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24/06/2024

some great advice today from Richie Zaborowske today!

read it, listen to it, live it

https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/always-dance-at-weddings

22/06/2024

today we've got the one piece that got cut off due to vm limit but we loved it so much, we HAD to follow-up and ask for the rest of the piece!

“We talking about practice.” A quote that’s found its way into culture...

The familiar chime announced my entrance, causing the liquor store clerk to remove his reading glasses and take notice of my Larry Bird t-shirt. “Bird fan, eh? Me too, but I can’t watch the NBA anymore.” “Total

22/06/2024

the day may’ve almost slipped away but we didn’t forget this Sam Milligan doozy!

”Just keep me in your heart for a while. Enjoy your sandwiches, all that. Text whoever gets my phone number next with whatever bu****it you would have told me.”

When I die, I hope they don’t put it in an email. That’s how I found out Ray was dead. Not gone, or passed, or any of the other words they used. He was dead. There was a donation link at the bottom of the email and I wondered how red some p

15/11/2023

the "note" for today's poem from Sam Stebbins — "From the 1970s through the 1990s, a black bear named Samantha lived in a cage in front of Thirsty’s gas station in Cadillac, Michigan." — reminds me of Ivan the gorilla in the shopping mall where I grew up

From the 1970s through the 1990s, a black bear named Samantha lived in a cage in front of Thirsty’s gas station in Cadillac, Michigan. When all you’ve known is a small space, tourist ice cream cones slipped between chain links, is

14/11/2023

a little piece of wonder and magic today from Mary Biddinger

"Our neighborhood corner granny had jury duty for two weeks in August of 1985... We speculated about what sort of jury would seat our corner granny. She spoke in adages and superstitions."

Our neighborhood corner granny had jury duty for two weeks in August of 1985. She had to stay in a hotel and family could not bring her meals, not even a bundle of yeast rolls. After six hours without her watchful silhouette, the alley fill

02/09/2023

Was just remembering how great this Tom Laplaige short short was, and especially thinking about the greatness of the (even longer than the piece itself) bio.


https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/c-est-life

02/09/2023

love Brenna Hagan's 80's boyfriend!!

"Joy Division is alright. Joy Divison is cool. On Fridays, Joy Division is boss. Is gnarly. *Gnarly*. My '80s boyfriend is from California, LA, New York, and the middle of the country."

My '80s boyfriend is hot. My '80s boyfriend wears robin egg blue dress shirts and holds my face when he kisses me. His best friend is on drugs. Blane doesn't like when I bump off my thumbnail. We kiss on the floor. On the weekends, he liste

01/09/2023

lovely, magical piece today from Veronica Shore!

"My mother tells me they would throw stones at us in another life... But we can always go back to the sea, she tells me, even without our skin. She believes we’re selkies."

My mother tells me they would throw stones at us in another life. When the men can’t catch you, they throw stones and they hurt, she says. But we can always go back to the sea, she tells me, even without our skin. She believes we’re selkies

31/08/2023

a couple super fun, great, micros about the devil today from Becky Robison! 😈😈

"After that, fire and brimstone, or some less cliché form of torture. He talks a big talk—kinky, Arabella says, like she’s a real deviant, like her first kiss wasn’t last summer."

I Saw Goody Proctor With the Devil After Study Hall When you prick your finger with the post of your sterling silver earring and sign your name in his black book—Mead brand, wide-ruled, 70 pages, which he keeps taped underneath the third

30/08/2023

Wow, this one today from Mileva Anastasiadou felt like it sparked something wonderful in my brain!

"But now he’s back and he’s brand new. He saw the darkness, the fear, but he survived and came back to tell the tale like we all do after we rise."

But now he’s back and he’s brand new. He saw the darkness, the fear, but he survived and came back to tell the tale like we all do after we rise. He thought it’d be intriguing, inviting, but he jumped right out of it, and he’s relieved he’s

29/08/2023

wish a mighty fine top o' the skull pile to Francesca Leader !

