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HAD @havehashad.com · 30/09/2026

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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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stop what you're doing and read this right now

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good story alert!

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Planning on opening up Short Story, Long submissions mid-October. (Probably the 15th? But maybe a skosh earlier. And then they'll stay open thru the end of the year.) If you’ve got a killer 3k–8k word story, get ‘er ready! (I'll also be in need of a couple submission readers; hmu if interested!)

ashortstorylong.substack.com

Short Story, Long | Aaron Burch | Substack

Longer short stories, published biweekly. Click to read Short Story, Long, by Aaron Burch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry ma'am, It's nintendo time

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was solid, a pretty quick read. Genuinely unsettling and hard to put down. I feel like the movie is going to be very, very different, but I'm more interested in seeing how

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Middlebrow” is the perfect level of brow for a movie to be. if you want smarter read a book if you want dumber read some posts

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As long as I'm thinking about book covers, an anecdote: When we talked cover concepts for APPLESEED, I totally straightfaced told my editor that I wanted to spoof the TWILIGHT cover, but with furred, clawed faun hands clutching the apple instead. I cannot tell you how long we stared at each other...

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sure whatever man I don't care anymore

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a really good time for jokesters to make a bunch of videos of themselves promoting & endorsing a bunch of weird and evil stuff and then say Meta did it when they get yelled at

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i would hunt the new meta ai mascot with a crossbow

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i don't want to see chat gpt make you a mascot. i don't want to see you at all. i want to see fire emblem fortune's weave on my nintendo switch 2

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thinking about the time I bought a donkey kong barrel sized jug of metamucil and texted all my friends that I was "the jewish fiber demon"

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please Lord at least one more 70+ sunny day so I can make ten more tie dye shirts before i succumb to seasonal depression

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maxwell largeman 🪷 @dad.franklinstower.online · 23/09/2026

i’m ready to kms just so i can stop hearing about this shit fr

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Shenanigans @shenanigans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Steve Zahn is always my favorite character in every movie he's in

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Writers in Pittsburgh @writersinpgh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're doing a spooooooky book club for October!

WiP Book Club
October 26th, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Game Masters

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

They even made DoorDash apologize.

DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.

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Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I will not stop writing fiction stories until all global financial markets are obliterated

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The real risk of AI destroying the world is through some bullshit like this honestly

Tweet from Zachary Cohen CNN

NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doing this the next time my girlfriend gets mad at me for coming home with too many books

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Bugs "WHAT AM I DOING" activated me like a sleeper agent

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i have a little flash fiction story in the new issue of prairie schooner! or, to put it another way: sandra cisneros and i have work in the same magazine!?!?!

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Underrated part of the Sydney Sweeney gambling ad is she reassures us the app can't be used to bet on wars, the concept no one had heard of like three years ago

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s kind of crazy that this is going to be revelatory for a lot of people while idiots who post online have known this incredibly important information for years and years at this point

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't want to start a substack but I want to write exactly one (1) article as a follow up to an article I wrote when I was fourteen (14)

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Writers in Pittsburgh @writersinpgh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our little workshop keeps growing and growing! Check out theshrimp.shop for more info!

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Having an android phone is cringe and millennial. Going for a nice little walk in the park to watch the sunset is cringe and millennial. Calling a friend and asking how they've been is cringe and millennial. Sitting down to read a book without your phone on is cringe and millennial. Wanting to feel

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Calling it a 20 year sentence is irresponsible. It’s a sentence not to exceed 20 years. Very different, especially when the correct policy is probably death by giant anvil

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Cecil @milonsecretcastle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fixed some stuff and reuploaded this after a nightmare where the lead disappeared and i didnt notice until after i rendered the second version lol. Anyways please listen i think this one kicks ass youtu.be/jMXy6Lq8kh4?...