The baby’s birth certificate finally arrived and it has a typo in her name 🙃
Courtney Pasko
@cpasko.bsky.social
Reader, writer, library girl Country mouse living in Baltimore she/hers https://www.courtneypasko.com/
Can't believe we got to publish Courtney on her birthday week!!! Don't miss this spectacular story!!!
Courtney Pasko@cpasko.bsky.social · last wk.Today’s my birthday! Come have a cave story to celebrate:
Today’s my birthday! Come have a cave story to celebrate:
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 2w ago"The daughter tries to speak but cannot make a sound: her mouth is a cave, wet and cold and full of bats..." New on hex today, @cpasko.bsky.social's "The Wind Cave," an expansive shortie that feels both ancient and fresh! 👇🦇👇
terrifying, beautiful & otherworldly true 😱 bravo @cpasko.bsky.social 👏👏👏 @hexliterary.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=3523
The Wind Cave by Courtney Pasko
The daughter is tired of walking, the muscles in her thighs and calves trembling as they climb, but there’s no chance of the father turning around until he’s seen everything he came to see. The forest...
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"The daughter is tired of walking, the muscles in her thighs and calves trembling as they climb..." Such an absolute pleasure to have @cpasko.bsky.social back in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week. Find a kind of freedom through The Wind Cave in this beautifully written tale, up now on the site!
The Wind Cave by Courtney Pasko
The daughter is tired of walking, the muscles in her thighs and calves trembling as they climb, but there’s no chance of the father turning around until he’s seen everything he came to see. The forest...
hexliterary.com
"The daughter tries to speak but cannot make a sound: her mouth is a cave, wet and cold and full of bats..." New on hex today, @cpasko.bsky.social's "The Wind Cave," an expansive shortie that feels both ancient and fresh! 👇🦇👇
The Wind Cave by Courtney Pasko
The daughter is tired of walking, the muscles in her thighs and calves trembling as they climb, but there’s no chance of the father turning around until he’s seen everything he came to see. The forest...
hexliterary.com
Honored and very glad to be back in fave @hexliterary.bsky.social today with this story about daughters and the dark!!
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 2w ago"The daughter tries to speak but cannot make a sound: her mouth is a cave, wet and cold and full of bats..." New on hex today, @cpasko.bsky.social's "The Wind Cave," an expansive shortie that feels both ancient and fresh! 👇🦇👇
Finally got out of the house for our first stroller walk today and hoo boy, if you thought I complained too much about infrastructure BEFORE !
Love this new story from Nathan, now in Echidna lit: “If the clocks were as old as the countryside and the doctor’s house had been built around them, it would come as no surprise.” echidnalitmag.com/2026/09/06/l...
Little Mice, Into the Clocks
by Nathan Pasko
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Me asked to assess my mood over the past seven days on yet another PPD risk assessment form:
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoIn a reply to his mom, Elon says he gets sad sometimes.
Maybe too broad an ask but if you have a favorite poem about mother/parenthood that is A) NOT about grief or death, at least not entirely and B) is actually a good poem and not hallmarky/instagrammy I’d love to read it!
“Isn’t this the most spectacular thing you’ve ever seen? I asked them, but I wasn’t sure anymore. I wasn’t sure I liked my arms so leafy, so conspicuous.”
Daniel Miller@danielmiller.bsky.social · 4w ago"I was twelve when I became a tree." Folks, it's such a pleasure to welcome the phenomenal @skyskkyy.bsky.social back to @hexliterary.bsky.social with a new fairy tale that tip toes into body horror. This is an unforgettable coming of age story, spectacularly penned! Would advise u not to miss it.
a poet writing poems (spotted in Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day, 1968)
The makeup summons arrived while I was mid-induction at the hospital, lmao. (My midwife already sent an excusal letter.) The devil works hard but Baltimore Circuit Court, etc etc
Courtney Pasko@cpasko.bsky.social · 8mo agoAll witnesses and jurors are excused 🎉
Saw my garden's first hummingbird visiting my cardinal flowers during a break in the rain 😊 ✨ 🌈
Went to two different convenience stores and neither of them had a working slushie machine. Why even OPEN
FYI: if you crave more of that sweet Odyssey discourse, Emily Wilson is coming to the Pratt Library in September! calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/emily-...
Emily Wilson: "Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea"
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Worked out this morning (put on a pair of compression socks all by myself)
Many thanks to Frank over at @short-story-shout.bsky.social for featuring "The Flatlander" this week!
Short Story Shoutout@short-story-shout.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐨’s “The Flatlander” in 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭: "The required beats in a cautionary tale are clear, and Pasko hits them all. But as is the case with most exceptional stories, she tinkers around the edges of the form, and in doing so, elevates her story above it." @cpasko.bsky.social #booksky #litfic
The day I've been dreading for two and a half years finally happened: forgot my badge at home, didn't realize until I was at the office, and have stuff on the calendar that meant I had to do my commute twice instead of just going back to bed. I think I could've done better but it was a decent run.
Saw Indy on the big screen/35mm tonight for the first time and in addition to obviously looking and sounding gorgeous, it was SO FUN to see in a warm, all-ages crowd! Good laughs including my past-life cameo.
My OB, aka my new best friend, sent me home after today's appointment with instructions to "go get yourself a doughnut." 🫡
Have been reading Nancy Lemann and dreamt last night I was back in New Orleans.
I* love and feel seen by this one! *a person who called my cat, named Poe, "Doodoe" this morning for complex but very real etymological reasons
HAD@havehashad.com · 3mo agoincredibly fun one today from Garrett Mostowski!! https://www.havehashad.com/5sfwn
"She says the goal is not to outsource our feelings to a landform. Easy for her to say. She has a face like a retired planet." 🌑
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 3mo ago"My therapist says I need a healthier way to process my anger, so I purchase a personal volcano online. Outer insulation. Apartment scale. Sweet pick, the seller writes..." Today, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social offers a tender and furious new piece. Don't miss "My Personal Volcano," now on hex! 🌋👇🌋
Bringing my copy of Pride & Prejudice along to a dr's appointment I'm nervous about like some people carry the bible
We picked out a paint color called "Cotton Balls" this weekend and I can't stop repeating it to myself. COTTON. BALLS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixOJ...
Nadine's Cotton Balls / Twin Peaks
YouTube video by Daya's Corner
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