“She says, “You did a nice thing, hon.” I don’t tell her I wouldn’t have agreed to dance with the boy if I’d known how it would feel—like holding bones wrapped in a tattered flag.”

I two-step just once with this boy who looks handsome until he removes his jacket, revealing a body even thinner than my fatless girl form—scary-thin, the way only ancient, almost dead things should be. The dance hall’s crowded and sweaty a

28/08/2023

goddamn gorgeous beautiful prose piece today from
Yasi Salek !!!!

Did you know that the word inspiration means “to be filled with a holy breath”? How do I get god to do CPR on me? My prayers are vague these days. Sometimes they are just images, just a color, just a shape, just, just. My desires are blurry

27/08/2023

"You can see why I can’t talk to anyone about him. Sometimes I try and people will say, oh, I had a friend like that, and then I want to say, no you didn’t, no you don’t, shut the f**k up, no one else in the whole world was ever like us..."

🔥❤️‍🔥 from LHC!

You’ve got to understand how it was with me and Mar, the way we were with one another, which wasn’t the way we were with anyone else in the world. In school, the pair of us were silent: we were like horses with bits between our teeth, tryin

26/08/2023

🚨🚨 Elissa Field day on HAD!! 🚨🚨

"...our first week in that concrete block shoebox of a dorm room, our beds tombstoned side by side so I was pressed to say, Yes, I like incense, too, because you had the coffee maker and I had the microwave..."

If it weren’t that I listened to the Ramones and the Clash and the B52s and LĪVE, and you smiled as if I were adorable and said you had gone through that phase, too, then unpacked your thousand vinyls of Traffic and Blind Faith and the Door

25/08/2023

perfect little micro about worklife today from Mathieu Ca***er!

"When Louise took the office job downtown—the one with the fluorescent lights, padded cubicle walls, and ergonomic chairs—her soul passed away."

When Louise took the office job downtown—the one with the fluorescent lights, padded cubicle walls, and ergonomic chairs—her soul passed away. At first, Louise didn’t know, but one morning, it was right at the top of the obituary section: L

24/08/2023

love that today's short from Abby Alten Schwartz is exactly what it says it is... and also so, so much more!

"We never got to watch Carol Brady grow older. Never felt her regret for the years she lost indulging her kids’ dreams of stardom..."

We never got to watch Carol Brady grow older. Never felt her regret for the years she lost indulging her kids’ dreams of stardom (delusional, let’s face it) when all along, she was the one with talent. Perhaps if she’d taken voice lessons,

23/08/2023

this one from Juls Macdonell is honestly SO SHARP it hurts

“The ethics of cutting yourself in half for your partner boils down to: a cut’s not real unless it draws blood.”
https://buff.ly/3KRMVpD

22/08/2023

A warm, heartbreaking, beautiful story from Amy DeBellis, w an ending that blossoms!

"Given enough time, she declares, the trees will dwarf this house. She says it like she’s proud, like she longs for the day she and her home will be completely eclipsed."

When my mother starts planting trees in the backyard, it’s almost violent. A burial with none of the peace. The way she digs in the soil and pushes the seeds into the dirt, it’s like she’s trying to shove them down into the darkness for goo

20/08/2023

a wonderful, magical, love (?) story today from Christina Rosso with an absolutely perfectly surprising and inevitable finish

"Our husband inspires my creation on a Sunday night after he tells Lucretia she is only half the wife she’s supposed to be."

Our husband inspires my creation on a Sunday night after he tells Lucretia she is only half the wife she’s supposed to be. His words tangle me in knots and burs. Lucretia twirls her pointer finger through me, a nervous habit of hers. I neve

19/08/2023

Hard to grab one piece of the whole that captures just how good today's Sutton Strother story is. Read it!!

"“Why funny, Mommy?” Tilly calls from the pool, but before Grace can collect herself and answer, her daughter’s attention is on the dog again."

