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Adrian Dallas Frandle

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Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Reader. Gaymer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a rosette of mullein. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af. words -> http://adriandallas.com

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · Jan 21

My poem in the new Poet Lore arrived!

Thanks @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social & @eaholla.bsky.social for curating the gorgeous folio + issue!

Poet Lore Volume 119 1/2

The title text is framed in a circle with vibrant painted colors

ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE
HOMO-MITHRAICS
(pain(t] on plaster; unknown Roman artist
c. 3rd C. A.D.)
Consumed by each other's lack Of uneasy light, what if we kissed Under the tauroctony? You be Sol And I'll be Mithras — we will be Each other's Zodiac bloodletting.
Let the ravens shovel sullen stars
In our crescent cracked mouths, And we'll share in the scorpion's stingclean feast. Unmake me
Like the hollow bull of twilight.
Hallowed earth, we crush in the tussle Of our sky-struggle. Night into day, Let loose the sacred world, lost in our godliness. Brilliant daylight,
Dazzles that first step outside The cave of denial. Wingless, We fall together, up, entangled.
Our horns become sticky With sky, having gored out
Our hearts with sun-sharpened eyes.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 6d

elvira: mistress of the dark, floppy disk, commodore 64 (1991) www.mobygames.com/game/4050/el...

the label of the floppy disk has an imposed photo of elvira, puffed up long black hair, revealing dress, half laying in a provocative pose.

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Michael Todd Cohen @michaeltoddcohen.bsky.social · 1h

shadow studies with foraged inks: stag horn sumac, pin oak acorn cap, black walnut 🍂

two drawings side by side of a muscular arm, reaching backward, palm upturned. on the left the image is painted with dark tones. on the right, the image is painted with a three-color mix of browns and reds. At the top of the frame are three ink bottles.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 3d

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.

On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.

Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1h

“October Tenth, Twenty Twenty Five” sounds so impossibly advanced - we are living past the future…

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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 1d

In this wild and woolly world, listening to some poems can only help. See you on Tuesday? NAWP!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · 20d

Announcement time! October 14th, 7:00 Eastern: Hear poems from @clbpoetry.bsky.social, @mitchnobis.bsky.social, and @djvorreyer.bsky.social! Hosted by the amazing @readinstead.bsky.social!

Hit the eventbrite link to register. NAWP!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

Promo graphic with author photos of Donna Vorreyer, Chris Butler, and Mitchell Nobis. And the NAWP ostrich, of course.
The text says:
A NAWP Reading
Chris L. Butler
Mitch Nobis
Donna Vorreyer
Hosted by
Jared Beloff
October 14, 2025
7:00-8:00PM EST

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 3h

line breaks are about trust & also holding your nose when you jump into water so it doesn’t rush up there and give you a headache

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 4h

“Dark-eyed Junco” would be a beautiful name for a baby girl

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 5h

A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years and I still do feel that way
about it…Let me tell you what I feel and what I mean and what I felt and what I meant.

G. Stein

What does a comma do.
I have refused them so often and left the out so much and did without them so continually that I have come finally to be indifferent to them. I do not now care whether you put them in or not but for a long time I felt very definitely about them and would have nothing to do with them.
As I say commas are servile and they have no life of their own,and their use is not a use, it is a way of replacing one's own interest and I do decidedly like to like my own interest my own interest in what I am doing. A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years and I still do feel that way about it only now I do not pay as much attention to them, the use of them was positively degrading. Let me tell you what I feel and what I mean and what I felt and what I meant.

Gertrude Stein

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 4h

updates to follow

a sign in red chalk “Today we’re making Staghorn Sumac Ink” and there’s a little drawing of a boiling pot

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 5h

i pictured a pile of little pancakes in leather harnesses & collars & thought: sub stack.

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 5h

absolutely in love with the flow of this piece by @erinvachon.bsky.social

"Gender was our real craft / project. Costumes, our art supplies. We all wore them."

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 10h

"Young, we shapeshifted. We made our bodies. Corporate grandiosity / couldn’t claim us. Our manager was one rabid man afraid of wet places, trained to gain from every grand / opening..."

—Erin Vachon

anmly.org/ap40/erin-va...

Erin Vachon – ANMLY

anmly.org

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 6h

The rare still fee-free submission opportunity, opening 1 November (@derekjgwilliams.bsky.social)

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 7h

Authors, start your engines!

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 5h

thrilled to be part of the this adventure!

Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 6h

Please help us welcome our amazing new ⚡ FLASH FICTION READERS ✨

welcome to
our new
flash fiction readers

Jack Barrie
Marjee Chmiel
Adrian Dallas Frandle
Amanda Ellard
Arrendo Milan Mosley
Adita Narayan
Lucy Mitchell
Genevieve Santos
Sheena Daree Romero
Lilly Wellington

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 7h

Final day to apply!

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 11d

ANMLY is looking to add some new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff with us! All roles are 1-3 hours/week.

- Comics Editor
- 2 Fiction Readers
- 2 CNF Readers
- Features & Reviews Co-Editor

Email [email protected] w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 9h

an appendix for spooky nursery rhymes and other child chanting

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 10h

a comprehensive survey and analysis of children's drawings featured in horror films.

Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 10h

a comprehensive survey and analysis of children's drawings featured in horror films.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 1d

Joshua Hebburn continuing to carve out this really interesting, specific niche of micros that sneak up on you, that unfold & unfold and&unfold to keep revealing secrets inside, single sentences as tunnels, illusions, pinhole cameras looking at our giant world...

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/it-...

October 9, 2025
It's The Thought That Counts
Joshua Hebburn
Listening—or listing, but not missing not losing a thing, I’m thinking I should be, instead of.

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

do not wear a drama mask & do not let your infant become a child actor?

picture of some packaging with 2 warning sign pictograms showing a face with a dramatic expression, and similar one featuring that face on a crawling baby - they are anti suffocating warnings, but not very well communicated

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

I translate books from Korean into English. I was shortlisted for and later judged the International Booker Prize. I have thirteen (?) books scheduled to be published over the next three years.

Next up is CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon, for which I am touring the UK later this month.

A stack of copies for Capitalists Must Starve at a bookstore

Catch
Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur on their North-South
UK tour!
A TATED ANS PRESE
Capitalists
Must
Starve
A NONEL.
Scolycon
18/10
→ Wimbledon Book
Festival, London

25/10
→ Mount Florida Books,
Glasgow
19/10
→ ESEA Lit Fest at Cheltenham
Literature Festival's
VOICEBOX

26/10
→ Breakfast meet-and-greet at Lighthouse, Edinburgh
→ with In Other Words

21/10 → Launch party
at Roundtable Books, London

27/10
at Tills Bookshop, Edinburgh
→ House of Books
22/10
→ Juno Bookshop, Sheffield

& Friends, Manchester
24/10
→ Topping & Company
Booksellers, Edinburgh

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 1d

It took AI to convince me the human soul exists in much the same way it took a bar full of stripper vampires to convince Harvey Keitel that God exists.

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 1d

i, um, very much care…

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 3d

Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

necessaryfiction.submittable.com

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 2d

Bookshop is having a sale to counter Prime Day! What a great opportunity to buy this cool new book I heard about.

bookshop.org/p/books/firs...

First Kicking, Then Not

Check out First Kicking, Then Not - <p>A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another aban...

bookshop.org

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Postcard @postcardlit.bsky.social · 3d

You definitely want to pick up this new collection from issue 1 contributor and all-around-amazing poet Donna Vorreyer!

Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

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Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social · 2d

I wish hashbrown.

- Hashbrown Prophet