DIAGRAM 26.1

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“how every shape in my life was pressed at least a little to the side by your theories and delusions, the force of being around you, a gravity.”

@angermonsoon.bsky.social, steward of Significant Objects, with a gem of a story/object for sale on eBay

Today's Significant Objects 2026 is mine: Sand Clown (Carletta)

You've got a week to read, share, and bid on this weirdo:

www.ebay.com/itm/26763437...

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New Significant Objects 2026 up: Bud Vase by Jae Towle Vieira: www.ebay.com/itm/26762871...

Today's Significant Object 2026 is SIDEWAYS DVD by @lydiapaar.bsky.social: www.ebay.com/itm/26762869...

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Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social at Ghost Parachute, for publishing my little/big story.

Even After You’re Gone, by K.C. Mead-Brewer — The Bulb Region Even After You’re Gone — K.C. Mead-Brewer RIPLEY’S CAT IS A SMALL CAT. Here,...

beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social! check it out 🦇⚡

Hot Pepper Salsa Dish (Significant Objects 2026) by Sean Lovelace | eBay Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Hot Pepper Salsa Dish (Significant Objects 2026) by Sean Lovelace at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

Today's @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social Significant Object story/listing is Hot Pepper Salsa Dish by Sean Lovelace. This one's an essay which you can read in the listing:

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First object/story up in the Significant Objects 2026 Project is Sparkly Shoe Statue by L. C. J. Owen

www.ebay.com/itm/26761769...

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Once Again On the Sadnesses of March Listening to Sadness Songs en route to Baltimore

Thoughts on what we're doing here in March Sadness by @angermonsoon.bsky.social on the substack (which you wanna get on if you're not already): open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

Excited to have another essay on @havehashad.com today. Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for the prompt and selection!

Wingless by Andrew Maynard Picture me—nineteen, kicked out of college—living in a waterless log cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the far corner of my big sister’s property next door to a wingless commercial airplane that belonged…

another piece of magic & wonder, today from Andrew Maynard!

"...and there was something so romantic about a wingless jet, about succumbing to loneliness, surrendering to isolation, and if I were braver and more original I would’ve broken into the jet..."

https://www.havehashad.com/4jzvg

The Old Dog Begins To Leave Us Now That The Baby Is Here by Natalie Warther “There you are,” I say to her sweetly, the wriggling boy in my arms. She keeps her head lowered, lifts her foggy eyes, rolls to show me the belly that I have no hands to pet. In our case, the…

beautiful new Natalie Warther today!

"Perhaps each household is allotted a finite amount of joy, as if the wizard’s hands are tied, this is simply the rule of beginnings: Should you acquire giggle and coo, you must forfeit fetch and wag."

https://www.havehashad.com/8e7il

Stumbled across this in the morning. Read it with my 12th-grade creative nonfiction class in the afternoon. They loved it as much as I did. Thanks for sharing!

My Monument - Creative Nonfiction Surrounded by his neighbors’ maximalist holiday displays—104 inflatable Christmas decorations in all, with not a repetition among them—Ander Monson ponders the history of spectacle and considers the m...

Reposting my Christmas / Big Rudolph epic, "My Monument," on account of it being Christmas eve: creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-m...

End of 2025 Something of a vague, catch-all theme here to wrap up our year! Send us something related to the holidays and/or "endings." Similar to a recent call, we are going to have two windows, a morning and an evening: 10 am ET, Thursday, 12/18 7 pm ET, Thursday, 12/18 please only submit once Submissions will capped at 150 for each call, meaning a total of 300. A few basic guidelines: ALL genre ok 500 words With micros and poems, up to 3 pieces (totaling no more than 500 all combined) allowed Surprise us, wow us, all'a that. All submissions should receive a response within 24 hours. — Crow & Aaron

crow & aaron doing a last call of the year.
open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.)

especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings"

all genre
500 word max

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On a street named after a forest - The Rumpus my parents didn’t believe me that biking made no sense to my body & they told me I was too afraid & I tried to believe them & I rode where they told me to ride even though I knew it was too close to t...

"sometimes I make the joke that that’s the moment that I decided to be gay & sometimes I’m a little bit serious" -Laura Price Steele

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Grim - The Rumpus I didn’t know how to be this kind of parent. Until this moment, I’d followed a prescribed path: packing lunches, ferrying my kids to and from school, serving balanced meals, running baths in the eveni...

Love these new essays on motherhood in @therumpus.net.

"I was afraid to invite death into the room. I was afraid of what it would take with it when it left." -Elizabeth Austin

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Carbs By Andrew Maynard

"...Kyle and Annie both understand that the heart is a spider web capable of trapping and feasting on small, beautiful joys..."

It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it.

www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs

Carbs By Andrew Maynard

Set out to create the most literary one-sentence story ever written about the intersection of hand jobs and the Olive Garden. Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. And my nephew for making the art. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs

Digging Toward the Sun by Andrew Maynard Two boys build a sand castle at the edge of the earth. Their father watches at a distance, pushing his toes into the sand. It’s not actually quiet—thunderous waves folding in on themselves, wind bl…

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Digging Toward the Sun” by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Franziska Hofhansel

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"The castle sways more and more, and the father says they must remain diligent. No cutting corners. Each floor must be stronger than the last."

Thank you for reading and sharing!

Very excited to have a story in @flashfrog.bsky.social, a journal I’ve long admired. Thank you @ericscottryon.bsky.social for the edits and commissioning such perfect artwork! I hope you give it a read

Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist by Andrew Maynard Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist  * Andrew Maynard * “Is it like the old Playboy magazine; you have essays there by the m...

"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?"

@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins

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over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!

NEW ESSAY DAILY NEW MAYNARD LET'S GO

Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!

Thanks for reading and sharing!

A fascinating way to think of numbers (and people by extension).

In particular, what it says about the those who like 1 because it means they mirror what they encounter.