joe 🌙
@joeaguilar.bsky.social
co-editor @hexliterary.bsky.social • https://joe-aguilar.com/
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My favorite story firm @dieddisappointed.bsky.social's new collection.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My favorite story firm @dieddisappointed.bsky.social's new collection.
i heard you like bombs inside of bombs inside of cars inside of micros
"Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red..."
the weirdest episode of "Pimp My Ride" you've ever watched, new on hex today from Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ! 👇
the weirdest episode of "Pimp My Ride" you've ever watched, new on hex today from Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ! 👇
Pimp My Ride by Julián Martinez
Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red with pinstripe and flames which hangs on the fuse of an even bigger bomb, the...
hexliterary.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
i heard you like bombs inside of bombs inside of cars inside of micros
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ergot @ergot.bsky.social is publishing some of the best writing anywhere, had somehow missed the incredible story "Bird Bones" from Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
ergot @ergot.bsky.social is publishing some of the best writing anywhere, had somehow missed the incredible story "Bird Bones" from Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social
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such a big honor to have this piece, one of the various tendrils of my respective tributes to nick cave, whether creative or academic, in the absolutely unfuckwithable @hexliterary.bsky.social
"Brother Jack, the Father, speaks from a pulpit as crooked as the Tower of Babel."
This week on hex, a devilish delight by @sasharavitch.bsky.social! Hellfire licking, evil evangelist, incredible imagery--Saint Joe and His Devils has got it all! Don't miss a little debauchery this morning! 😈
This week on hex, a devilish delight by @sasharavitch.bsky.social! Hellfire licking, evil evangelist, incredible imagery--Saint Joe and His Devils has got it all! Don't miss a little debauchery this morning! 😈
Saint Joe and His Devils by Sasha Ravitch
Brother Jack, the Father, speaks from a pulpit as crooked as the Tower of Babel.
“And the Parable of Saint Joe and his Devils goes like this: once she lived as a murder of crows or more like a row ...
hexliterary.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
such a big honor to have this piece, one of the various tendrils of my respective tributes to nick cave, whether creative or academic, in the absolutely unfuckwithable @hexliterary.bsky.social
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"Look: on the top of the hill there is the newspaper delivery boy resting his bike against a big white cross and on the cross there is graffiti but he does not read it..."
New on hex today is "Current Events" by Tom R, a wild, recursive horror trip. Do not miss! 👇🐕🦺📰🍊👇
New on hex today is "Current Events" by Tom R, a wild, recursive horror trip. Do not miss! 👇🐕🦺📰🍊👇
Current Events by Tom R
The newspaper delivery boy turns his face to the wind and pedals up the tall hill by the bay, that one dotted with thin white trees and torn rope swings and bulging suitcases with the bodies of newspa...
hexliterary.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Look: on the top of the hill there is the newspaper delivery boy resting his bike against a big white cross and on the cross there is graffiti but he does not read it..."
New on hex today is "Current Events" by Tom R, a wild, recursive horror trip. Do not miss! 👇🐕🦺📰🍊👇
New on hex today is "Current Events" by Tom R, a wild, recursive horror trip. Do not miss! 👇🐕🦺📰🍊👇
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ICYMI, I have two micros up at the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social! Here’s one:
hexliterary.com?p=2909
hexliterary.com?p=2909
October 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ICYMI, I have two micros up at the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social! Here’s one:
hexliterary.com?p=2909
hexliterary.com?p=2909
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love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥
A Home Run by Dan Weaver
Back it goes that seems like a long one! Still going! Still up there just going and going! It's gone! Outta here! Literally in outer space. Upsetting the logical order of the universe on that one. Hom...
hexliterary.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥
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I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!
"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."
Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins
I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...
hexliterary.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!
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So honored to be featured on this amazing list!
A new addition to my newsletter! Where I talk about forgetting, upcoming publications, and short fic recs with amazing work by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @catvalente.bsky.social, @katemcintyre.bsky.social, @noirbettie.bsky.social, and @babblewocky.bsky.social.
buttondown.com/LyndsieWrite...
buttondown.com/LyndsieWrite...
On Forgetting
The Long Haul The audacity of needing to write newsletters in order to have a newsletter! It’s been a while, friends! Let’s see if I can get back in the...
buttondown.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
So honored to be featured on this amazing list!
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My story Thirst Trap is out in @hexliterary.bsky.social (link in the comments). Read it to get your thirst quenched!
Thanks to the hex team for being amazing!
Thanks to the hex team for being amazing!
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My story Thirst Trap is out in @hexliterary.bsky.social (link in the comments). Read it to get your thirst quenched!
Thanks to the hex team for being amazing!
Thanks to the hex team for being amazing!
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It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
have been rereading Duras’s The Lover
September 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
have been rereading Duras’s The Lover
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hex co-editor @katemcintyre.bsky.social with a little 🔥 Kansas scenery in @havehashad.com today
always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych.
The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...
https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn
The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...
https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn
Kansas by Kate McIntyre
The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons, and they cry when there’s no one to scratch…
www.havehashad.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
hex co-editor @katemcintyre.bsky.social with a little 🔥 Kansas scenery in @havehashad.com today
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"The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine."
“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine."
not to brag but we published Mizuki Yamagen first (thru a HAD call)--thrilled to have her incredible new one up on hex today!
"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—"
We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌
We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌
The Hand's Aperture by Mizuki Yamagen
There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—like a channel grown curious and turning back on itself. Last week it was a mosquito bite: a temporary river...
hexliterary.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
not to brag but we published Mizuki Yamagen first (thru a HAD call)--thrilled to have her incredible new one up on hex today!
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With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
Featuring work from: @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social, @shalinisingh.bsky.social, Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo, Veronica Tucker, Eden Petri, David Capps, Emily O Liu, and Laura Walker.
astrolabe.ooo
big fan of "The Fan" re: Big Fandom
"In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake."
