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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 11h

hehe incredible pitch ! ty JW

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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 11h

This is (and I mean this in the best way possible) like if the “Joe Buck welcome to the top of the 47th inning” tweet was stretched into flash fiction. Absolutely masterful

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 22h

love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥

A Home Run by Dan Weaver

Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...

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Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com · 22h

Pumped to be in hex! What a day!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 22h

love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥

A Home Run by Dan Weaver

Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 22h

"Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going!"

Call'em Dan "Hittin' Dingers" Weaver, @supernaturalfeat.com comes in hot this week with a hilarious, perfectly voiced piece just in time for the end of the season! Obsessed with "A Home Run," up now on hex!

A Home Run by Dan Weaver

Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...

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Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social · 22h

“And that pitcher still a little weepy out there still moping like a bastard. He’s a bastard that guy that pitcher. Good guy though, does a lot for his community…”

Oh man, the voice here hits just right. 🧢⚾️

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 22h

love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥

A Home Run by Dan Weaver

Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 21h

man @supernaturalfeat.com just doesn’t miss. Big big Dan Weaver fan here. Read this.

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 22h

love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥

A Home Run by Dan Weaver

Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 22h

yesss thanks for letting us host u!

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 22h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 22h

love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥

A Home Run by Dan Weaver

Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing a pair of sunglasses with the word cool on them

ALT: a man wearing a pair of sunglasses with the word cool on them

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Night Shades @nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 2d

important news! night shades will open for submissions again this coming friday october 17.

🛸 staying open to fill the calendar, 23 spots. all the details are here : www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Submissions

Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is opening October 17, 2025. Staying open until the calendar is full through April. There ar...

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 5d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

Would love to work with you on your poems!

Would also love OTHERSIDE to reach their stretch goals so they can publish some fantastic new nonfiction too!

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 5d

We have some lovely rewards for you over on Kickstarter! Snag a subscription + poetry critique from the wonderful @angelaliu.bsky.social! Angela is a Nebula, Hugo, Astounding, Locus, AND Ignyte finalist—as well as a Rhysling Award recipient! And also the best.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 6d

since i have a couple new pieces premiering in two separate venues over the next month, i wanted to share my most recent piece again -- an experimental erotic horror retelling of oscar wilde's salome

ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am a girl in a woman’s body, I am a woman in a girl's body, I am thirteen and three thousand years old. My Mother tells me a story about a princess who was turned to cinders.

Today on ergot.: 'The Daughter of Abomination' by Sasha Ravitch @sasharavitch.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Sash...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

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shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · 6d

we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to [email protected] for the next issue of the html review

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the html review — about

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

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Z.H. (Burial Magazine) @burialmagazine.bsky.social · 6d

hello bluesky. i know we don’t always get along. but i have a goofy freakout in the inimitable had today and i’d be honored if you took a glance at it. biggest thanks to crow. (also @xaviergarcia.bsky.social you get a shoutout in my bio)

HAD @havehashad.com · 6d

sound the alarms, we got new Z.H. Gill!!

"My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform..."

https://www.havehashad.com/opbd0

Okay? by Z.H. Gill

My friend DJs at this bar called Okay? Not that I know this for certain—it’s what she tells me, I mean, she speaks of it constantly, of ‘[her] night,’ though I have never been to see her perform and,…

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 6d

"Brandy is a fine girl. She does not, however, make a good wife.

And then she dies. She suffers. She doesn’t go quickly. It cannot be helped."

Everything @clairehopple.bsky.social writes is so surprising and exciting

BIG DEAL - Farewell Transmission

By Claire Hopple Brandy is a fine girl. She does not, however, make a good wife. And then she dies. She suffers. She doesn’t go quickly. It cannot be helped. She’d been married to a drug lord for a n...

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 7d

I've been working on two different long-form projects this year, but just know that if you're ever interested in bringing on a genre reader or class speaker etc, I am HERE & super game to discuss short stories forever!

if you've read my work, this is probably the big one:

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 7d

One of my favorite writers with a new story :)

Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 7d

I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 7d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 7d

thanks for reading & sharing, Maegan !

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Maegan Poland @maeganpoland.bsky.social · 7d

This flash is so delightfully odd and beautiful.

"Earlier, when the plane had departed Arizona, the only things below us had been a giant planet of tan sand and a tiny pale grid of a town and a magical skid of snow that I later learned were dunes of gypsum. What appeared cold had actually not been"

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 7d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins

I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 7d

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 7d

FYI, @therumpus.net is still open for essay submissions! If you want to get an idea of what we publish, check out the #RumpusEssays threads below.
therumpus.submittable.com/submit

The Rumpus Submission Manager

We have paused submissions for fiction and poetry, so we can catch up. We'll re-open for these categories on 10/15/2025.The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, e...

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 7d

Read read read this incredible story and stave off the horrors for just a few moments more and just maybe, if you are lucky, you, too, will emerge with a fragrance suggesting an ongoing relationship with leather!

Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 7d

I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 7d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

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Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 7d

I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 7d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins

I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...

hexliterary.com

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