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Does It Have Pockets
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social
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Kudos and congratulations to our 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees. Find their work and the other great literature of 2025 at doesithavepockets.com <3 #literarycommunity

Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"The picture within the frame changes every week, ranging from the news clip of the President pardoning a turkey to a bird’s eye view of our town."

Words, wings, war in this dynamic new #fiction from Sarp Sozdinler | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarp...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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"Rain on his face, mingled with dirt, and a week of stubble. Wild man. Storm man. We had to let him in but hesitated because of what he carried."

Vivid, weighty, poignant -- new #cnf from Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-... #dihpalum

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"“No, I’m not trying to hide it. It’s the law, if you carry a bottle, it’s got to be in a paper bag.”"

One tiny, pulsing micro & one propulsive, can't miss #flash #fiction from Tom Hedt | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tom-...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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"The letters were a little shaky, but the “you” was underlined with a firm hand."

Two brightly brilliant, cinematic little micros from phebej.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb... #fiction #dihpalumni

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"A whorling of all of the wishes I have ever made/
The lullaby beneath my body"

The body as metaphor, the poem as elixir; don't miss these two stunning new poems from Sarah Scarberry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sarah...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
doesithavepockets.bsky.social
"Equally puzzling was the sound. Sometimes loud. Sometimes soft, like spring breeze."

Deftly mixing the unreal, surreal, & very real, incredible new #fiction from @windblastedpappy.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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"Beauty keeps balking at my balking at beauty –"

Part prose poem, part breath, part song, part moment, one exquisite new #mustread #creativenonfiction from Acie Clark | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/acie-clark

Art @sethpartnow.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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"If she approaches you, don’t run. Hold very still and try your best to answer her riddles."

A cautionary, fantastic tale told through social posts in this witty new #fiction from @rheatellstales.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rhea...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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"Years ago she moved inland, promising/
it was only for a few years./
You know this story."

DIHP alumna @allcheesedinner.bsky.social returns with two quietly fierce, graceful new #poems for our November issue | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/merie...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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"She never made it outside in time to see how dregs of trash managed to fly from the truck and land on her specific lawn every week."

A delightful dose of magical realism in new #fiction from @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jody...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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"The Dog was raised by man. Beautiful, imperfect,/
flatulent, man. Stealing leftovers like a bindle-carrying/
vagabond."

A pair of breathtaking, fresh-voiced #poems from Ben Starr | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ben-s...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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"But things took a tailspin when I forwarded him my “Ezekiel, Mississippi Letters,” my account of this shitbag town and what all goes on here."

We celebrate the return of the singular @dirtbagwriting.bsky.social #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mike...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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"looking for that crimson stain of belonging/
only for it to show up dingy and brown"

Womanhood, motherhood, life and breath, powerful new #poetry from @haleydirenzo.bsky.social, new for November | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/haley...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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We are proud to announce the stunners who comprise our 2026 @monarch.gay nomination slate. Read them all once again (or for the 1st time!) at doesithavepockets.com | #literarycommunity
Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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We're featuring the winning entries in this year's Write on the Sound contest! Congrats to @terahs.bsky.social (#fiction), @joyarcher.bsky.social (#cnf), & Nancy Knowles (#poetry) on their beautiful works| www.doesithavepockets.com/features/202...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"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-...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"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-...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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"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...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"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...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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"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...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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"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...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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"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...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"....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...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM