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https://bloodboneandghosts.substack.com/p/edge-of-seventeen There’s an age you never really outgrow. For me, it’s sixteen—the year when everything started to hum louder, when I learned that chaos cou...

Ch 2. "Heaven Help Me For The Way I Am." A raw coming-of-age in 1990s Miami, where loyalty blurred, desire lingered, and innocence cracked beneath the chaos of adolescence.

Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · 15d

“At 12, my body had betrayed me w/ its contradictions: breasts that drew eyes as if I drawn in the 1940’s, trapped in a frame that stopped growing in 6th grade. 5ft tall w/ a baby face, underneath heavy black eyeliner & dark red “fuck me” lipstick.”

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About A Girl

Ch 2. "Heaven Help Me For The Way I Am." A raw coming-of-age in 1990s Miami, where loyalty blurred, desire lingered, and innocence cracked beneath the chaos of adolescence.

Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · 15d

@voyagelamag did a follow up feature about my new project. @bloodboneandghosts on Substack. They asked some hard hitting questions. Check the 🔗

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · 23d

About A Girl : CH 2 “Heaven Help Me For The Way I Am”

A coming-of-age story that’s equal parts grit and ache.

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About A Girl

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Sep 18

The Kinky Side - Bonus CH 10
🔗 Read Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

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Bonus Ch 10 Then Kinky Side Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Sep 18

The Kinky Side - Bonus CH 10
🔗 Read Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

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Bonus Ch 10 Then Kinky Side Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Sep 6

#filmmakers #cinephiles #writers #directors #producers #Scorsese #goodfellas LISTEN UP!

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Sep 6

Harnessing your Inner Priestess with Safyra

A mystic healer’s path through movement, hypnosis, and sacred femininity. From qigong to tantra, this episode of Sex, Magick and Dessert opens the door into embodied power and the rituals that shape B...

A City Fights Back: How LA Defends Itself From ICE

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Sep 3

and the heartbreaking potential for further damage that characterized what had become, quite frankly, a rather melodramatic and, dare I say, increasingly tiresome iteration of a classic Shakespearean lovers' tragedy.

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Ten Minutes Between Almost and Never Again.

Nine minutes to fall in love. Ten minutes to miss the goodbye. He said he loved me — not to me, but to my friend. I never heard those words, never saw his face when he said them.This is Chapter 9 of T...

Ten Minutes Between Almost and Never Again.

Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Sep 3

I had reached a point where I simply lacked the emotional capacity, the mental space, or the sheer willpower to navigate the complexities, the agonizing uncertainties…

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Nine minutes to fall in love. Ten minutes to miss the goodbye. He said he loved me — not to me, but to my friend. I never heard those words, never saw his face when he said them.This is Chapter 9 of T...

He told me he wished he could undo everything. His voice shook, remorse flooding through the cracks he’d tried to seal for years. The confession was raw, trembling, almost enough. Almost.What never ca...

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Aug 26

The words "I love you," the core of the reconciliation I'd so desperately wanted, left me in a bittersweet state, always remembering the "post-script" that never arrived.”

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"Fragments of Love, Shards of Goodbye” Chapter 7 of The Night We Locked Eyes is a collision of desire, truth, and the quiet space where love lingers even when the ending is inevitable.

Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Aug 18

It’s in their hands, their voice lingering on your name, the way they look at you like you’re still theirs.

For a night, you might believe it. You let yourself forget that the leaving is inevitable.

#authors #poets #readers #healing

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Aug 18

“All That Is Broken —Fragments Of Love, Shards of Goodbye” CH 7

No one warns you about the in-between, when they come back just long enough to remind you why you fell.

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All That Is Broken

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Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Aug 13

“Sometimes the last dance is the one you take alone.“

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“Sometimes the last dance is the one you take alone.“

#VictorWilde #TheBohemianSociety #FashionAsArt #AvantGardeStyle #WearableArt #DowntownLA #PerformanceArt #FashionRevolution #ArtMeetsFashion #LosAngelesStyle

Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Aug 13

Franceasca @franceasca.bsky.social · Aug 13

Victor Wilde,performance artist turned fashion disruptor—founded The Bohemian Society to make fashion that provokes, moves & tells stories you can wear. From Tokyo to LA, his work is as unapologetic as the city he calls home.

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State of the Art with Victor Wilde

Victor Wilde—performance artist turned fashion disruptor—founded The Bohemian Society to make fashion that provokes, moves, and tells stories you can wear. From Tokyo to LA, his work is as unapologeti...