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We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
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"I want to say we’re all just action figures with articulated limbs at the mercy of a too-rough boy. I know that G.I. Joe, that Jesus, that all our stories are as real or full of shit as we want them to be..."
today from Aaron Sandberg!
https://www.havehashad.com/83q25
today from Aaron Sandberg!
https://www.havehashad.com/83q25
My Son Swaps Jesus for a G.I. Joe in the Nativity Scene by Aaron Sandberg
and I can’t tell if he wants me to find it or not. But I do. And I can’t unsee it. But I keep secrets. There is nothing more holy than amending a story, creating new myths. A software update. Adapt or…
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December 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"I want to say we’re all just action figures with articulated limbs at the mercy of a too-rough boy. I know that G.I. Joe, that Jesus, that all our stories are as real or full of shit as we want them to be..."
today from Aaron Sandberg!
https://www.havehashad.com/83q25
today from Aaron Sandberg!
https://www.havehashad.com/83q25
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"and I can’t tell if he wants me to find it or not. But I do. And I can’t unsee it. But I keep secrets. There is nothing more holy than amending a story, creating new myths. A software update. Adapt or die. Subversion is evolution."
Perfect read to unwrap day-after-Christmas @havehashad.com
Perfect read to unwrap day-after-Christmas @havehashad.com
My Son Swaps Jesus for a G.I. Joe in the Nativity Scene by Aaron Sandberg
and I can’t tell if he wants me to find it or not. But I do. And I can’t unsee it. But I keep secrets. There is nothing more holy than amending a story, creating new myths. A software update. Adapt or...
www.havehashad.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"and I can’t tell if he wants me to find it or not. But I do. And I can’t unsee it. But I keep secrets. There is nothing more holy than amending a story, creating new myths. A software update. Adapt or die. Subversion is evolution."
Perfect read to unwrap day-after-Christmas @havehashad.com
Perfect read to unwrap day-after-Christmas @havehashad.com
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Thought I didn’t have anything for the @welkinprize.bsky.social this year, but then the last @havehashad.com call sparked a new idea. Sharing in case you, too, need a few more days to trim and polish something up!
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thought I didn’t have anything for the @welkinprize.bsky.social this year, but then the last @havehashad.com call sparked a new idea. Sharing in case you, too, need a few more days to trim and polish something up!
Merry Christmas from us, and Guy Cramer, and these two Santas
"I recognize the Santa from a local acting troupe. In fact, he doesn’t look any different than when I saw him in The Abraham Lincoln Story, the costume’s almost the same."
https://www.havehashad.com/scg2q
"I recognize the Santa from a local acting troupe. In fact, he doesn’t look any different than when I saw him in The Abraham Lincoln Story, the costume’s almost the same."
https://www.havehashad.com/scg2q
Two Santas by Guy Cramer
Juggling Santa My pockets were still jingling after the bar let out on Christmas Eve. That’s when he stopped me on the street, again. He was holding out his long-nailed hands as usual, but this time I…
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December 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Merry Christmas from us, and Guy Cramer, and these two Santas
"I recognize the Santa from a local acting troupe. In fact, he doesn’t look any different than when I saw him in The Abraham Lincoln Story, the costume’s almost the same."
https://www.havehashad.com/scg2q
"I recognize the Santa from a local acting troupe. In fact, he doesn’t look any different than when I saw him in The Abraham Lincoln Story, the costume’s almost the same."
https://www.havehashad.com/scg2q
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‘Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies hunched over a Ouija board.’
Ghostly and gorgeous from @madelineanthes.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 🎄
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/candy
Ghostly and gorgeous from @madelineanthes.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 🎄
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/candy
Candy by Madeline Anthes
It hurt that they liked Candy better than me. Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies ...
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December 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
‘Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies hunched over a Ouija board.’
