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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 1d

Arby's sandwich? No, bees are insect. Grilled cheese are sandwich.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 1d

If a cis person sees the Nuttenkönig, they'll transition within a month

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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to kick off @flashfrog.bsky.social's Frogtober with a ghost story! Thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social, and thanks to my bud, @courtneyb77.bsky.social, for absolutely perfect art; shout out to her and @kimmagowan.bsky.social for the early eyes on the piece.
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Collision by Michael Czyzniejewski

Light my candles in a daze ‘cause I’ve found God. —Nirvana, “Lithium” The hardest part about being a ghost is getting over the sex, as in watching the living go at it. It’s ironic because when you …

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 1d

I have a new story out at a magazine with an incredible name! It’s about the Pacific Garbage Patch, if it were made of ghosts!

Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social · 2d

“Millicent Pawlowski, the Happy Medium, stands between the crowd and the police and opens her mind to the glowing cyclone which fills nearly half of the sky above her.”

Buckle up: today we feature @lilliekoi.bsky.social's “Under the Gyre”🌪: www.culdesacofblood.com/lillie-e-fra...

A vortex swirls in the sky above a decaying building, power lines, and trees in Twin Peaks: The Return

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 2d

Zapruder film? I don't care how impolite it is; we shouldn't zap any films.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 4d

What does it say about the Minions if they call for bananas because they see something yellow and long and they believe they're finally getting their chance to indulge in cannibalism? That they find that similarity thrilling rather than unsettling?

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 4d

There's something unseemly about the fact that the Minions' favorite food is bananas. Like, it's a little bit too close to home. You can't help wondering if the Minions believe they're eating each other.

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 5d

"...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through."

"Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

Door in the Woods by Chris Scott

Sarah is hiking up ahead of me, so she’s the first to see it. She goes around the bend, says “Hey now,” and stops in her tracks. Then I see it, too. Right there in the middle of the trail is a sing…

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

Also the meteor is a secret Cold War weapon? I forget if it’s Russian or American.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

I love that at least in the book, the meteor that makes you blind and the plants that kill you are entirely separate events. The plants show up, everyone’s like “Eh, this is probably fine as long as a meteor doesn’t make us blind” and then of all the lousy luck…

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

They could literally be anywhere! And have you heard of this thing called a vampire? It can suck the blood out of your body. Your blood! Eeeewwww! Fascists don't do that!

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

I've been hearing some reports that this Halloween, the real scare is the country descending into authoritarianism. However, after looking into it, I've determined this is unfounded. While the country is at risk for descending into authoritarianism, ghouls, ghosts and goblins are all still scarier.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

Oh. Okay. That's deeply tiresome. Like, yeah, when you as an influential person say things, they will get interpreted by the people who might be affected by your decisions. I'm sorry that that's tiresome for you; it's not that great for us either.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

In a rare turn of events, I seem to not be online ENOUGH here. What is the joke being made here?

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 5d

This won’t be for anyone but me, but the sea shanty “The Mermaid“ and the folk song “Fast Freight” illustrate the difference between cosmic horror and weird horror. Both are about being destroyed by a simple experience, but in one it’s an otherworldly being and in the other it’s a mundane magic

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 7d

It’s too bad you couldn’t find… a substitute

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 7d

The Lorax especially but most of these carry the fascinating implication that it is violent to believe anything ought to be done, regardless of how you want to do it. It's bad to care about things, because if you care about something, you might kill for it. Only mealy-mouthed nihilism is safe.

