Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein
@fklein907.bsky.social
Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
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You know what everyone loves for holiday gifts? Books of poetry!
Your options are:
1. Chapbook about the Angel Gabriel hanging out on earth
2. Multi-award nominated collection about parenting, pregnancy loss, and the internet
Ordering links: www.frances-klein.com/books
Your options are:
1. Chapbook about the Angel Gabriel hanging out on earth
2. Multi-award nominated collection about parenting, pregnancy loss, and the internet
Ordering links: www.frances-klein.com/books
Y’know, if we all collectively decided to appoint some albums/artists as “Thanksgiving Music” in 20 years no one would remember that it hasn’t always been that way.
My first nomination: the Tom Petty album Wildflowers
My first nomination: the Tom Petty album Wildflowers
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Y’know, if we all collectively decided to appoint some albums/artists as “Thanksgiving Music” in 20 years no one would remember that it hasn’t always been that way.
My first nomination: the Tom Petty album Wildflowers
My first nomination: the Tom Petty album Wildflowers
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I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...
More helping!
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
More helping!
Update: this man just dug through two trash cans to find my missing headphones (likely batted there by the GD cat) so he can marry as many Jessicas as he wants
Not marry-fuck-kill, then?
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Update: this man just dug through two trash cans to find my missing headphones (likely batted there by the GD cat) so he can marry as many Jessicas as he wants
My husband has dated three Jessicas in his life (hello Gen X!) so of course I’m making him decide how the three align with the Holy Trinity
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My husband has dated three Jessicas in his life (hello Gen X!) so of course I’m making him decide how the three align with the Holy Trinity
Headlines from the alternate universe where we brought out the guillotines
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Headlines from the alternate universe where we brought out the guillotines
At a coffee shop listening to three teen girls workshop a text convo one is having, don’t tell me teens can’t effectively analyze a text for tone, subtext and connotation
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
At a coffee shop listening to three teen girls workshop a text convo one is having, don’t tell me teens can’t effectively analyze a text for tone, subtext and connotation
Corporate needs you to find the differences between these two pictures
Friend told me my winter aesthetic is “Fagin from Oliver & Company” and I—
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Corporate needs you to find the differences between these two pictures
Friend told me my winter aesthetic is “Fagin from Oliver & Company” and I—
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Friend told me my winter aesthetic is “Fagin from Oliver & Company” and I—
I was never in my life as nervous before a first date as I always am before the first time I hang out with a potential mom friend without our kids
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I was never in my life as nervous before a first date as I always am before the first time I hang out with a potential mom friend without our kids
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Actually, you can only call it Black Forest Ham if it comes from the Black Forest in southwest Germany; the rest of it is just sparkling bologna
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Actually, you can only call it Black Forest Ham if it comes from the Black Forest in southwest Germany; the rest of it is just sparkling bologna
Actually, you can only call it Black Forest Ham if it comes from the Black Forest in southwest Germany; the rest of it is just sparkling bologna
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Actually, you can only call it Black Forest Ham if it comes from the Black Forest in southwest Germany; the rest of it is just sparkling bologna
Helping!
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Helping!
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I’m so honored by how much @epistemiclit.bsky.social believes in my story “Pig Flu.” They are a dream to work with, send them your stuff next time they are open!
More award nominations!
Best Microfiction!
Best Microfiction!
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I’m so honored by how much @epistemiclit.bsky.social believes in my story “Pig Flu.” They are a dream to work with, send them your stuff next time they are open!
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latest story from me today. go on and give it a lil looky dirt.fyi/article/2025...
The Trees of Ketron Island
New short fiction by Kyle Seibel.
dirt.fyi
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
latest story from me today. go on and give it a lil looky dirt.fyi/article/2025...
First day of Thanksgiving break and I have given myself two goals:
1. Read an entire book start to finish
2. Read in every couch/chair in the house to determine the best reading location
1. Read an entire book start to finish
2. Read in every couch/chair in the house to determine the best reading location
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
First day of Thanksgiving break and I have given myself two goals:
1. Read an entire book start to finish
2. Read in every couch/chair in the house to determine the best reading location
1. Read an entire book start to finish
2. Read in every couch/chair in the house to determine the best reading location
experiencing gender euphoria every time I cut the sleeves off a tshirt
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
experiencing gender euphoria every time I cut the sleeves off a tshirt
Heading to the ballpark for free MLA hotdog night
selling AP-style deep dish pizza
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Heading to the ballpark for free MLA hotdog night
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I hope you'll all enter - love running this comp every year and always so honoured by everyone who sends in their work
There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I hope you'll all enter - love running this comp every year and always so honoured by everyone who sends in their work
Unlike me, who would always agonize over writing something “good enough” to be in a locked diary, he reports he has already drawn “four pictures of me on the toilet”
The Boy took money to school for the book fair and came back with a lock and key diary, so at least some things never change
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Unlike me, who would always agonize over writing something “good enough” to be in a locked diary, he reports he has already drawn “four pictures of me on the toilet”
The Boy took money to school for the book fair and came back with a lock and key diary, so at least some things never change
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Boy took money to school for the book fair and came back with a lock and key diary, so at least some things never change
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My first full length book is called Another Life, so as a joke that is funny only to me, the working title of my second book is “Another Life First Blood Part Two”
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My first full length book is called Another Life, so as a joke that is funny only to me, the working title of my second book is “Another Life First Blood Part Two”
My first full length book is called Another Life, so as a joke that is funny only to me, the working title of my second book is “Another Life First Blood Part Two”
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My first full length book is called Another Life, so as a joke that is funny only to me, the working title of my second book is “Another Life First Blood Part Two”
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Coming February 2026 love u 😘
Coming February 2026 love u 😘
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🚨 I have a new chapbook out in the world! 🚨
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨 I have a new chapbook out in the world! 🚨
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️