diff --git a/src/js/node/net.ts b/src/js/node/net.ts
index 904facfe16b6..845927794bf4 100644
--- a/src/js/node/net.ts
+++ b/src/js/node/net.ts
@@ -335,15 +335,7 @@ const kSocketClass = Symbol("kSocketClass");
 // callback as errnoException(status, 'write') and destroys the stream when no
 // callback is pending. https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/internal/stream_base_commons.js#L81-L92
 function failWrite(self, negErrno, callback) {
-  let er = new ErrnoException(negErrno, "write") as Error & { code?: string; errno?: number; syscall?: string };
-  if (typeof er.code !== "string" || !/^E[A-Z0-9]+$/.test(er.code)) {
-    // A raw WSA value the errno table cannot name (Windows delivers fatal
-    // send errors this way): shape it like SocketEmitEndNT shapes reads,
-    // keeping the original errno.
-    er = new ConnResetException("write ECONNRESET") as Error & { code: string; errno?: number; syscall?: string };
-    er.errno = negErrno;
-    er.syscall = "write";
-  }
+  const er = writeErrnoException(negErrno);
   self._pendingData = null;
   self[kwriteCallback] = null;
   if (callback) {
@@ -377,6 +369,19 @@ function failWrite(self, negErrno, callback) {
     }
   }
 }
+// Node's errnoException(status, 'write') for the negative errno $write returns.
+function writeErrnoException(negErrno) {
+  let er = new ErrnoException(negErrno, "write") as Error & { code?: string; errno?: number; syscall?: string };
+  if (typeof er.code !== "string" || !/^E[A-Z0-9]+$/.test(er.code)) {
+    // A raw WSA value the errno table cannot name (Windows delivers fatal
+    // send errors this way): shape it like SocketEmitEndNT shapes reads,
+    // keeping the original errno.
+    er = new ConnResetException("write ECONNRESET") as Error & { code: string; errno?: number; syscall?: string };
+    er.errno = negErrno;
+    er.syscall = "write";
+  }
+  return er;
+}
 function endNT(socket, callback, err) {
   // Node's _final half-closes the writable side (sends FIN) and leaves the
   // readable side open; the Duplex's allowHalfOpen drives the eventual destroy.
@@ -2965,7 +2970,11 @@ Socket.prototype._write = function _write(chunk, encoding, callback) {
     // Node reports this as errnoException(UV_EBADF/UV_EPIPE, 'write'), with
     // message, code, errno and syscall all populated.
     const er = new ErrnoException(process.platform === "win32" ? -4047 /* UV_EPIPE */ : -9 /* UV_EBADF */, "write");
-    process.nextTick(callback, er);
+    // Node fails a write that the handle rejects at once inside the same call,
+    // so write() returns false. The stream runs the write callback and destroys
+    // the socket on the next tick.
+    // https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/internal/stream_base_commons.js#L158-L159
+    callback(er);
     return false;
   }
   const res = socket.$write(chunk, encoding);
@@ -2973,7 +2982,7 @@ Socket.prototype._write = function _write(chunk, encoding, callback) {
   if (res < 0) {
     // The kernel rejected the send outright (peer reset): $write returned the
     // negative errno; deliver it like the EBADF/EPIPE branch above.
-    process.nextTick(failWrite, this, res, callback);
+    callback(writeErrnoException(res));
     return false;
   }
   if (res) {
diff --git a/test/js/node/net/net-syscall-fault.test.ts b/test/js/node/net/net-syscall-fault.test.ts
index 0d7975d07ac4..a127a115148f 100644
--- a/test/js/node/net/net-syscall-fault.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/node/net/net-syscall-fault.test.ts
@@ -228,6 +228,49 @@ describe.skipIf(skip)("node:net under injected syscall faults", () => {
     expect(p.serverSock.destroyed).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  // Node hands a send the kernel rejects at once to the stream inside write()
+  // itself, so write() returns false and the socket is errored in the same
+  // call. The stream runs the write callbacks and destroys it on the next tick.
