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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 15h

Our October month's Art & Hybrids gallery features the winsome and deep-hearted photography of the marvelous Dale Scherfling | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

Dale Scherfling | October 2025 — Does It Have Pockets

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 15h

"You didn't tell your husband. There were spaces in which to do it. But they all felt like Sunday nights: unhappy and existential."

Don't miss this immersive, urgent flash #fiction from @ronburch.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ron-...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 15h

"Old pain. We recycle.
Me. Me! my voice, soundless.
I want to participate—"

Two cinematic stories in two fresh-voiced, effervescent #poems from Gail Goepfert | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/gail-...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 16h

"You put me away that night, into a dusty corner where I could humiliate you no more."

A superlative paean to a tool & the story of a life, exquisitely rendered by Nicole M. Babb | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/nico...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 16h

"He’s supposed to be writing a novel but only ever reads Chapter One."

Part time travel, part song, a truly special piece of #fiction from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

✺◟(•‿•)◞✺ <3

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Three minutes can seem like an eternity when you’re shaking a cocktail, so pretend like you’re Tom Cruise in that stupid movie"

A #creativenonfiction recipe for drinks &/or ghosts, immersively curated by Eileen Toomey | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/eileen-t...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"what a throat, so wide with song"

Each a perfect melding of form and prose, two incredible new #poems from @druwalker.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/andre...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Each of us is alone, but we’re together in loneliness: isn’t that enough?"

Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday I mis-tagged the incredible @jaimegill.bsky.social whilst promoting his fan-f***ing-tastic new fiction, "The Hate Baby.". (Mea culpa!) Please read & give the real Jaime his much deserved flowers 💐: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"....You and I
sat together too long in a room without chairs."

Three breath-giving, generously crystalline new #poems from Bob Kirkley | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/bob-k...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

We wish it weren't so important and timely, but we're also proud as peahens to publish this. <3 <3 <3

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't it just? <3

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 1d

"Janice has come to understand what all the groaning is about. She does talk about the fucking mammoth a lot."

This roundhouse kick of a story by @jessdawn.bsky.social *is* about a mammoth, but so much more: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jess... #fiction

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

"... for a moment we all just stood there for a bit, under the bright heat of the sun, a steady stream of traffic buzzing by us."

Sweeping, unnerving, abyssal, a brand new #longread from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri... #fiction

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

"Fake it ‘til you make it, Tony says, though I’m not sure that works when the it is inside you."

Sharp as an incisor, a phenomenal #fiction #mustread from @jamiegill.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jaim...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

“Remember, there’s a full floor directly beneath you.” I look down again and tut-tut. He’s a liar."

How sure can we be of the ground below? Timely, unsettling new #cnf from @colettepjd.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/colette-...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

"I am not the neon frisbee/
abandoned at the hem/
of tide-wash."

Words & worlds & so much more in these gorgeous new #poems from Alicia Wright, new for October | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/alici...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 2d

"Before I knew it he was handing me a little piece of plastic and saying in his oily voice, I Hope You Like Pancakes, Kid."

Sharply clever, infinitely unique, #pocketyAF, brilliant new #fiction from Olivia Sawatzki: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/oliv...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 11d

I love this!

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 16d

Coming this weekend, Pockets heads to Indie Lit Fest! @FrostburgState #marylandorbust #ohbaltimore More info here: www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 18d

Congrats to our amazing Best of the Net '26 candidates. We send your ballots off with all our digits crossed! #pocketyasheck

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join @anchalastudio.bsky.social and @camillethegriep.bsky.social discussing the ins and outs of creating a literary journal. Check out more of the Frostburg State Indie Lit Fest in MD here: www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l...

#ontheroadagain

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · Sep 5

"“Well then, what do you kids these days call their best buds?”
“Gruzz,” Grandson nods."

Magical realism winding its way through the finest prose in this new #fiction from Beth Hendrickson | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/beth...

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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Into the whorl
of my ear she pronounced
her burden."

Two stunning reprints from the fabulous pen of James Kangas #poetry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/james... #welcomebackjames

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