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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang

@ezhang77.bsky.social

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Writer | Chicago | Work in HAD, Maudlin House, The Citron Review + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25 https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · Aug 17

My tiny chapbook, “The Moon, My Heart,” is finally available now! So so grateful to @tinywrenlit.bsky.social and Dana Knott for making this dream come true! www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...

The Moon, My Heart (Elena Zhang) | Tiny Wren Lit

Evocative micro-poems inspired by Chinese folklore

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 7h

No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 11h

Daily walk by the lake for my mental health

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 6d

kyla houbolt
ONE FROG

from her chapbook collection, But Then I Thought

One Frog

Tonight one frog sings outside. It's no country for rain. I live far away.
but I can hear this one frog, it's a loud frog, alone in some creek or
other. in a county of two lane roads that twist in the dark. Still there is
comfort here because somewhere glimmering among the darkened
trees is a lighted window. An old man and his nephew sit inside,
whittling. They're making toys. One makes a small cart with rolling
wheels: the other makes a dog with a wagging tail. There are no
children nearby, not even in the neighboring counties, so one might
wonder who the toys are for. But the old man and his nephew don't
seem concerned: they iust keep whittling. Occasionally one of them
smiles. The shavings go into the fire. The frog sings. The roads twist in
the dark. The creek is low. One day it might rain.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Bruce Andrews

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there they are. ghosts. resemblance.
do it, and again do it. someone
does it.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 1d

Spooky prose poem for a spooky October Friday

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We Make - Elena Zhang
We are born making, with glue teeth and scissor fingers. We make life, no, love, no, we don't know what we mean, we are tongue-tripped and lip-leaked. We're empty, I mean we're full, spilling over to baptize you with holy water moon splash. We grow hands on our backs and flap clap, entering the cosmos while you run from us, but we made you. Put your hands on our hands, slip inside our ouroboros so we can be hungry again, so we can turn your wishes into pennies and hand out the copper on our tongues. Our dreams are sticky, salty, pockmarked with glitter like the whites of your eyes.
We sip-soak and we bite-burn, we open the door to hell for you, please won't you come in, because we are the final girls, and we live, no, I mean, we laugh.

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 1d

Just read this phenomenal story in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

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The Molotov Cocktail

Dead Man from the Ocean Floor by Neil Clark He climbed into my boat tonight, seawater spewing from the bottoms of his trouser legs, a thousand tiny crabs crawling in and out the holes in his bloate…

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats!!

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 1d

I think sometimes we are all Sherman.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 1d

Just read this phenomenal story in @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

themolotovcocktail.com/about/archiv...

The Molotov Cocktail

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t beat fall in Chicago 🍂

Tree in sunlight, grass littered with fallen yellow leaves, Lake Michigan

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t beat fall in Chicago 🍂

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not autistic, just a parent to an autistic kid w/ fairly significant support needs, but I personally find it very frustrating to see so many people fixated on preventing, reducing, or “curing” autism and neurodiversity instead of talking about inclusion + getting folks whatever support they need

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d

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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 2d

We love learning story origins! 👇🏼👇🏼

Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: My story “Baby Wheels” in @flashfrog.bsky.social was inspired by this painting

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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 3d

Homo rodans
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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: My story “Baby Wheels” in @flashfrog.bsky.social was inspired by this painting

flash-frog.com/2025/02/24/b...

Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 3d

Homo rodans
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19511

In "Homo rodans" by Remedios Varo, a surreal skeletal structure resembling a unicycle is poised against a turbulent background of swirling, fiery hues. Varo, a prominent figure in the Surrealist movement, often infused her work with themes of transformation and mysticism, evident in this fantastical depiction.

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 4d

(Almost) 10 horror movies to get to know me by

Evil dead 2
Drag me to hell
28 days later
Inland empire
Color out of space
Alien
Eraserhead

I’m a horror newbie, but these are the ones that have really stuck with me so far

Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · 4d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

💀 Alien
💀 Terrified
💀 The Autopsy of Jane Doe
💀 Hereditary
💀 It Follows
💀 Exhuma
💀 The Wickerman
💀 Army of Darkness
💀 The Descent
💀 A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 4d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

Evil Dead 2
Frankenhooker
Hellraiser
Reanimator
The Thing
Inland Empire
Under the Skin
Videodrome
Gozu
Lair of the White Worm

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 3d

F1068.2
Wound received
in dream.

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 3d

Take a load off and read Issue 16.2. Featuring #flashfiction by @gioclair.bsky.social, @christinaltudor.bsky.social, and Al Ryanne Gatcho.

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Volume 16, Issue 2

Flash Monster 2025 contest deadline hits very soon! Survival Instincts by Christina Tudor The Gribble Took My Name by Al Ryanne Gatcho Constellations of Calcium by Gio Clairval

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 3d

Gather round the campfire and let me tell you a scary story about scary stories, at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Big thanks to @thedrevlow.bsky.social for publishing this, and to *you* for reading it. Happy camping! mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

“I’m not losing my mind, right? This guy was not in the picture we took.”
“Who the hell is he?” They’re squinting hard in the dark. He just looks like another one of them, to put it plainly. Like he could have been a fourth roommate. But there was no fourth roommate. It was always just the three of them.
“I have absolutely no memory of this dude. I’ve never seen him before in my life.”

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah Chicago

Crate of apples with sign that says “frostbite: the Malort of apples”

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah Chicago

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