I've been away from socials a little bit, but excited to share my story got an honorable mention with @expositionreview.bsky.social for their recent #Flash405 themed "normal" 🌿

Lush strange & beautiful flash by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social "A snail no larger than my pinky glides from the wound leaving a delicate silver calligraphy across the pillowcase. .. I hold my breath astonished less by its existence than bythe elegant hydraulics of emergence. hexliterary.com/?p=2878

Oh god ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 This piece from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social is good medicine.

The language in this story, like all of Mizuki's writing, truly sings. It carries it's own melody, and I feel you can hear it even in the title.

"Feel the breeze sweep through its branches, how the leaves flutter like starling wings, murmurations quivering over your head" Brilliant use of the instructional in this gem from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social, how this invites us to breathe and pause from the madness of the world

Thank you so much to @mynachang.bsky.social for including my latest story "The Hand's Aperture" at @hexliterary.bsky.social in her monthly Flash Roundup ✨ There are some *great* stories in the list!

Yes! What a cool journey it's been. So grateful still for you guys giving me my first EVER pub just this May!! 🥰

My writing friends and community are amazing and so generous and it's because of them I've felt brave enough to begin my submission journey this year! 🙏🏻 Thank you 💕

"Responsible adulthood has been wobbling since you died, your absence a silence that keeps finding new rooms." Feeling this in my bones. @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹

“My blood has opened a conduit to an elsewhere, importing emissaries of shell, feather, fur, and hoof to remind me that boundaries leak, that absence is merely another geometry of presence.” Strange and beautiful story—so unexpectedly emotional. I love everything @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social writes!

What a dream to get to feature a new @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social banger on @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! We had the pleasure of snagging one of Mizuki's for our @havehashad.com call and so stoked we have one on hex now. Don't miss this one, aftergooners!

Beyond thrilled to have a piece up at @hexliterary.bsky.social today. This one's a story that draws on some true moments and obsessions of mine. 👀 Thank you so much to the amazing editors who found something to love in this strangeness. It couldn't have found a more perfect home!

"There is an aperture in my hand, a thumb-print whirl where tissue once flowed uninterrupted—" We are obsessed with this wonderfully weird @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social story. A manifesting of grief that you won't soon forget. A wound that's more than a wound. Do NOT miss "The Hand's Aperture"! 🐌

“… the sea doesn’t just go away. Place your hand here and listen. Even if you can’t see it, it’s always there. Listen closer.” @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"Feel the breeze sweep through its branches, how the leaves flutter like starling wings..."

“the kind of beauty you have to pretend not to see” Seth Landman in Diagram

I love a little twist on a fairytale retelling! Read this story "Princess Lilaclaire and the Witch’s Frog Faire" by my friend @indigorue.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com. I promise you won't be disappointed 🐸👀

Two amazing micro pieces by two amazing writers! @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!

Inviting you for a brief 🌿 respite from these times with my little story that's out today at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social Thank you to the editors for letting it share space in this issue. And thnx @smokelong.bsky.social where I drafted this piece 💞 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

📢📢 Issue 2 is LIVE! Chock-full of literary deliciousness. We hope you will enjoy (and share!) literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue-2 #namjooning #happyrmday

Yakisoba bread & Lemon milk (2020)

And this Friday, my little piece in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social is coming out! I can't wait to see this whole issue 🌿

I'm so excited I've got a new story 👀 coming out @hexliterary.bsky.social later this month!! So grateful and thrilled I get to be published with the folks who gave me my first publication at @havehashad.com 🙏🏻

I read @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social's piece "Invisible Measures" in @frazzledlit.bsky.social yesterday morning, and here it is 24 hours later and I'm still thinking about it! I think I will be for a long time. Seriously stunning, like poetry all the way through. www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...

“…the girl who believed a three-line note could rearrange the geography of a future.” The immersive details in this. The way the sting has such a sweet edge. Everything so nuanced and gorgeous. @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @frazzledlit.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡

What a incredible rendering of teenage characters, emotions, and interiority in this piece by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social. The voice captured me and didn't let me go til the end! I walk away from each of Emily's stories feeling like I personally knew the characters. Bravo.

I could read @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s words all day and still want more. Her writing is rich and full and musical and fresh. This story in @frazzledlit.bsky.social is just gorgeous. www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...

"The lesson is this—your fire will reduce everything to blackest soot, and you will be left alone. So, you give the boy a feather-light, tinkling laugh, and watch his world turn black." This story by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social is so beautiful and wonderfully alive.

Curious about Issue 2? Some vibes to pique your interest, perhaps? We got you! Sept 12 is almost here and what a treat we have for you! #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Do you want to have your heart broken? No? Then, don't read this story. If you're even a little bit masochistic, go read @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's story in @nffr.bsky.social this month 💔

“What word in English,” he asks slowly, “for when… what you want is big, but place you stand is small?” He spreads thumb & forefinger, pinches them smaller. Mesmerising story by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social - ahh the longing & loneliness of 16. www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...

My friends are way too nice 🥹

Thank you again to @frazzledlit.bsky.social for including my story "Invisible Measures" in the Short Story Award 2025 issue! ✨ I cannot wait to dive in and read all the other stories 🌿

This very short story by @lisobeltang.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social is a quiet, howling heartbreaker 💔 "Do not let them into your heart, she tells me, a single child hoping for a friend, a teenager dreaming of her first boyfriend. Their love is like poison."

Sunday! It comes out! The contest issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social! And my story gets to share it with the winners and I'm so thrilled about it all. 🎉✨

If you want to read stories in which the writer so tenderly and simply brings the most vivid characters to life on the page, read @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's! This one in @templeinacity.bsky.social with a <🧈 butter bust 👤> does not disappoint!

I don't want to spoil it so go read this story by @nschriefer.bsky.social in the lovely @flashfrog.bsky.social! The last paragraph is just 👏🏻

This is beautiful. I find it full of both urgency and stillness.

So excited to be part of this @lit-namjooning.bsky.social issue and to get to read all the other wonderful stories I get to share it with 🌿 I mean, wow, look at this line up!!

I love reading Myna's monthly flash roundups and am so honored my piece in @yourimpossiblevoice.com is included in this one!! What a treat. Thank you 🙏🏻 @mynachang.bsky.social

“Sometimes I imagine her—your wife. Her body gone small under the machines.” Such an intriguing setup & quiet, gorgeous voice in this @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social flash.

Beautiful piece by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social.....lingers!

I'm so excited I'll be in Issue 2 of Literary Namjooning!! With a little piece I wrote during my @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon 🌿

My friend Indigo has a beautiful poem "Journey of a Dandelion Seedling" in this Worlds of Possibility anthology of speculative poetry and the e-book is free to download right now 🌿

Congrats to all the winners!! 🎉 Also, kudos to @frazzledlit.bsky.social for such a quick turnaround contest! Can't wait to read the stories in the issue!

OMG how did I miss this gorgeous gorgeous story when it went live!!! Congratulations @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social for the Best of the Net nom & thank you for a story I know I'll return to many times. Wow!!!

This still feels so surreal!! Thank you so much @smokelong.bsky.social 🫶🏻💚

new little micro today from L.M. Cole ! marvel at it and be tired with us. 🦐 💀 https://www.havehashad.com/t8q31

So delighted to wake up to news that my story's on the Highly Commended list @frazzledlit.bsky.social ✨ Now, off to drink some ☕ with creme! Congrats and good luck to all 🫶🏻