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Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

Huh, this has not reached its cap yet...

HAD @havehashad.com · 4h

this call, and thus this link, will be live in just a bit over 4 hours. (betting it will be full, and the link dead, just a LITTLE bit thereafter)

giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!

havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...

HAD @havehashad.com · 2d

still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!

Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions

Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social

Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better

February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

HAD

@havehashad.com

this call, and thus this link, will be live in just a bit over 4 hours. (betting it will be full, and the link dead, just a LITTLE bit thereafter)

giving myself that as the deadline for responding to everyone from thursday's call!

havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34839...

HAD @havehashad.com · 2d

still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!

Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions

Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social

Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better

Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions

Open to interpretation! Go back three seconds. Jump forward 1,000 years. Freeze time, melt it, condense it, stretch it out. Is someone too early? Are you too late? Make me laugh. Make me cry. Make me shriek. (Make me all three?) Bonus if there is a bird (I like birds).

Max 200 words

Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)

The shorter the better

— Elena Zhang

February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM

Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

This is today! I’m excited! Please send me something!

Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!

HAD @havehashad.com · 2d

still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!

Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions

Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social

Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better

February 15, 2026 at 3:37 PM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

K.C. Mead-Brewer

@kcmeadbrewer.com

Happy (Haunted) Valentine's Day from me & @hexliterary.bsky.social!

The Strangler's Hotel by K.C. Mead-Brewer

Zoe’s been running this place for years now, and she knows for a fact: there’s nothing sexier than a haunted house. It speaks to your every sense, even your quietest sixth one. She feels the icy littl...

hexliterary.com

February 14, 2026 at 5:16 PM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

presentdad🙋🏻‍♂️

@lacroixboi.dadguy.help

if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words

February 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM

Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

Reddish egrets

February 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM

Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

Ahhh I can’t believe I get to host my own HAD sub call!!! I hope you all send something my way!!!

HAD @havehashad.com · 2d

still slowly getting through this call's 364 submissions, but... surprise! doing another call on Sunday!

Theme: Time Travel
Feb 15, 2 pm CST, capped at 150 submissions

Guest ed.: @ezhang77.bsky.social

Max 200 words
Send up to 2 (as long as total word count is less than 200)
The shorter the better

February 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

Koss (she/they/Aquarian)

@kossworks.bsky.social

Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for this publication in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! Check out the whole issue, which includes stupendous work by @happilander.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, @pdforan.bsky.social and others!

gooseberry-pie.com/obituary-sis...

February 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

Leo von Gripsholm

@leovongripsholm.bsky.social

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“

By Aram J. French

Appropriated due to missing alt text

February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

K.C. Mead-Brewer

@kcmeadbrewer.com

I've got some ghosts & writing games for you! 🦇⚡

Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Writers, discover the secret, seething garden and honor Creature's memory: @kcmeadbrewer.com's lyrical set of games will transform how you think about and approach writing.

Find "The Eleventh Ghost" now:
links.ruadanbooks.com/mead-brewer

#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #WriterSky

February 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM

Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

Continuing to inflict everyone with my dumb doodles

Long tailed tit bird sketched with colored pencil

February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

Cupcakes and birds

Cherry cupcake and tufted titmouse, raspberry cupcake and redpoll bird, sketched in colored pencil

February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM

Elena Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

Could also be banana boat

Bird on moon boat in river sketched in colored pencil

February 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM

Reposted by Elena Zhang

Myna Chang

@mynachang.bsky.social

MicroVerse will have 4 dedicated poetry editions in 2026! Look for poetry recs from guest editors Marisca Pichette, Loren Maria Guay, Angela Liu, and Ai Jiang!

I'm grateful to these fantastic poets!!

@marisca.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social