story and poem by katya

another flash piece I wrote was published today ... 

https://latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/08/04/search-engine-by-katya-mills/

a poem I wrote ...

onset schizophrenia

a ginger tail flashed 

by the rocks and a voice called them 

to play. innocently they wandered from neurotypical fields

we can only communicate with them by art

we are as distant to them 

as they seem to us. conversation 

is out

#katyamills 2026

Journal Entries #3.21.26

when working my intensity blurs at times like a cataract I guess it's just all these years on earth I've been so lucky to have. from this opaque coordinate my spirit becomes my greatest sense. i lean into it. coffee helps too. there was nothing opulent nothing of splendor there. a table. a chair. the walls were bare. some natural light. these were the conditions I demanded to work. oh. and a lock on every door. the only jewelry i wore was a necklace made from the watch chain from a boy who loved me. the tags of all my animals I loved and lost played a song on the sternum.

on the walk I saw him
bonny lad 

standing proud 

long black hair 

brown skin 

facing south 

it took me by surprise 

2 realize it was you 

my old friend 

conjuring 

so I can know 

you are well

made of precious metals in this plastic world filled with hate and nonsense. they were focused on connection and only used their drones to open eyes and hearts to pretty land and sea scapes. hope was absent but they pressed on. the world got colder. everyone at war. not just factions and flags. my extremities went a little numb. not to worry. pulled on a hat and fuzzy socks. then some bombs fell and I could not feel my heart. made a distress call. your warmth kept me alive. I love you

She paved a trivial highway. I listened. then opened my mouth like a bird before dawn speaking into a forest. She paved right over me. I wanted to punch her in the gut! you cannot do it over the phone.

 you surpass yourself! i declared

a jet left a creamy stitch in the sky 

as day and night

divide 

in the middle 

east 

hungry mouths open 

wide

A piece I wrote was published here in March ... https://latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/03/11/strange-euphoria-by-katya-mills/

Katya Mills, 3.21.26

(the above fragments were all published in variations on BlueSky and X over the past 2 weeks)

journal entry #4

1.27.26 unwilling to stay in line or lane we produced some wax for the #wane went against the grain and got chided and derided which was only reinforcing as we sang and danced to music they could not even seem to feel and is not that strange? #vss365

1.25.26 there is no #ruse left you could use I have seen them all. and when you haunt our shared location you will feel my distance. you lose. i give flowers only to those I choose #vss365

1.29.26 the title was dropped in the wrong box of which I was unaware. they placed it by my door at the top of the stair. my little head put it together and I was serene. for this thoughtfulness did #obfuscate the general malaise which saddens my gaze #vss365

1.28.26 a #quiver in the river of thought and I made this mistake. to follow one of a thousand diversions. and the river dried up. its bed harbored coyotes traveling west on the train tracks needing to rest. good. i was left hollow and still. breathing #vss365

1.31.26 little could #soothe a jaded heart but he brought over an ice cream cake just the same. day before their birth. joy sparked 4 a sec. is he dead yet? naw. what kind of planet? idk. but we have our dreams. #vss365




by #katyamills 2026

(originally posted on twitter and bluesky's daily vss threads)

journal entries (1)

Journal ...

1.8.26 the body unleashed a symphony of pain signals as I got out of bed. nothing a hot shower and cold brew coffee cannot silence. the talks we had gave me hope. the sun was always there we just could not see it. oh to be alive.

1.6.26 in her youth she was sent to the best schools and developed a spiking variant of intellectual pride. over the years she encountered failure and hardship and changed. looking back she saw how clueless she was.

1.7.26 the sun shines in Cali the reservoirs are close to full. the kitten pulls the Dell plug out of the power strip and shuts it down. pay attention to me momma. I scoop Loki up on my shoulder. shaking off this winter cold. excited to get to work.



#katyamills

10.23.25

the lad was downcast watching the oatmeal drip off a sugary spoon. heavy in some story he told himself. she caught his eye. look! my nail polish. isn't it radiant? the counter story began to take ... can we go to the park? I want to feed the ducks.

10.22.25

wednesday. autumn settles into the bones. I want to be helpful be useful and make you smile and laugh. not so crass and cynically fuming. patience. one thing they cannot take from you is your effort. channel it wisely. brush off the cobwebs. wear yellow. its almost halloween.

come up

the blur of memory laughing with friends antagonized by the enemy falling into low vibration energy we isolate the problem only to discover it's not us we look up to the stars and polish our eyes with our fists tracing the scars on our wrists we come up 

#katyamills

per.haps

perhaps the light inside you can be channeled 2 dissipate the various hells perhaps the best days are ahead the pain will inform gratitude perhaps the kids born today will love paperbacks and the benevolent ones when they die watch over us.     #katyamills

syn

 oh synthesis of light and dark chocolate stirred with coffee softness layered stark. satin finish of the skies conflict in the heart the touch and then depart with bittersweet goodbyes

#katyamills

good spider good

a good spider 

i once knew 

caught me 

in his web 

being broke down 

having nowhere else 

to turn i

did not fight i

let him enter 

no one else wanted me 

the poisons 

made me blissful 

numb such that all 

my woes 

died 

good spider 

wrap me in 

thread

#katyamills

turn off

the hum 

drum 

of political bs 

on fox cnn

 tmz 

and the 

like 

made u 

wanna exit 

the earth 

it was easier 

to just turn 

the shit 

off

by

#katyamills

inquire

honest
troubling and
blue


she was
elusive


one had
and had not
and had


a crew
struck out at sea
to capture


for glory
bound


then
drowned


translucent
four thousand fathoms
down


forever 2
inquire


sapphire
sapphire




by #katyamills

July 14

 not idolatry

more like I am thinking of you more like whispering to you I remember you and the lightheartedness and laughter you brought to my life in one of its valleys and I thank you

#KatyaMills

'the painstaking truth' by Katya Mills

A story I wrote (flash - 750 words) was published here ... 

https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/the-painstaking-truth-by-katya-mills/

5.18.25

life and passage of time made a wraith of them and the eye was known 2 deceive across the land a powerful weave of water and sky influenced by fire the magic they conceive ... #katyamills

3.26.25

somewhere 

in the second year 

of writing it 

the book becomes my all 

insatiable 

I forego companionship 

food 

sunlight 

music 

but not coffee 

2 finish

#katyamills

3.20.25

An endless cup of coffee took me from the pages out into the streets I could no longer be still and stumbled into the eyes of an alley cat who froze electrified then jumped ten times its height on to a ledge. disappeared. my back fell to the wall and I felt a good story in my veins taking the concrete and casting it in a sempiternal shine.  #katyamills

dam it

I built a weir to keep the good memories and on the difficult days feeling discouraged i swam up there. #katyamills

they break up

they broke up with you and your damn phone @ the emporium of communications

they finally had enough

by #katyamills 3.5.25

3.4.25

 the penumbra of memory ... shine the light there ... you were caring for something living ... a little furry animal ... your first ... and it was all you wanted to do ... how caring turned you on

#katyamills