"Beyond their outstretched hands is the beginning of everything else that has ever and will have ever existed, bodies pleading." Blown away by this frantic piece of writing from @mizuki-yama.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/12/17/s...

If you'd like a perfectly delivered micro with every bit the heartbreaking weight of a longer piece, go read my friend @lyss-b.bsky.social's story in @ratbaglit.bsky.social 🐀

I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social. Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.

Is there a basement under your basement where you can find the answer to all of your life's Unsolved Mysteries? Eerie, and at every step, a revelatory story by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in one of my faves @hexliterary.bsky.social!

Can't wait to dive into the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social!! Every issue is chock full of beauty and inspiration ✨ reminding me of all that is good in the world.

“Writing has the ability to … recontextualize, to correct, to make new what has been so long accepted as the standard.” Read Kiana Shaley’s Flash 405: “Normal” winners with multi-genre flash by Tara Dugan, JR Fenn, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social & Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley: tinyurl.com/Normal405.

There is such a rich variety of owls, I have tried to depict some of them here (GROWL, PROWL and YOWL not included). www.worldofmoose.com/products/owl...

"To be honest, it’s cool and comforting knowing that Antarctica’s in his basement, a vast and wondrous polar continent beneath him, and when Mike’s at school he yearns for that quiet world." Such a gorgeous story told in extended metaphor by @belindarowe.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social 👏🏻

So here's what I wish for us: * we give books as holiday gifts * we get them from our local indie bookstores * we spend time reading with the people and pets we love * when we feel the call, we write * we get enough sun, nutrients, movement, and sleep * we bloom again in springtime & kick ass. 11/11

“You don’t come here for the heat, though it helps. You come for the smallness.” Bath House + 2 by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...

I am so so honored my story w/ a 🐸 in none other than @flashfrog.bsky.social has been nominated for the Pushcart! So much gratitude to @ericscottryon.bsky.social & the ⚡🐸 team. 🙏🏻 This was my first *ever* prose acceptance. For it to be on this list is just surreal. Congrats to all the nominees!

Thank you Dana and team for nominating my tiny little poems at @tinywrenlit.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize 🙏🏻🥰 Congratulations to all!

I cannot quite believe it but my very small story "Receipt" has been nominated for the 2026 Best Microfiction Anthology! 🥳 Thank you a thousand times over to the @doesithavepockets.bsky.social team for believing in this piece. I am so incredibly honored 🙏🏻💚 Congratulations to all the nominees!

"...she asks, “Do you want a bag?” like it’s a trick question, like there’s a right answer and I’ve already failed it..." Three breathtaking new #microfictions from Mizuki Yamamato @mizuki-yama.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"After my sister died, a koi fish started flapping around in the gutter down the street, just thrashing there like it had a point to make & no way to say it." Gorgeous work from dream double act @mizuki-yama.bsky.social/@doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Mizuki wields prose like surgeons wield scalpels

Another achingly beautiful piece by my talented friend @mizuki-yama.bsky.social <3

Today, I have some new words in @havehashad.com! And this one paired with a donation to Community Foodshare in my local county in the spirit of giving 💝 Thank you Crow & @aaronburch.bsky.social for giving my second skull a home!

“I feel it there, for just a second—pity maybe, or recognition, or just a soft place where the world didn’t press too hard today” All three of these stories are spectacular. @mizuki-yama.bsky.social , you are amazing!

Do you miss being a teenager? What about all the angst? No? 😆 I recommend you read this story by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social so you can relive all the beauty and longing you might've forgotten in those moments ✨

"My Uncle Louie beat a man to death with his bare hands, the same hands that now hold my baby in the living room of my newly dead grandmother’s house." A killer (🥁) first line. I'm definitely taking notes from this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story in @nffr.bsky.social. Emily is a character expert!

"You come for the smallness. The folding of the world into cubes: basket, stool, tile, tub. There is safety in things with boundaries." Such delicate exploration of loss in "Bath House" & micros by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...

Congrats 🎉 to my friend @jaimegill.bsky.social on his story making the finalist list for @nffr.bsky.social! This story is a great example of what is and isn't said on the page for all the impact!

What gorgeous artwork for the December issue from Does It Have Pockets! And amazing line up of issue buddies - diving into your stories soon @fionamckay.bsky.social @francinewitte.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @tombusillo.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com

Three little 🤏🏻 micros from yours truly are up in the December issue of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! Thank you to Camille and the editorial team! ✨ www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...

🦇 "Loxley Is One Thousand Bats" 🦇 is just such a great title for an even better story! Go read my wonderful friend @beingcam.bsky.social's piece in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social for a little slice of FamPunk cozy.

Excited to find my story, and my friend Grace's story on this list for a Pushcart nom! Thank you so much to the @tldrpress.bsky.social team 💖

Thank you to @expositionreview.bsky.social and judge Kiana Shaley for selecting this story for an honorable mention 🙏🏻 I hope it reminds us of the precious "normal" in our current lives, how our efforts to protect them *do* matter.

A piece from @mattkendrick.bsky.social that made me go, "how can I write like that?" Such a quiet, subtle piece that sneaks up on you with its emotions. I am in a twist.

My very good friend @indigorue.bsky.social has a beautiful 💔 story out today. Go read it!

I am over the moon! SO grateful to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for the nomination! 🌟 Congratulations to everyone 🌟

What a lovely piece of meditation and expansion in @claudineliterary.bsky.social by the wonderful @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social 🌊

I've always admired the story selections I've read in #Mondettes. What a special feeling to find my story from @lit-namjooning.bsky.social in it this month! Thank you so much Shome Dasgupta and @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💚

My amazingly talented friend and publication buddy @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social had a beautifully unique, nostalgic piece published in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social last week—everyone should go read!!!

The kind of submission I can feel good about even if I get an R! I donated to Community Food Share here in Colorado 💚

“The wolf howls in the eye of the serpent storm. All is obscured by the scorch of the earth from your fingers. Hidden, stars fall as mercury in a tube.” 🛸🛸 this week’s story is by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-...

If you're looking for a spot of calm in the day's chaos, do read this micro by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social. She writes some of the most evocative sentences. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

And thrilled to share also that my story "The Last Ofuton in Orbit" is out at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social for the Fam Punk issue this month! Hope you enjoy the sci-fi-cozy vibes in this one.

I've been away from socials for a while (yet again), but my story with the wonderful @nightshadesmag.bsky.social came out recently...🐍

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!