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"Writing for me is kind of a daily devotion that has little to do with talent and everything to do with just showing up..." Don't miss our June feature, an interview with the incomparable Sarah Freligh, plus five fantastic flashes | www.doesithavepockets.com/features/sar... #fiction #interview

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To round out our June edition with a splash, here's the spectacular #flashfiction "Milk and Honey" from @lucindakempe.bsky.social in a vibrant collab with artist and DIHP alum @lorettec.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/luci...

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"Strangers. Things that are similar to strangers." This tiny, dynamic inventory is emotional momentum in narrative form; superlative #creativenonfiction from Adam McOmber in "Phallic Symbols" | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/adam-mco... #pride25 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"As a former refugee, I know how fragile ‘today’ can be." June's Art & Hybrid Gallery features the vivid, effervescent work of writer & artist @damicandrea.bsky.social in 'Stages of Being' | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

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So as not to forget the gifts of winter, here we present three serenely gorgeous new poems from @natewh.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/nate-... #poetry Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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With a meticulous hand filled with resonant metaphor, these two dark flashes from @eireneeleni.bsky.social absolutely sing | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/eire... #fiction Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"Things began to disappear: one red mitten, a growing boy, as if they’d fallen through a worn-out pocket." Two new woodsmoke-scented, rustic-flecked #poems from Alice Haines | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/alice... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"The dresser and I maintained a stilted, somewhat one-sided, conversation..." A maelstrom of grief, loss, and the magic of the inanimate, new in June #fiction from @arriadeepwater.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/arri... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"Here, I am eating things to eat them./ I am drinking things to drink them." Two powerful left hooks from Caroline Keir, up next in our June #poetry collection | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/carol... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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A meditation on the moment we are completely changed in this quietly perfect #fiction from @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mich... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"On days like this you know/ there will always be days like this." Two big deep breaths of cold, fresh air from Naomi Stenberg | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/naomi... #HappyPride2025 #poetry Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"I hope this letter finds you at the bottom of a bog, drowning in a river, or in the middle of a long lecture from your father." June's #longread & debut by @mfiler.bsky.social is a deliciously witty, epistolary triumph | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mich... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"...If I could cock my head/ to howl, who would understand?" A warm welcome back to our friend @robertokaji.bsky.social with two epic reprints for our June collection | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/rober... #poetry #wemissyouHippoJessaNashHumphriesandBanjo Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"The television’s undersea light animating her face as she darns their socks." These 3 new flashes from @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social zing with crystalline imagery and deep resonance | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/patr... #fiction Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"I only knew how to reject a person fully." New for June, gripping, reflective #creativenonfiction from Marin Smith | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/marin-sm... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"My house is all legs & shoulders." Wake up all your senses with these two gorgeously immersive poems from @satorigood.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/sator... #poetry #PrideMonth Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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“I listen to elite law firm attorneys speak of students from lesser schools or lower grades, and a look of disdain crosses their faces...” —Esther Ra’s “the best & the brightest,” in ‪@doesithavepockets.bsky.social‬ & our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/esther-ra

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Thrilled to have a story including in Best Microfiction 2025. Thank you to the editors and to Does It Have Pockets for nominating my "The Meaning of Words Unknown to Doug." ‪@bestmicrofiction.bsky.social @doesithavepockets.bsky.social‬

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happens because the weather man says it will be a very wet, very windy night. Before nightfall, we nail wooden planks over our eyes… Susan L. Lin’s “What Happens Behind Boarded Windows,” featured in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social & our #APAHM reading list: www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/susan...

