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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 8d

We are so honored and excited to present out nominations for Best of the Net this year. Good luck to all of these phenomenal writers, and thank you all for reading and submitting to hex literary!

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Best of the Net Nominations

Fiction

Megan Barickman - The Cattle-Maiden
Richard Mirabella - Volcano People

Poetry

Julian Martinez - Gordon Lish
Adrian Dallas Frandle - The Fastnet
Adelina Sarkisyan - The Goblin King Calls Me Babe
Elena Zhang - Stitched Together
Seth Wade - Breaking News
Monique Quintana - The Pinata

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The Pinch @pinchjournal.bsky.social · 15d

Announcing our last two PJO readers for our upcoming release party! Join us this Saturday the 27th to hear excerpts from their work and more #pinch #thepinch #reading

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The Pinch @pinchjournal.bsky.social · 18d

Join us in celebrating the release of the Pinch Issue 45.2 on Saturday, September 27 @novelmemphis.bsky.social! RSVP on our website now!

📍 novel. bookstore (387 Perkins Extd. Memphis, TN 38117)
🗓 Saturday, September 27 (starting at 6 p.m.)
🖼 Art by Amy Renee Webb

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Aug 29

A wonderful gem: www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-seven-...

Birthday pictures | Per Olvmyr — BROKEN ANTLER

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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

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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Fopling @fopling.bsky.social · Oct 27

Follow me on Letterboxd if you are interested in my thoughts on film

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Fopling uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 316 films watched. Favorites: The Lighthouse (2019), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), The Forbidden Room (2015), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). ...

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Aug 21

❤️more pet pics❤️

SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Aug 17

Finally pulled the trigger and got my own website! Very glad to have a space to gather and showcase my prose, poetry, and philosophy. A basic design, but a good start: www.sethwade.info

Seth Wade | poetry

poems, stories, and articles published by Seth Wade. - poetry - fiction - research

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Aug 10

Wonderful short poem by Cletus Crow—

SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Aug 8

I’m so thrilled to share my short story “Postpartum Ballad of Wendy Rhys” that was just published in @unchartedmag.bsky.social —be warned, it’s pretty dark! www.unchartedmag.com/stories/post...

Postpartum Ballad of Wendy Rhys - Uncharted

I slink down the street, rotting tot in stroller. Each clack of the wheels on the sidewalk cracks becomes a twist inside my chest. Squeals ringing from the playground. Ladies on benches in neat dresse...

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Jul 24

A delightful poem a good friend sent my way—

SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you so much to Pinch for publishing my new poem! This one meant a lot to me, and I can’t imagine a better home for it: www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/i...

I Used to Have Green Thumbs — PINCH

By Seth Wade Fat, wrath, cobwebs in gin: splashed hamburger grease burning our arms as we thrashed to beats of Sting, of KISS— outside, the lilacs barked, You are not a man .  I ch...

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The Pinch @pinchjournal.bsky.social · Jun 23

A new poem has been published on PJO! Read "I Used to Have Green Thumbs" by Seth Wade on our website now!
#poetry #pinchjournal #litmag

I Used to Have Green Thumbs
By Seth Wade

Fat, wrath, cobwebs in gin: splashed
hamburger grease burning our arms as we
thrashed to beats of Sting, of KISS—

outside, the lilacs
barked, You
are not
a man.

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · May 30

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What’s Going On?!

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · May 29

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How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

Pick any era, and you can name an authoritarian who tried to napalm academia. But you might not know that the brothers who gave the world Hansel and Gretel once became victims and heroes, too, or h…

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · May 26

Anyway here you go, BY SALT, BY SEA, BY LIGHT OF STARS is currently a finalist for both a Hugo and a Locus award! :D

I have decided this is in the subgenre of 'wet academia,' proceed accordingly.

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By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars

When her bell sounded at midnight, Firion the wizard grasped her stoutest staff (crowned, for non-magical reasons, with a razor-sharp chunk of amethyst) and put her lips to the doorjamb. “Who goes …

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · May 26

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · May 10

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POLO & PAN - Canopée (audio)

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · May 10

Very glad to have somehow graduated BGSU with my Master’s in philosophy! Now onto FSU for my PhD. Can’t thank enough my professors, colleagues, and loved ones who made this possible!

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Apr 12

Truly shocked and honored to be accepting an offer from Florida State University to continue my research in the ethics of technology and earn my PhD! I cannot thank enough my family, friends, loved ones, and all the educators in my life who helped me get to this point!

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Apr 7

!!! Thanks so much, that means a lot!

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SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Janeta

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Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social · Apr 2

We’ve all been there.

Read “Getting Over It” by Seth Wade in our latest issue:

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-six-fi...

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Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine @asimovssfmag.bsky.social · Mar 18

This week, @zoharjacobs.bsky.social explains how NASA's history with natural and technological disasters inspired her short story "On The Night Shift" in our March/April issue
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On The Night Shift: the story behind the story

by Zohar Jacobs Zohar Jacobs explains the real events in NASA’s history that inspired her new story “On the Night Shift”, available in our [March/April issue, on sale now!] Climat…

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