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Joelle Killian

@joellekillian.bsky.social

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Joelle Killian's fiction has appeared in Fusion Fragment, Mythaxis, Weird Lit Mag, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. One of her doppelgängers is a psychologist writing about psychedelic therapy. Another was once in an undead dance troupe. linktr.ee/joellekillian

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · 10d

FREAKSLAW by JANE FLETT
A worthy GEEK LOVE descendant! The carnival comes to a small Irish town to rescue the weirdos and extract revenge.

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · 10d

Are you looking for some freaky sh*t? (no judgement)
Check out these wild rides:

MOONFLOW by BITTER KARELLA
Cosmic sporror featuring a trans mycologist trapped in a psychedelic mommy-milker-cult of TERFS powered by the eldritch gods of the forest. Extraordinarily funny and SO VERY, VERY MOIST.

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · 13d

In honor of today's Folsom festivities, here's my story "Existential BDSM" (link in bio).

I'd also like to apologize for manifesting this reality (written pre-election) 😢

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Existential BDSM by Joelle Killian

You’re a masochist. Orchestrating the universe’s workings for your own pleasure, transforming everyone into a whip-wielding master. Pervert. Not satisfied with mundane dungeons and pro-dommes, you’…

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · 24d

Reading it right now and it slaps so hard 🍄

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ah! Thank you so much, I'm so glad it hit like that for you! <3

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yay, thanks for the share! <3

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Aug 30

"I’m Entering My Apocalyptic Era", in which an undead dance troupe threatens to end this stupid epoch, is now up at Die Laughing!

dielaughingmag.com/2025/08/29/i...

[NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or dance troupes, living or undead, is purely coincidental.]

I’m Entering My Apocalyptic Era by Joelle Killian

People villainize Zoey for how things went down. Which is wild, considering what a complete dumpster fire your world was, even before I returned. 0/10, would not recommend. But I’ve been planning a…

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Aug 1

We have already nominated our nonfiction of the year, and it's this memoir from a local paramedic. A behind-the-scenes look at our broken systems and history of the ambulance, told with both dark humor and compassion.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729122...

A Real Emergency by Joanna Sokol: 9780771006579 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Introspective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career. For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private n...

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yay, my story about an undead dance troupe attempting to end this stupid epoch is out in Die Laughing today! 🤡

Great people at a great magazine:
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Die Laughing Magazine, Issue 4 - Die Laughing Mag's Ko-fi Shop

You are purchasing a PDF copy of Die Laughing Magazine, Issue 4, featuring stories by A.C. Bauer, Lillie E. Franks, Joelle Killian, Randall Madden, SJ...

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jul 14

THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
Another Dickensian epic featuring the woes of an orphan and the trauma-to-addiction pipeline, but packed into an art-heist thriller set in the New York antiques world. (Even after 771 pages, it was hard to leave this world behind!)

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jul 14

WELLNESS by Nathan Hill
Portrait of a Gen X marriage that is also about everything else–conspiracy theories and Facebook algorithms, the 90s, open marriage, photography, the placebo effect, and the power of story to shape our lives.

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jul 14

Are you a size queen who craves absorbing worlds with massive pagecounts? Check out these chonky tomes:

DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver
Pulitzer prize-winning epic about an Appalachian orphan, and also the best audiobook I’ve ever heard.

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jul 13

Literally just finished The Good Place and hence this is freshly relevant 💜💜💜

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jul 2

My story "Transferable Skills" (a vocational history gone awry in our tech-saturated hellscape) is out now at Phano!

Love the accompanying image, and impressed with the thoughtful editorial process. Thank you Phano crew!

www.phano.co/articles/tra...

Transferable Skills

Ready to match with a future of professions?

www.phano.co

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jul 2

Fantastic! Thank you for a wonderful editorial experience 🎉 So proud to be part of this issue!

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jun 26

CASUAL by Koji A. Dae
Sci-fi dystopia that explores bodily autonomy via a pregnant woman forced to discontinue the neurological implant that manages her mental health symptoms. Dae writes powerful interiority and immersive settings in a world far too close to our own.

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Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jun 26

I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN
by Jacqueline Harpman
An anonymous narrator raised in a cage with 39 other women without memory of her previous life or how they came to be imprisoned. A Kafkaesque existential classic.

Joelle Killian @joellekillian.bsky.social · Jun 26

Q: Could it be worse?
A: Yes :(

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Gladiators fight for their freedom within a dystopian private prison system on reality TV. Adjei-Brenyah illustrates the need for prison abolition via sharp writing and superb characterizations.