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Andrew Huffman
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trans writer • ABBA enthusiast
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stanchion.bsky.social
I could REALLY use more orders of Issue 20. SRSLY.

This is a celebration of 5 years of a magazine that pays, prints, nominates for awards, fulfills orders immediately, doesn't charge fees or ask for donations & champions its contributors. Here's what's inside the anniversary issue
stanchionzine.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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aaronburch.bsky.social
"People are always coming up with new ways for whales to die. Been at it long enough, starting with sharpened sticks and then boats were invented which was some bad luck for whales, and then the boats got harpoons..."

New story from @jessdawn.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!!
“Whippomorpha” by Jessica Dawn
“If there’s nothing to fight over, most of getting divorced is just waiting. Nothing worth fighting over, Janna decided a while ago. Best to just let it go.”
ashortstorylong.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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pseaorg.bsky.social
Enough is enough! Our union siblings at HACC EA are officially on STRIKE after three years of negotiating working conditions, student success, and community interest with administration.

Show your solidarity for HACC faculty! Sign HACC EA's petition: bit.ly/48MRlep
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Y'all. You have never read a writer like @katywrites.bsky.social. TRAVELING ALONE is downright gorgeous, you must run, run, run to go buy yourself a copy! She has captured a place, a time, so beautifully.
October 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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badhandbooks.bsky.social
Hi friends. I caught up with Laird's partner, Jessica M today and received permission to share this. As some of you may know, Laird is in need of a new kidney. The appropriate donor would have O blood type. If you or anyone you know may be a willing match & donor, please reach out to me.
August 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Happy Friday from our first “Tom Thumb” popcorn cob of the season! It’s so perfect and tiny I just can’t handle it!
A hand holds a two inch cob of popcorn.
August 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
This summer has not been what I expected💀 Grateful nonetheless for having a loving community, a cute cat, a dog who hates the rain, a beautiful garden, and recovering quickly from viral meningitis!
A grey and white cat basks in the sun. A dog looks plaintively at the camera, unwilling to go out in the rain A flourishing garden A white person with a beard in a black face mask gives a thumbs up from a hospital bed
July 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
I'll be reading in this amongst some phenomenal, lovely humans to support a phenomenal, lovely mag! Hope to see you there!
stanchion.bsky.social Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · Jul 16
4 hours away. Stanchion 5th anniversary reading. Join on Zoom 🖤🤍

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July 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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bcdreyer.social
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

Happy Lottery day to you and yours.
a stone
June 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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nikostratis.com
going to just wander the streets listening to God Only Knows and crying for the forseeable future
June 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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havehashad.com
🚨🚨 Submission Call Time! 🚨🚨

We're going to be open for submissions for ONE HOUR... late tonight/early tomorrow morning!

shoutout the night owls, the early risers, but maybe most of all, the int'l peeps!

this link will be live between 4am and 5am ET

havehashad.submittable.com/submit/32629...
Submissions will open for one full hour, so insofar as you're racing, you're doing so against the clock rather than each other. BUT. We're HAD, so we gotta mix it up. Let's make that hour middle of the night! (At least for me here on the east coast. And, really most of us in the US.) Y'all gotta stay up late, or wake up early, or wake up in the middle of the night just to prove to us you love us, or be international (I hope this time works for the international skullers?). Which is all to say... Submissions will be Thursday, April 24, 4am – 5am ET. A few specifics: No theme 600 words max Any/all genre ok For poems and reeeeal short stuff, you can send two, but make 'em short! You (probably, hopefully) know the deal.I am going to try to get through as many as possible, as fast as possible, but its a timed call rather than quantity so I have no idea how many I'll get, so getting through everything might spill over into the next day or two... or longer? We'll see!
April 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
The best mail is @stanchion.bsky.social book mail! Can’t wait to dig into Issue 18!
A hand holds Issue 18 of Stanchion in front of a potted plant
April 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Feeling centered by @sbfeldman.bsky.social's words of creative resistance in my inbox this morning. "As a reader, though, I have never, ever felt lost. I bet you haven’t, either."

Spent time after revising my current project for me, for my survival in these times, for the relief.
April 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
For the last month, we have been watching a nest of great horned owls on our trail. The owlets are huge now, so curious and ridiculous looking. So, in case you too need to look at some owlets, here you go!
A great horned owl sits with a newly hatched owlet. Three great horned owlets seen through binoculars scowl at the camera, supremely fluffy looking. A large great horned owlet peers out of a nest at the camera.
April 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Go pre-order Jeff’s beautiful book!! Jeff is an amazing human and phenomenal writer, and also, there’s cats!!
stanchion.bsky.social Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · Mar 18
Please pre-order my book. Help prove that non-celebrities can sell books. I'm scared it's gonna fall flat because I'm not famous. It's got cats, stories & photos & is about love & respect for vulnerable kitties, where they live & the people who care for them
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeff-...
March 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Have a little weird one out today with @havehashad.com! Pleased as punch to get my second skull!
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · Mar 16
one of those pieces that just wowed me with language, and a classic example of something feeling so amazingly and perfectly capturing HAD vibes that I hadn't known existed until I read it

from L. Andrew Huffman:

