Jessica Dawn

I hope y’all have a nice time at AWP and I think next year I’ll get my shit together enough to go

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 !!

Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

I'm still doing a GoFundMe to help my parents rebuild after a devastating house fire. The costs of doing so, with an uninsured house, are extremely high. My parents are elderly and low-income and my disabled brother lives with them. I deeply appreciate shares of this link!

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In Which I Am a Dolphin by Hannah Kanfer Something deep in her bones tells her the ocean she is swimming in isn’t really hers. She is only as strong as her pod, so she opens her palms wide to every stranger who she could call home. She is as…

"Something deep in her bones
tells her the ocean she is swimming in
isn’t really hers. She is only as strong
as her pod..."

quick little piece of wonder today from Hannah Kanfer!

https://www.havehashad.com/yb3g9

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.

I’m so happy to see it published, giant congrats because it’s so good

Had enough coffee that I’m ready to fight god

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…

"Basking in Glory" by @danielmiller.bsky.social is a day in the life of an adult video store employee. With a mysterious encounter, online gambling at Insect Sport World, & the last active Glory Hole in Howard County, it has the makings of a literary classic!
doric-literary.com/2026/03/01/b...

Screenshot of the Doric Literary website showing the classical Greek temple, table of contents, & the details of our two newest stories: "Basking in Glory" by Daniel Miller & "The Designer" by Matthew Jakubowski Go to doric-literary.com to read the stories or follow the link in our profile.

It's a brand new month.

Doric Literary is (always) open for submissions & we have brilliant new fiction!

There's a new story by @danielmiller.bsky.social set in an adult video store that boasts the last active Glory Hole in the county & a reprint of a magical story by @mattjakubowski.bsky.social

I absolutely love this story and y’all should spare whatever time it takes to read

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

Who else up at 6am at the abandoned park on the old navy base so their dog can run as fast as he can and experience pure, mindless joy

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Thrilled to be back in the pages of @havehashad.com today with a short one, about two brothers who find one of the Voyager probe golden records in their grandfather's field. Hope you like it.

Obsessed with this

Hello From the Children of Planet Earth by Chris Scott My brother and I found a golden record in our grandpa’s field. One of the golden records, the ones that had been sent into deep space on the Voyager probes half a century ago. It was just resting…

Chris Scott on just an incredible streak of dropping heaters

"My brother and I found a golden record in our grandpa’s field. One of the golden records, the ones that had been sent into deep space on the Voyager probes half a century ago."

https://www.havehashad.com/vz2e6

Thank you!!

My mom worked at a video store when I was a kid, and when I went to work with her all I wanted to watch was Stop Making Sense.

Thank you so much!! Also very cool to hear because I love leaving out words

🐜🕳️👀!!!!!!!!!

Those eyes absolutely made me laugh by the way, SO mad

It’s not NOT what I mean! And oh man are there a lot of spicy cats

Thank you!!

Vintage book cover featuring a close up photograph of a woman’s eye in a hypnotizing gaze. Copy and title read Could I Borrow Four Thousand, Three Hundred, and Sixty-Seven Dollars? FOR NO SPECIFIC REASON "Reasons are like raisins - no one likes them." A CONVINCING NOVEL BY YORE FRENDE

really good book that everyone should read right now

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Go us!

Woooooow this is a gorgeous lil flash

A new sentimental flash from me at the amazing @lostballoon.bsky.social

One day I’m going to figure out how to write about all the shit you see in a vet clinic

Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for writing a beautiful little book and celebrating with a call for beautiful little stories!

Quinine by Jessica Dawn Airport’s more like a bus station with a bar inside. Big place, high ceilings, big windows looking out over the runway that could be a parking lot. Bar’s bigger than the rest of the airport. Might…

New Jess Dawn banger today!

"Airport’s more like a bus station with a bar inside. Big place, high ceilings, big windows looking out over the runway that could be a parking lot. Bar’s bigger than the rest of the airport."

https://www.havehashad.com/9vqmp