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