Big thx to @havehashad.com for publishing my little poem

There's a bunch of (positive!) stuff I might come back to say about this poem by @justinkarcher.bsky.social in relation to haiku and haibun but for the moment I'll just say I really like this one

you gotta click through for the footnotes and thus for the full power of Kristin Gustafson's piece today, but here's enough of a teaser to make you do said clicking through... https://www.havehashad.com/2jj6l

many of my fave poems and short shorts are these tiny little slices of life, worded and captured so perfectly as to become something so much bigger and more today from Justin Karcher: https://www.havehashad.com/x2r9v

Keeping this going for the same reasons - never read this by Nick Farriella but can always get behind some food-and-grief writing www.havehashad.com/hadposts/som...

been in a bit of a fun lately — semester wearing me out, the world is a mess, frustrated at myself for not writing, yadda yadda, wah waahh — so played a quick game of RANDOM! on @havehashad.com and was delighted to hit this older @eringlittle.bsky.social gem www.havehashad.com/hadposts/2-p...

today's Erica Leslie Weidner short apparently references the drinking/card game "ride the bus," which I've never played or even previously heard of, knowledge and context I am unsure if would make me love it more or less, but either way, I love it https://www.havehashad.com/t2z8o

This is EXCELLENT

‘I point to one dominated by reddish hues. “Is this anger?” “No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’ Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...

bits, candles, carats, horsepower it's been a bit since I did a spontaneous call send me something I'll love no limits (except a reasonable amount of respect for my very fleeting attention) <3 @crowjonah.com havehashad.submittable.com/submit/4178e...

🚨 new Benjamin Niespodziany day! two amazing new shorties!! 🚨 "The magician looks the other way when he removes his first foot. The butcher cooks the bear meat he captured in his pasture. The executioner refuses to remove his mask..." https://www.havehashad.com/vr767

sometimes a teeny tiny micro hits me jussssst right, and today's from Tania Ravaei is exactly that. hope it hits a bunch of you just right too. https://www.havehashad.com/994qo

“Is this you? I suppose it is, but not the same me from this time last year. I feel more like a tree that’s dropped all its leaves, branches mostly unchanged, new growth just beginning to flush.” @jadjosey.bsky.social | @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/rep...

looks like a HAD call prompt...

Pretty sure defiance is my literary love language. I love how this piece turns it triumphant and tragic.

"Everybody in line is bigger than me. Earlier a teenager in a bright yellow shirt walked past and said I looked too small to ride. Ever since then my mom has been saying, “We’re getting you on this fucking ride.”" 🎢 today from Katie Orr!! https://www.havehashad.com/kqd9q

Ope! Yesterday got away from me and I missed this one. My bad! a wild one from Melinda Wyers! "Then there are the ones who give up before five. There just aren’t enough hours in the day." https://www.havehashad.com/sll3i

💀💀💀💀💀💀

gigantic HAD energy

Gonna need 3-5 business days to recover from that last bit holy shit

When spam texts are the only outlet for your melancholy.

such a perfect, fun, beautiful playing with conceit and form today from Jad Josey "Hi, what are you doing?" "I’ve been mostly watching the ocean, counting the messengers of light that descend through the clouds, thinking about time ..." https://www.havehashad.com/9c21u

lil knockout

"There are actually five chambers of the heart. The fifth one holds all your loneliness, which for some people stays put and for some people leaks out slowly." 🔥 today from Jeffrey Hermann https://www.havehashad.com/0cj37

I'm so honored to have been shouted out in this completely amazing piece that you all need to read RIGHT NOW because it is 🔥and will probably change your life or at least make your current existential crisis more bearable. Here's to many more ☠️s, @colettelh.bsky.social and @havehashad.com.

new fun shortie from Sarp Sozdinler!! https://www.havehashad.com/rbo3q

one of my fave things about theme calls is when they inspire and turn into work that I'd maybe never expected but that totally knocks me out. today's story from Matti Ben-Lev is such a perfect example of that. "When I got my second DUI..." https://www.havehashad.com/ylr2s

we usually don't love pieces self-referentially ABOUT us... but Colette Love Hilliard found an exception that proved the rule! "I wrote a piece titled “Half of a Conversation I’d Have with an Old Friend I No Longer Speak To,” but Tom Snarsky wrote it better..." https://www.havehashad.com/gj9hc

"There’s an improv game called “5 Things” where someone prompts you with a category. Then you list five things." — Grant Frazier https://www.havehashad.com/ag2y2

amazing piece of fire today from Annelise Schoups 2. It's not until I'm in Oaxaca that I think: I'm not Mexican. Not really. I'm too pale. Too tall. Too tied in my second tongue. Where do I find the pre-reqs for being accepted anyway?... https://www.havehashad.com/m8m3q

"I don’t remember unsettlement – is that even a word? – being one of the stages of grief." Wonderful story about a father and son, life and death, art and grief by @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/acc...

there's a sweetness in today's short from Sophia Krich-Brinton that immediately grabbed me as a submission and has really stuck with me since. a joy upon every revisit! https://www.havehashad.com/4y0mm

Enjoyed this one

"I don’t care anymore. I am leaning fiercely into earnestness. Into sincerity. I am not religious but here I could be convinced." @emilylauracosta.bsky.social for @havehashad.com

to be loved is to be known and I’m known by have has had. this is one of the best poems I can think of

"Soon, Scott Stapp arrives sweating. Pre-soaked, Christ-posed, a man bursting." Something good, instead--

My best friend is married to Tonic’s drummer, can confirm The Juice is a mystery

90s music + earnestness about what you like is a real arrow to my heart, and Emily Costa nails it all here so perfectly "We see many gray ponytails. Do you remember American Pie, Tonic asks. Of course we remember American Pie." https://www.havehashad.com/3qj5r

this devin kelly poem was (re)posted over on twitter yesterday by @reiilly.bsky.social and so now I've been thinking about it again for the last 24 hours www.havehashad.com/hadposts/all...

here's the special piece I wrote and referenced in two chaotic days after learning about the HAD 5 call

I'm not even totally sure how to describe today's footnoted collage-y pastiche from a.d. but it feels kinda like one of those "only on HAD" pieces and I really love it a lot https://www.havehashad.com/uuksi

I'm so excited I've got a new story 👀 coming out @hexliterary.bsky.social later this month!! So grateful and thrilled I get to be published with the folks who gave me my first publication at @havehashad.com 🙏🏻

very excited to get my first skull today! honored for my poem to be included in @havehashad.com - thanks @aaronburch.bsky.social 💀🗡️ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sel...

How amazing is this story? Gentle and gut-wrenching all at once. Beautiful writing by @ruralunease.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

kinda feel like this is a HAD poem

I don't know ANYTHING about tarot, much less about whatever the five of swords is, and even still I fell in LOVE with today's poem from Annie Bolger "They haven’t got nearly as many swords as I do. Just one apiece, where I’ve got three..." https://www.havehashad.com/pbiqf

This is so beautiful. Thanks to @ruralunease.bsky.social for writing, @havehashad.com for publishing and @junegemmell.bsky.social for posting so it made it way to my eyes. I hope this will help more people to discover it too.

"The Kübler-Ross model has denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and another emotion that I can’t recall" Wonderfully observed storytelling from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com; love how the title hangs over the story like a shadow

Oh my, @ruralunease.bsky.social what a simply beautiful piece! I just love this. And the ending! 💙

Love @ruralunease.bsky.social's gentle, observational writing and this is no exception. In @havehashad.com "“Grief is one of the five stages of grief?”" 💔