Ghostly and gorgeous from @madelineanthes.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 🎄
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/candy
Ghostly and gorgeous from @madelineanthes.bsky.social in @havehashad.com 🎄
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/candy
two wise worms for y'all today Steve Minnich, special for Christmas Eve!
here's the first of the two.
https://www.havehashad.com/pv332
here's the first of the two.
https://www.havehashad.com/pv332
December 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
two wise worms for y'all today Steve Minnich, special for Christmas Eve!
here's the first of the two.
https://www.havehashad.com/pv332
here's the first of the two.
https://www.havehashad.com/pv332
"It hurt that they liked Candy better than me. Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies hunched over a Ouija board."
🔥 from Madeline Anthes
https://www.havehashad.com/z6zto
🔥 from Madeline Anthes
https://www.havehashad.com/z6zto
Candy by Madeline Anthes
It hurt that they liked Candy better than me. Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"It hurt that they liked Candy better than me. Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies hunched over a Ouija board."
🔥 from Madeline Anthes
https://www.havehashad.com/z6zto
🔥 from Madeline Anthes
https://www.havehashad.com/z6zto
final beauty from Heaps' "after Oppen" call, from Tess Matukonis:
"3
I cannot feel my hands
covered in honey
until I try to wipe
the honey off. Death
reverberates
in the tank,
a drowned sparrow
with a twisted neck.
Is she a prophecy or result?"
https://www.havehashad.com/zg9z1
"3
I cannot feel my hands
covered in honey
until I try to wipe
the honey off. Death
reverberates
in the tank,
a drowned sparrow
with a twisted neck.
Is she a prophecy or result?"
https://www.havehashad.com/zg9z1
BLUE COLLAR BOUNDARIES by Tess Matukonis
after George Oppen 1 what can I say as the hoop releases the staves The wine cellar is cold air and boiling water forces the memory of juice through pumps. No mechanism exists to mourn the id
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December 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
final beauty from Heaps' "after Oppen" call, from Tess Matukonis:
"3
I cannot feel my hands
covered in honey
until I try to wipe
the honey off. Death
reverberates
in the tank,
a drowned sparrow
with a twisted neck.
Is she a prophecy or result?"
https://www.havehashad.com/zg9z1
"3
I cannot feel my hands
covered in honey
until I try to wipe
the honey off. Death
reverberates
in the tank,
a drowned sparrow
with a twisted neck.
Is she a prophecy or result?"
https://www.havehashad.com/zg9z1
got some new-new Sam Berman as a special treat for you all today!
"I have a nightmare so bad I go to the Emergency Room.
At the hospital next to the tennis bubbles.
Where everyone’s nice.
Kind.
Offering water.
Extending gentleness.
But they can’t help."
https://www.havehashad.com/ebzq5
"I have a nightmare so bad I go to the Emergency Room.
At the hospital next to the tennis bubbles.
Where everyone’s nice.
Kind.
Offering water.
Extending gentleness.
But they can’t help."
https://www.havehashad.com/ebzq5
An Earth Before the Foxhole by Sam Berman
I have a nightmare so bad I go to the Emergency Room. At the hospital next to the tennis bubbles. Where everyone’s nice. Kind. Offering water. Extending gentleness. But they can’t help. No. They don’t…
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December 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
got some new-new Sam Berman as a special treat for you all today!
"I have a nightmare so bad I go to the Emergency Room.
At the hospital next to the tennis bubbles.
Where everyone’s nice.
Kind.
Offering water.
Extending gentleness.
But they can’t help."
https://www.havehashad.com/ebzq5
"I have a nightmare so bad I go to the Emergency Room.
At the hospital next to the tennis bubbles.
Where everyone’s nice.
Kind.
Offering water.
Extending gentleness.
But they can’t help."
https://www.havehashad.com/ebzq5
small banger of an "after George Oppen" poem today from Michael Farfel
https://www.havehashad.com/iu57y
https://www.havehashad.com/iu57y
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
small banger of an "after George Oppen" poem today from Michael Farfel
https://www.havehashad.com/iu57y
https://www.havehashad.com/iu57y
continue to be awed by the pieces from Sam Heaps' "after George Oppen" call!
today from Daniel Fraser:
"6.
Noon.
The light lets the shadows go
for a time.
The event as ordinary
stops us
everywhere
from wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/7pn4x
today from Daniel Fraser:
"6.
