Jeffrey Hermann

Jeffrey Hermann

@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Writer, all sorts: https://linktr.ee/jeffreyhermann

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Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

This is sort of a Halloween story because it's about bleeding uncontrollably, but really it's a love story. Thanks @hexliterary.bsky.social. "As a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet." hexliterary.com?p=3627

hexliterary.comBleeders by Jeffrey HermannAs a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet. We go through sheets like people go through paper towel. We faint. We sli...
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

"Odd, morbid, moving, and so creative." Best compliment I've ever gotten as a writer. Thanks, @iamchrisscott.bsky.social ❤️

Chris Scott@iamchrisscott.bsky.social

I'm in awe of this fantastic story by @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social. Odd, morbid, moving, and so creative. Great reminder that when flash fiction is good it is very, very good. hexliterary.com?p=3627

hexliterary.comBleeders by Jeffrey HermannAs a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet. We go through sheets like people go through paper towel. We faint. We sli...

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Jan Stinchcomb
@janstinchcomb.bsky.social

“They looked happy and doomed.” @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social

"As a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet." We are SO delighted to feature a tender new oddity by @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social on hex this week. A tale of families and grief and life. Don't miss this wonder. Up now!

hexliterary.comBleeders by Jeffrey HermannAs a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet. We go through sheets like people go through paper towel. We faint. We sli...
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Feeling lucky that @hexliterary.bsky.social published this--the perfect home for a story about bleeding uncontrollably, being an outcast, and love.

Daniel Miller@danielmiller.bsky.social

"As a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet." We are SO lucky to have this tender new @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social story up on @hexliterary.bsky.social this week. Lovely and so wonderfully written. Give it a read.

hexliterary.comBleeders by Jeffrey HermannAs a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet. We go through sheets like people go through paper towel. We faint. We sli...
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

I love this @ddgwriter.bsky.social flash. 🛸 "My human mother says she’s worried about me. That I need to eat more than just saltines and peanut butter. I tell her it reminds me of a dish that my other mother used to make, but it was made with another kind of nut, one that doesn’t grow here..."

Your Impossible Voice@yourimpossiblevoice.com

Mothership by @ddgwriter.bsky.social lands at YIV for Tuesday #Flashfiction! "Every night, I dream of the mothership. Of escaping just before detonation ... The kindly humans who revived me, tucked me into bed, and claimed me as their offspring."

yourimpossiblevoice.comMothership | Your Impossible VoiceBy Diane D. Gillette — Every night, I dream of the mothership. Of escaping just before detonation. Of authorities hot on my trail.
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

You should for sure read this today

HAD@havehashad.com

"Godspeed, ends your reply. God slow, they write back, if there is a god, it is slow. I reply this is a good line of poetry, joke that I would like to steal it. I am welcome to steal it, they reply..." a knockout today from @sophieklahr.bsky.social www.havehashad.com/hadposts/on-...

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

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HAD@havehashad.com

Open for the first 100 submissions, RIGHT NOW. * 300 word max * only submit one piece; if micros or poems, two are ok * open to all genre * no theme havehashad.submittable.com/submit/37052...

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Man, this flash by @kathyfish.bsky.social. Like, heartstoppingly good. "My childhood best friend was beautiful. For many years, she had to wear a back brace. It gave her a dignified air, as if a string were attached to the top of her head, pulling her up tall." ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

ghostparachute.comArchaeology — Ghost ParachuteMy childhood best friend was beautiful. For many years, she had to wear a back brace. It gave her a dignified air, as if a string were attached to the top of her head, pulling her up tall. She glided ...
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

"I closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but no one was like her. I’d known that right away." This is an honor--thank you @okaydonkeymag.com 🌟

Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com

OKD Best Small Fictions Nominee “We Took Turns Trying to Start the Truck With Our Minds” by Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social: buff.ly/dMshG1d

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

"I’m not saying I know how to live. I’m saying I may have invented having cake for breakfast, wine for lunch, and breakfast for dinner. I’m saying I miss my father, who is very much alive." Thank you to The Disappointed Housewife, @offbeatlit.bsky.social , for giving this micro the perfect home.

The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open!@offbeatlit.bsky.social

The story thus far ... Check out the new prose poem by @JeffreyHermann! thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/09/18/t... #poetry #prosepoetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity

thedisappointedhousewife.comThe Best I Can Describe It ~ prose poem by Jeffrey HermannThe Best I Can Describe It First came the single-celled things. Then came the urge to divide. They vibrated, stretched, and became two things. Next came fibers, then worms, etc. Then someone invent…
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

"people want to be free and not held down especially on top of the head what they want I think is freedom on a large scale and freedom on a small scale but they also want to be in love which means you are not free but a captive held in a prison of irrational attachment"

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social

"I dream of giving up on working hard for a living and instead finding a passion project like designing hats that bring hats back into style for real" Always a fan of @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social's writing - so much creativity and verve to this

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Holy smokes I love this one. "Choked on a Chicken Wing While Living Alone is sitting at the piano, hands hovering over the keys but not touching them."

HAD@havehashad.com

HAD fave Anna Vangala Jones back under the skulls today! https://www.havehashad.com/st012

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

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-ette review@ettereview.bsky.social

New issue, new podcast, new call for submissions! -ette’s 2026 summer issue features fresh, new work by @aabalaskovits.bsky.social @christophercitro.bsky.social @noranadj.bsky.social @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social ettereview.com/summer2026/

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

“Sure, AI can do _______, but it’ll never be able to ______” is BS. It’ll do it and make money and be popular and enter the culture in every creative field. You might despise it but you’ll be fooled too. Where does that leave us? No idea. And it'll get messier. But I appreciate this essay so much.