+  // https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/internal/stream_base_commons.js#L158-L159
+  for (const side of ["client", "server"] as const) {
+    test.each(["ECONNRESET", "EPIPE"] as const)(
+      `send → %s on the first attempt: write() returns false and the socket is errored in the same call (${side} writer)`,
+      async errno => {
+        using p = await connectedPair();
+        const writer = side === "client" ? p.client : p.serverSock;
+        const fd = (writer as any)._handle.fd as number;
+        expect(fd).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+        fault.set({ syscall: "send", action: "errno", errno, repeat: 1, fd });
+
+        const events: string[] = [];
+        writer.on("error", (e: NodeJS.ErrnoException) => events.push(`error ${e.code} ${e.syscall}`));
+        const closed = new Promise<void>(resolve => {
+          writer.on("close", hadError => {
+            events.push(`close ${hadError}`);
+            resolve();
+          });
+        });
+        const first = writer.write("x", e => events.push(`write#1 ${(e as NodeJS.ErrnoException)?.code}`));
+        const afterFirst = {
+          destroyed: writer.destroyed,
+          errored: (writer.errored as NodeJS.ErrnoException | null)?.code,
+          writable: writer.writable,
+          writableLength: writer.writableLength,
+        };
+        // The stream is errored, so this write never reaches send().
+        const second = writer.write("y", e => events.push(`write#2 ${(e as NodeJS.ErrnoException)?.code}`));
+        await closed;
+
+        expect({ first, afterFirst, second, events }).toEqual({
+          first: false,
+          afterFirst: { destroyed: false, errored: errno, writable: false, writableLength: 0 },
+          second: false,
+          events: [`write#1 ${errno}`, `write#2 ${errno}`, `error ${errno} write`, "close true"],
+        });
+      },
+    );
+  }
+
   test("connect → ECONNREFUSED is reported on connecting socket", async () => {
     const server = net.createServer();
     server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1");
diff --git a/test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts b/test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts
index 645affdb8f0a..e172989c8c27 100644
--- a/test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/node/net/node-net.test.ts
@@ -2894,6 +2894,131 @@ it.skipIf(isWindows)("a write after the peer reset the connection fails with a w
   }
 });
 
+// Node hands a write that fails at once to the stream inside write() itself,
+// so write() returns false and the socket is errored in the same call. The
+// stream runs the write callbacks and destroys the socket on the next tick.
+// https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v26.3.0/lib/internal/stream_base_commons.js#L158-L159
+describe("a write that fails at once", () => {
+  type ErrnoException = NodeJS.ErrnoException;
+
+  async function connectedPair(listenOptions: import("node:net").ListenOptions) {
+    const server = createServer();
+    await once(server.listen(listenOptions), "listening");
+    const address = server.address() as string | import("node:net").AddressInfo;
+    const accepted = once(server, "connection") as Promise<[Socket]>;
+    const client = typeof address === "string" ? connect(address) : connect(address.port, address.address);
+    const [[peer]] = await Promise.all([accepted, once(client, "connect")]);
+    peer.on("error", () => {});
+    return {
+      client,
+      peer,
+      [Symbol.dispose]() {
+        client.destroy();
+        peer.destroy();
+        server.close();
+      },
+    };
+  }
+
+  const stateOf = (conn: Socket) => ({
+    destroyed: conn.destroyed,
+    errored: (conn.errored as ErrnoException | null)?.code,
+    writable: conn.writable,
+    writableLength: conn.writableLength,
+  });
+
+  // Records the write callbacks, 'error' and 'close' of `conn` in order.
+  function eventLog(conn: Socket, until: "error" | "close") {
+    const events: string[] = [];
+    const settled = new Promise<void>(resolve => {
+      conn.on("error", (e: ErrnoException) => {
+        events.push(`error ${e.code} ${e.syscall}`);
+        if (until === "error") resolve();
+      });
+      conn.on("close", hadError => {
+        events.push(`close ${hadError}`);
+        resolve();
+      });
+    });
+    const written = (n: number) => (e?: ErrnoException | null) =>
+      void events.push(`write#${n} ${e?.code} ${e?.syscall}`);
+    return { events, settled, written };
+  }
+
+  // Writes twice in the current tick and records what the first write() left
+  // behind before it returned.
