Thoughts on what we're doing here in March Sadness by @angermonsoon.bsky.social on the substack (which you wanna get on if you're not already): open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
Excited to have another essay on @havehashad.com today. Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for the prompt and selection!
another piece of magic & wonder, today from Andrew Maynard!
"...and there was something so romantic about a wingless jet, about succumbing to loneliness, surrendering to isolation, and if I were braver and more original I would’ve broken into the jet..."
https://www.havehashad.com/4jzvg
beautiful new Natalie Warther today!
"Perhaps each household is allotted a finite amount of joy, as if the wizard’s hands are tied, this is simply the rule of beginnings: Should you acquire giggle and coo, you must forfeit fetch and wag."
https://www.havehashad.com/8e7il
Stumbled across this in the morning. Read it with my 12th-grade creative nonfiction class in the afternoon. They loved it as much as I did. Thanks for sharing!
Reposting my Christmas / Big Rudolph epic, "My Monument," on account of it being Christmas eve: creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-m...
End of 2025 Something of a vague, catch-all theme here to wrap up our year! Send us something related to the holidays and/or "endings." Similar to a recent call, we are going to have two windows, a morning and an evening: 10 am ET, Thursday, 12/18 7 pm ET, Thursday, 12/18 please only submit once Submissions will capped at 150 for each call, meaning a total of 300. A few basic guidelines: ALL genre ok 500 words With micros and poems, up to 3 pieces (totaling no more than 500 all combined) allowed Surprise us, wow us, all'a that. All submissions should receive a response within 24 hours. — Crow & Aaron
crow & aaron doing a last call of the year.
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
"sometimes I make the joke that that’s the moment that I decided to be gay & sometimes I’m a little bit serious" -Laura Price Steele
therumpus.net/2025/12/09/o...
Love these new essays on motherhood in @therumpus.net.
"I was afraid to invite death into the room. I was afraid of what it would take with it when it left." -Elizabeth Austin
therumpus.net/2025/12/10/g...
"...Kyle and Annie both understand that the heart is a spider web capable of trapping and feasting on small, beautiful joys..."
It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
Set out to create the most literary one-sentence story ever written about the intersection of hand jobs and the Olive Garden. Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. And my nephew for making the art. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
NEW STORY⚡️🐸
“Digging Toward the Sun” by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social is now up!
Art by Franziska Hofhansel
flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/d...
"The castle sways more and more, and the father says they must remain diligent. No cutting corners. Each floor must be stronger than the last."
Thank you for reading and sharing!
Very excited to have a story in @flashfrog.bsky.social, a journal I’ve long admired. Thank you @ericscottryon.bsky.social for the edits and commissioning such perfect artwork! I hope you give it a read
"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?"
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!
NEW ESSAY DAILY NEW MAYNARD LET'S GO
Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!
Thanks for reading and sharing!
A fascinating way to think of numbers (and people by extension).
In particular, what it says about the those who like 1 because it means they mirror what they encounter.
XNESS ESSAYS IN A BOOK???????
oh, wow, everything about today's Andrew Maynard short is wonderful, and then that ending!!
"She continues: I like five because you never lose it when it multiplies with something odd. And I think about saying, What if I’m even?"
https://www.havehashad.com/envc8
Thanks to @havehashad.com for publishing my new short! Give it a read!
Happy 5th Birthday/Anniversary to us! To celebrate, we're doing a submissions call and leaving it open for... five (5!) hours. Which is all to say... Submissions will be open Thursday, August 24, 7am – 12pm (aka noon) ET. A few specifics: Theme: "5" (What does that mean exactly? Surprise me!) 500 words max Any/all genre ok For poems and reeeeal short stuff, you can send two, but make 'em short! NOTE: This is a timed call rather than limiting the quantity so I have no idea how many I'll get. A TON, I bet! Also, I really should be doing class prep. Which is all to say, even though our "thing" is generally to get back to everyone ASAP, and I'm still going to read as fast as possible (when I have time!), making kneejerk decisions, these are probably going to take me a while. A week or two wouldn't surprise me. We'll see! Thanks! 💀💀💀 Aaron & Crow
5 year anniversary sub call on Thursday!
Five (5!!) hour submission window, 8/21, 7am - noon ET
Theme: "5"
(What does that mean? Up to you!)
Thx. We (heart) (and (skull)) you.
-Aaron & Crow
D(E)IAGRAM
This "thought experiment" from George Saunders has been on my mind often of late: "Is it possible that we have come to feel responsible for too much, for everything, even things outside of our control, and that this makes us feel like gods who have been unfairly disempowered?"
Love this piece!
I wrote about the myriad number of people who worked hard with me for the election and who kept me from the pit of despair after for Essay Daily's Advent Calendar, which already has some amazing essays for your December countdown to solstice. www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
