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Joshua Hebburn

@joshuahebburn.bsky.social

Radiologist @XRAY https://joshuahebburn.wordpress.com/

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X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i love this 300 word story by Kate Catinella ! it's about a girl that goes on a date with a guy who piles his plate with shredded parmesan what a good ending ! the role reversal in 300 words is impressive & memorable & thoughtful - read this pronto xraylitmag.com/cheese-drawe...

Cheese Drawer by Kate Catinella

There’s about seven inches of grated parmesan piled onto a side plate. The waiter said Say when, and the guy never said when. Just watched the waiter shave more and more of the block until finally the...

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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Posting this again for all of you who may have missed. I wrote a weird thing, and I GREATLY appreciate that @xraylitmag.bsky.social saw fit to publish it. Look at those illustrations! xraylitmag.com/diplomats-by...

Diplomats by Matt Rowan

This was a town that got really excited about a Bigfoot sighting the winter before, but whose residents were crestfallen to learn that it was only a mound of old wigs someone had dumped out there, in ...

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X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

we have a short story by Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social ! set in a vaguely apocalyptic world, a married couple visits a travel agency: “We just want the best journey of our lives." things quickly go sideways - gives funny & weird Yorgos Lanthimos vibes xraylitmag.com/diplomats-by...

Diplomats by Matt Rowan

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Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

John Berger on the presence of ”boy unknown to you or me.”

The photographs in this book work in the opposite way.
A photograph of a boy in the rain, a boy unknown to you or me. Seen in the dark-room when making the print, or seen in this book when reading it, the image conjures up the vivid presence of the unknown boy. To his father it would define the boy's absence.

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Big Man, star of Big Man, Bigger Man, Big Man: Biggest, and Still Big, Still Man, sadly passed away last night in a dog-sledding-related incident." I don't want to spoil too much of "Big Man, Dead at 37" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social. Hilarious and tender, wonderfully written. Don't miss it! 👇

Big Man, Dead at 37 by Spencer Nitkey

Big Man, star of Big Man, Bigger Man, Big Man: Biggest, and Still Big, Still Man, sadly passed away last night in a dog-sledding-related incident. Though his death is tragic, loved ones say they are c...

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Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've been Buried. burialmagazine.neocities.org/amomentinpet...

A Moment in Pete's Life

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Libby Banks @libbyiscomplex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is probably my favorite thing I have ever written, and I am SO happy it found a home at HAD.

HAD@havehashad.com · 4mo ago

amazing linguistic recursion today from Libby Banks "I reach for the word— mirror [window] window [mirror] Glass reflects. Glass transmits. The brain knows they're the same before language splits them." https://www.havehashad.com/9pdcw

Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Louise Bourgeois, Cleavage, 1991

HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

MIRRORS/WINDOWS: A Recursion by Libby Banks

I reach for the word— mirror [window] window [mirror] Glass reflects. Glass transmits. The brain knows they're the same before language splits them. Standing at the glass [the brain tracking aperture…

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A new little piece of @joshuahebburn.bsky.social magic yesterday on @hexliterary.bsky.social! hexliterary.com?p=3269

The Invisible Man by Joshua Hebburn
April 21, 2026

I’d slept for only four hours that day. When I was looking at his face, I saw another face. It was as if an artist had drawn it smoothly into the natural lines, the fine hair, wrinkles, flecks of pigmentation and blemish, the musculature. The other face was distorted by these details like a figure swimming the breast stroke beneath the caustic light reflected from the surface to the bottom of a pool. I don’t think I was seeing the inner child, or the younger man, or myself, or anything just like that. It wasn’t wasn’t him. I blinked and it was gone. He was looking at me. It was as if he looked at me for the first time.

Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"I’d slept for only four hours that day." The man the myth the legend, @joshuahebburn.bsky.social, is back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Don't miss this delirious wonder!

The Invisible Man by Joshua Hebburn

I’d slept for only four hours that day. When I was looking at his face, I saw another face. It was as if an artist had drawn it smoothly into the natural lines, the fine hair, wrinkles, flecks of pigm...

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tonight's goodnight image is 'She Did Not Turn', David Inshaw, oil on canvas, 1974. Sleep tight.

A David Inshaw image of a lone figure traversing parallel lines on a dark green velvety field: ahead, a house on the horizon, an impossible sky as dark as night but with cloud curds hovering, and to the left a rainbow. Title: She Did Not Turn.
'She Did Not Turn', David Inshaw, oil on canvas, 1974.
Sleep tight.
#davidinshaw

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"I’d slept for only four hours that day." This week on hex, @joshuahebburn.bsky.social is back with a brief, perfectly written bit of delirium. A ripple in perception. A face and another face. Don't miss this wonder, "The Invisible Man," up now on the site! 🤔😐😶

The Invisible Man by Joshua Hebburn

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HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

today from KIRSTEN MOSHER !! https://www.havehashad.com/4glv9

Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Don't miss this one. A favorite.

X-R-A-Y Literary Press@xraylitmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

we have a story by Hannah Smart ! it's about a man who accidentally fakes his death & goes around town spying on his friends & family, to hear what they say about him. soon the story of his death starts slipping out of his control. xraylitmag.com/city-limits-...

Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

"Dolores’s realization that Dolores can assume a sort of invincibility if only Dolores is willing to desire nothing more than exactly what Dolores already has is alluring, then calming." little 🔥 today from gg roland https://www.havehashad.com/fjcwx

how these things work by gg roland

Dolores’s life has taken a turn, according to some. It is Dolores’s own opinion that Dolores is undergoing a sort of enlightenment, a spiritual awakening, or a private avant-garde understanding of how…

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HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

How about a cento of... lines from The Bachelor Season 22, Episode 8?! today from Adrian Acu! "he felt like he was falling for me[iii] I do feel myself falling for him[iv] I was falling in love with him[v] I feel like I'm falling in love with him[vi]" https://www.havehashad.com/8p601

Gravity: A Cento by Adrian Acu

lines from The Bachelor Season 22, Episode 8 I am falling for you[i] the more I fall for her[ii] he felt like he was falling for me[iii] I do feel myself falling for him[iv] I was falling in love with…

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HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

"If you walk for long enough with your eyes closed it begins to feel like you’re walking on the spot." today from Billie J Daniel!! https://www.havehashad.com/f0n64

April 15, 2026
"Walking Meditation To The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski"
by Billie J Daniel

Shut your eyes,
Walk forward in a straight line.

Resist your body’s need to know where it is.
If you walk for long enough with your eyes closed
it begins to feel like you’re walking on the spot.

A kind of eternal perfection happens
and you can’t tell the beginning
or the end (William Basinski).

Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New Grouse County novel coming from Tom Drury. bookshop.org/p/books/west...

West of Loveland

Check out West of Loveland - <p><b>"Drury is an absolutely delightful writer who has carved out a world of his own in American fiction, one that is odd, revealing, and yet filled with love."--<i>Libra...

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HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

been a minute, but super excited to feature Tyler Barton back on the site again today! "Knowing there will always be audiences for Sunday, this is about Sunday. For this day of the week we have this name. Sunday, which resists visitation..." https://www.havehashad.com/u73e6

After Brecht by Tyler Barton

Either all days are holy or none are. — Terry Pratchett Knowing there will always be audiences for Sunday, this is about Sunday. For this day of the week we have this name. Sunday, which resists…

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Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Celebrating my first skull today. Immense gratitude and thanks to the always amazing @havehashad.com for taking this one and to @joshuahebburn.bsky.social for the edit. Shout out to Cleveland, Ohio - my heart away from home. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/sta...

Stand Up Grief by Keith Woodruff

Cleveland, hey thanks for coming out tonight. Heard any good cancer jokes lately? What, too soon? Actually, my wife asked the hospice nurse that on her first home visit. You know, I thought I should g...

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 4mo ago

straight lane hole, castle park golf, sherman oaks, california, 1981

HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

Today from Jeffrey H. MacLachlan! https://www.havehashad.com/6z0h7

April 11, 2026
Occasional Poem
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan

Share for special occasions. A special occasion implies a few times per year. As people age, life occupies more years and occasions. Shared occasions become part of a special few. Relish time for those occasions. Special love parts with a few years.

