Mizuki Yamamoto
@mizuki-yama.bsky.social
Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, HAD, YIV, Does it have pockets? & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, Lost Balloon.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart nominated
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, HAD, YIV, Does it have pockets? & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, Lost Balloon.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart nominated
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
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📢 Please join us in congratulating our 2026 Best MicroFiction nominees! Congratulations, @miriamgershow.bsky.social, @happilander.bsky.social, @belindarowe.bsky.social , @kathrynreese.bsky.social , and @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social! Read their micros here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/proje...
I am over the moon! SO grateful to @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for the nomination! 🌟 Congratulations to everyone 🌟
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!
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!
Sending our hopes & adorations & happy dances alongside our five nominees for Best Microfiction's 2026 anthology!
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
"...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
Three breathtaking new #microfictions from Mizuki Yamamato @mizuki-yama.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"...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
Three breathtaking new #microfictions from Mizuki Yamamato @mizuki-yama.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
"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
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...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Mizuki Yamamoto — Does It Have Pockets
Receipt | Bath House | Molting Season
www.doesithavepockets.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"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
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
Another achingly beautiful piece by my talented friend @mizuki-yama.bsky.social <3
new Mizuki Yamamoto today with that nice tidal pull!
https://www.havehashad.com/i2wjr
https://www.havehashad.com/i2wjr
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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!
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!
new Mizuki Yamamoto today with that nice tidal pull!
https://www.havehashad.com/i2wjr
https://www.havehashad.com/i2wjr
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
“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!
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...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Mizuki Yamamoto — Does It Have Pockets
Receipt | Bath House | Molting Season
www.doesithavepockets.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“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 ✨
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 ✨
"“Careful you don’t get a reputation for being a b-i-t-c-h,” spells out Maggie."
This new #fiction from DIHP alum @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is so perfect it's painful in the very best way | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
This new #fiction from DIHP alum @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is so perfect it's painful in the very best way | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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 ✨
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!
A killer (🥁) first line. I'm definitely taking notes from this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story in @nffr.bsky.social. Emily is a character expert!
Thrilled to have my story “Bare Hands” in @nffr.bsky.social! So many great stories by incredible writers in this issue. Honored to be among them! newflashfiction.com/bare-hands/
Bare Hands | Issue #39
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.
newflashfiction.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"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!
A killer (🥁) first line. I'm definitely taking notes from this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story in @nffr.bsky.social. Emily is a character expert!
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
"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...
Such delicate exploration of loss in "Bath House" & micros by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
"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...
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!
"The lights are dimming across Europe, the darkness seeping through the cracks of the British everyday."
SO thrilled my 1930s, very British, allegorical domestic drama - Appeasement - was a finalist for the New Flash Fiction Award by @nffr.bsky.social.
Read here: newflashfiction.com/appeasement/
SO thrilled my 1930s, very British, allegorical domestic drama - Appeasement - was a finalist for the New Flash Fiction Award by @nffr.bsky.social.
Read here: newflashfiction.com/appeasement/
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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!
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
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
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
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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
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...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Mizuki Yamamoto — Does It Have Pockets
Receipt | Bath House | Molting Season
www.doesithavepockets.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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...
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.
Go read my wonderful friend @beingcam.bsky.social's piece in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social for a little slice of FamPunk cozy.
To love in whatever form it takes: “Loxley Is One Thousand Bats” By Camden Clair is perhaps one of the gentlest moments in the whole FamPunk issue. 💗 Read it for free on FFO!
@beingcam.bsky.social
#flashfiction #fantasy #shapeshifters #loveislove #writing
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/loxl...
@beingcam.bsky.social
#flashfiction #fantasy #shapeshifters #loveislove #writing
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/loxl...
Loxley Is One Thousand Bats
Loxley is one thousand bats.The animals embrace each other, nestling in the shape of something semi-human.The first time Loxley burst into a thousand night creatures in front of me, I laughed and c…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🦇 "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.