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 8d

THE ANTIFA LORAX

TOP 10 BOOKS RADICALIZING
THE LEFT
and why they are creating political violence against Patriots
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LORAX
3
CHUCK PALAHNIUK FIGHT CLUB
1984
GEORGE ORWELL
1984
REASONS:
- Anti-Patriot
- Anti-Authority
- Anti-Conservative
- Pro-Violence
- Pro-Antifa
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IT CAN'T HAPPEN
HERE
SINCLAIR LEWIS
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE REASONS:
- Anti-Patriot
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Antifa
- Anti-United States
- Pro-Left wing terrorism
WE ARE STARTED
-LIBERTY•
Dr. Seuss
THE LORAX REASONS:
- Pro-Antifa
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Violence
- Pro-Environment
FIGHT CLUB
REASONS:
- Anti-Masculinity
- Anti-Authority
- Anti-Christian
- Anti-Consumerism
- Pro-Left wing terrorism
7/8
HOWARD ZINN
PEOPLE'S HISTORY
OF THE
UNITED STATES
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES REASONS:
- Pro-Radicalism
- Pro-Communism
- Pro-Violence
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Antifa
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MARGARET
ATWOOD
THE
HANDMAID'S
TALE
A HANDMAID'S TALE REASONS:
- Pro-Feminism
- Anti-Christian
- Anti-Fertility
- Pro-Left wing terrorism
- Pro-Antifa
- Pro-Violence
- Anti-Conservative
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dalton trumbo
FUN HOME
ALISON BECHDEL
REASONS:
- Pro-LGBT
- Anti-Science
- Anti-Christianity
- Atheistic
- Gender Propaganda
GENDER QUEER
GENDER QUEER REASONS:
- Pornography
- Sexualizing Children
- Pro-LGBT
- Anti-Christianity
- Gender Propaganda
- Pro-Child Confusion
ata
american family association
THE GRAPES OF WEATH
THE GRAPES OF WRATH REASONS:
- Pro-Communism
- Anti-Patriot
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Violence
- Pro-Antifa
- Anti-United States
- Anti-Christianity
renspect
Johnny got his gun
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN
REASONS:
- Anti-United States
- Anti-Patriot
- Pro-Communism
- Anti-War
- Anti-Wealth
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Violence
* CITIZENS
DEFENDING

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 7d

I have a short story in this collection that I think is really cool! It's about a woman who finds a dead body, plants it in her garden and starts to grow it into a new person! I'm looking forward to reading the other stories too!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRGH4FF3/

Pretend You Don't See Her: The Invisible Woman: Kandisha Press 2025 Women of Horror Anthology (Kandisha Press Women of Horror)

Pretend You Don't See Her: The Invisible Woman: Kandisha Press 2025 Women of Horror Anthology (Kandisha Press Women of Horror) [Prime, Erin Lydia, Girardi, Jill, Nola, Candace, Jagge, Ruthann, Cellura, Allison, Darling, Sally, Taylor, Sonora, Hafdahl, Meg, Roslin, Eva, Wilson, Trish] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Pretend You Don't See Her: The Invisible Woman: Kandisha Press 2025 Women of Horror Anthology (Kandisha Press Women of Horror)

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 8d

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 10d

It's wild how smoothly the line went from "Trump isn't trying to be a dictator! That's absurd and hysterical!" to "Well, sure, Trump is trying to be a dictator but he won't succeed at it."

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10d

People wrote a lot of these takes in the first Trump Administration and they’re basically lists of things he’s doing now.

“Trump’s not a dictator! He’s not militarizing US cities or prosecuting his political opponents or jailing dissidents…”

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10d

And you’re fooling yourself if you think the U.S. is a “long way“ from becoming Venezuela.

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 10d

One of mine in @bruisermag.com

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Hiccups
The pause was pregnant.
Had babies.
Little hiccups.
They grew up into loneliness.
There was no cure.

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 10d

Also it recommends one of my stories and that's cool?

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/kin...

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 10d

One of my favorite reading experiences is being completely baffled by something until all of a sudden I'm totally into it

HAD @havehashad.com · 10d

always excited for new Kate McIntyre! a real fun triptych.

The Five Cows
They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons...

https://www.havehashad.com/lx2yn

Kansas by Kate McIntyre

The Five Cows They buck invisible riders. They attend law school to properly sue their stink. They kill the townsfolk one night, very late, with andirons, and they cry when there’s no one to scratch…

www.havehashad.com

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 11d

Sad dinosaur voice: I used to be a T-rex, but after she broke up with me, I'm just a Tear Ex

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