i wrote and submitted this in the bathroom of a party. 2025, what a year: moving out, playing tennis for the first time in years, witnessing djokovic still play legendary tennis, watching my parents separate, seeing a viet kid named learner tien winning left and right ... phew for @havehashad.com

HAD@havehashad.com · 7mo ago

today from Binh Do! 🎾 🎾 "4. Your grandfather and I started playing tennis after the War. There were old, rundown courts a block away from the Americans resettled us. They’re still there, I believe. 5. Plant your feet, and swing." https://www.havehashad.com/hpzt7

The Clepsydra is live! As the year runs out, we hope you'll thieve away some time to spend with this wonderful group of prose, poetry, and artwork. astrolabe.ooo featuring... @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @binhdaur.bsky.social @susanllin.bsky.social Nnadi Samuel Lisa Dailey Didem Arslanoglu

a piece i wrote this summer. a final act of forgiveness. one step in a lifetime journey of healing. for @astrolabe.ooo

The Angel of History • non-fiction from Binh Do

This time, we have lunch in Menlo Park, we chase after the morning Caltrain and make it by the last second, and we end up all the way in San Francisco where the sunshine’s the same but the wind feels ...

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new piece about falling in love to roberto bolaño. for coma

One Story — Community Mausoleum

My lover thus worked on his translation in our mother tongue slowly, but surely, while I went to the Workshop every week to turn in chapters which no one liked, short stories which would end up having...

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so delighted to have my first skull for something which my friends still make fun of me for so many years later: being convinced to write haruki murakami fan fiction about you and your situationship. love is strange, makes you do things. for @havehashad.com

HAD@havehashad.com · last yr.

today's Binh Do story perfectly renders so much of what I love about these "squares" "In bed, we are talking about "Barn Burning," from a Book I pulled for you from a stack on my hardwood floor, and someday, you will leave me and take it with you." https://www.havehashad.com/ulzo6

went to las vegas for the first time a few months ago and felt both deeply awestruck but also lonely from the whole experience on the strip, on fremont street. love, love, love the writer's block and the arts district. for @maudlinhouse.bsky.social

Maudlin House@maudlinhouse.bsky.social · last yr.

The First Independent Bookstore In Las Vegas by Binh Do maudlinhouse.net/the-first-in...

My story "Between Chamisa and Rengyō" is out! Thank you to the @smokelong.bsky.social judges for selecting it as the winner of The Smokey award. I am so moved by the recognition 🙏🏻 I hope you enjoy this story: www.smokelong.com/stories/betw...

Between Chamisa and Rengyō - SmokeLong Quarterly

I. The rain doesn’t smell the same here, and neither do I. Warm, resinous, alive: piñons and junipers, greasewood and ponderosa, the ghost bloom of Apache plume snagged on old barbed wire, claret cup ...

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i have no idea how such a strange story could have ever come about other than that, at the time, i was living such a strange life, one that i needed to write about somehow, in some way. this was the way. thank you so much to the judges of the smokey for giving it a home. for @smokelong.bsky.social

(They Long to Be) Close to You - SmokeLong Quarterly

I was awoken by a bad rendition of this very Carpenters song. It had been playing on the intercom of the airplane while I was trying to sleep through the redeye, L.A.X. to LaGuardia, which I had been ...

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the first thing—even if a small, and brief one, at that—that i wrote, and felt good about, in a very long time, even if it did, in fact, plunge me into equal parts existential crisis and heartbreak, at midnight, while listening to mitski for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · last yr.

FlashFlood: 'The Coast of Saigon' by Binh Do #nffd2025