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 💖
We are pleased to announce our nominations for the 2025 Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to our nominees, and thank you for your amazing stories!
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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.
I hope it reminds us of the precious "normal" in our current lives, how our efforts to protect them *do* matter.
“Of course, ‘Stories for a Daughter’ is beautiful. But it is how the author uses beauty that made me fall for this piece,” says Flash 405: Normal” judge Kiana Shaley of @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social’s flash fiction winner STORIES FOR A DAUGHTER. Read it here: tinyurl.com/Stories405.
Stories for a Daughter - Exposition Review
by Mizuki Honorable Mention – Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal” Fiction Daughter, the trees used to scream in August. The Minmin Kami shaking the pines until the air fractured. Aburazemi spread their oil-sheen wings, while the Higurashi Priest sang the dusk sorrow-song, rising and falling like prayer. If you pressed your hand to the… Continue reading Stories for a Daughter →
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November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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.
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.
Thrilled to have a new story out today with the wonderful Milk Candy Review that features eggs, soldiers, silence and absent suns. Hope you'll give it a read:
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
milkcandyreview.home.blog
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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!
“You name each shape in sing-song, asking me to play along, but it’s the summer before seventh grade and I’m too old for make-believe.”
Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:
Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:
Lee Aeronautics
On a lazy mayfly day, we sit on Grandpa Lee’s wrap-around porch, purple-tongued and sticky-fingered from the grape soda and teriyaki jerky he keeps in the pantry because they’re your favorites.&nbs…
flashfictionmagazine.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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 🌟
📢 Please join us in congratulating our 2026 Best MicroFiction nominees! Congratulations, @miriamgershow.bsky.social, @happilander.bsky.social, @belindarowe.bsky.social , @kathrynreese.bsky.social , and @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social! Read their micros here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/proje...
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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 🌊
✨ICYMI✨
“the instructor says to breathe deep and let go, and my mind peels back the pastry folds of time and brings me to the beach on the northwest side of the island, fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight”
@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...
“the instructor says to breathe deep and let go, and my mind peels back the pastry folds of time and brings me to the beach on the northwest side of the island, fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight”
@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social
www.claudineliterary.net/kleopatraoly...
Kleopatra Olympiou | Here I Am
www.claudineliterary.net
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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 💚
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 💚
This month's #Mondettes picked by
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
Shome Dasgupta
⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Shome made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing
mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...
November 2025
Ten stories picked by Shome Dasgupta
mondettes.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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 💚
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 💚
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
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!!!
COZY SCI-FI: “The Last Ofutan in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen is available to read on FFO:
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Last Ofuton in Orbit
After my grandmother died, I was left with the ofuton and the spirit inside it.It had been hers since before lift-off, stitched by hand on Earth, brought to the orbiting colony in the old days when…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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 💚
second window's funds raised: a whopping $2,709.32, for a total of $3,628.88. you people rule! I've got lots of reading to do, I'll randomly select the merch winners when I'm done!
Happy HAD Friday! 2 submission windows today for those who make some kind of donation to a cause! Link will work from 10-11am and 7-8pm Eastern. Where are you donating? havehashad.submittable.com/submit/34166...
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The kind of submission I can feel good about even if I get an R! I donated to Community Food Share here in Colorado 💚
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
“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-...
🛸🛸 this week’s story is by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-...
A Refracted Truth
by Mizuki Yamamoto
You strike a match.
It is neither to see better in the dark or for warmth. You are beyond such basic desires. You strike a match with glee. For pleasure. For no reason but the sen...
www.nightshadesmag.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“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-...
🛸🛸 this week’s story is by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-...
Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto
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
#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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
#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.
COZY SCI-FI: “The Last Ofutan in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen is available to read on FFO:
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Last Ofuton in Orbit
After my grandmother died, I was left with the ofuton and the spirit inside it.It had been hers since before lift-off, stitched by hand on Earth, brought to the orbiting colony in the old days when…
www.flashfictiononline.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.