/2025/12/10/grim/?mc_cid=5ed226254a&mc_eid=d078d3c53a
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Complete Sentence
7 months ago
"...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
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Carbs
By Andrew Maynard
https://www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
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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
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Carbs
By Andrew Maynard
https://www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
7 months ago
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Flash Frog
7 months ago
NEW STORYâĄïžđž âDigging Toward the Sunâ by
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social
is now up! Art by Franziska Hofhansel
flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/d...
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Digging Toward the Sun by Andrew Maynard
Two boys build a sand castle at the edge of the earth. Their father watches at a distance, pushing his toes into the sand. Itâs not actually quietâthunderous waves folding in on themselves, wind blâŠ
https://flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/digging-toward-the-sun-by-andrew-maynard/
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Joshua Jones Lofflin
7 months ago
"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."
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Very excited to have a story in
@flashfrog.bsky.social
, a journal Iâve long admired. Thank you
@ericscottryon.bsky.social
for the edits and commissioning such perfect artwork! I hope you give it a read
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Essay Daily
7 months ago
"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was Whatâs a Gore Vidal?"
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social
on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
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Rethinking Pornhubâs Role in the Literary Zeitgeist by Andrew Maynard
Rethinking Pornhubâs Role in the Literary Zeitgeist * Andrew Maynard * âIs it like the old Playboy magazine; you have essays there by the m...
https://www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/rethinking-pornhubs-role-in-literary.html
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Will Slattery
7 months ago
over at
@essaydaily.bsky.social
weâre 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!
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Ander Monson
7 months ago
NEW ESSAY DAILY NEW MAYNARD LET'S GO
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Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to
@essaydaily.bsky.social
and
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
for making a space for essays on essays!
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7 months ago
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Yelena Crane đ»đșđŠ
8 months ago
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.
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Ander Monson
8 months ago
XNESS ESSAYS IN A BOOK???????
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8 months ago
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 Iâm even?"
https://www.havehashad.com/envc8
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Number Games by Andrew Maynard
Five is my favorite number, she says, because no matter how many times you multiply it by an odd number, you can always find it at the end of the product. 25. 35. 1975. Always in plain sight. I add…
https://www.havehashad.com/envc8
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Thanks to
@havehashad.com
for publishing my new short! Give it a read!
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8 months ago
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9 months ago
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
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore
over 1 year ago
Flash Nonfiction Time!
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/b...
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Brevityâs Bright New Issue
Our first issue of the new year explores Mealworms, Komodo Dragons, Frank Lloyd Wrightâs Fallingwater, and Fifteen Facts About Zebras, and more. Issue 78 offers wonderfully concise and powerful essâŠ
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/brevitys-78th-issue/
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Matt Bell
over 1 year ago
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?"
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Nicole Walker
over 1 year ago
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-...
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Dec 3, 2024: Nicole Walker, No Authority, Just Thanks
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
https://www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-3-2024-nicole-walker-no-authority.html
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Essay Daily
over 1 year ago
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-...
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The Essay Daily Advent Calendar
The 2024 Essay Daily Advent Calendar is back after a year away from the keyboard! Each year, we publish an Advent Calendar, a new essay each...
https://www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-daily-advent-calendar.html
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about 2 years ago
An amazing, beautiful, moving, perfect shortie today from Andrew Maynard Not everyone understands the ceremonial value in high-fiving bare bellies while chanting, âBelly bump, belly bump, Clyde and Dada belly bump.â
https://www.havehashad.com/i8rxt
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Belly Bumps by Andrew Maynard
Between shower and bedtime, my toddler, Clyde, and I take off our shirts and bump bellies to help us wind down. I never told him â didnât think I had to â that belly bumping is steeped in a sacred…
https://www.havehashad.com/i8rxt
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