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Chloe Lutts Jensen
@cljensen.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Tall Person
Social Media Manager at Hayden’s Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social
✨ "sparking surprise and delight in your average human brain" ✨

Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
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December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tender and page-turning new fiction from Eliza Gilbert in @adroitjournal.bsky.social October issue. Read for free:

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Eliza Gilbert
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November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Ben Austen on community colleges as essential sponsors of American is both well researched and moving: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges
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August 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes by Homa Mojtabai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes
Homelessness in America has reached crisis levels, and I am determined to do everything in my power to fix the problem as long as it doesn’t involv...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Our story of the week is Agnes and the Cemetery Bus by Susan Rose April.
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus - The Forge Literary Magazine
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus, flash fiction by Susan Rose April
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June 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Phil, whose long curls catch auburn in the light, thinks the Bible is not specific on Mary’s hair color, but Pastor Bob knows it was harlot red. And Pastor Bob is tight with God." ❤️‍🔥

Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

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Little Death Born Again — Split Lip Magazine
The whole congregation, apart from a few noobs recruited at last night’s street-preach, knows the story of Mary Magdalene washing Christ’s feet with her tears. How on bended knee she wiped them clean ...
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June 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was honored to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:
May 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Come visit me at the HFR table at #AWP25!
Are you going to LA next week for #AWP25? Come visit HFR at Table 337! We'll have brand-new merch, loads of freebies, and discounts on issues and subscriptions! And we'd ❤️ to meet you!
March 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Primed for hard-core jungle combat in a pencil skirt [she now] finds herself in a womblike bouncy castle where women are invited not just to have orgasms but also to have important conversations about their orgasms.”

Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social

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Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex
In an era plagued by sex negativity, only one generation seems immune: mine.
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February 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"shooting for 100% is the equivalent of pointlessly straining to lift a dumbbell you can’t possibly lift, then usually giving up, resolving that when you try again tomorrow you’ll magically be strong enough."

@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:

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The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent
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February 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In a delightfully contrarian article for @newyorker.com , Daniel Immerwahr argues (persuasively!) that our panic over attention spans is just the latest episode in a long history of hand-wringing over what people are paying attention TO. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"DisasterAssistance.gov" by Nicholas Montemarano in
@electriclit.bsky.social

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My Mother's Death Is a Government Disaster - Electric Literature
Two poems by Nicholas Montemarano
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January 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest opens February 1!

Regular submissions are $23, but if you subscribe to our newsletter by February 3rd, you'll be the first to know when we're offering a free submissions window! Sign up now, and get your work ready: haydensferryreview.substack.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Like a chess pawn or kangaroo, I biologically lack the capacity to backpedal.”

A fun, funny, and philosophical essay about butt muscles from Amy X. Wang:
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Fix Your Glutes. Fix Your Life.
I didn’t appreciate their utility — and paid for it.
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January 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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“Facebook launched its fact-checking program after Donald Trump was first elected. Now that resistance appears out of fashion, the company has decided to end it.” The head of our fact-checking department writes about Meta’s decision to stop checking facts.
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Abandon Fact-Checking
From the daily newsletter: Facebook and Instagram’s new approach to the facts. Plus: Jimmy Carter rests; why Justin Trudeau had to step down; and the view from the limo driver.
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January 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“I thought I would live here for a year, maybe two.”

Alex Cocotas on the eternal appeal of Berlin, and how it’s changing, in @thebaffler.com

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Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas
The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.
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January 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My favorite books of the year included novels by @rkr.bsky.social and @colsonwhitehead.com and story collections by Leigh Newman and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Here are 11 of my favorites, and why you might like them too: substack.com/home/post/p-...
December 31, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Read @novicsara.bsky.social on signing in @thebaffler.com

"Just as spoken languages evolve according to the necessities of a given group, a signed language develops organically within a given deaf populace and reflects that community’s era and expectations."

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Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
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December 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Are you a past HFR contributor with something to celebrate? Send us a message – we'd love to help you spread the word! #writingcommunity
December 11, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! https://buff.ly/3PoeZ6l
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM