I Defeated Three Bears, one of three micros up at @bruisermag.com. www.bruisermag.com/hermann_poems2

Great piece of flash—I love this. 💙 “There’s a russet potato with a dozen eyes wearing a paper hat on fryer duty, crisping up his unluckier comrades.”

I have three mircos up at @wigleaf.bsky.social, which is a thrill. Check them out here: wigleaf.com

Thank you @bruisermag.com 🐻🐻🐻

new new: THREE MICROS, by Jeffrey Hermann: wigleaf.com @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

This micro is great (grate?) ⭐

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Check out this perfect little gem by @addisonzeller.bsky.social. "My owners feed me rich mush with no irritating spices. I get to lap clear water out of my calming blue bowl. I was not always a dog. I was once an unconventional cop with a Polish surname."

Reading this thread probably qualifies as an MFA in writing.

Little piece in the amazing new issue of Ghost Parachute.

Thanks to the fantastic journal Ghost Paracute for choosing this piece, and to @amymarques.bsky.social for making the accompanying image--it's beautiful. (She also has a story in the issue, which is also beautiful.) ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

freely and fearlessly indulge in all peaceful concernments

"If you're going to fly a cast-iron airplane with no engine you might as well do it while it's snowing. The risk abates once you crawl above the clouds." Love this @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social micro at @wigleaf.bsky.social.

next week!! more like “coolest month” imo, featuring @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @travisshosa.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, & Stephanie Anderson — register below!💡

Love this piece. The heart. The anger, muted. It's great.

"I closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but no one was like her. I’d known that right away." Thank you @okaydonkeymag.com 🌟 tinyurl.com/3tkct3ey

Thanks @okaydonkeymag.com 💙

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

“Homesickness begins to creep in. Loneliness. I showed them a picture of my girlfriend and they love her hair. It’s long and blond and she has it pulled back into a ponytail. One of them asks why I came all alone, across space, to this distant place. What have I done, I wonder.”

"As he passes my window I see his face very clearly. Not an animal who desires something he cannot have but an animal who has known love and has lost it. Who has possessed something and must now live without it." Big hairy thanks to @havehashad.com 🌟

You gotta read this.

"I ask what happened to her new job, and she laughs. She tells me that she’s grown tired of luring men into purchasing software licenses and she’s ready to try luring them to their watery doom."

"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu Get out there and start falling on your ass!

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kathrynreese.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Kathryn made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/february-2...

Finally someone with a fresh idea.

You should read these beautiful, eerie little fictions by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social 🌟

Thank you @offbeatlit.bsky.social @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social @dseuss.bsky.social 💙💙💙

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.

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Honored to have a littte something in @thecitronreview.bsky.social -- and thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for boosting 🌟

Warm yourself up with this cozy-yet-thrilling issue of @thecitronreview.bsky.social. Excited to be part of such a great lit mag ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is happening tonight. Excited about it.

Please help us congratulate our @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! @ladiwoods.bsky.social @robinwilder.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @kellathornton.bsky.social & @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

It’s an honor—thank you, @offbeatlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Goods words and music here 🌟

"You Can Be Something Different Today You Say to Yourself Again Today" @trampset.bsky.social

Thank you @trampset.bsky.social for including this in the new issue 💙⭐️💙⭐️

Sex Pistols playing in the dentist waiting room. Things have changed.

say this every time, but every time it is a treat to get to feature and share new work from HAD fave Julián Martinez! "She forgives my lack of communication! I forgive her lack of decision-making! We get to focus on the ways we make our hearts go BOOM!" https://www.havehashad.com/r9bng

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What does "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked" mean? @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social asked and of course a bunch of writers took the bait. Check out the whole issue--it's really great: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin... Here's one of my contributions.

Howdy

amazing

good morning

We’re open!

This was a great conversation—I got one video game and two book recommendations, some super helpful writing advice, and cool background inspiration for Amber’s new novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, which is on my nightstand. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Exit King.]

Want to believe (in everything)? Read this @keersteemack.bsky.social story.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This flash is so good. Man.