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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 1d

Want to believe (in everything)? Read this @keersteemack.bsky.social story.

Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 2d

got a new story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social about grifters and faith

you can read it here if you want to xo xraylitmag.com/portrait-of-...

PORTRAIT OF YOU IN FIVE PSYCHICS by Kirsti MacKenzie

First guy says: you’re gonna see a UFO. Like, BOOM. He lays this on me. Right now you’re probably thinking well, if that doesn’t torpedo the whole thing for you. But it didn’t. Okay? It didn’t. I sat ...

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, wow--I love this story, @keersteemack.bsky.social! 🌟

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 1d

More than possible--attainable. 🌟

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing work.

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 4d

This flash is so good. Man.

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 5d

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 6d

These small @ezhang77.bsky.social poems are actually giant poems.

Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com!

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp...

Here’s one:

A city bursts inside of me
My head becomes heavy from bloom.
The lake leaks out of my eyes.
I'm pregnant with families.
They spill onto my toes and set up tents.
I can hear crying on my kneecaps.
At night, a train shivers with longing.

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 6d

Good adivce for those of us with an associate's degree from an accredited two-year institution.

"From a certain perspective everything looks like math but if you pay attention to the subtext it says to work on being charming and go into sales..."

Thanks @rfpress.bsky.social 😍

Roi Fainéant Press @rfpress.bsky.social · 6d

We have some wildly great micro in this edition. Case in point, “Notes for a Community College Commencement Speech” by @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social is part of “Six Little Ones”. It’s some real talk about choices or if we even have one. Read it here.

www.roifaineantpress.com/post/six-lit...

From a certain perspective everything looks like math but if you pay attention to the subtext it says to work on being charming and go into sales.

Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 7d

Very honored — thanks @bruisermag.com ⭐️

BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 7d

@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

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Three Poems by Jeffrey Hermann - BRUISER

I DON'T BELIEVE IN MAGIC BUT I HATE IT WHEN SOMEONE DIMINSHES MAGIC, OTHER PLACES TO SUFFER BESIDES IN SILENCE & RESEARCH SAYS

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, thanks @bruisermag.com 💜

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you thank you thank you @rfpress.bsky.social for publishing these "six little ones"! Here's one, the rest at the link: www.roifaineantpress.com/post/six-lit....

Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 16d

And if you DON’T like micro fiction, maybe these will bring you around? Could happen, cuz @rfpress.bsky.social is an amazing lit mag.

Roi Fainéant Press @rfpress.bsky.social · 16d

If you like micro fiction, we have a real treat for you in issue 89! Six, count 'em, SIX micros from @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social , including this gem "The D Poem". I give the whole group an A+! Check them out on Sunday and decide for yourself!

Our daughter asks for help writing a poem for school. We tell her all the rules they gave her
are wrong. Her poem gets a D.

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you!

Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks!!

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 20d

Five things you probably don’t know about the number five. Thanks @havehashad.com 💙

HAD @havehashad.com · 20d

"There are actually five chambers of the heart. The fifth one holds all your loneliness, which for some people stays put and for some people leaks out slowly."

🔥 today from Jeffrey Hermann

https://www.havehashad.com/0cj37

Five by Jeffrey Hermann

There are actually five chambers of the heart. The fifth one holds all your loneliness, which for some people stays put and for some people leaks out slowly. There are only five unique locks and five…

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HAD @havehashad.com · 20d

"There are actually five chambers of the heart. The fifth one holds all your loneliness, which for some people stays put and for some people leaks out slowly."

🔥 today from Jeffrey Hermann

https://www.havehashad.com/0cj37

Five by Jeffrey Hermann

There are actually five chambers of the heart. The fifth one holds all your loneliness, which for some people stays put and for some people leaks out slowly. There are only five unique locks and five…

www.havehashad.com

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks @keersteemack.bsky.social ⭐️

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · 22d

Anything with Ruth Gordon is must-watch.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 25d

I feel so upset by the fact that so many of these same people fetishizing mourning right now have ignored the gun deaths of thousands of children, have just allowed their memories to disappear like smoke in the public mind

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thank you, @jjlofflin.bsky.social!

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks, Elena!

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you have literally 35 seconds you can read this story of mine that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social was kind enough to publish. 😘

www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/t...

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · Sep 8

I ❤️ @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

"You have to go way back. Our very early selves. Simple lives but hard ones."

New fiction: "The Invention of Kissing" by Jeffrey Hermann aka @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/t...

The Invention of Kissing | matchbook

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙😘

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Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social · Sep 7

Up with freaky beautiful things⭐️

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Sep 7

Don't let anyone take away your joy in the freaky beautiful things you love. Sharing joy over the best things humans are and can make is what will save us.