My story Thirst Trap is out in @hexliterary.bsky.social (link in the comments). Read it to get your thirst quenched! Thanks to the hex team for being amazing!

@hexliterary.bsky.social is the best, and I'm thrilled my latest story found a home with them. This story made my friend laugh so hard he pissed himself! (My friend had been hospitalized because he hadn't urinated in a month. Doctors are now using my story for more medical breakthroughs).

Today on hex, @seandowie.bsky.social offers an all-time great first line. Then there's this killer moment: "I strutted. My plump buttocks in denim shorts no doubt caught their attention." And you won't believe the ending. Read it! 👇

One of my favorite reading experiences is being completely baffled by something until all of a sudden I'm totally into it

The sentiment is mutual 📝 🦍 💥

Absolutely love this new triptych which is at least 3 times as fun to read out loud as it is in your head

NEW KATE MCINTYRE! go go go

Thanks, HAD, for publishing this tripartite shortie. I'm honored to be back on the site. 🐂 💦 🤠

"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—" We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌

I'm currently taking on a writing hiatus, so won't even be trying to take one of those 200 spots from y'all, but hex one of the best at it right now & one of my fave places to publish and work with!

we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏

We open in less than an hour, for 200 submissions… including yours? 🍄

"I found an ad on Craigslist one evening for a rare invisible Camaro IROC-Z. After contacting the seller, we arranged to meet..." Two new micros by @anuelrx.bsky.social dream up wild pockets of possibility in the world we think we know. Read "Tooth Book" and "Ghost Theft Auto" now! 🦷📕🚨🐍

"There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body." This week on hex, @schorn.bsky.social offers a miracle, a body built piece by piece. Obsessed with the careful writing, the excellent humor, the body horror at play here! Go check out "Acephalous," up now on the site!

"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss." Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶‍🌫️

"Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push." We are BEYOND thrilled to have @aaronburch.bsky.social back in hex this week with "The Attic!" This story is the best kind of surprise, linguistically wonderful, a foray into the unsettling, all without losing Aaron's great sense of heart. Don't miss it!

DISCO MURDER GIVEAWAY 🩸 Win the world’s first™️ Namakubi style painting of Saturday Night Fever John Travolta’s head. Art by the wickedly talented @danielmiller.bsky.social 🪩1 Repost = 1 Entry 🪩1 Preorder of my Novel = 5 Entires Link in bio to order from @maudlinhouse.bsky.social

happy bday to hex co-editor extraordinaire @danielmiller.bsky.social !! you make the world a brighter place 🎉🎂✨

"Our eyes are plugs that keep truth out, that bend it when it tries to force its way in. The babies sat in their corner and stared back." new on hex today ! "The Babies Who Have No Eyes" by Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social , a story that perfectly balances comedy and horror !! 👇 👶 ✨

"You will be free when the house is immaculate, the manikin said. Then it took the coffee and left, stolen feet heavy on the gleaming floor. The house shivered..." Ooooh don't miss this new H. V. Patterson, packed with creeping gothic terror! And that last line: chilling. 🧽👇🧹

"I’d been so hungry, waiting for the wheat to yellow and carving the pestle and once I milled the flour of course I’d have no oven. So I’d have to invent fire, hardest yet..." I'm honored to have a new fictional amuse bouche (plus recipe!) up at @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Summer Menu today! 🍴🍖👇

"Our sister went to help the people who came out of the volcano." Buckle up, folks, because @rpmirabella.bsky.social has an incredibly imagined story for us this week. Wondrous, human, and beautifully written, "Volcano People" ends on a note of perfect melancholy. Absolutely do not miss this one! 🌋

"When the rapture finally happened, I was stuck inside a crypt-themed escape room." We are absolutely delighted to have @ezhang77.bsky.social back in hex with two new incredible shorties! Both of these pieces start off with banger opening lines and ramp up the strange beauty from there! Don't miss!

“See those tendrils, that’s what you're hearing scurrying around in the dark at night..." We present a beguiling voice and weird new horror at home, courtesy of @spencerwriting.bsky.social ! 👇

"The first time he calls me babe, it’s the mid-90s again and I’m just a girl watching Bowie in the tightest leggings I have ever seen..." We are absolutely thrilled to have Adelina Sarkisyan back in hex with some nostalgic yearning, the brutal love of goblin hearts. A gorgeous new poem. Check it! 👇

"When the aliens swarmed Earth, people had to be silent or communicate through ASMR." This week on hex, an absolute wonder by @seandowie.bsky.social! This one is WILD. Katana wielding aliens! Infinite Jest! And all of it circling back around into the deeply human. Don't miss Mr. ASMR, up now! 👽👂⚔️

"Something wriggles in his mouth. The music at the party is bombastic. Tchaikovsky. The old world. He might hurl..." This week on hex, @cherylpappas.bsky.social offers a sensory delight: a nightmare party, and a dream of escape. Do not miss it! 🐣

"Madeline looks askance from her portrait in the shadows. Perhaps it was then that her soul cracked in two." Take a brain-bending trip to a horror film festival in Lyndsie Manusos's @lmanusos.bsky.social story "Proscenium," new on hex today! 👇👹

The snow? Snowed. The cat? Alert. hex offices east? Ready for your work! Thirty (30) minutes, folks!

Who’s up polishing their submission? 👀

Folks, this is today! Heads up- if you’ve never submitted to HAD before, it feels a little (a lot) more exhilarating than the usual submission process. Slots fill in a matter of minutes. Don’t worry about a cover letter, have the submittable ready! Most of all, have FUN! Luv U!

2 hours 43 minutes until we open! not too late to write something... ✍️ 🔥

Saturday... from your lips to our ears... 🤫

this weekend: 💖hex💖 and 💖HAD💖 and 💖you💖?

Struggling with deep panic, so to channel that productively, I'll post a reminder my partner and I just started a tiny bookstore. To be sustainable, we need to make enough to move into the building's front space to get foot traffic. ALL purchases, local or not, help a ton: eveninghousebooks.com

Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

We have a new site cover.pub. We're open for submissions. Check out the about page for details.

"Everyone felt what she felt, experienced her eyes and ears and mouth and hands. UMWELT’s body hurt, a little bit, everywhere, always..." @junewhitewrites.bsky.social traces the uneasy boundaries of personhood on @hexliterary.bsky.social this week!

One of my favorites from my ridiculously talented @hexliterary.bsky.social co-conspirator!

My very favorite part of this piece is the chicken wing!

“‘Many crabs can also pick things up,’ the scientists reminded the Attenuated Press. ‘We got very interesting results in our preliminary crabs-with-knives studies, under laboratory conditions.’” Wrap your pincers around this week’s hex offering from Anneke Schwob! 🦀 🔪

"Mind gathered over matter." And: "Brain teaser and the brain department." This is awesome! I dig this brilliance by @katemcintyre.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 💙💙💙

Really excited to be back on @havehashad.com today! 🧠🧠

ICYI got about 15 spots left before we close for a while ! 👇

Just fantastic writing here.

"Each 'Like' makes sea spray explode up from the screen of my mind’s eye..." I love our new offering on hex-- @adrianf.bsky.social explores the vast rocky shores of social media.

You, too, can join Angela in the halls of hex!!! (But we are more than half-full already 👀) hexliterary.com?p=2448

This is your “halfway full” warning

would love to read whatever you'd like to share !

GET YOUR FLASH STORIES IN!! @hexliterary.bsky.social is one of my absolute favorite places for short fiction now. A great place for the weird, terrifying, and moving, all under 1000 words.