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-w...
March 16, 2025 I woke up dead. L. Andrew Huffman I woke up, dead. I dead, woke up. I woke up the dead. I woke up and you, dead, woke up. No, I woke up, and you, dead, did not. You, dead, did not roll over to sock me in the shoulder until I turned off the alarm. I, not dead, snoozed my alarm until I was late to work. I woke up dead and you did not wake and at the table I sat, dead, eating a fried egg and egging on the brain fried online. Up, up here, not dead, I am down for anything today. Strangers making eye contact, I can do that. Elevator’s full of people with elbows that jab into my ribs, I can do that. I can do not dead things. I sat at the table and you, dead, sat across from me. You looked wrong, your head lolling to the side. You are up to something, I know that. I know you are trying to surprise me. Dead, you are. I am. I read a book when I was a kid and failed grammar class. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. Punctuation matters. Punctuation changes how a life is described. I try to write a sentence that will bring you back, but I can’t. I want to wake you up, wake up, wake up the dead, but instead my days are punctuated with remembering.
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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havehashad.com
"Gerta lost her mother in the fifth grade and became a horse for a year."
— Skyler Melnick

I wanna give you more — the whole thing is so, so good; every sentence perfect and a marvel — but if that doesn't grab you, I don't know what to say.

https://www.havehashad.com/88t4b
Horse Girls by Skyler Melnick
Gerta lost her mother in the fifth grade and became a horse for a year. I tried to talk to her on the playground, she was always alone. But she only neighed and shook the fence, trying to escape our…
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March 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Happy World Kidney Day! Donating my kidney was one of the best things I’ve ever done. Save a life! Share your spare! It’s worth it❤️
A white person recently out of surgery smiles and gives two thumbs up at the camera. Two face masked white people in hospital gowns smile for the camera. The left person’s face is obscured by a heart emoji.
March 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Life has been weird. The world has been pretty bad! I recommend cocooning in a hammock, protected by a large dog.
A white person lies in a red hammock, nearly covered by the fabric. At the base of the hammock, a golden dog lies in watch.
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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stanchion.bsky.social
I cannot actually believe the submission window for Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine is still open. If you got something, send it in!

StanchionZine.com/submissions
March 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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emilycurates.bsky.social
Her smile will make your day I hope
February 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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tessafisher.bsky.social
Proud of my home state: TITS OUT, AGAINST ALL KINGS
dianabutlerbass.bsky.social Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · Feb 20
For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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stanchion.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT

@writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others.

Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!!

www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
February 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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katelynburns.com
This order will kill kids, there's no other way to say it. It's the government forcibly taking control of the bodies of thousands of children.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jan 28
Trump issues a sweeping executive order purporting to (a) defund medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to patients under 19 and (b) revoke coverage for such care under federal insurance plans. This is illegal and will be challenged. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Sec. 4. Defunding Chemical and Surgical Mutilation. The head of each executive department or agency (agency) that provides research or education grants to medical institutions, including medical schools and hospitals, shall, consistent with applicable law and in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, immediately take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children. Sec. 5. Additional Directives to the Secretary of HHS. (a) The Secretary of HHS shall, consistent with applicable law, take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including regulatory and sub-regulatory actions, which may involve the following laws, programs, issues, or documents: (i) Medicare or Medicaid conditions of participation or conditions for coverage; (ii) clinical-abuse or inappropriate-use assessments relevant to State Medicaid programs; (iii) mandatory drug use reviews; (iv) section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; (v) quality, safety, and oversight memoranda; (vi) essential health benefits requirements; and Sec. 6. TRICARE. The Department of Defense provides health insurance, through TRICARE, to nearly 2 million individuals under the age of 18. As appropriate and consistent with applicable law, the Secretary of Defense shall commence a rulemaking or sub-regulatory action to exclude chemical and surgical mutilation of children from TRICARE coverage and amend the TRICARE provider handbook to exclude chemical and surgical mutilation of children. Sec. 7. Requirements for Insurance Carriers. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, shall: (a) include provisions in the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) and Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) programs call letter for the 2026 Plan Year specifying that eligible carriers, including the Foreign Service Benefit Plan, will exclude coverage for pediatric transgender surgeries or hormone treatments; and (b) negotiate to obtain appropriate corresponding reductions in FEHB and PSHB premiums.
January 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
landrewhuffman.bsky.social
Got some good sheep scratching done yesterday!
Big pink nose on a big white sheep.
January 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM