Kate McIntyre
@katemcintyre.bsky.social
Writer, MAD PRAIRIE, Flannery O’Connor Award winner, PEN/Bingham Prize long list. Assistant prof @wpi. Co-editor @hexliterary.🌻 🌪 katemcintyrewriting.com
I'll be reading with @cobramilk.bsky.social tonite to celebrate the amazing new issue! Get registered below
Cobra Milk@cobramilk.bsky.social · 9mo agoJoin us Tuesday for our virtual launch party to celebrate issue 05! Tune in for readings plus a virtual art show with music. Register here: foursevenfive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"Outside the dirty glass, darkness closed in. Like black wrapper on gift nobody wanted to receive. Train locked me in, hardly any passengers..." Each twist of this great piece by @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social surprised me. New on hex today!
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 9mo ago"…and each time there was a story in the end..." Thus begins @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social's perfectly honed "Been on a Train Five Times," a dream-like series of train happenings written with such precision. Pattnaik is such an incredible writer and we are so stoked to feature this wonder! Peep it!
SUBMISSION CALL COMING! Wednesday, 1/14, 10 AM (MT) / 12 PM (ET) / 6 PM (CET) Subs will be capped at 150, so be quick. The nitty-gritty: 750 words for prose (or 2 micro pieces of equal combined length) 1-2 poems & hybrid pieces (each no longer than 2 pages) guest ed: @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
My latest Book Riot is live! I spotlight 6 SFF short stories you can read online for free. Featuring works by @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social, @thesuiway.bsky.social, @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, @kristinaten.bsky.social, Chiemeziem Everest Udochukw, and Celestine Ndanu K. bookriot.com/sff-short-st...
6 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Stories You Can Read Online For Free
These excellent sci-fi and fantasy short stories are available to read for free online, and they're the perfect antidote to doomscrolling.
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"Everyone knew about our friendship, and by that I mean: the Kremlin." This week in hex: a birthday party, anti-gravity secrets, the complexities of parenting. We are BEYOND thrilled to feature the incredible @glennorgias.bsky.social's "Dewdrops," an unforgettable slice of magic! Spread the word! 😈
Dewdrops by Glenn Orgias
Mr Hyun lived down the hall, he was elderly and had arthritis so I’d cook him meals (he offered to pay, but given that I’d been cajoled into spying on him it was the least I could do). Everyone knew a...
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So honored to have two shorties in this gorgeous new issue of @cobramilk.bsky.social. One piece emerged from a dream, the other from a generative workshop led by Evan Williams. And double joy to share pages with @hexliterary.bsky.social contributors Julián Martinez and Monique Quintana! 🐍🐍🐍🍄🍄🍄
"The children saw their chance." This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!" Go check it out!
Enthrall! by Stephanie Feldman
The children saw their chance. The cheese course lay in ruins on the endless table. The parents were too tipsy or sleepy, too busy arguing or laughing or singing, too distracted loosening belts and...
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"She is conveniently in the kitchen, slicing a large orange with one of the knives. Her limbs are exquisitely long, her cutting precise. Slip..." As New Year's parties beckon, mark this tale of gentle menace from the nonpareil @cherylpappas.bsky.social, new on hex! 🔪🍊🕷️
Innocence by Cheryl Pappas
He slips into the house party unnoticed, wearing a fedora and a bright pink handkerchief in his suit pocket. He is dressed like the other men, just as the invitation had specified. The women’s shawls ...
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"See here, o ye wistful, see here! The sweat of God, bottled." Folks! This week, the one and only @notveryalice.bsky.social offers a spritz of holy oddness and love. Absolutely love the language in this story. Don't miss "Thrift Store Perfume," up now on the site! 🙏
Thrift Store Perfume by Alice M
See here, o ye wistful, see here! The sweat of God, bottled. Collected from His pits. A drop grants salvation. Smell here, o ye damned! Open thy nostrils, thou wretch, smell the funk of divinity! Anim...
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"In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'" @iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
Unsolved Mysteries by Chris Scott
Ten years old, watching Unsolved Mysteries on the floor, dunking Oreos in my Keebler Elf glass of milk. A husband and wife are fighting. Not the real husband, not the real wife. A reenactment. The wif...
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Best Small Fictions nom nom noms! 💥👹💥 @rpmirabella.bsky.social @whitneycollins.bsky.social @johnchrostek.com @barickme.bsky.social @shiweizhou.bsky.social
hex's Best Microfiction noms 💥🖤💥 @notveryalice.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @adrianf.bsky.social @junewhitewrites.bsky.social Avery Gregurich
"We scooted into a booth and my dad asked the waitress for her name. She smiled and he told her that she had Nice Teeth. I couldn’t stifle my laugh, so he asked, 'What?'" Love love love the strange inheritance of dadlike silliness in Mikee Parangalan's "Paternal Possession," up now on the site! 🩸
Paternal Possession by Mikee Parangalan
Delaney and I met my dad outside of the diner for his birthday. We scooted into a booth and my dad asked the waitress for her name. She smiled and he told her that she had Nice Teeth. I couldn’t stifl...
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“We are protected from flames by cool winds of dark matter. It’s too bright to see much torture…” Yesss Joe on HAD yessssss 🔥🔥😈🔥🔥
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 10mo agohex editor / genius, Joe Aguilar, is back in @havehashad.com today with Three Tinies! Go get it!
What an amazing opening line: "One by one, the talk show hosts were dying."
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 11mo ago"One host was known for his black lacquered glasses. Another was always obscured in a cloud of cigar smoke, except for his wandering hands..." Appearance and disappearance, apparition and television: We are delighted to feature this brief, enigmatic tale by Pedro Ponce, new today on hex 📺 👇🍸
what's it mean that two of my favorite recent artworks are about bombs in/under cars? Xzhibit #1, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social new today on @hexliterary.bsky.social
Pimp My Ride by Julián Martinez
Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red with pinstripe and flames which hangs on the fuse of an even bigger bomb, the...
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“While the curtains close, Jesus fiddles with the drained batteries in his chrome torso.” What joy! Two new Elena Zhang pieces today.
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 12mo ago"In this movie, Jesus and my mother are at a bar drinking mojitos." God, we are SO stoked to have @ezhang77.bsky.social back in hex this week with another surreal one-two punch! Elena is such a master of dream-like imagery infused with the human, and always surprising. Two new, up now on the site!
“And that pitcher still a little weepy out there still moping like a bastard. He’s a bastard that guy that pitcher. Good guy though, does a lot for his community…” Oh man, the voice here hits just right. 🧢⚾️
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 12mo agolove this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥
“Vicuna. ‘The smallest member of the camel family,’ I said, caressing his coat. ‘Most of them die from terror when sheared…’” I adore our latest offering: lyrical, odd, gorgeous.
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last yr."I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss." Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
So honored to be featured on this amazing list!
Lyndsie Manusos@lmanusos.bsky.social · last yr.A new addition to my newsletter! Where I talk about forgetting, upcoming publications, and short fic recs with amazing work by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @catvalente.bsky.social, @katemcintyre.bsky.social, @noirbettie.bsky.social, and @babblewocky.bsky.social. buttondown.com/LyndsieWrite...
My story Thirst Trap is out in @hexliterary.bsky.social (link in the comments). Read it to get your thirst quenched! Thanks to the hex team for being amazing!
@hexliterary.bsky.social is the best, and I'm thrilled my latest story found a home with them. This story made my friend laugh so hard he pissed himself! (My friend had been hospitalized because he hadn't urinated in a month. Doctors are now using my story for more medical breakthroughs).
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last yr."No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue." This week, we bring you the Great American Short Story, a brand new one by @seandowie.bsky.social. This one is a jaw-dropper. Hilarious. Unexpected. Don't miss "Thirst Trap!" 💪💀👇
Today on hex, @seandowie.bsky.social offers an all-time great first line. Then there's this killer moment: "I strutted. My plump buttocks in denim shorts no doubt caught their attention." And you won't believe the ending. Read it! 👇
hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · last yr."No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue." This week, we bring you the Great American Short Story, a brand new one by @seandowie.bsky.social. This one is a jaw-dropper. Hilarious. Unexpected. Don't miss "Thirst Trap!" 💪💀👇
One of my favorite reading experiences is being completely baffled by something until all of a sudden I'm totally into it
HAD@havehashad.com · last yr.always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych. The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons... https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn
The sentiment is mutual 📝 🦍 💥
King Kong Takes A Break From Doing My Taxes To Share Some Personal Thoughts by Lillie E. Franks
I poked my head out of the empty ninth story office and stuttered a few syllables to get the attention of the woman walking towards the elevator. “Hey the e-mail I got said to come to 942, but it look...
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Lillie E. Franks@lilliekoi.bsky.social · last yr.One of my favorite reading experiences is being completely baffled by something until all of a sudden I'm totally into it
Absolutely love this new triptych which is at least 3 times as fun to read out loud as it is in your head
HAD@havehashad.com · last yr.always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych. The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons... https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn
NEW KATE MCINTYRE! go go go
HAD@havehashad.com · last yr.always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych. The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons... https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn