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We're beyond grateful for these poems from @victoriamelekian.bsky.social to cap our 2nd Anniversary Issue, gifting us hope, humor, solace, grief, and everything in between | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/victo... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social #poetry #dihpturns2 #riphippobanjonashhumphries

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My mother’s cigarette ribboning smoke out her window, her white plastic cat’s eye sunglasses winging up in perpetual dismay..." Two stunning, immersive new flashes from @jennroxie.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jenn... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social #fiction #dihpturns2

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"Anyone can lose it for a moment." A quietly magical study of life, love, & friendship from Joan Slatoff | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/joan... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social & Joan Slatoff #fiction #longreads #dihpturns2

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"you’re standing and he isn’t" When poems break your heart gently, as do these new pieces from Linda Laderman | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/linda... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social #poetry #dihpturns2

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"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors..." You're a winner in every section of this delightful & brilliant new flash from @bsherm36.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/beth... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction #dihpturns2

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“You’re having a dinner party. What three people, living or dead, would you invite?” One of those nights illustrated in this unexpected, fresh new fiction from Jennifer Thomas | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jenn... #fiction #dihpturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"That after years of this, you ... wonder just what kind of creature you yourself have become." Three sharply deft, compact gems from @tracyroyce.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/tracy... #poetry #dihpturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Uniquely dynamic, propulsive prose in "Breathless," new #cnf from @maureentai.com | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/maureen-... #creativenonfiction #dihpturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"And because I love the tree, I’ll ask her to chop my house down first." Two beautifully melancholy, lush new poems from Jane Medved | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jane-... #poetry #dihpturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"...his truck is Frankensteined together with different-colored panels, rust holding them all together. There’s a hole in the floorboard..." Bright, lyrical new #fiction from @jodymkeene.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jody... #dihpturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Lost, found, and what comes after in this poignant #creativenonfiction from @KSilverHajo | doesithavepockets.com/cnf/kathryn-... #DIHPturns2 #memoir Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"Dana taught me to accept my art with all of its imperfections because perfection is boring." Our 2nd Anniversary #visualarts gallery is a set of stunning hybrid works from the incomparable @patricia-caspers.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid... #dihpturns2

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New in May #poetry, two absolute gut punches from M. Benjamin Thorne | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/m-ben... #DIHPturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"They wield shame like a knife to whittle us down to the perfect size." Three sharp, immersive, #microfiction knockouts from Guy Cramer | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/guy-... #DIHPturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Three perfect prose poems, bright and witty, from Mathieu Cailler to start off our 2nd Anniversary celebration | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/mathi... #poetry #DIHPturns2 Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"You misunderstand the minutiae/ of existence, tiny wildernesses/ stand full of its mundanities -- " When found poems help us to feel less lost -- two superlative list poems from @andimyles.com | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/andi-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"My mother taught me to love my body/ by showing me how she didn’t love her own." The EIC hasn't stopped talking about these exquisite poems from Jessica Purdy & they round out our #nationalpoetrymonth celebration | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/jessi... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Two timeless glimpses of a life in flux in two careful, perfect flash #fictions from Tessa Smith McGovern | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/tess... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"Having lost the hubris of prayer,/ I feel no safety in the quietness/ or in the darkness." Three honest, vibrant, flawless gems from @muslimahpass24.bsky.social, part of our #nationalpoetrymonth double #poetry issue | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/ilari... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"After the thing that happened to Kevin, we make rules for The Door." Striking, surreal, propulsive, and tender new #flash from @wendyewallace1.bsky.social , new in April #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/wend... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Timely and harrowing, both a lament and an ode, this golden shovel is an essential read from @mary-ann-honaker.bsky.social #NationalPoetryMonth | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/mary-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Two gorgeous poems from Patrice Boyer Claeys, part of April's double poetry issue in celebration of #NationalPoetryMonth | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/patri... #reprints Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"The exile of a break-up is a punishment for putting all my eggs in someone else’s basket" We're ecstatic to welcome back the dynamic, chromatic, & peerless work of Elizabeth Iannaci to help celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/eliza... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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"She gets to hell in her own way..." Two dryly witty Mary Tyler Moore-based poems from Alex Stolis, new in our double poetry issue celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/alex-... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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