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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?

AWP Reading Fractured Lit/ A Reason to Write offsite reading Thursday March 5, 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the Pratt Library, 1303 Orleans St, there will be refreshments and door prizes

Hex offsite Friday 3/6 6:30 PM at Current Space, 421 N. Howard

where I’ll be at AWP! either at the @reckoningmag.bsky.social booth (T714) or these cool offsite readings

Repetitions Theme: Repetitions March 3rd, 6 a.m. PST, capped at 222 submissions For this call, I'm looking for prose that uses repetition to get at what it's going for. This could be repetition of sounds, phrases, images, a piece of the subject matter—or whatever. Some examples of what I'm trying to get you to go for would be Nam Troag Tran’s “Dolphin Linguistics,” Lydia Davis’ “A Mown Lawn,” Joe Brainard’s “I Remember,” Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style,” Loorie Moore's “Real Estate,” Sharon Kivland's "Nana by Emile Zola digested according to light and lighting effects, including metaphor," or Donald Barthelme's “The Balloon.” Subtler repetition than demonstrated by these is ok (but just ok.) Any kind of prose is fine including prose poems. You may consider the usual word count cutoff for HAD (~750-1000) to be relaxed given the nature of this call. Though you should still be kinda in the spirit of. I'm looking forward to seeing what you send me. — Joshua Hebburn

Next call coming soon, from our fave and yours, Joshua Hebburn!

Theme: Repetitions
March 3rd, 6 a.m. PST, capped at 222 submissions

This could be repetition of sounds, phrases, images, a piece of the subject matter—or whatever. Any kind of prose is fine including prose poems.

another stunner from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social ✨

“We shielded our eyes and looked into the cloudless blue sky above us trying to figure out where it came from, how it got here, who sent it back and why.”

Basking in Glory At the booths, I’m unable to decide whether to enter II or III. I wonder if there is an expectation as to which side of a glory hole belongs to the giver and which to the receiver. I wonder if it w…

Folks, I’m very proud of this (long) new story. If you can find a spare half hour today, I’d love for you to tuck into Basking in Glory. @courtlandavenue.bsky.social was such an incredible editor to work with! FFO: glory holes, bugs fighting, Midwest sex shops

Image announces journal Variant Lit is open for submissions, see guidelines on variantlit.com

And just like that, we are open for submissions.
The world needs art and beauty, so send us yours. Guidelines @variantlit.com

thanks, Claudia !!

Stuffed Arms for the Elderly by Matt Rowan The elderly have asked us to stop bringing them by the bushel, but the kids won’t stop making them and insist they’re for the elderly. The children say it in this cryptic, eyes-askance way that feels ...

"After I finish stuffing the stuffed arms down that elderly couple’s chimney and hear them shouting, “No, no, not again. What, what will relieve us of this hell?” I move on to the next home" Brilliant chill, so original by Matt Rowan @hexliterary.bsky.social
hexliterary.com?p=3134

Illustration of a trippy wizard with a raven on his shoulder. He has a star-like beard and is casting "hex"s across the top of the page. Text: hex offsite Friday 3/6 6:30pm Ruth Joffre Meghan Phillips Richard Mirabella Exodus Oktavia Brownlow Ryan Habermeyer Julian Martinez Wendy Oleson Skyler Melnick Current Space * 421 N. Howard Incredible flyer by Joe Aguilar and Kate McIntyre

Our third official hex offsite happens ONE WEEK from today! We are getting so stoked to hang out! If you are out and about in Charm City, come spend an unforgettable reading of just a small sample of the writers we are lucky to publish!

thanks, Myna !!

Flash Roundup * Jan/Feb 2026 A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

Jan/Feb speculative flash roundup + bonus recs!

A flyer for the Cowboy Jamboree/Malarkey Books reading that will take place on Thursday, March 5th, at Golden West Cafe in Baltimore

One week from today! Stop by to see an incredible lineup of writers and to find out if I own an Elvis Grbac Baltimore Ravens jersey

This is delightfully weird 😃

"The rest mimicked respect with their silence."

Don't miss contributor Pedro Ponce's flash piece in @hexliterary.bsky.social! 🔥 buff.ly/GCFGsrh

A Visit From the Sentient Slime Mold Specialist by Spencer Nitkey “So, ok boss, yes, you probably should have attended to the mold beneath your shower head before it got to this point. Shoulda being the operant word here. But shoulds only count in wouldas and coulda...

"The second problem being you have not learned to love the soft animal of your heart, and like any soft animal without love, it’s rotted in your chest..."

This is so fun. @spencerwriting.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social

Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction READ VOLUME 1 HERE! READ VOLUME 2 HERE! Presenting the first ever “Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction,” edited by JW Stebner. Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Vol. 1 collects the best internati…

Now OPEN for submissions! 🐜🦀🐞

Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction Volume 3 is looking for the best tales of bug or barnacle or beastie published in 2025!

Submit here: hexagonmagazine.ca/ybasf