Mitchell Ny

"A Jar of Dirt" is out now in trampset. some of my fav sentences in this one. go check out the issue! @trampset.bsky.social #cnf #flash www.trampset.org/post/a-jar-o...

what a pleasantly weird evening. both acceptances received within ten min of each other 😱

my uber driver to the airport LOVES elon musk and told me about elon musk the whole drive over. he drives all day, he says. he says people need to stop bitching about being poor and work harder like elon musk.

lf ways to talk about the petrichors of different sediments without sounding like a total dick

you have to buy an additional ebook copy of all your favorite books because you are deathly afraid of reading a physical book in public because you don't want to be seen as performative.

after i finished a bag of chips, i flipped it inside out so now the universe is inside a bag of chips, topologically speaking.

my first big all-hands meeting where a speaker is walking on a treadmill while presenting. verdict: (1) how incredibly efficient (2) i feel like prey.

in an ancient past there were little metal discs you could exchange for gumballs and a variety of other goods

look at all these chickens

is this the real life

last year in january, i picked up a copy of The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson. it turned me into a writer. so, that's how i feel about her nobel prize, basically.

By Catalina Cheng

hey google, what's the actual etymology for the surname "Cumming" or "Cummings" because i'm guessing it has nothing to do with ejaculation or instances of ejaculations.

during the day, i fear highly leptokurtic distributions, inexplicable variances, baseless assumptions. i log off and fear the same thing in different clothes.

time to nourish my peoples

that is her baby

some of my work is just an account of a nightmare with light editing. feels like plagiarizing from my own subconscious.

if you don't smoke yourself into a coma before you sleep, you get a free and terrifying supply of stories behind your eyelids it turns out

oh boy, if i have to listen to one more up-and-coming rap genius rhyme synonym, cinnamon, eminem, m&m, gentlemen, feminine.... i will probably listen to something else. but yeah, it sucks.

a story told from the perspective of the asian dude from whom childish gambino stole a girl in his song bonfire

the surgeon is god in the moments they hold life on the edge of their scalpel. the well-compensated god of the thoroughly insured. even when the system works and saves a poor life, the life is preserved above livelihood.

i haven't been writing lately because a younger me chose a profession that has me taking giant and intense fuckin math tests into my 30s

growing up in a densely and diversely asian/latino neighborhood, there was much discourse about "which asian or latino is best" - joke's on us because when we came into the real world, we found out we are all just Chinese or Mexican.

not enough people give a shit about jirachi

in ancient america, you could flush a toilet while someone was showering to scald them

what's sadder than a perpetually aspiring philanderer

"deconstructed" just means chef was lazy to construct it.

Many thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for letting me highlight some of my favorite micros!

a first: "hold please" on a lyric essay I have out. makes me more prone to despair than a simple rejection or tier rejection. it's neither decisively good enough, nor bad enough.

back to work after a week off. so many emails that i instinctively found myself on a job board.

how i will be writing in the days to come, olé!

HI was cool but it's also good to be back

we'll be reopening for new work on october 1 💜🌀💜🌀💜🌀💜

caught my first wave 😏

needless to say,

doubt anyone would remember this but we just lost -the game- 😬

return the slab

the right means "sexual intercourse" and i'm just wondering did this dude think some chinese lady would read it and tell him "me so horny" the left just says "respect" so at least there's some of it in writing.

"Praise all the things that might be fucked. The riverbanks. Flowers called wild pansy and thyme and oxlip. Fruitless visions. Clouds full fast. Athenians and handsome, strong Lysander. Praise the rivers and the fog." —Adam McOmber anmly.org/ap42/adam-mc...

a megaton force of responsibility presses me firmly into a solid firmament. i am the no. 1 chinese, it turns out.

want but can never have: the safety of the absence of the most terrifyingly unexplainable variances and a suzuki jimny

at a health food store and they have a trail mix dispenser. one Men's Energy mix and one Women's Vitality mix. but no Men's Vitality, no Women's Energy. then the tropical mix is simply tropical mix.

sat there with the bidet running forever like this is my life now. DO YOU SEE AN OFF BUTTON ON THIS? WHEN DID TOILETS GET SO COMPLICATED? clean *, at least. had to yank the cord yo

i didn't realize until it was too late -- that i had eaten 1050 kcal of fig newtons this morning

LAX is one of the worst places in the world in fact when i picture hell, it's just LAX but warmer

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