Jan Stinchcomb

@janstinchcomb.bsky.social

Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.) janstinchcomb.com

"The baby is chewing her fingers." I don't want to spoil too much of this one. The deliriums of parenthood. An absurd, delightful nightmare. You don't want to miss this phenomenally weird tale. It's such a pleasure to have @seanbirnie.bsky.social back in hex this week with Ouroborobaby!

Ouroborobaby by Seán Padraic Birnie

The baby is chewing her fingers. She’ll put anything (a phone, a tube of barrier cream, your house keys, an empty blister pack of Methlyphenidate XR, 40mg) into her mouth if you let her. She’s at that...

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"I negotiated a severance package. Six weeks. The weeks are ending. The holidays are coming. And I know eventually I’ll tell her, tell the family, or she’ll find out..." Read this if you've ever worried about your: job, finances, marriage, or children. doric-literary.com/2026/07/01/f...

Floaters

I am a naked white man sprawled on his bathroom floor, and it’s as if time has stopped, and I am awash with a sense of shame, like I’ve been caught masturbating by a team of coworkers with robust s…

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"I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately." The hex crew is very excited to have @seandowie.bsky.social back with another strange and hilarious tale! Sean's latest is a surprising and wonderful take on youth in which everything goes... right? Don't miss Oldgirl, up now on the site!

Oldgirl by Sean Dowie

I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately. Adolescence is such a bore. My friends obsess over boys, gossip, and grades. I’m shorter than my peers (which would be a perfect height fo...

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