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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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The Blue Frog is now open! 🐸💙 flash-frog.com/contest/#flash

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Thank you so much, Lindy!

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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-knot…

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Thank *you* for not missing it, too! 💚

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Thank you Julia! It really was a perfect day pub day for this story.

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Thanks so much, Dan!!! So happy that a few folks are stumbling across it today.

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Thanks, Coleman! Despite the fabulism, I think it's one of my most relatable stories yet—or maybe it's relatable because of the fabulism...

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Thank you, Annette!

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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.social—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-knot…

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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