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Joel Hans
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Forever writing fairy tales and fabulism. Dad-ing. Materializing @astrolabe.ooo. Fiction in Story, West Branch, No Tokens, Booth, and beyond. Most recently in Flash Frog, HAD, and New Flash Fiction Review. joelhans.com
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This morning, on the first walk back to kindergarten after break, I got to show my daughter the joy in cracking our toes through the thin ice that forms on the puddles when it's this cold. (It's rarely this cold in the desert.)

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Hey look! I have a new weird fairy tale up at Monkey Bicycle!

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I made the first meaningful step in six months to continue querying this novel. Happy to have suddenly discovered I'm not yet done with this story of portals and stars and fatherhood and forgetting.

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Oh! My Prattlefog & Gravelrap newsletter is almost up to 2000 subscribers!!! That would be an amazing early 2024 boost. Can you help me get there by the end of the day? RTs, likes, quotes all welcome - thank you! #FlashFiction#WritingCraft

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The Blue Frog is now open! šŸøšŸ’™ flash-frog.com/contest/#flash

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"She needs her friends from preschool, who have taught her everything she knows about the world outside our home. The swing from the backyard, which we deliver with the olive tree still attached." This is so beautiful!! @joelhans.bsky.social@flashfrog.bsky.socialflash-frog.com/2023/12/25/t...

The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans
The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans

At bedtime, our daughter asks for two handfuls of Crayons and a ream of computer paper. She asks for the tiny blanket we crocheted for her when she was six months old. For the doll with fidget-knotā€¦

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Hoping a few of you will take a moment, amid the lovely disorder of this day, to read my story in @flashfrog.bsky.socialā€”a tribute to my daughter's bedtime routine. Fetch quests to the moon. A kidnapped owl. So many Crayons. A routine she has since outgrown.

The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans
The Bedtime Emptying of Our World by Joel Hans

At bedtime, our daughter asks for two handfuls of Crayons and a ream of computer paper. She asks for the tiny blanket we crocheted for her when she was six months old. For the doll with fidget-knotā€¦

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Joel Hans
@joelhans.bsky.social
Forever writing fairy tales and fabulism. Dad-ing. Materializing @astrolabe.ooo. Fiction in Story, West Branch, No Tokens, Booth, and beyond. Most recently in Flash Frog, HAD, and New Flash Fiction Review. joelhans.com
264 followers255 following78 posts