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Masha Hayim

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I write queer Jewish love stories. “Free Fire” and “Comfort Zone” available now from Evernight Publishing: https://www.evernightpublishing.com/masha-hayim/

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · May 11

My first novel is on sale right now for 99 cents!

In 1967, Jewish folk singer Sid Cohen is drafted against his will and sent to Vietnam. He desperately wants to go home, but he finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the beautiful Lieutenant Rupert Hart…

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Free Fire by Masha Hayim

Smart & Sexy Romance

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 4h

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 1d

There were so many sad, confused people wandering around at intermission, like, “Why is the little mermaid in a wheelchair? Who is that strange man in the black suit - is he supposed to be Sebastian?”

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me of the time I went to see a very sad, spooky, modern ballet version of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” and many people in the audience had very clearly showed up expecting the Disney version

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 1918, and all former champion boxer Max Wolff (real name Chaim Leibowitz) wants is to reclaim his lost title and have a good time while he’s doing it. But instead, he’s drafted and sent to Europe, where he meets a beautiful and very traumatized young British officer. #dvpit #lgbt #hr

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 4d

More evidence of just how useless Google has become since AI became a thing: this news alert warning me that it would feel like 155 degrees today, which would be about twenty degrees hotter than the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 8d

This is probably the kind of gardening Sam would have done if he had kept the Ring

National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 8d

This is extreme gardening.

At 55 feet high and 300 years old, it takes one gardener 10 weeks on a hydraulic cherry-picker to trim the hedges at Powis Castle, returning the yew hedges to their famous, cloud-like shapes.

A gardener stands holding electric shears on a huge red cherrypicker, trimming a gigantic, cloud-shaped, dark green hedge. The rolling green hills of the countryside stretch out in the background under a blue sky.

A view up at the 55-foot-tall, cloud-shaped hedges at Powis Castle. A brick wall partitions the garden. In the top left-hand corner, a red cherrypicker holds a gardener over the hedges.

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 13d

Took me a second to realize that this email was about a film festival

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 17d

Second update: we did our best but I’m not sure if we technically completed the mitzvah of hearing the shofar because no one in my family has been able to get it to make anything more than a faint squeaking sound

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 22d

Update: my shofar has arrived from Paris! It comes with a guide to using and maintaining it that advises new owners that “if you are successful at blowing, you will make a shriek like an elephant” but so far I can’t get it to make any sound at all :-/

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Sep 11

Today in problems I did not expect to have: the ram’s horn I ordered has apparently been inadvertently sent to Paris, where I do not live, but I hope it’s enjoying its French vacation

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 22d

It’s kind of unfortunate that “Baruch Dayan Emet” and “big dick energy” have the same acronym

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Sep 11

Today in problems I did not expect to have: the ram’s horn I ordered has apparently been inadvertently sent to Paris, where I do not live, but I hope it’s enjoying its French vacation

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 24d

Mood

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24d

all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you, that’s very helpful!

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Sep 11

Today in problems I did not expect to have: the ram’s horn I ordered has apparently been inadvertently sent to Paris, where I do not live, but I hope it’s enjoying its French vacation

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Sep 8

Click through for a surprise

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Sep 8

What a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth!

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · Sep 8

Harlem Hellfighters ‘who faced the enemy head-on’ receive Congressional Gold Medal

The Harlem Hellfighters were an African-American regiment that fought longer on the frontlines of World War I than any other Army unit its size.

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s the North-Going Zax and the South-Going Zax

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happened upon a plant hopper rendezvous today.

Very serious business going down in the bushes.

Sorry to disturb, gentlemen. Carry on.

Two green plant hoppers, which look like rounded leaves, standing face to face on a plant stalk

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 13

The YA novel was called “Joss’s Mark” but I sadly can’t remember the plot, or else maybe I too could become a fabulously successful YA writer who entrances demons

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 12

I just had a dream that I was a vampire who had lived for hundreds of years and then this weird sticky demon creature was trying to drag me to hell but I distracted it by taking it to a bookstore and finding a really engrossing YA novel series for it

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 11

Two great posts that are great together

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 9

I’m not really a subject-matter expert here but she will generally provide advice in exchange for stickers

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 9

My five-year-old is sorting her books into categories and one of the categories is “books about what to do if your eggs roll away or hatch”

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 5

I hate to say it but this did not work out so well for Louis and Claudia

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is so romantic 🥺

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 3

Update: I wish I had taken more time to look around the online store before checking out because I don’t want to pay a second shipping fee but I also really need one of the baseball caps that says “oy vey”

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · Aug 3

For the first time in my life I saw a Facebook ad and immediately went to buy the thing - good job, algorithm!

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