Archive - Phoenix’s Substack

micro nonfiction about life in the suburbs

Jul 22 •

Phoenix Mendoza

No Respect Left to Pay

to my father or the country funny how fathers and countries are sort of the same thing sometimes and by funny I mean not funny at all

Jul 6 •

Phoenix Mendoza

June 2025

house like a junk drawer

refusal and refuse

Jun 13 •

Phoenix Mendoza

Memories / Memorials

on poison and not poison flora

Jun 6 •

Phoenix Mendoza

May 2025

Childhood Homes=Haunted Houses

the rat and the songs and the filth and my father

May 12 •

Phoenix Mendoza

Postmortem Vignettes

anger, pride, and other sins

May 6 •

Phoenix Mendoza

April 2025

notes from an encounter with a local cryptid (teen boy playing hooky)

Apr 16 •

Phoenix Mendoza

The irony is that I am so allergic to band aids

thoughts on becoming my own father

Apr 1 •

Phoenix Mendoza

March 2025

The Terrible Call

thoughts from the Death Trenches

Mar 28 •

Phoenix Mendoza

The Cultural Bends

Re-entry and motion-sickness

Mar 24 •

Phoenix Mendoza

February 2025

monumental life event

on fake springs and real death

Feb 28 •

Phoenix Mendoza

January 2025

thoughts on running

both away from, toward, and in place

Jan 25 •

Phoenix Mendoza

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