Noon.
The light lets the shadows go
for a time.
The event as ordinary
stops us
everywhere
from wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/7pn4x
Being Numinous by Daniel Fraser
after George Oppen But— of all things matter is the most penetrable. In the freezing light: the echoes of the bulbs, pinkly heating. I'm awaiting nothing. Recurrence:
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December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
continue to be awed by the pieces from Sam Heaps' "after George Oppen" call!
today from Daniel Fraser:
"6.
Noon.
The light lets the shadows go
for a time.
The event as ordinary
stops us
everywhere
from wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/7pn4x
today from Daniel Fraser:
"6.
Noon.
The light lets the shadows go
for a time.
The event as ordinary
stops us
everywhere
from wonder."
https://www.havehashad.com/7pn4x
wrapped this up this morning. between the two calls, 300 submissions, 25 acceptances. onward toward 2026 and new beginnings!
crow & aaron doing a last call of the year.
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
wrapped this up this morning. between the two calls, 300 submissions, 25 acceptances. onward toward 2026 and new beginnings!
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at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first.
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first.
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
hot tips for catching our submission windows: have less of a life, be more online, sleep less, have fewer friends, probably just generally have more problems
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
hot tips for catching our submission windows: have less of a life, be more online, sleep less, have fewer friends, probably just generally have more problems
this should probably be all our New Year's resolutions tbh
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
this should probably be all our New Year's resolutions tbh
a lot of submissions having this guy energy, and I'm really here for it
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
a lot of submissions having this guy energy, and I'm really here for it
2nd call came and went! 11 minutes.
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
2nd call came and went! 11 minutes.
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Submitting to today's @havehashad.com call made me realize how desperately I need to organize my desktop. The panic I had looking for a document labeled "three poems???"
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Submitting to today's @havehashad.com call made me realize how desperately I need to organize my desktop. The panic I had looking for a document labeled "three poems???"
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Submitted!!
My heart pounds so much in the 5 minutes leading up to @havehashad.com submission calls, like my very life depends on making it in!
My heart pounds so much in the 5 minutes leading up to @havehashad.com submission calls, like my very life depends on making it in!
Another round of submissions in one hour!!
crow & aaron doing a last call of the year.
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Submitted!!
My heart pounds so much in the 5 minutes leading up to @havehashad.com submission calls, like my very life depends on making it in!
My heart pounds so much in the 5 minutes leading up to @havehashad.com submission calls, like my very life depends on making it in!
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9th times the charm! Finally got my 💀 today from @havehashad.com after submitting since 2021!!
December 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
9th times the charm! Finally got my 💀 today from @havehashad.com after submitting since 2021!!
this is open again in ~30 minutes (7pm ET), for another 150 submissions (if you submitted this morning, please leave this for others, thx!)
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
crow & aaron doing a last call of the year.
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
December 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
this is open again in ~30 minutes (7pm ET), for another 150 submissions (if you submitted this morning, please leave this for others, thx!)
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
lotta therapists appearing in these submissions
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
lotta therapists appearing in these submissions
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December 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Chills! I think this is my favorite @landrewhuffman.bsky.social story to date…
love every beautiful noticed detail in today's piece from L. Andrew Huffman
"...with the Aldi advent chocolates, with you, with the canned venison with fat crusting the top from your Aunt Julie,..."
https://www.havehashad.com/7yvs4
"...with the Aldi advent chocolates, with you, with the canned venison with fat crusting the top from your Aunt Julie,..."
https://www.havehashad.com/7yvs4
I too am in love down there by L. Andrew Huffman
after George Oppen with the streets, with the last of the black ice refusing to melt, with the doe hit on the side of the road, with the deer hide drop box on the corner of the abandoned gas station,…
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December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Chills! I think this is my favorite @landrewhuffman.bsky.social story to date…
seems like a good first date test to us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Would it be considered bad form if I pause a first date to frantically submit to HAD one more time?
crow & aaron doing a last call of the year.
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)
especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"
all genre
500 word max
havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34430...
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
seems like a good first date test to us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