Mr. Jarvis snarls over his fence at Grace’s daughter Tilly, naked in her inflatable swimming pool. “Ain’t right, a little girl learnin’ to show it all off like that.” Tilly doesn’t register his words or even his presence, just splashe

18/08/2023

luck luck you, we've got a new-new Adrian Dallas Frandle for you today!!

"Helen’s most uncanny aspect was that nothing died inside her. We soon found that flowers placed in Helen would never wilt."

In retrospect, Helen’s haunting nature was what first drew us to her. It’s not that we feared her – we have no reason to and have given her no reason to do so of us – but that her emanant grace carried with it a sort of supernatural quality

18/08/2023

got so busy reading subs (then grading, then going to the bar), I totally forgot to tweet today's poem! a SHAME, bc this Sara Potocsny poem rules

"Never both the whip and the board, steak and the chocolate,
the wind and the wind’s sweet cousin, the rain."

She stands facing the slab. In the honest corner of the sky, birds bother with each other while they fall and fall, then slip back up through bright. It’s the end of one era or the beginning of the next, but never both. Never two of them

16/08/2023

you need these 🤠 / 👽 poems from Portlyn Houghton-Harjo, you neeeeed them.

“And when the indian’s skin
becomes the desert—when the coyotes eat
what's left of him—his nose will point up,
toward the sun.”

A cowboy at the end of the world needs an indian Like how ghosts need an Indian Burial Ground Like how lillies need a funeral A cowboy at the end of world isn't lonely He's prepared all his life for the desert to keep him

15/08/2023

what would a COWBOYS & ALIENS call have been without some x-files poems?!
oh boy do these Samia Saliba jams deliver!

"have you ever touched an alien body?

of course, our human sets of hands have traced each
other, each of us alien in our own way."

yeah that’s a bleeping dead alien body if i ever bleeping saw one probe your fingers along the dead or living unhuman musculature. have you ever touched an alien body? of course, our human sets of hands have traced each oth

14/08/2023

love today's daydream on wrestling and personal and magic and pain and life from Josh Shepard!!

"You’re the Cowboy. You’re the closest this world has known to a goddamned monster."

A professional wrestler goes by many names. Stan Hansen carried his own birth name, a true shooter through and through, but he also carried the handle “The Lariat,” so named for the bull rope he would sometimes wield and for his finishing m

13/08/2023

today's Katie Myers story feels a little like a ted chiang flash for a moon HAD call (my highest compliment!)

"Here on the moon each day is fourteen days long and so is each night, though at the poles where we mine both those numbers are a little longer"

Here on the moon each day is fourteen days long and so is each night, though at the poles where we mine both those numbers are a little longer. In the day we chip ice from the bottoms of craters and pass it on up, floating it in ropes up t

12/08/2023

today's poem (??) from Jess Gallerie is so strange and gross and funny, it's perfect, and perfectly HAD-y!

"the only reason i know she’s evil is because when her skin sloughs off, it smells bad"

the only reason i know she’s evil is because when her skin sloughs off, it smells bad unfortunately we’ve been selected as corporate plants i wonder why i’m lumped in with her but i guess we’ve both been remembering that we m

11/08/2023

Elise Thi Tran ain't on Twitter, but she's on OUR Twitter today, with this marvel, wherein every single sentence feels tattoo-worthy. I mean? Damn.


https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/space-stray-s-ode-to-home-planet

10/08/2023

"We meet at the gallows. Her crime? Shooting a man dead, back turned, cold blood. Hot stuff. Mine? Horse thievery."

🔥🐎💘 today from June Villers!!

We meet at the gallows. Her crime? Shooting a man dead, back turned, cold blood. Hot stuff. Mine? Horse thievery. Before she cuts my rope loose, she asks me why I want to live, anyway. I tell her, I want to see my horse again. She scoffs a

09/08/2023

hot DAMN, Blake Levario did it again!!

when the gates release away—suspend belief like when you left home you ended up at the rodeo to hurt me—but i want you when the gates release away—suspend belief like when you left home you ended up at the rodeo to hurt me—but i