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March 20th! Get your weirdest flash stories ready!

Shout out to @ivygrimes.bsky.social for a truly phenomenal piece of writing with The Cellar Below the Cellar, creating a soft Southern Gothic apocalypse digging its fingers into the raw, rich dirt of life.

A fairy tale for our fallen age, with teeth & heart to spare & great depths below the surface

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"The arrival of a siren does not bother them; they are water-things, all of them;"

"why why why why why did she leave the sea?"

When you know you're going to love a story from the title alone, @hexliterary.bsky.social @katharinetyndall.bsky.social

YESSSSSSSSSS

One of my favorite things I've written in the past year.

So excited to see it in @hexliterary.bsky.social!

The Office Siren by Katharine Tyndall The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk. With one webbed pinky she stirs in the granules. It still doesn't taste like the sea. ...

"The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk."

Absolutely STOKED to share a new experimental @katharinetyndall.bsky.social story! This one culminates so perfectly, absolutely fitting for the week of International Women's Day. Go go go 🧜‍♀️😈

submissions — neon hemlock

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

next time !!!

Split Lip Managing Editor Wendy Oleson at the hex reading event, holding a microphone.

Our very own Managing Editor @wendyoleson.bsky.social at the @hexliterary.bsky.social reading last night! 👏 🤩

Went to my very first AWP offsite reading last night (thanks @hexliterary.bsky.social) expecting a quiet and somber affair, but all the readers read their pieces out loud and not silently to themselves like I was expecting. Would've been going to way more readings if I'd known it was like this.

❤️ @hexliterary.bsky.social

What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

“What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom.

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/what...

TOMORROW NIGHT

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i have some poems up in the latest issue of vlad mag, courtesy the saints kkkkkurrrrrttttt and tex. whole issue is totally stacked.

houseofvladpress.com/toxic-nostal...

THREE MORE DAYS! See you all soon!

Afternooners! We got a banger up on hex this week! Busy and bitter and wonderful, "Getting By" captures something many of us have felt before. Go check it out!!

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

The Van, by Will Musgrove — The Bulb Region The Van — Will Musgrove THE MOVERS WERE COMING THE NEXT DAY. I was cleaning out my...

"I saw the van cresting over the hill like some four-door sun, coming at me head-on just as I was passing a slow motorist on the opposite side [...]"

Read Will Musgrove's (@willmusgrove.bsky.social) wonderful short story, "The Van," in The Bulb Region today.

bulbregion.com/The-Van-by-W...

Getting By by Anyu Ching My hands are clutching a pair of knitting needles. My feet weave a deflated soccer ball in-between cones—you know, that impossible activity gym teachers made you do in front of the entire class. One e...

"My hands are clutching a pair of knitting needles. My feet weave a deflated soccer ball in-between cones..."

Absolutely love this new Anyu Ching piece, a surreal take on keeping busy and moving on. Don't miss the impeccably crafted "Getting By," up now on @hexliterary.bsky.social !

Getting By by Anyu Ching My hands are clutching a pair of knitting needles. My feet weave a deflated soccer ball in-between cones—you know, that impossible activity gym teachers made you do in front of the entire class. One e...

"My hands are clutching a pair of knitting needles. My feet weave a deflated soccer ball in-between cones..."

This week on hex, Anyu Ching is keeping busy. In this surreal piece, our narrator does whatever they can, everything they can. Don't miss the sharply written "Getting By," up now !!

“The Woman In White” by Russell Brakefield “I saw a woman in the road,” he said. “A woman in white robes. Sort of floating there.” He tried to describe the woman, but even as he talked, he realized he probably hadn’t seen a woman after all.

Super excited to feature a new @russellbrakefield.bsky.social story today!

I'll be at AWP Fri afternoon to Sunday, and will be reading on Friday evening with all these fab @hexliterary.bsky.social peoples!! Come say hi! Saturday I'll prob just be hanging out at the bookfair with @josephlezza.com all day!

Sharing this after reading the first paragraph, a paragraph which is absolutely worth your time.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

13th Annual Rock & Roll Reading flier

Hex Offsite Reading flier - 3/6 at 6:30

The Os may be in Sarasota, but I'm gonna be in Baltimore this week. Come say hi?