Today we kick off publishing l*sts over at @essaydaily.bsky.social. L*STS are lists, lasts, losts, and lusts. First up is @erinkeane.bsky.social's State Fair Vanitas! www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/erin.... Want to contribute one? Pitch us!
Andrew Maynard
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social
Teacher & Writer, Richmond, VA.
an object (and her story) available to bid on (and read). honored to be featured in the prestigious literary pages of ebay.
Ander Monson@angermonsoon.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust up for read/share/bid: a very short Significant Object 2026 by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social: www.ebay.com/itm/26764806... @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social #significantobjects #significantobjects2026
Just up for read/share/bid: a very short Significant Object 2026 by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social: www.ebay.com/itm/26764806... @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social #significantobjects #significantobjects2026
an object (and her story) available to bid on (and read). honored to be featured in the prestigious literary pages of ebay.
Ander Monson@angermonsoon.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust up for read/share/bid: a very short Significant Object 2026 by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social: www.ebay.com/itm/26764806... @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social #significantobjects #significantobjects2026
“how every shape in my life was pressed at least a little to the side by your theories and delusions, the force of being around you, a gravity.” @angermonsoon.bsky.social, steward of Significant Objects, with a gem of a story/object for sale on eBay
Ander Monson@angermonsoon.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday's Significant Objects 2026 is mine: Sand Clown (Carletta) You've got a week to read, share, and bid on this weirdo: www.ebay.com/itm/26763437... #significantobjects2026 #significantobjects @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social
Today's Significant Objects 2026 is mine: Sand Clown (Carletta) You've got a week to read, share, and bid on this weirdo: www.ebay.com/itm/26763437... #significantobjects2026 #significantobjects @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social
Today's Significant Object 2026 is SIDEWAYS DVD by @lydiapaar.bsky.social: www.ebay.com/itm/26762869... #significantobjects #significantobjects2026 @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social
Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social at Ghost Parachute, for publishing my little/big story.
Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social · 5mo agoRead "The Writer" written by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social and illustrated by @kaystedmanfriedman.bsky.social. "He’s a wasteland, he’s the desiccated Arizona desert out his window, that old saguaro, five arms grasping, grasping for anything." tinyurl.com/5n6ty7yw
beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social! check it out 🦇⚡
Even After You’re Gone, by K.C. Mead-Brewer — The Bulb Region
Even After You’re Gone — K.C. Mead-Brewer RIPLEY’S CAT IS A SMALL CAT. Here,...
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Today's @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social Significant Object story/listing is Hot Pepper Salsa Dish by Sean Lovelace. This one's an essay which you can read in the listing: www.ebay.com/itm/26762349...
Hot Pepper Salsa Dish (Significant Objects 2026) by Sean Lovelace | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Hot Pepper Salsa Dish (Significant Objects 2026) by Sean Lovelace at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
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First object/story up in the Significant Objects 2026 Project is Sparkly Shoe Statue by L. C. J. Owen www.ebay.com/itm/26761769... #significantobjects2026 #significantobjects
Thoughts on what we're doing here in March Sadness by @angermonsoon.bsky.social on the substack (which you wanna get on if you're not already): open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...
Once Again On the Sadnesses of March
Listening to Sadness Songs en route to Baltimore
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Excited to have another essay on @havehashad.com today. Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for the prompt and selection!
HAD@havehashad.com · 6mo agoanother piece of magic & wonder, today from Andrew Maynard! "...and there was something so romantic about a wingless jet, about succumbing to loneliness, surrendering to isolation, and if I were braver and more original I would’ve broken into the jet..." https://www.havehashad.com/4jzvg
another piece of magic & wonder, today from Andrew Maynard! "...and there was something so romantic about a wingless jet, about succumbing to loneliness, surrendering to isolation, and if I were braver and more original I would’ve broken into the jet..." https://www.havehashad.com/4jzvg
Wingless by Andrew Maynard
Picture me—nineteen, kicked out of college—living in a waterless log cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the far corner of my big sister’s property next door to a wingless commercial airplane that belonged…
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beautiful new Natalie Warther today! "Perhaps each household is allotted a finite amount of joy, as if the wizard’s hands are tied, this is simply the rule of beginnings: Should you acquire giggle and coo, you must forfeit fetch and wag." https://www.havehashad.com/8e7il
The Old Dog Begins To Leave Us Now That The Baby Is Here by Natalie Warther
“There you are,” I say to her sweetly, the wriggling boy in my arms. She keeps her head lowered, lifts her foggy eyes, rolls to show me the belly that I have no hands to pet. In our case, the…
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Reposting my Christmas / Big Rudolph epic, "My Monument," on account of it being Christmas eve: creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-m...
My Monument - Creative Nonfiction
Surrounded by his neighbors’ maximalist holiday displays—104 inflatable Christmas decorations in all, with not a repetition among them—Ander Monson ponders the history of spectacle and considers the m...
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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...
Love these new essays on motherhood in @therumpus.net. "I was afraid to invite death into the room. I was afraid of what it would take with it when it left." -Elizabeth Austin therumpus.net/2025/12/10/g...
Grim - The Rumpus
I didn’t know how to be this kind of parent. Until this moment, I’d followed a prescribed path: packing lunches, ferrying my kids to and from school, serving balanced meals, running baths in the eveni...
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"...Kyle and Annie both understand that the heart is a spider web capable of trapping and feasting on small, beautiful joys..." It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
Carbs
By Andrew Maynard
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Set out to create the most literary one-sentence story ever written about the intersection of hand jobs and the Olive Garden. Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. And my nephew for making the art. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
Carbs
By Andrew Maynard
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NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Digging Toward the Sun” by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social is now up! Art by Franziska Hofhansel flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/d...
Digging Toward the Sun by Andrew Maynard
Two boys build a sand castle at the edge of the earth. Their father watches at a distance, pushing his toes into the sand. It’s not actually quiet—thunderous waves folding in on themselves, wind bl…
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"The castle sways more and more, and the father says they must remain diligent. No cutting corners. Each floor must be stronger than the last."
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 10mo agoNEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Digging Toward the Sun” by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social is now up! Art by Franziska Hofhansel flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/d...
Very excited to have a story in @flashfrog.bsky.social, a journal I’ve long admired. Thank you @ericscottryon.bsky.social for the edits and commissioning such perfect artwork! I hope you give it a read
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 10mo agoNEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Digging Toward the Sun” by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social is now up! Art by Franziska Hofhansel flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/d...
"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?" @andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist by Andrew Maynard
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist * Andrew Maynard * “Is it like the old Playboy magazine; you have essays there by the m...
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over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!
Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!
Essay Daily@essaydaily.bsky.social · 10mo ago"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?" @andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
A fascinating way to think of numbers (and people by extension). In particular, what it says about the those who like 1 because it means they mirror what they encounter.
HAD@havehashad.com · 11mo agooh, wow, everything about today's Andrew Maynard short is wonderful, and then that ending!! "She continues: I like five because you never lose it when it multiplies with something odd. And I think about saying, What if I’m even?" https://www.havehashad.com/envc8