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today from Guy Cramer! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hai...

October 1, 2026
Haiku
Guy Cramer

not cold enough
to ask dad
for more firewood

kicking off acceptances from Cletus Crow's haiku call today with three from @ezhang77.bsky.social ! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thr...

September 30, 2026
Three Haiku
Elena Zhang

Opulent
Opulent
hunger for missing
teeth, tonight.

After

After many years,
aliens contort the long
memories of fish

Family Attitude

Our fun shadows confess to crimes
I have yet to commit

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HAD @havehashad.com · 25/09/2026

two poems today from the great @benkline.bsky.social ! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/two...

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HAD @havehashad.com · 23/09/2026

love all the constraints everyone made up for themselves and locked into for Lexi's call! today from @bryanthomasdaly.bsky.social "This poem uses verbatim texts, sent between me and my wife, in winter of 2025. ... The poem is shaped like Minnesota, where we live."

September 23, 2026
32 Texts in Winter
Bryan Thomas Daly
Stop all food, dairy, gum and hard candy. Pistachios,

hazelnuts. Ok I am home. When do you get home?

That time is bogus. No answer yet. Yes. Waiting

by the door. Coming home now. Walking home.

Could use paper towels. Thanks. Going home.

I am very tired. I like lo mein. Just arrived.

At home. Dad died. Check out these urns.

This is black cord. Journey over. Love.

Love that pic of him and Billy. Is there

anything that you desperately need?

I’m here now and it’s pretty scary.

Eggplant. Cucumbers. About an hour

outside Des Moines. Should I add enough

to cover them again? No problem. No need.

This is also black cord. No hard candy is bogus.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 20/09/2026

Cletus Crow will be reading your haiku in ~48mins! (12ct/1et) first 100 to enter will be considered

Submittable submission call:

cletus crow
HAD call
sunday noon ct

haiku only
capped at 100
3 pieces per sub

small bullets
still kill
kill me please!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 13/09/2026

formatting stuff for this coming week, this is a fun bio... 💀

McKinley Johnson is a Queer Appalachian poet. He knows he should make a website, but he really doesn't want to. In the meantime his Instagram is @mt.mck. While this is McKinley’s first skull, Aaron did tweet his cover letter once.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 01/09/2026

Next sub call coming in ~48 hours (Wed, 9/2, 9pm central time), from our friends and yours, @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social! *full sub call language in alt text and replies*

Choose Your Own Constraint!

Hey hey, HADders! Lexi Rosen, here. While you can normally find me honking over at Silly Goose Press, Aaron and Crow were kind enough to pass over the keys to the skull pile this week and I can't wait to hand some out! I am SO excited to read your very best, RULE FOLLOWING pieces. I'm interested in constraints, patterns, syllables, rhyme schemes — whatever rules you've decided to follow are fair game for this call. Prose and poetry are welcome, but know that I prefer flash fiction and poems that can stick to one-ish page, and let's limit page counts to 3-5ish. That said, I care way more about the rules you're choosing to follow than the ones I lay out for you. Pretty please with a cherry on top let me know on a separate page (the last page, if possible!) of your attached submission document what rules and parameters you've decided to set (ie, I didn't use the letter E throughout the piece, I only wrote in haiku, every third word is an onomatopoeia, I had to use the word canteloup at least twice, etc), and feel free to include something about why, if you wanna — I love a craft choice and would love even more to hear about your process.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 13/08/2026

the first acceptance from Z.H. Gill's recent sub call is this banger from HAD first round draft pick, Julián Martinez !! www.havehashad.com/r2ld2

August 13, 2026
Hollywood Grill
Julián Martinez
– North & Ashland, Chicago IL

Reggie’s alone tonight. She’s sucking on a sucker that she got at this diner, the one her father took her to as a kid, the mural of Elvis Presley and Mickey and all the all-Americans kissing and chewing on french fries, stenching it up with their fat ugly overfed mugs. She’s on less drugs than she’d like to be. Chicago’s where Bill her ex-husband used to live, Mr. Indiana Man. She’s thinking about his mess of hair, his nose. The mole on it. A green code in her head is scrolling like The Matrix. It glows but she doesn’t understand the message. She’s hesitant— this is where the guys with guns who her daughter’s been hanging with are from. How did Reggie get here? She slept weird on the bus. A Greyhound! She couldn’t sleep for 48 hours so she decided to go somewhere, wherever, for the weekend. Euphonia hasn’t been home for days so she thought she might bump into her while eating, here at this 24-hour diner some

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HAD @havehashad.com · 12/08/2026

"If it’s not one thing it’s the whole universe" today from Guy Cramer! www.havehashad.com/fgroa

August 12, 2026
The Astronomers
Guy Cramer
Sliced my thumb cutting an onion
while liver burns on the stove

If it’s not one thing it’s the whole universe

All the Band-Aids are kid-sized
I put them in a memorable place

Same drawer as therapy receipts
delinquent student loans

The payment plan for the discounted pool with scattergun marks

Things are safer without water
The kids could spend all day down at the bottom

Watching sunrays leaking through pinhole constellations
Yelling Cassie O’s peeing again

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HAD @havehashad.com · 11/08/2026

New Jeffrey Hermann!! "I dream of giving up on working hard for a living and instead finding a passion project like designing hats that bring hats back into style..." www.havehashad.com/51qwu

August 11, 2026
Nothing In Life Has Prepared Me
Jeffrey Hermann
I dream of giving up on working hard for a living and instead finding a passion project like designing hats that bring hats back into style for real which will probably never happen because people want to be free and not held down especially on top of the head what they want I think is freedom on a large scale and freedom on a small scale but they also want to be in love which means you are not free but a captive held in a prison of irrational attachment a person who wrecked their own ship on the rocky coast of a beautiful island from which you do not want to be rescued you want to be happy doing nothing but admiring the island and claiming it as your own and searching the horizon on the lookout for danger for someone who wants to take the island for themselves or maybe it is just a boat full of tourists who want to have a drink on the beach and buy a t-shirt and sleep in a nice bed in a nice hotel and you look around and

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HAD @havehashad.com · 04/08/2026

new poem from longtime fave Sean Cho A. today! www.havehashad.com/24ujm

August 4, 2026
Before you fall in love with me
Sean Cho A.
I need you to know

I get anxious making phone calls &
need a fair amount of warning before
social events My biggest hobby is walking
my cat & I’m terrified of highways I usually
only own one pair of shoes at a time
& I’m really bad at keeping herbs alive

It’s much too late
for me to become
anyone else.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 01/08/2026

another teeny tiny wonder for you all, today from Dana Chiueh ! www.havehashad.com/msy8v

August 1, 2026
Something Like a Life
Dana Chiueh
In the middle of the room is a big hole you and I have been working smooth.

We put things in the hole to see how they interact with each other.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 31/07/2026

"That I’ll recognize you in the coffee shop after all these years, that you’ll see my long scraggly mop and pierced nose as the bell chimes over the door knowing it’s me, and you’ll stand from the loveseat and open your arms..." 🔥 👀 from Lauren Kardos www.havehashad.com/mcqgx

July 31, 2026
Three wishes and a secret
Lauren Kardos
That I’ll recognize you in the coffee shop after all these years, that you’ll see my long scraggly mop and pierced nose as the bell chimes over the door knowing it’s me, and you’ll stand from the loveseat and open your arms. That we’ll refill our mugs until our fingers jitter, our hearts race, until the baristas side-eye us near closing, two women on the wrong side of forty with Cheshire cat smiles and laughing to tears, saying remember when so-and-so jumped the bonfire with her vaulting pole, saying I hear he runs the bank downtown now. That you’ll ask me to dinner because it’s been too long and maybe, if I’m up to it, we can split a cheesecake for dessert and play what was once our favorite game, the one you always said was better than truth or dare, the one that revealed a week before graduation that I was moving away, packed and ticket in-hand for a city across the country, that I wasn’t bringing you. That behind all these three

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HAD @havehashad.com · 30/07/2026

well well well well well... today from Sarah Carson! www.havehashad.com/trj84

July 30, 2026
In the Mornings We All Meet at the Well Well
Sarah Carson
Well, well, someone says.

Well, well, well, someone else replies.

Well, well, well, well, here we are, someone’s dad inevitably continues.

It goes like this for hours.