HAD @havehashad.com · 4mo ago

"Hey Google, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Hey Google, play the news. Hey Google, what should you preheat the oven to for grocery store sausages. Hey Google, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Hey Google, are we technically at war or...." Tom Snarsky !!! https://www.havehashad.com/s5g00

Hey Google by Tom Snarsky

Hey Google, put on “Sand River” by Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man. Hey Google, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Hey Google, play the news. Hey Google, what should you preheat the oven to for grocery…

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Many of you have heard that my editor Sean McDonald will no longer be working at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I wrote a little bit about my feelings at the end of an era.

I'm sure many people have seen the Publisher's Weekly article about my editor, Sean McDonald, leaving Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and his imprint, MCD Books, being shuttered. I have a lot of feelings about this, including gratitude for ten years of stability with one editor. Before Sean, I had a trilogy where each novel was taken by a different publishing company. It sold well enough that I was still in the game, but I never had anything approaching a settled situation. I never had any assurance from book to book that I could relax or get comfortable or feel settled.
Sean's offer for Annihilation and the rest of the Southern Reach trilogy was extraordinary. It fused a deep love of the literary with a savvy understanding of the world beyond the words in the novel. He had the vision to put the three Southern Reach novels out in the same year, creating a PR sensation to go along with a startlement of mostly rave reviews--a positive feedback loop that landed Authority and Acceptance on the bestseller lists in trade paperback. {Ultimately, the series has gone on to sell well over a million copies in the US alone, and been translated into over 37 languages.)
He further had the vision to slap an X on an omnibus hardcover just before the holidays, as a perfect gift book. It was as immaculate a synergy of the storytelling and the marketing and PR expression of that storytelling as I have ever seen or had ever experienced as the author in question. He also slipped the manuscript of Annihilation to a producer at a lunch, which led to the Annihilation movie and eventually led to Annihilation making the NYT bestseller list for the first time.

When he got his own imprint at FSG, MCD Books, my novel Borne was the first published as an MCD book. It didn't make the bestseller list in hardcover, but got rare trifecta of rave reviews in the NY Times, LA Times, and Washington Post in the same weekend. The trade paperback edition is in a fourteenth printing.
After the Annihilation movie came out, I strove to write the least commercial idea I had, first, to kind of wash away the Hollywood experience. That novel was Dead Astronauts, accompanied by The Strange Bird. I sent Dead Astronauts to Sean with an email note that I knew the novel was unexpected and very strange and I appreciated him reading it, but I did not expect him to publish it. I absolved him any obligation. But within a couple of months, He replied that he liked it very much and he did want to publish it, and he saw a clear path to publishing it. The trade paperback is still in print and Dead Astronauts earned out the advance, despite being formally experimental.
When Hummingbird Salamander tanked at the beginning of the pandemic (only to rise again in trade paperback), Sean didn't bat an eye about it, just moved on and endeavored to reprint my entire backlist at FSG. As of this writing, City of Saints & Madmen is in an eighth printing, and the others, Shriek, Finch, and Veniss Underground, are all in print and selling steadily.

FSG itself--from the art department to the PR and marketing teams, the other editorial staff, and the foreign language rights division--has always felt like a place where everyone passionately loved books and while no company is perfect, I certainly have felt it was and is an oasis in an increasingly inconsistent publishing world.
I'm very sad that Sean is leaving FSG. I know he will land on his feet, as they say, and do more great things elsewhere. I really owe him a lot and FSG a lot. I'm very fortunate, very blessed, and I also know from 45 years of a book life that everything has its place and has it season.
It's good to celebrate what you had and how wonderful it was to have it, rather than to dwell on the fact that it has ended. Eleven books in eleven years, with a twelfth on the way is a thing to treasure.
Sean changed the trajectory of my career, and we fought many a long, arduous campaign during book launches often quixotic and against the grain of the popular in the moment. I have a lot of joy and love in my heart for all of those times and all of those opportunities. It's been a great run. I've learned a lot and had such adventures.
My career isn't over and my association with FSG isn't over, either--among other things, I have a novel under contract with them--but it does feel like the end of an era, for me.
Honor the past but don't live there, the saying goes. But, you'll forgive me, I hope, if I live there for just a bit longer.
Thanks for reading.

Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hello. I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”. youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8

John Cage - 4' 33'' Death Metal Cover by Dead Territory [ORIGINAL VIDEO]

YouTube video by DeadTerritory

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

it’s friday