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We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks. https://www.havehashad.com

amazing piece from Jen Hallaman! "1. to reach my mother’s hometown from my hometown, it takes 2.5 hours by car on a crooked highway carved out of sprawling shale a. by carved, I mean blown apart with dynamite b. look closely and you’ll see..." https://www.havehashad.com/n7gpr

everything I know about my mother's hometown by Jen Hallaman

to reach my mother’s hometown from my hometown, it takes 2.5 hours by car on a crooked highway carved out of sprawling shale by carved, I mean blown apart with dynamite look closely and you’ll see the…

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when I accepted these two Wheeler Light shorts, I kinda wanted to pub them separately, to let each shine, but I forgot, so here's a doubleshot of magic for you all today "Language wants to grow up to be color and color wants to grow up to be sound." https://www.havehashad.com/yb3ey

Two Things by Wheeler Light

Hidden Movements for Sho Language wants to grow up to be color and color wants to grow up to be sound. When it was a child, politics wanted to grow up to be a firefighter but ended up being fires.…

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"That I’ll recognize you in the coffee shop after all these years, that you’ll see my long scraggly mop and pierced nose as the bell chimes over the door knowing it’s me, and you’ll stand from the loveseat and open your arms..." 🔥 👀 from Lauren Kardos https://www.havehashad.com/mcqgx

July 31, 2026
Three wishes and a secret
Lauren Kardos
That I’ll recognize you in the coffee shop after all these years, that you’ll see my long scraggly mop and pierced nose as the bell chimes over the door knowing it’s me, and you’ll stand from the loveseat and open your arms. That we’ll refill our mugs until our fingers jitter, our hearts race, until the baristas side-eye us near closing, two women on the wrong side of forty with Cheshire cat smiles and laughing to tears, saying remember when so-and-so jumped the bonfire with her vaulting pole, saying I hear he runs the bank downtown now. That you’ll ask me to dinner because it’s been too long and maybe, if I’m up to it, we can split a cheesecake for dessert and play what was once our favorite game, the one you always said was better than truth or dare, the one that revealed a week before graduation that I was moving away, packed and ticket in-hand for a city across the country, that I wasn’t bringing you. That behind all these three

another wonderful triptych, today from Pam Avoledo! "Two boys run through the backyard, climbing over the steel fence, their hands on the rusted beam, the clang bruising their knees. The first one inside gets a prize." https://www.havehashad.com/or6gy

Two Boys by Pam Avoledo

Two boys run through the backyard, climbing over the steel fence, their hands on the rusted beam, the clang bruising their knees. The first one inside gets a prize. Two boys run on the sidewalk, near…

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banger today from Matthew Vollmer "Zuexius, a Greek painter, died of laughter. The Bluebeard of Gambais was killed by guillotine. Joseph Haydn, the famous classical musician, died after a long illness but his head was stolen by two men..." https://www.havehashad.com/v8n9z

Ways To Go by Matthew Vollmer

Zuexius, a Greek painter, died of laughter. The Bluebeard of Gambais was killed by guillotine. Joseph Haydn, the famous classical musician, died after a long illness but his head was stolen by two men…

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"...When she asked what happened to the tequila in the fridge he stood there looking for it like he didn’t know exactly where it went. This is how Haley catches me up anyway since I dozed off watching..." !! today from FM Stringer https://www.havehashad.com/twfvy

Love Is Blind S9E10 by FM Stringer

So She’s mad because He drinks too much well not just that he drinks too much but that he lies about it. When she asked what happened to the tequila in the fridge he stood there looking for it like he…

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I hearted it before reading the whole thing blc that opening line in the preview window is just that good. & now that I have read the whole thing I need to, I don't know, double-heart it or tattoo it on my ankle & adopt my own pigeon. That's a normal reaction to reading a stellar piece, right?