+  async function writeTwice(conn: Socket, until: "error" | "close") {
+    const { events, settled, written } = eventLog(conn, until);
+    const first = conn.write("x", written(1));
+    const afterFirst = stateOf(conn);
+    const second = conn.write("y", written(2));
+    await settled;
+    return { first, afterFirst, second, events };
+  }
+
+  function expectFailedInsideWrite(result: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof writeTwice>>, code: string, lastEvents: string[]) {
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      first: false,
+      afterFirst: { destroyed: false, errored: code, writable: false, writableLength: 0 },
+      second: false,
+      events: [`write#1 ${code} write`, `write#2 ${code} write`, ...lastEvents],
+    });
+  }
+
+  // The peer dies and the client writes in the same tick, so the event loop
+  // gets no chance to report the dead peer as a read error first.
+  // Windows: a path listens on a named pipe, which has its own write path.
+  it.skipIf(isWindows)("returns false from write() on a unix socket whose peer closed", async () => {
+    using pair = await connectedPair({ path: join(socket_domain, "write-epipe.sock") });
+    // A unix socket learns that its peer is gone inside the peer's close(2).
+    pair.peer.destroy();
+    expectFailedInsideWrite(await writeTwice(pair.client, "close"), "EPIPE", ["error EPIPE write", "close true"]);
+  });
+
+  it("returns false from write() on a TCP socket whose peer reset the connection", async () => {
+    // Loopback does not promise that the RST is processed before the next
+    // send(2). A send that beats it succeeds and the reset surfaces as a read
+    // error, so take a fresh connection until the kernel rejects the send.
+    let result: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof writeTwice>>;
+    let attempts = 0;
+    do {
+      using pair = await connectedPair({ port: 0, host: "127.0.0.1" });
+      pair.peer.resetAndDestroy();
+      result = await writeTwice(pair.client, "close");
+    } while (!result.events[0].endsWith(" write") && ++attempts < 100);
+    // BSD kernels report a send after a received RST as EPIPE.
+    const code = result.events[0] === "write#1 EPIPE write" ? "EPIPE" : "ECONNRESET";
+    expectFailedInsideWrite(result, code, [`error ${code} write`, "close true"]);
+  });
+
+  // test-net-socket-write-after-close.js covers the error, not the return value.
+  it("returns false from write() on a socket whose handle was closed directly", async () => {
+    using pair = await connectedPair({ port: 0, host: "127.0.0.1" });
+    (pair.client as any)._handle.close();
+    const code = isWindows ? "EPIPE" : "EBADF";
+    expectFailedInsideWrite(await writeTwice(pair.client, "error"), code, [`error ${code} write`]);
+  });
+
+  // uncork() sends the corked writes through _writev, which ends in the same _write.
+  it("errors the socket inside uncork() when the corked writes fail at once", async () => {
+    using pair = await connectedPair({ port: 0, host: "127.0.0.1" });
+    const conn = pair.client;
+    (conn as any)._handle.close();
+    const code = isWindows ? "EPIPE" : "EBADF";
+    const { events, settled, written } = eventLog(conn, "error");
+    conn.cork();
+    const corked = [conn.write("x", written(1)), conn.write("y", written(2))];
+    conn.uncork();
+    const afterUncork = stateOf(conn);
+    await settled;
+    expect({ corked, afterUncork, events }).toEqual({
+      corked: [true, true],
+      afterUncork: { destroyed: false, errored: code, writable: false, writableLength: 0 },
+      events: [`write#1 ${code} write`, `write#2 ${code} write`, `error ${code} write`],
+    });
+  });
+});
+
 // libuv's uv__tcp_bind always sets SO_REUSEADDR on Unix, so Node can bind a
 // client localPort that still has earlier connections in TIME_WAIT. Bun used
 // to call bind() bare here and fail with EADDRINUSE, which made