sarah lynn hurd
@sarlynh.bsky.social
writer, reader, poet, film photographer, romantic, nostalgic, silly, thinking of bread (she/her)
words in NFFR, Anti-Heroin Chic, HAD, trampset, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, ONE ART, and elsewhere
sarlynh.com
words in NFFR, Anti-Heroin Chic, HAD, trampset, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, ONE ART, and elsewhere
sarlynh.com
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sarah lynn hurd
@sarlynh.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Our fiction nominees for Best of Net: Nancy Connors & @sarlynh.bsky.social
Incredibly honored and grateful to the entire team at trampset for my first-ever Best of the Net nomination! <3
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“I have always had a gut reaction to credit card debt the way some people might feel about, say, ebola.”
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On Madame Bovary, My Mother, and Money Anxiety - Electric Literature
I fear I'm more like my father and Monsieur Bovary—the less interesting character whose suffering doesn't matter
electricliterature.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“I have always had a gut reaction to credit card debt the way some people might feel about, say, ebola.”
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me christmas shopping for my friends: searches "vintage worm" on etsy
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
me christmas shopping for my friends: searches "vintage worm" on etsy
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Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
NOVEMBER ISSUE is now live: factorfourmag.com/category/iss...
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social
Check it out here:
help the horrors are really getting me down today
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
help the horrors are really getting me down today
I love a good find at my local used bookstore and I love even more when there’s a hidden treasure inside
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I love a good find at my local used bookstore and I love even more when there’s a hidden treasure inside
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love Andrea Krause's bio today almost as much as her #smallpoemsunday poem itself!
https://www.havehashad.com/w5mk8
https://www.havehashad.com/w5mk8
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
love Andrea Krause's bio today almost as much as her #smallpoemsunday poem itself!
https://www.havehashad.com/w5mk8
https://www.havehashad.com/w5mk8
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"you might realize, rolling the fibers between your thirty-five-year-old fingers, how lucky you were to have a mother open to such friendships"
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
“the fibers might remind you of worms, your first playmates as a child, and the time you ate three of them”
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...
gooseberry-pie.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"you might realize, rolling the fibers between your thirty-five-year-old fingers, how lucky you were to have a mother open to such friendships"
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
Love the way this piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social shifts about in time. Rich, layered writing.
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Who wore it better?
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Who wore it better?
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Because people think you're a bitch if you don't.
See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.
See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.
Exclamation marks! Why do women use them three times as much as men?
Exclamation marks! Why do women use them three times as much as men?
It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinking
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Because people think you're a bitch if you don't.
See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.
See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.
just finished my 2x speed listen to Frankenstein (don’t worry it’s not my first time) ahead of the movie tonight and I’m so excited
October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
just finished my 2x speed listen to Frankenstein (don’t worry it’s not my first time) ahead of the movie tonight and I’m so excited
"The woman who used to be me folds clothes in silence and puts clean plates in cabinets."
Don't miss @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's quiet, plasmatic ghost story, "Tethered" in this issue! I really, really love this one.
Don't miss @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's quiet, plasmatic ghost story, "Tethered" in this issue! I really, really love this one.
It’s launch day! @skyislandjournal ‘s stunning Issue 33 features AMAZING authors and unique perspectives from all around the world—with a constellation of 160,000 readers in 150 countries, and a contributor family of 1,200 writers in 58 countries!
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#skyislandjournal
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#skyislandjournal
October 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"The woman who used to be me folds clothes in silence and puts clean plates in cabinets."
Don't miss @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's quiet, plasmatic ghost story, "Tethered" in this issue! I really, really love this one.
Don't miss @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's quiet, plasmatic ghost story, "Tethered" in this issue! I really, really love this one.
Cuyler is one of the funniest writers I know!
This is one of my favorites stories I've written. Come for my Winnie the Pooh modern update, stay for whatever other hilarity is in here.
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Eggplant Emoji Volume 5 is available now!
A brand new anthology of 13 hilarious stories
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October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Cuyler is one of the funniest writers I know!
okay yes I am really vibing with Daniel Caesar’s new album—great for dicing onions to on a fall day
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
okay yes I am really vibing with Daniel Caesar’s new album—great for dicing onions to on a fall day
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I have some new very short prose in the always-amazing Milk Candy Review today. For anyone who enjoys a good list.
Go Bag ~ by Chris Scott
One gallon of water, one first-aid kit, one pocket knife, two boxes of granola bars, three pouches of pre-cooked rice and beans, two hundred dollars in cash, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, hand sani…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
October 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I have some new very short prose in the always-amazing Milk Candy Review today. For anyone who enjoys a good list.
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This is a lovely, poignant flash. @sarlynh.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is a lovely, poignant flash. @sarlynh.bsky.social
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This story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @yourimpossiblevoice.com is radiantly beautiful (and sad and true and heartbroken, but still beautiful). I feel awash in a melancholy nostalgia for someone else's past. That's quite a feat.
(And I'm not presuming it's the author's past, I mean the narrator's).
(And I'm not presuming it's the author's past, I mean the narrator's).
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @yourimpossiblevoice.com is radiantly beautiful (and sad and true and heartbroken, but still beautiful). I feel awash in a melancholy nostalgia for someone else's past. That's quite a feat.
(And I'm not presuming it's the author's past, I mean the narrator's).
(And I'm not presuming it's the author's past, I mean the narrator's).
I'm afraid I can't help myself with a weepy coming-of-age girlhood lament from time to time <3
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm afraid I can't help myself with a weepy coming-of-age girlhood lament from time to time <3
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
Huge thank you to Keith and Your Impossible Voice for giving this one a home!
"did i really see the trail, the way the sky hinged into cloudmist?"
such beautiful work @jillkitchen.bsky.social !
such beautiful work @jillkitchen.bsky.social !
My poem "when the world did not feel like a crushing weight" is best viewed on a phone flipped sideways or on a computer browser. www.asteralesjournal.com/1-4-kitchen-...
October 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"did i really see the trail, the way the sky hinged into cloudmist?"
such beautiful work @jillkitchen.bsky.social !
such beautiful work @jillkitchen.bsky.social !
too excited about the boxelder bug costume I'm making out of cardboard to wear to my office's halloween potluck (they've infiltrated the lobby--the boxelders, that is)
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
too excited about the boxelder bug costume I'm making out of cardboard to wear to my office's halloween potluck (they've infiltrated the lobby--the boxelders, that is)
co-workers are saying I’m giving shaggy today and I’m taking it as a compliment
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
co-workers are saying I’m giving shaggy today and I’m taking it as a compliment
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“the fibers might remind you of worms, your first playmates as a child, and the time you ate three of them”
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...
gooseberry-pie.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“the fibers might remind you of worms, your first playmates as a child, and the time you ate three of them”
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
@sarlynh.bsky.social
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
It’s a minor thrill and a great annoyance to be kept awake thinking about revisions
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s a minor thrill and a great annoyance to be kept awake thinking about revisions
“It also makes me wanna cry—but in a fun way” - me after two glasses of wine
October 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“It also makes me wanna cry—but in a fun way” - me after two glasses of wine
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This beautiful story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social hit me right in my emotional core. Highly recommend!
Excited to share my newest piece in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Issue 36: "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?"
Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!
gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...
Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...
gooseberry-pie.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This beautiful story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social hit me right in my emotional core. Highly recommend!