Absolutely SMITTEN to feature a new @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social story this week! If you've ever been The Fan (I've been The Fan), then you won't want to miss this incredible look at the cult of IP and fandom! Go get it!
Absolutely SMITTEN to feature a new @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social story this week! If you've ever been The Fan (I've been The Fan), then you won't want to miss this incredible look at the cult of IP and fandom! Go get it!
The Fan by David Marino
In his youth, The Fan experienced joy. This was his first mistake.
Now, The Fan anticipates the arrival of the newest incarnation of The IP. The new incarnation is a Bold New Direction for The IP a...
hexliterary.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
big fan of "The Fan" re: Big Fandom
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PREORDERS for our two Fall books--THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin & THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, translated by Alex Niemi--are now available at the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social website!
www.nyrb.com/collections/...
www.nyrb.com/collections/...
Dorothy, a publishing project
Dorothy, a publishing project is a St. Louis–based feminist publisher of innovative fiction, near-fiction, and literary criticism. They publish two books per year, together in the fall, in beautiful p...
www.nyrb.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
PREORDERS for our two Fall books--THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin & THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, translated by Alex Niemi--are now available at the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social website!
www.nyrb.com/collections/...
www.nyrb.com/collections/...
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got a new story out about a gigantic hexagon—hope you’ll check it out
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/09/w...
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/09/w...
September 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
got a new story out about a gigantic hexagon—hope you’ll check it out
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/09/w...
minorliteratures.com/2025/09/09/w...
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Today’s the day! FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, my first novel, is officially out! Pre-orders are signed and getting shipped, you can request this at your local shop or library, you can get it off @bookshop.org, you can buy copies at Evening House (sites down atm for maintenance, but soon!)
August 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s the day! FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, my first novel, is officially out! Pre-orders are signed and getting shipped, you can request this at your local shop or library, you can get it off @bookshop.org, you can buy copies at Evening House (sites down atm for maintenance, but soon!)
“Imagine, she said. One night this little guy crawled out of me. He crawled right up to my chin. Then he tried to harm me”
a charming horror-comedy from Michael Pershan on hex @hexliterary.bsky.social today!
a charming horror-comedy from Michael Pershan on hex @hexliterary.bsky.social today!
The Thing in the Jar by Michael Pershan
At a certain point the bullying became impossible to ignore. Which was how Danny and I ended up in Dr. Epstein’s office. She was so disarming and the office so comfortably arranged, I felt my edge imm...
hexliterary.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Imagine, she said. One night this little guy crawled out of me. He crawled right up to my chin. Then he tried to harm me”
a charming horror-comedy from Michael Pershan on hex @hexliterary.bsky.social today!
a charming horror-comedy from Michael Pershan on hex @hexliterary.bsky.social today!
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"I found an ad on Craigslist one evening for a rare invisible Camaro IROC-Z. After contacting the seller, we arranged to meet..." Two new micros by @anuelrx.bsky.social dream up wild pockets of possibility in the world we think we know. Read "Tooth Book" and "Ghost Theft Auto" now! 🦷📕🚨🐍
Two by Anuel Rodriguez
Tooth Book
During my first trip to the dentist in years, radiographs revealed that there was something buried in my gums. Since I was too old for it to be an impacted tooth growing out sideways lik...
hexliterary.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"I found an ad on Craigslist one evening for a rare invisible Camaro IROC-Z. After contacting the seller, we arranged to meet..." Two new micros by @anuelrx.bsky.social dream up wild pockets of possibility in the world we think we know. Read "Tooth Book" and "Ghost Theft Auto" now! 🦷📕🚨🐍
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New piece in hex ! Amongst other things, this is the result of the cumulative frick-ton of Scooby-Doo I watched on DVD growing up in my dad’s basement <3 thanks Dad
"There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body."
This week on hex, @schorn.bsky.social offers a miracle, a body built piece by piece. Obsessed with the careful writing, the excellent humor, the body horror at play here! Go check out "Acephalous," up now on the site!
This week on hex, @schorn.bsky.social offers a miracle, a body built piece by piece. Obsessed with the careful writing, the excellent humor, the body horror at play here! Go check out "Acephalous," up now on the site!
Acephalous by Nicholas Schorn
There is a finger, a human finger in the schoolyard grass, and it has no body.
It is picked up by a girl. A quiet girl who cares a lot and does her caring quietly. This girl is Little Jessie Wylan...
hexliterary.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New piece in hex ! Amongst other things, this is the result of the cumulative frick-ton of Scooby-Doo I watched on DVD growing up in my dad’s basement <3 thanks Dad
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"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss."
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
Two by Ruby Rorty
After the metal band, the rubber band
I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss. He is subject to hubris and get smart quick schemes. I absolve myself, but only just...
hexliterary.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"I absolve the sky. It is subject to forces unseen. Then I absolve my boss."
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
Incredibly stoked we get to feature two new @rorty.bsky.social surrealist bangers this week! Dreamworld imagery, playful language and a wonderfully bizarre sense of humor abound in these two beauties! Go peep! 🧶😶🌫️
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Best American Short Stories? Hi, it's Richard. You don't know me, but I have something for you:
🚨 New @jsavrankelly.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!! 🚨
Hope y'all read it and share it and love it like I have.
Hope y'all read it and share it and love it like I have.
“Man Next Door” by Jennifer Savran Kelly
"Maddy thought she should ignore it, allow him to maintain his self-respect as she’d been taught... New Maddy knew that self-respect was merely a euphemism for masculinity."
ashortstorylong.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Best American Short Stories? Hi, it's Richard. You don't know me, but I have something for you: