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Mitchell Ny | minutia.
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人不像人,鬼不像鬼 🫠

Wring from the mess: the scrappy, the ugly, & the brazenly beautiful.🦷

Words in Maudlin House, ALR 2025 CNF Finalist
- forthcoming in Bending Genres, Same Faces

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Check out Pagurus dara, my Dara in @bendinggenres.bsky.social! Such an honor 🥰
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A cruel, intensely uncomfy allegory about the violence that wears the skin of ‘care,’ told through the warped, self-justifying lens of a pathological narcissist. Also: a hermit-crab boy. 🧳🦀

#flashfiction
Pagurus dara, my Dara
bendinggenres.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Check out Pagurus dara, my Dara in @bendinggenres.bsky.social! Such an honor 🥰
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A cruel, intensely uncomfy allegory about the violence that wears the skin of ‘care,’ told through the warped, self-justifying lens of a pathological narcissist. Also: a hermit-crab boy. 🧳🦀

#flashfiction
Pagurus dara, my Dara
bendinggenres.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
SO: what are the odds of us even meeting?
Me, with my #actuary brain: Well, if you log-transform the odds we may begin to understand it. 🥸
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
things are picking up - two acceptances on consecutive days from journals i enjoy reading 😭 #writingcommunity
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
tier tier tier rejections (and a shortlist), but few yeses yet. the work is important but maybe just a bit (too) weird.
#WritingCommunity
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
may we all try to remember when things are sort of okay.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
lately I can only write what ruins me a little. digging for the ugly; the stuff that makes it hard to get up for work the next morning.
October 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
so much minimal, quiet ache out there. I can respect the restraint & craft in melancholia.

but where’s the loud poem, the prose that screams? the brazenly beautiful?

i.e. drop your lit mag recs 👇
#writingcommunity #litmag #indielit #poetrycommunity
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
favorite thinkers:
marcus aurelius and
asa akira
#haiku
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
the AC's blasting, now that rent's paid. pick one:
1. big fluffy blanket, skin underneath
2. hoody cocoon, comfy pants, dignity
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reposted by Mitchell Ny | minutia.
when one door closes
another opens
that’s why
there are so many raccoons
in your house
October 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
i got good news i was told not to talk about 🤐
October 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
saw a tiktok where nara smith's husband said he gets upset when men let their partners drive them. drives him crazy, he says. sorry mr. smith, mine's a baddie and when she parallel parks, the gods of concrete hold their breath.

#socialcommentary
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
some finished pieces 🏺

#pottery
September 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My new flash in Maudlin House 🏚️

It's got existential ache, acute lower back pain, yearbooks, and phalluses 🥒

@MaudlinHouse

Art by Percolate Galactic
Fracture & Fragments & Fuckin’ Fish Food by Mitchell Ny

maudlinhouse.net/fracture-fra...
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Mitchell Ny | minutia.
2105

Composed of stardust

Hydrogen, for fluidity
Carbon, for stability
Oxygen, for breath
Nitrogen, for resilience
Calcium, for strength
Phosphorus, for balance
Helium, for laughter

#poetry
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
three years ago, i bought a takoyaki grill. today, i unboxed it - and i didn't even make takoyaki.

takoyaki pancakes 🥞

#photography #cooking #plantbased
September 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
write: the practice of 'wellness' as abrasion through healing.

#writingcommunity #flashfiction
September 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
in 6 months, i went from poems to micros to CNF and -now- flash fiction. still figuring how i want to write but, at least, the "what" has remained true.

#writingcommunity
September 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
i edited furiously, deep into the night, and when i pulled up Wigleaf's submission page, it was closed 💀
August 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
is that last line a gut punch? or a belly rub? 😏

#writingcommunity
August 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
after work, i drafted. 283 words. which is not a lot. but if you consider that I obsessively line edited as i went, the total word count -would- be in the thousands. but who's counting?

#amwriting
August 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Some shots from San Bernadino Peak. We encountered every weather: rain, hail, thunder, lightning, flash floods, and fire.

#photography #hiking
August 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM