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The Long Haul The audacity of needing to write newsletters in order to have a newsletter! It’s been a while, friends! Let’s see if I can get back in the...

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

So honored to be featured on this amazing list!

Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 6d

A new addition to my newsletter! Where I talk about forgetting, upcoming publications, and short fic recs with amazing work by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @catvalente.bsky.social, @katemcintyre.bsky.social, @noirbettie.bsky.social, and @babblewocky.bsky.social.

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On Forgetting

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Sean Dowie @seandowie.bsky.social · 8d

My story Thirst Trap is out in @hexliterary.bsky.social (link in the comments). Read it to get your thirst quenched!

Thanks to the hex team for being amazing!

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Sean Dowie @seandowie.bsky.social · 8d

@hexliterary.bsky.social is the best, and I'm thrilled my latest story found a home with them.

This story made my friend laugh so hard he pissed himself! (My friend had been hospitalized because he hadn't urinated in a month. Doctors are now using my story for more medical breakthroughs).

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 8d

"No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue."

This week, we bring you the Great American Short Story, a brand new one by @seandowie.bsky.social. This one is a jaw-dropper. Hilarious. Unexpected. Don't miss "Thirst Trap!"

💪💀👇

Thirst Trap by Sean Dowie

No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue. Travelers often discovered it. Their passion for deserts was as fiery as the temp...

Thirst Trap by Sean Dowie

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d

Today on hex, @seandowie.bsky.social offers an all-time great first line. Then there's this killer moment: "I strutted. My plump buttocks in denim shorts no doubt caught their attention." And you won't believe the ending. Read it! 👇

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 8d

"No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue."

This week, we bring you the Great American Short Story, a brand new one by @seandowie.bsky.social. This one is a jaw-dropper. Hilarious. Unexpected. Don't miss "Thirst Trap!"

💪💀👇

No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue. Travelers often discovered it. Their passion for deserts was as fiery as the temp...

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 10d

One of my favorite reading experiences is being completely baffled by something until all of a sudden I'm totally into it

HAD @havehashad.com · 11d

always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych.

The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...

https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn

The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons, and they cry when there’s no one to scratch…

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 10d

The sentiment is mutual 📝 🦍 💥

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely love this new triptych which is at least 3 times as fun to read out loud as it is in your head

HAD @havehashad.com · 11d

always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych.

The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...

https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn

The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons, and they cry when there’s no one to scratch…

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you, my friend!

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 11d

NEW KATE MCINTYRE! go go go

HAD @havehashad.com · 11d

always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych.

The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...

https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn

The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons, and they cry when there’s no one to scratch…

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks, Jess!

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks, HAD, for publishing this tripartite shortie. I'm honored to be back on the site. 🐂 💦 🤠

HAD @havehashad.com · 11d

always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych.

The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...

https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn

The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons, and they cry when there’s no one to scratch…

The Hand's Aperture by Mizuki Yamagen

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 15d

"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—"

We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌

There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—like a channel grown curious and turning back on itself. Last week it was a mosquito bite: a temporary river...

Tooth Book During my first trip to the dentist in years, radiographs revealed that there was something buried in my gums. Since I was too old for it to be an impacted tooth growing out sideways lik...

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm currently taking on a writing hiatus, so won't even be trying to take one of those 200 spots from y'all, but hex one of the best at it right now & one of my fave places to publish and work with!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 4

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 5

we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 4

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · Sep 5

We open in less than an hour, for 200 submissions… including yours? 🍄

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Sep 4

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Aug 19

"I found an ad on Craigslist one evening for a rare invisible Camaro IROC-Z. After contacting the seller, we arranged to meet..." Two new micros by @anuelrx.bsky.social dream up wild pockets of possibility in the world we think we know. Read "Tooth Book" and "Ghost Theft Auto" now! 🦷📕🚨🐍

Two by Anuel Rodriguez

Acephalous by Nicholas Schorn

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Jul 29

"There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body."

This week on hex, @schorn.bsky.social offers a miracle, a body built piece by piece. Obsessed with the careful writing, the excellent humor, the body horror at play here! Go check out "Acephalous," up now on the site!

There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body. It is picked up by a girl. A quiet girl who cares a lot and does her caring quietly. This girl is Little Jessie Wylan...

After the metal band, the rubber band I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss. He is subject to hubris and get smart quick schemes. I absolve myself, but only just...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Jul 22

"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss."

Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶‍🌫️

Two by Ruby Rorty

Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push. Probably both. A “Babe, babe,” together with or followed by, enough of a jostle to wake me up while trying not to startle me. “Sorry,” Michelle said. “I...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Some kind of a noise. Or a nudge, a push."

We are BEYOND thrilled to have @aaronburch.bsky.social back in hex this week with "The Attic!" This story is the best kind of surprise, linguistically wonderful, a foray into the unsettling, all without losing Aaron's great sense of heart. Don't miss it!

The Attic by Aaron Burch

The Babies Who Have No Eyes by Lillie Franks

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Caleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social · Jul 14

DISCO MURDER GIVEAWAY 🩸

Win the world’s first™️ Namakubi style painting of Saturday Night Fever John Travolta’s head.

Art by the wickedly talented @danielmiller.bsky.social

🪩1 Repost = 1 Entry

🪩1 Preorder of my Novel = 5 Entires

Link in bio to order from @maudlinhouse.bsky.social

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Jul 10

happy bday to hex co-editor extraordinaire @danielmiller.bsky.social !! you make the world a brighter place 🎉🎂✨

daniel miller and kate mcintyre standing outside in the city of Seattle at AWP 2023

daniel miller sweeping the floor at the hex reading in a seattle coffee shop at AWP in 2023

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Jul 1

"Our eyes are plugs that keep truth out, that bend it when it tries to force its way in. The babies sat in their corner and stared back."

new on hex today ! "The Babies Who Have No Eyes" by Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social , a story that perfectly balances comedy and horror !! 👇 👶 ✨

At some point everyone makes the same joke: it must be nice caring for babies who never cry. But the babies who have no eyes do cry; they’re born crying just like everyone else. You can see their tear...

Manikin by H.V. Patterson

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · Jun 24

"You will be free when the house is immaculate, the manikin said. Then it took the coffee and left, stolen feet heavy on the gleaming floor. The house shivered..."

Ooooh don't miss this new H. V. Patterson, packed with creeping gothic terror! And that last line: chilling. 🧽👇🧹

I surveyed the ruin of my ancestral home. Dust had gathered thickly on the rafters, the window blinds, under the furniture. I wielded the vacuum and dustpan. I scooped gray masses of dryer lint from t...