Joshua Hebburn
@joshuahebburn.bsky.social
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we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social !
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
BECKETTIAN by Shane Kowalski
Murphy was visiting Malone. It had been a while since they had seen each other. Murphy being busy in the city, while Malone had lingered in the countryside. Murphy remembered those dark country roads,...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
we have a story by Shane Kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social !
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
in the story Murphy – a professional in the city whose life makes him feel so confused that at times he wonders if he’s had a stroke – visits his friend Malone.
a great story ! & a great ending
xraylitmag.com/beckettian-b...
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enough "true crime." use your imagination and give me "fake crime" you cowards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
enough "true crime." use your imagination and give me "fake crime" you cowards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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I love glass blocks.
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I love glass blocks.
Saw two coyotes in daylight.
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Saw two coyotes in daylight.
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let's ALL celebrate #smallpoemsunday today with Kate Hall's FIRST PUBLICATION!
https://www.havehashad.com/rjn3l
https://www.havehashad.com/rjn3l
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
let's ALL celebrate #smallpoemsunday today with Kate Hall's FIRST PUBLICATION!
https://www.havehashad.com/rjn3l
https://www.havehashad.com/rjn3l
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For Halloween, the one of my own I most often give to family members and acquaintances, "The Rose." Written for @xraylitmag.bsky.social Boneyard issue a few years ago.
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THE ROSE by Joshua Hebburn
Driving back after the funeral, he stopped at a Target to get Starbucks and take a piss. He’d stayed overnight at a motel, and he left the motel early in the morning to make it back east by driving all day. Driving that morning he thought of the black and white picture of a Joshua tree in the room. It was the only thing not reusable in the motel; it was the sort of picture somebody would take in an intermediate photography class, not something tastelessly good the owners would get in a bulk purchase of decor. There was something...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For Halloween, the one of my own I most often give to family members and acquaintances, "The Rose." Written for @xraylitmag.bsky.social Boneyard issue a few years ago.
xraylitmag.com/the-rose-by-...
xraylitmag.com/the-rose-by-...
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we have a story by Andy Bodinger @andyandybodinger.bsky.social !
it's about a man who falls in with a group of 'amoebas' -- a group of isolated ppl w/ keys to a secret den where they can drink coffee & smoke cigs. no chit-chat.
but then a stranger shows up...
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it's about a man who falls in with a group of 'amoebas' -- a group of isolated ppl w/ keys to a secret den where they can drink coffee & smoke cigs. no chit-chat.
but then a stranger shows up...
xraylitmag.com/the-den-by-a...
THE DEN by Andy Bodinger
I’d been in the Midwest a month. I had stepped off the Greyhound with clothing, toiletries, documents, and a cremation urn, which I kept my savings in. The locals considered my new town dead. At first...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
we have a story by Andy Bodinger @andyandybodinger.bsky.social !
it's about a man who falls in with a group of 'amoebas' -- a group of isolated ppl w/ keys to a secret den where they can drink coffee & smoke cigs. no chit-chat.
but then a stranger shows up...
xraylitmag.com/the-den-by-a...
it's about a man who falls in with a group of 'amoebas' -- a group of isolated ppl w/ keys to a secret den where they can drink coffee & smoke cigs. no chit-chat.
but then a stranger shows up...
xraylitmag.com/the-den-by-a...
Table of contents.
October 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Table of contents.
Do you remember the last time you logged on?
icymi: i wrote this story. people seem to like it. if you haven’t read it, maybe you will like it too. biggest thanks to @xraylitmag.bsky.social and especially to @joshuahebburn.bsky.social
we have a story by Z.H. Gill @burialmagazine.bsky.social !
it's written in the form of a chat log of players on an online multiplayer game like world of warcraft. then someone’s dad shows up in the chat…
read this great story !!
xraylitmag.com/adventurers-...
it's written in the form of a chat log of players on an online multiplayer game like world of warcraft. then someone’s dad shows up in the chat…
read this great story !!
xraylitmag.com/adventurers-...
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Do you remember the last time you logged on?
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“I never dreamed of becoming a beef puppet for a large language model. I wanted to be a distinguished writer of mournful vignettes in the American grain, or else operate my own soft-serve-ice-cream truck…” —Sam Lipsyte, “Final Boy”
October 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“I never dreamed of becoming a beef puppet for a large language model. I wanted to be a distinguished writer of mournful vignettes in the American grain, or else operate my own soft-serve-ice-cream truck…” —Sam Lipsyte, “Final Boy”
Return to the internet fellow adventurers.
we have a story by Z.H. Gill @burialmagazine.bsky.social !
it's written in the form of a chat log of players on an online multiplayer game like world of warcraft. then someone’s dad shows up in the chat…
read this great story !!
xraylitmag.com/adventurers-...
it's written in the form of a chat log of players on an online multiplayer game like world of warcraft. then someone’s dad shows up in the chat…
read this great story !!
xraylitmag.com/adventurers-...
ADVENTURERS by Z.H. Gill
Yo ho ho, adventurers, but beware: Poisonaut Buccaneers are pillaging the Indigo Coast! But Quartermaster Zabbrock’s informant has the coordinates to their secret base…Can you weather the pirate lair’...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Return to the internet fellow adventurers.
This guy is going to drink for free in Los Angeles for the rest of his life.
Shohei Ohtani pitched 6 scoreless innings allowing only 2 hits and struck out 10 batters and hit 3 home runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 to complete the sweep and advance to the World Series.
No one has ever seen anything like this before.
No one has ever seen anything like this before.
October 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This guy is going to drink for free in Los Angeles for the rest of his life.
Added some careful ekphrastic literary description with citations attached to it in my undergraduate science paper which I hope is a treat for my professor.
October 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Added some careful ekphrastic literary description with citations attached to it in my undergraduate science paper which I hope is a treat for my professor.
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Expanded my reading list for one of my reading projects. Curious if anybody has anything to recommend.
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Reading List for a Genre that Has No Name (Expanded)
Novels in Three Lines by Felix Fanon, trans. Lucy Sante (pub 1906/1940)And So Did I by Malachai Whitaker (1939) Exercises in Style (65th anniversary edition), by Raymond Queneau trans. various…
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October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Expanded my reading list for one of my reading projects. Curious if anybody has anything to recommend.
joshuahebburn.wordpress.com/reading-list...
joshuahebburn.wordpress.com/reading-list...
Found some @havehashad.com pieces by Marvin Cohen in the 1973 anthology "Breakthrough Fictioneers."
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Found some @havehashad.com pieces by Marvin Cohen in the 1973 anthology "Breakthrough Fictioneers."
Greatly enjoyed Ryan Ridge's novella "American Homes."
An excerpt here:
thediagram.com/9_5/ridge.html
An excerpt here:
thediagram.com/9_5/ridge.html
DIAGRAM :: Ryan Ridge
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October 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Greatly enjoyed Ryan Ridge's novella "American Homes."
An excerpt here:
thediagram.com/9_5/ridge.html
An excerpt here:
thediagram.com/9_5/ridge.html