We forget we came here alone with our empty buckets. We forget that we came here hoping to be healed.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 29/07/2026

HAD fave Anna Vangala Jones back under the skulls today! www.havehashad.com/st012

July 29, 2026
Where Everybody Knows How You Died
Anna Vangala Jones
I like to ghost watch as I nurse my scotch. It's funny, scotch made me cough and sputter when I was a person but the burn is nice now—the warmth makes you feel alive. The bar is crowded tonight. Hit & Run Victim is arm wrestling Bungee Jump Splat (he tried to be known as Thrill Seeker but we were all too hung up on the splat.) Choked on a Chicken Wing While Living Alone is sitting at the piano, hands hovering over the keys but not touching them. Leaned Too Far Over the Yellow Line to See if the L Train Was Coming & Fell Onto the Tracks at the Exact Wrong Moment is dancing by herself, swaying to the music Choked on a Chicken Wing isn't playing. Fell Asleep & Didn’t Wake Up asks me if he can bum a cig so I go join him for a smoke. He knows I'm Abducted, Buried in the Woods, & Never Found but is polite enough to pretend he thinks I'm Lung Cancer. He asks if I ever miss it. Life, I'm assuming. I don't answer. Me neither, h

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HAD @havehashad.com · 27/07/2026

love a perfect little prose poemy *snapshot*, like this today from Catherine Weiss www.havehashad.com/2v9xy

July 27, 2026
Texas
Catherine Weiss
We moved in February, left all the cars parked along on E 11th street, lumps under Manhattan snow. Rented a McMansion in the ‘burbs, filling the carpeted bedrooms up with unauthorized subletting roommates. Jake joined a band, which played covers of John Mayer songs and Wagon Wheel at bars in Austin and Shreveport. Jake, who played cello and didn’t love me anymore. None of us had jobs. I volunteered in the back office of the humane society where I was chastised for investigating petty cash thievery of another volunteer. I adopted a fluffy white puppy. I didn’t write a screenplay. By June it was too hot to walk barefoot on pavement. I tried to be good. I tried so hard to make it work. Before Texas, I didn’t know dogs could scream.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 25/07/2026

don't miss it! today from Michael Pershan www.havehashad.com/xx2h6

July 25, 2026
Blink and you’ll miss it
Michael Pershan

But he watched the whole thing.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 21/07/2026

legit super love HAD submitter vibes. y'all are the best.

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if my deep-seated anxiety is right and you end up disliking this poem so much that you decide you actually really really hate me as a person and want to dedicate your life to seeing me fail, just know that I'm so so sorry. either way, thanks for your time!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 19/07/2026

How about a list of errands for Sunday? Today from Daniella Sinder "To divorce your pain from your personality and find that nothing remains To speak kindly to yourself" www.havehashad.com/2x6mb

July 19, 2026
Errands
Daniella Sinder
To lie in the mud first in childhood and later, eternally

To watch a former love grow old from behind a dog's Instagram account

To buy the bottle for its label and laugh at the first sip

To divorce your pain from your personality and find that nothing remains

To speak kindly to yourself (but only out of spite)

To manage expectations and still say, I love you

To envision a future held by arms merely reaching for the next morning

To fear the intuition you once fought to understand

To learn new terminology for your experiences and wish the world had fewer words

To fall asleep entwined and yearn for infinite language

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HAD @havehashad.com · 18/07/2026

brilliant poem and use of form today from Theo Nguyen ! www.havehashad.com/gmp6i

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HAD @havehashad.com · 17/07/2026

I really thought this was gonna read "I think this piece is a little eerie and nostalgic and pretty--all the things I... know you like" and was ready to be all, hell yeah, I do like those things, shoutout to you for knowing my tastes!

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I think this piece is a little eerie and nostalgic and pretty--all the things I like for my writing to be. Hope you enjoy!

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HAD @havehashad.com · 17/07/2026

I love this dumb little journal we've built with all y'all's help.

what is it

who knows??
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This is one of the weirder/nerdier things I've ever written so I saved it for a HAD call. :)

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HAD @havehashad.com · 17/07/2026

POP-UP SUBMISSION CALL TIME! Open right now, until we hit 70. * any genre, but would love to see prose * any length, but shorter the better * two pieces ok, but encourage you only send one havehashad.submittable.com/submit/36274...

Submissions are open RIGHT NOW. Will be open for 70 submissions.

Open to technically anything, but would really love to see the teeniest tiniest pieces of prose you've got.

In other words...

- open to all genre, but would really love to see prose
- open to any word length, but the shorter the better
- you can send two pieces, but really encourage you only send one
no theme

Will probably do this same call sometime in the next 12–168 hours, depending on how fast I get through these and how life goes, so if you don't make this in time, keep an eye on our socials?

Thanks!
-Aaron

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HAD @havehashad.com · 15/07/2026

"Still, I sat there for an hour, as if regret could arrive late and find me waiting." today from Jonna Kihlman! www.havehashad.com/ozo4c

July 15, 2026
Three Days Later
Jonna Kihlman
You asked me to come and see you before you left. I told you I had plans. The truth was I didn't trust myself not to fall back. Three days later I bought a train ticket to your city. I watched fields turn into buildings outside the train window. Walked the white cobbles of your street. Sat beneath a tree in the park across from your house and looked at the front door. Nothing happened. No curtains moved. No footsteps crossed the hall. No shadow passed the window. You were already gone. Still, I sat there for an hour, as if regret could arrive late and find me waiting.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 12/07/2026

today let's rank eutrapelia on a scale of buffoonery and boorishness with Billy Sheehan: "2. There are jokes in my mother’s eulogy – jokes I believe she would have enjoyed. They land." www.havehashad.com/kbt71

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HAD @havehashad.com · 10/07/2026

"The side effect of prednisone... is a poem." today from Robin Neidhard! www.havehashad.com/6kmnw

July 10, 2026
Warning Label for Prednisone
Robin Neidhard
after Shira Erlichman

The side effect of prednisone (is a moon face. The side effect of a moon face is no one will recognize you anymore. The side effect of no one recognizing you is that you’ll question your own existence. The side effect of questioning your own existence is that at some point you’ll no longer care. The side effect of not caring is saying fuck it. The side effect of saying fuck it is bringing home two cats. The side effect of bringing home two cats is needing more cats. The side effect of all these cats is partial healing. The side effect of partial healing is vivid dreams of running down the street again after being paralyzed. The side effect of running down the street in dreams is you’ll believe you can do anything. The side effect of self-belief is open skies and a full heart. The side effect of open skies and a full heart is a gentle return to yourself. The side effect of a gentle return to yourself is ta

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HAD @havehashad.com · 07/07/2026

"Giving someone the bird. Birds. Crows & ravens, especially. Also loons, kookaburras, cockatoos, cassowaries, roseate spoonbills, & shoebill storks w their prominent noses. I love prominent noses." — Renee Kalagayan LOVE a square block of text list poem! www.havehashad.com/xi1xr

July 7, 2026
FEATURES THAT I PARTICULARLY LIKE
Renee Kalagayan
After Sei Shōnagon

When my three-year-old cousin presses buttons on his toys with his middle finger. Middle fingers. Giving someone the bird. Birds. Crows and ravens, especially. Also loons, kookaburras, cockatoos, cassowaries, roseate spoonbills, and shoebill storks with their prominent noses. I love prominent noses. Women whose noses make them look like birds or witches or that spread wide when they laugh. Women who laugh. Women who are bewitching. Women who be witching. Women who call their group of friends a coven. My coven. Emma, Isabella, Jessica, Karina, and my little cousin Ina. Ina’s nose. When Ina’s nose crinkles in the middle when she smiles, like a drawbridge being raised. Bridges. Bridges over cars. Freckles bespeckled over the bridge of a nose. Bridges in songs. Bridges over water. Bridges over troubled water. Troubled water. Breakwater. Drinking water on a break from work. Poems that feel like fresh water af

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HAD @havehashad.com · 05/07/2026

"All Small Pete ever wanted to do was fish, which drove his industrious neighbors crazy." let's go 🎣 today with Ken Pisani ! www.havehashad.com/mhvxi

July 5, 2026
Small Pete
by Ken Pisani

All Small Pete ever wanted to do was fish, which drove his industrious neighbors crazy. (With envy?) They worked to have all that they wanted, including jet packs to take them to castles in the sky . . . while all Small Pete had was time to fish. (He lived in a hole in the ground.) Despite a lifetime sitting by the river, rod in hand, line in water, Small Pete had never caught a fish. But he didn’t care because—technically—“fishing” did not require the actual catching of a fish. The townspeople disagreed, insisting that fishing required the end result of a fish. Finally, they’d had enough of Small Pete’s lazy affrontery. They arrested him and charged him with temporalcide (“killing time”). And sentenced Small Pete to death. But it was customary to grant the condemned man’s last request. And all Small Pete wanted was to fish. You can find Small Pete by the side of the river, rod in hand, line in water, and not a fish in sight.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 04/07/2026

Isabelle Correa has a beautiful new poem at HAD today! www.havehashad.com/y45dh

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HAD @havehashad.com · 02/07/2026

two today from Rachel Beachy, the second being this little piece of magic: www.havehashad.com/ku8w4

Poem in Which I Practice Optimism
“For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.”

Maybe the baby was born so big
the shoes never fit or the baby lived
someplace warm and went around
barefoot or the baby was held all
the time so his feet never even
touched the ground.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 01/07/2026

incredibly fun one today from Garrett Mostowski!! www.havehashad.com/5sfwn

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HAD @havehashad.com · 26/06/2026

banger today from Avery Steigerwald 🔥 www.havehashad.com/flrwx

June 26, 2026
Preventable Things
by Avery Steigerwald

car crash without a seatbelt /
mistakes / summer colds /
winter colds / viral
infection / post-viral
infection / the things you
can’t prevent without your
prophetic dreams / death /
disease / life / pregnancy /
the extinction of penguins /
love / losing someone you
love / finding someone you
love / fibroids / autoimmune
disease / people-pleasing /
redundancy / regret / tears

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HAD @havehashad.com · 23/06/2026

hell yeah from Spencer Eckart "He’s got on a montera hat and manoletina shoes to match. Oh, not this—anything but this. There’s a mirror in the lounge area. I have on a montera and manoletinas to match also. Dammit. This is not what I wanted this to be." www.havehashad.com/pgjkv

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HAD @havehashad.com · 21/06/2026

"We made out in the walk-in freezer, stopped at a taco stand in the back alley for vegetarian burritos on the walk home. When he left for Wisconsin, I was the only employee remaining." today from Susan Muth! www.havehashad.com/107k1

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HAD @havehashad.com · 17/06/2026

the bio is half the fun, can't urge you strongly enough to click through for that but today, from Mitch Nobis, a kinda quintessential "HAD piece": www.havehashad.com/el4pt

June 17, 2026
I Drive By a Bunch of Teenagers With My Window Down While Listening to an Audiobook by Sir David Attenborough and Right as I Pass Them He Loudly Says “Then The Couple Mates”
by Mitchell Nobis

They laugh.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 16/06/2026

"Sexual Orientation • Heterosexual • Homosexual • Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus..." today from Frances Klein! www.havehashad.com/lk1uf

June 16, 2026
Demographics
Frances Klein
Sexual Orientation (select one)

Heterosexual
Homosexual
Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus and all the teens are doodling on their notebooks in loopy cursive, Mr. Rachel Weisz’s Belted Tanktop, and Mrs. Brendan Fraser’s Center-Part Bangs, and Arnold Vosloo’s Shaved Head and the small towns of America aren’t so small when you sit in the dark with desert stretching past the horizon, and we all see the movie every weekend, tickets are cheap if you smuggle in your own snacks, cargo pants pockets stuffed with Skittles, and the ticket taker doesn’t notice because he’s making eyes at the cardboard cutout of Brendan, we all are, we all want to be all four lips and two tongues inside the big kiss at the end, want to be every locust buzzing out of Imhotep’s unhinged jaws, we have no words for what we feel, know only that something inside us h

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HAD @havehashad.com · 08/06/2026

I have perhaps bad news for you...

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Y'all are so funny pls never go bald ily

tip jar

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HAD @havehashad.com · 07/06/2026

crazy to be excited about getting the total number of submissions down to a "manageable" number... and that still means a ridiculous number of submissions

screenshot of Submittable showing 266 submissions (down from original number of 926)

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HAD @havehashad.com · 06/06/2026

I don't go to therapy, I just every now and then read and respond to hundreds of submissions as fast as I can, while enjoying the nice and/or unhinged things I strongly insinuated it would be nice if people said in their cover letters

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you ever go to therapy and go omg i cannot even begin to talk about my issues until i develop a sexual fixation on taxidermy or something because right now they are SOOOOOOOO cliche

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HAD @havehashad.com · 05/06/2026

New here? :) But also... it IS indeed currently feeling less possible than it did even just a day or two ago...

screenshot of Submittable email, a reply to a rejection:

You are so funny. You don’t actually read through 900 pieces it’s just not humanly possible :)

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HAD @havehashad.com · 05/06/2026

thinking, again, about our postcard submission call. 200 postcards over a handful of days, all shoved into my old apt mailbox. and the voicemail call, where I listened to them all in the car, while driving across the country with my buddy. just about time for something like one of those again...

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Devastating that we have to use submittable instead of carrier pigeons and smoke signals. Where's the whimsy?

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