I am happy to report that “Flash Fiction” magazine in England today published my very short, astrobiology-theme story “I Swallowed a Martian”: https://flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2021/07/23/i-swallowed-a-martian/

They feature a new story each day, and today it was mine.   Any resonance you might find in the story with the pandemic times we are living through is unlikely to be coincidental.