Mizuki Yamamoto

Right there with you, Lisa. Sending hugs.

🥹 no, you!!

More importantly, I'm so happy to be in this solstice issue with @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social who nudged me early in 2025 to start subbing. What a joy to be able to share space with her writing! 💗

I'm coming up from my holiday break from socials - and sharing this bit of solstice writing from last month in @necessaryfiction.com 🍊 inspired by real life.

Likewise! 🙏🏻

Thank you for reading and sharing, Emily! I always appreciate your support ☺️

Subway Surfing by Mizuki Yamamoto Children throw their bodies into darkness, daring each other, further, surfing steel, blurring through tunnels, daring their bodies, further, further towards somewhere that is nowhere but feels lik…

"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...

Thank you so much, Chris! Glad you enjoyed this one.

I've said it before but I'll say it again, you are such a light for the community! Honored to know you and to continue to do so ❣️ (speaking of, I owe you an email reply!)

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 🐀

Awww haha, always kind of embarrassed but thank you 🥰

Thank you so much! So honored to join the Lost Balloon family!

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.

I found it captivating!

So good @iamchrisscott.bsky.social!! 👏🏻

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!

Incredible! Congratulations! 🎉

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.

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Flash 405, August 2025: “Normal" Winners - Exposition Review Our August Flash 405 contest invited us to consider flash stories on the theme of normal—but the response we received to this prompt was anything but! After an amazing year of Flash 405 contests, this...

“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.

Yessss, congratulations, my friend!! 🥰🥳

Congratulations to all! I'm so looking forward to reading the issue!

Cartoon of a number of different types of owl which include: SCOWL, VOWL, DOWL, COWL, TROWL, JOWL, TOWL, HOWL, FOWL and BOWL. Each is drawn to represent that word.

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

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Thank you so much!!! 💕 I cannot believe!! 🥹

Thanks so much, Cole!! 😊

Aw thank you so much, Emily!! 💞

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"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