Our October Art & Hybrid Gallery features the gift of these whimsical urban sketches of Drdhadevi Karin Blümke | www.doesithavepockets.com/artandhybrid...

"Family arrives like an invading army."

Two zinging, witty #poems from Edward Lineberry | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/edwar...

"Five times ten years it's been. We gotta be up for a renewal."

With a unique duet of perspectives, a look back at a marriage, in new #fiction from Xavier George | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/xavi...

"They’ll memorize your face
as other crows learned the face of the scientist
who tagged their young in the nest—"

Two visually lush, heart-knocking new #poems from Julie A. Cox | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/julie...

"The clerk sees me looking and doesn't comment. After all the years, I imagine, he has learned exactly which silences to keep."

Elegantly spare new #fiction from John Dennis | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/john...

"I kept looking at the other guys, there were only guys on the midnight shift, and they seemed oblivious to this assault."

A quietly gorgeous retrospective from Mark LaMonda #creativenonfiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/mark-lam...

"Those storms will be due soon, Alice. Are you sure you can make it back to camp in time?"

Full of dark wit and dynamic prose, don't miss this new #fiction from Laura Rikono @aethalope.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/laur...

"I type Jacqueline.
The phone suggests
jacket."

Two brightly bittersweet meditations on grief in these new #poems from #dihpalum Veronica Tucker | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/veron...

"“You know I hate when you try to top from the bottom.”"

Dynamic, irreverent, inimitable new #fiction from Jon Willer | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jon-...

"Dad’s heart has tried to kill him
more times than he’s lied about quitting
smoking."

#Poems that feel comfortingly familiar & sparklingly fresh, new from @litsadremousis.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/litsa...

"Such was the ineffectual and immaterial nature of the fire of youth."

A fantastic new #longread #fiction from @jgsteen.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jere...

"....Michelangelo chose slow
marble. We cut outsized egos from cigarettes."

Two singular, nimble new #poems from @chrispb.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/chris...

"No need to learn alone like I did."

Fathers, sons, & an exploration of grace, in new #fiction from teen writer Christopher Grady | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/chri...

"A faint grunt with each hit,
the wood’s cold math."

Transformative & bright with imagery, don't miss these two new #poems from #dihpalum @lauradehartyoung.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/laura...

"...Rylie identifying as a bunny wasn’t the first alarming thing to come from their collaborative trip a few weeks prior."

Both surreal and hyper-real, take a trip inside this beautiful new #fiction from Ellory Skye | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ello...

"...maybe I could disappear but he’s still bellowing and she’s still crying..."

A darkly urgent, profoundly vulnerable new micro CNF from @mariecloutier.bsky.social new for October | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/marie-cl... (CW: please read with care) #creativenonfiction

"Understand I cannot see to
reply in gracious, kind ways
just yet, maybe never."

Two beautifully genuine poems for October, new from @kellyrsamuels.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/kelly... #poetry

"I felt the intimacy of our voices entwined without our bodies ever touching. Hidden closeness in plain sight."

Music, love, & what hides between in this essential #longread #fiction from Rachel McCarron. Please don't miss this one <3 | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rachel-mccarron

"....Maybe
if I let my son say fuck as a child it will grow
into any other word: wrinkle or bushwhack or apricot."

An intimate, authentic, & stunning trio of #poems, new from Kristina Percy | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/krist...

"It’s all fun and games at the rodeo until the angels show up..."

Another ethereal, magic-laden, wonder-filled #fiction from DIHP alum KM Baysal | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/km-b...