“body positivity icon or thicc queen with a thigh gap but no hip dip” the voice and fury of this Laura Nagle piece! https://www.havehashad.com/rq1cd

“You asked / can you stop talking about / the lizard people? Another exquisite / inquiry, and thank you for it.” absolutely loved the escalating logic of this Christopher Blackman poem https://www.havehashad.com/qwkj6

“this is it isn't it, how a poem sweats out like whiskey in an iced glass on a hot day” really loved the restless motion of this Tara Burke piece https://www.havehashad.com/vfota

“I would eat you on a flip-flop” extremely important lesbian Guy Fieri poem from Megan Williams today https://www.havehashad.com/30uyf

Loved writing this one 💀💀💀

“Never turn your back on a Burger King ball pit. The ball pit will eat your baby alive.” absolutely unhinged rocket-fuel nightmare from Matthew Dexter today https://www.havehashad.com/nf4x4

“Cinnamon-scented glitter all over the man’s white shirt.” really love where this Derek LaPorte piece goes https://www.havehashad.com/rtk77

“Now that blind box gets to hold whatever I imagine.” loved the weird sadness of this Eric Boyd story https://www.havehashad.com/6q0fr

Absolutely love this

"At the park I call things by their wrong collectives. “It’s a bed of pigeons,” I say and point at some pigeons. “It’s a flock of flowers,” I say and point at the flowers. “You’re not funny,” she says." today from Steven Dampf! https://www.havehashad.com/x7ab7

Read my story in @havehashad.com 💀

WOW to this one by Lena Kinder in @havehashad.com !

"I walked into the ER and snarled at the nurse, saying I had a case of rabbits. She took one look at me saying, *Foaming at the mouth doesn’t generally come from rabbits. Do you mean rabies?*" a special, odd one today from Guy Cramer! https://www.havehashad.com/j8bvb

today's Lena Kinder story is so great, but maybe esp every perfect line in that first paragraph "We talk for hours after sex, about your girlfriend, mostly. I ask questions, and you answer them. I knew her before you knew her, but you don’t know that yet." https://www.havehashad.com/d0kfe

💛🌝💛

"In 9th grade English class, when we did sonnets, 6 entire children wrote sonnets blaming the moon for their emotional dysregulation. Six entire children! No, children, that is not on the moon!" Travis Shosa highlights that we're all too mean to the moon https://www.havehashad.com/knhhl

Took 48 minutes to get 50 submissions. Took me those 48 minutes plus another 54 to read and reply to all. Accepted 10. The other 40 were all interesting, too! Pretty much everyone who submits to a pop-up call has a pretty good sense of what might fit. Onto my weekend chores...

aaaaand... FULL! gonna try to get through all these in the next couple hours. thanks, all!

with apologies to people who sleep in / are no the west coast / etc... doing a quick little pop-up call this morning. no theme, no max word count, but shorter tends to be better (as does "bolder," whatever that means) open for 50 submissions -Aaron havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35490...

"To him, his wife was a real woman and I was nothing; I was not a real woman; I was nothing more than a vector of transmission for dissent and unionthink and gender doubt and other unbridled thought crimes." new story today from bonnyCD! https://www.havehashad.com/16tu1

"Your peers in the business faculty love the word efficiency. When you sit in philosophy class and talk about 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘶𝘯𝘨 —self-cultivation as the reason for education—they call it inefficient." today from Raniya Chowdhury !! https://www.havehashad.com/4vdne

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

Resist your body’s need to know where it is

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

dosido a little today with us and Liza St. James 💃 🕺 https://www.havehashad.com/goy3b

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

love the hypnotic "He tells me..." anaphora today from Kimberly Rooney 高小荣 "He tells me it’s OK, our slant isn’t as severe as the building that was once an architect’s office. He tells me he’s been thinking about having children lately." https://www.havehashad.com/g5nqr

Got my first skull at @havehashad.com!

First 💀 from @havehashad.com (catch me skipping through your nearest graveyard).

at @havehashad.com, I wrote my favorite piece of all time. the title is self-explanatory www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-a...

"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

link will work in just under an hour! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35341...

"His name was Tim. Maybe not Tim, but Tom. Maybe it translated to that. I don’t remember beyond the T it started with. Names weren’t all that important to me since it was better to not name it anyway." today from Robert Warf!! https://www.havehashad.com/8coow

Tune in tomorrow Thursday 4/16 at 7 pm CDT for a HAD call for longer flash. Only 100 spots available so you gotta be quick! -Hannah Smart

"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 super short story up today! Shouts out and gratitude to @havehashad.com and @joshuahebburn.bsky.social. HAD 4ever!

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

"All the local kids know what to do when you see The Skinny Wizard. You can’t see him straight on." today from Drew Willis!! https://www.havehashad.com/c2w80

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...

a beautiful total wallop today Keith Woodruff "Cleveland, hey thanks for coming out tonight. Heard any good cancer jokes lately? What, too soon? Actually, my wife asked the hospice nurse that on her first home visit." https://www.havehashad.com/8rvx9

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

New story in HAD today about lakes, cul-de-sacs, and infinity mirrors. Big thanks to @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for accepting this one and running with it! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/tal...

incredibly big HAD energy

"I haven’t been back since the grand opening, but it's still worth it. It was worth it to know that if I do go back, there’s a version of the past that I can point to. That I can see for myself. That I can show to other people." 🔥 from Nathan Willis! https://www.havehashad.com/4hg39

thank you x1000 to @joshuahebburn.bsky.social & @havehashad.com for publishing this thing made up of stuff you might say to Google, and some things I have actually Googled. whole thing down below ⬇️

"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

got some new new zac smith special just for you today! "Dennis was sitting in the office room. He was reading an AI-generated article about tech companies that were hiring. He clicked on one of the company websites at random..." https://www.havehashad.com/a3ynx

The staff of @literaryhub.bsky.social is recommending you a poem a day for National Poetry Month and today I am excited to share a poem from @havehashad.com (and to potentially introduce a lot of people to @havehashad.com) — this one's for the Kirk-lovers, the space kids. lithub.com/one-great-po...

today from KR Morris! love a piece that can do with form what this does. really special! "Loop 2: 1. Think about touch 2. Be done with the yearning 3. What’s left?" https://www.havehashad.com/ocnbh