EPOCH@epochliterary.com

73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.

epochliterary.comOn AI, in EPOCH and Elsewhere — EPOCHHuman beings are made to be moved. We respond to patterns. AI generates patterns. When there is nothing of substance there, we use our imagination to fill in whatever will give us what we need. It’s n...
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

If You Had to Describe Love as a Shape But You Weren’t Allowed to Say Circle What Shape Would You Say Love Is? Thanks @doesithavepockets.bsky.social ⭐️

Does It Have Pockets@doesithavepockets.bsky.social

"If you say love is a hexagon or a pentagon I feel like you’re saying love is a trap." A warm welcome back to DIHP Alum @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social alongside a pair of #poems each tiny, tender, & terrific | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jeffr...

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

They're back 🎉

trampset@trampset.bsky.social

Submissions are open at trampset! Read our guidelines and send us your best work. We pay $30 via PayPal. Anybody can use our free submission category. Tips and quick response revenues pay our writers, editors and site costs ✍️ We've missed you all! www.trampset.org/submissions

trampset.orgsubmit to trampset | literary journal submissionsSubmit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations to trampset. Read guidelines and share your best work with our literary journal.
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Great piece of flash—I love this. 💙 “There’s a russet potato with a dozen eyes wearing a paper hat on fryer duty, crisping up his unluckier comrades.”

Chelsea Stickle@chelseastickle.bsky.social

I'm in the flood! It's an honor to make it into the flood this year with maybe my weirdest story yet. #nffd2026

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

This micro is great (grate?) ⭐

X-R-A-Y@xraylitmag.bsky.social

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...

xraylitmag.comCheese Drawer by Kate CatinellaThere’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...
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Check out this perfect little gem by @addisonzeller.bsky.social. "My owners feed me rich mush with no irritating spices. I get to lap clear water out of my calming blue bowl. I was not always a dog. I was once an unconventional cop with a Polish surname."

Addison Zeller@addisonzeller.bsky.social

capping off an unusually busy month with a little tiny micro in scaffold lit! I hope you will take a look. It won’t take long. You should do it www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

scaffoldlit.comlife of a dog by addison zeller — scaffold literary magazinemicro fiction
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Little piece in the amazing new issue of Ghost Parachute.

Brett Pribble@brettpribble.bsky.social

Read "I Quit My Regular Job and Went to Work for the Honeybees" written by @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "... a death would stop them. Was something missing? Was my nature so different? The honeybees did not understand my question." tinyurl.com/2uabv7sr .

tinyurl.comI Quit My Regular Job and Went to Work for the Honeybees — Ghost ParachuteIt was hard work. A lot of building and storing, cleaning and repairing. But I labored and felt glad for it. Task after task, day after day, with sleep as a reward. Me and the bees. But eventually som...
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Thanks to the fantastic journal Ghost Paracute for choosing this piece, and to @amymarques.bsky.social for making the accompanying image--it's beautiful. (She also has a story in the issue, which is also beautiful.) ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

ghostparachute.comI Quit My Regular Job and Went to Work for the Honeybees — Ghost ParachuteIt was hard work. A lot of building and storing, cleaning and repairing. But I labored and felt glad for it. Task after task, day after day, with sleep as a reward. Me and the bees. But eventually som...

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Steve C
@stevexisxok.bsky.social

Love this piece. The heart. The anger, muted. It's great.

Jeffrey Hermann@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

"I closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but no one was like her. I’d known that right away." Thank you @okaydonkeymag.com 🌟 tinyurl.com/3tkct3ey

okaydonkeymag.comWe Took Turns Trying to Start the Truck With Our Minds by Jeffrey HermanI closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but n…
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

"I closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but no one was like her. I’d known that right away." Thank you @okaydonkeymag.com 🌟 tinyurl.com/3tkct3ey

okaydonkeymag.comWe Took Turns Trying to Start the Truck With Our Minds by Jeffrey HermanI closed my eyes and held my fingers to my temples. Nothing. Just the quiet field. The two of us sitting in the truck cab, the summer sun still hot in the evening. She said anyone could do it but n…
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

“Homesickness begins to creep in. Loneliness. I showed them a picture of my girlfriend and they love her hair. It’s long and blond and she has it pulled back into a ponytail. One of them asks why I came all alone, across space, to this distant place. What have I done, I wonder.”

MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social

"Everyone on my new planet grows from what resembles a cactus flower. They bud and sprout. They unfold and then they begin the business of being loved and loving back. They cry when I tell them about money." @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

"As he passes my window I see his face very clearly. Not an animal who desires something he cannot have but an animal who has known love and has lost it. Who has possessed something and must now live without it." Big hairy thanks to @havehashad.com 🌟

HAD@havehashad.com

really wonderful tale today from Jeffrey Hermann "He climbs up the side of my building every night in the middle of the city and bellows about unrequited love. The poor beast." https://www.havehashad.com/zsgiv

havehashad.comSad King Kong by Jeffrey HermannHe climbs up the side of my building every night in the middle of the city and bellows about unrequited love. The poor beast. Sometimes I join him from my apartment. I lean out the window and bellow.…
Jeffrey Hermann
@jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

You gotta read this.

HAD@havehashad.com

totally hypnotized by Julia Juster's story when I read it as a sub, and was again rereading just now! "I tried to buy whale online, but it was all dried. Every night I practiced my order in the languages where whale was still legal." https://www.havehashad.com/7ai9l

havehashad.comEat Local by Julia JusterThe scientist said the whale here is excellent then he did not order it. Every table at the restaurant faced the harbor where a docked cruise ship was bigger than the mountain behind it. I watched…