Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social
Writer, all sorts: https://linktr.ee/jeffreyhermann
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Thanks to @maudlinhouse.bsky.social and a hat tip to ee cummings. maudlinhouse.net/in-just-spri...
"Just then my entomologist calls. She has good news about the beetle population. Thriving is what she says. “It’s going to be a good year for the little things,” is what I text my wife."
"Just then my entomologist calls. She has good news about the beetle population. Thriving is what she says. “It’s going to be a good year for the little things,” is what I text my wife."
Howdy
Cowboy Jamboree's Fall issue is live y'all.
We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions.
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...
We're kicking off our 11th (!) year with "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." The theme was inspired by a Slim Hand lyric & these writers took it in all kinds of cool directions.
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hidden-behin...
Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked.
fall 2025 issue 11.1 "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd this fall's theme come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a.....
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Howdy
amazing
new new: "Whalefall," by Kimberly Potthast: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
amazing
good morning
DST means an extra hour and so gonna make this call ~an hour — and not TOO overwhelmed with subs yet — so submissions will close at 8:30am ET
let that lessen or heighten your stress as you see fit
let that lessen or heighten your stress as you see fit
an extra hour this morning! what if I fill it with a 30-60 minute spontaneous submission call??
— @aaronburch.bsky.social
open now:
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/1cad7...
— @aaronburch.bsky.social
open now:
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/1cad7...
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
good morning
Reposted by Jeffrey Hermann
This was a great conversation—I got one video game and two book recommendations, some super helpful writing advice, and cool background inspiration for Amber’s new novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, which is on my nightstand. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
So excited to be back on the show after 13 YEARS! Thank you to Brad for having me on to talk about the book
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@ambersparks.bsky.social returns to the show celebrating the publication of her debut novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (@liveright.bsky.social), a story of a mother and a daughter, of magic and mystery, ghosts and grief.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
@ambersparks.bsky.social returns to the show celebrating the publication of her debut novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (@liveright.bsky.social), a story of a mother and a daughter, of magic and mystery, ghosts and grief.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This was a great conversation—I got one video game and two book recommendations, some super helpful writing advice, and cool background inspiration for Amber’s new novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, which is on my nightstand. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Want to believe (in everything)? Read this @keersteemack.bsky.social story.
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-...
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 ...
xraylitmag.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Want to believe (in everything)? Read this @keersteemack.bsky.social story.
Reposted by Jeffrey Hermann
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
This flash is so good. Man.
"...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 @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…
okaydonkeymag.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This flash is so good. Man.
These small @ezhang77.bsky.social poems are actually giant poems.
Thrilled to have three tiny poems up on @havehashad.com!
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp...
Here’s one:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/amp...
Here’s one:
October 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
These small @ezhang77.bsky.social poems are actually giant poems.
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 😍
"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 😍
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...
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/six-lit...
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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 😍
"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 😍
Very honored — thanks @bruisermag.com ⭐️
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Very honored — thanks @bruisermag.com ⭐️
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....
September 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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....
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.
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!
September 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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.
Five things you probably don’t know about the number five. Thanks @havehashad.com 💙
"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
🔥 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
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Five things you probably don’t know about the number five. Thanks @havehashad.com 💙
Reposted 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."
🔥 today from Jeffrey Hermann
https://www.havehashad.com/0cj37
🔥 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
September 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"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
🔥 today from Jeffrey Hermann
https://www.havehashad.com/0cj37
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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
September 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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
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...
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/t...
September 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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...
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/t...
"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...
New fiction: "The Invention of Kissing" by Jeffrey Hermann aka @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/hermann/t...
The Invention of Kissing | matchbook
www.matchbooklitmag.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Up with freaky beautiful things⭐️
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.
September 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Up with freaky beautiful things⭐️
This is so good
love this one today from Sophia Tone almost as much as I love Wendy's!
"We spent all our money on Wendy’s Meal Deals
and did not have any
for your bail.
But we thought of you
as we ate astonishing
amounts of chicken."
https://www.havehashad.com/6bmr7
"We spent all our money on Wendy’s Meal Deals
and did not have any
for your bail.
But we thought of you
as we ate astonishing
amounts of chicken."
https://www.havehashad.com/6bmr7
Sorry, Anne by Sophia Tone
We spent all our money on Wendy’s Meal Deals and did not have any for your bail. But we thought of you as we ate astonishing amounts of chicken. Every five dollars we said your name. We did not even…
www.havehashad.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is so good
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we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏
oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇
September 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Happy to have a new micro in scaffold lit! www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
August 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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New micro up at the never disappointing Disappointed Housewife @offbeatlit.bsky.social
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thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/08/20/t...
August 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
New micro up at the never disappointing Disappointed Housewife @offbeatlit.bsky.social
thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/08/20/t...
thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/08/20/t...
"I’m planning a big party. My friend has no idea. She hates her job and cries on the weekends about it. We tell her she can do better. We tell each other lies all the time..."
Three awesome micros this morning by @JeffreyHermann.
Do stop by and enjoy them with your coffee, won't you?
thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/08/20/t...
Do stop by and enjoy them with your coffee, won't you?
thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/08/20/t...
August 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"I’m planning a big party. My friend has no idea. She hates her job and cries on the weekends about it. We tell her she can do better. We tell each other lies all the time..."