A.A. Balaskovits
@aabalaskovits.bsky.social
Author: Strange Folk You'll Never Meet and Magic For Unlucky Girls (SFWP). Fairy Tale Enthusiast. She/Her
In @aabalaskovits.bsky.social dark fairy tale “The Obedient and the Bitch,” a dutiful daughter sets out on an epic quest to outsmart Death. Read it in our Summer issue! ettereview.com/summer2026/b...
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A.A. Balaskovits in -ette-review Issue 8: Summer 2026
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Honored to have my latest in @ettereview.bsky.social amongst these wonderful writers, and a beautiful issue
-ette review@ettereview.bsky.social · last wk.New issue, new podcast, new call for submissions! -ette’s 2026 summer issue features fresh, new work by @aabalaskovits.bsky.social @christophercitro.bsky.social @noranadj.bsky.social @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @mykkirioswrites.bsky.social ettereview.com/summer2026/
Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS by @aabalaskovits.bsky.social and Jessica Danger's upcoming memoir, NO HEROIC MEASURES, in your Women’s History Month reading list! buff.ly/1y5lnI2
Waymo commercial: "remove the error of human choice." Bleak
This opens with God shoving his tongue down the throats of Adam and Eve. 10/10
Cheers to my mother who always buys the most perfect gifts
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
It's biblically accurate gourd season, motherfuckers
stefa@stefapie.bsky.social · 10mo agoFree will rules
To be fair, these fallacious court wizards can pull off a full choreo and song whenever a wandering monotheist arrives, so they earned their paycheck
The Prince of Egypt (1998) - Playing with the Big Boys Scene (4/10) | Movieclips
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Learn about @aabalaskovits.bsky.social's writing process and inspirations for STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET, and more, in this interview with @thirdcoastmagazine.com! buff.ly/9SmDWrJ Get STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET here: buff.ly/0WIEWKj @susanschulman.bsky.social @ipgbook.bsky.social
So honored to be interviewed by Third Coast! We discussed many lovely topics, including but not limited to violence and defecation
Third Coast Magazine@thirdcoastmagazine.com · last yr.Check out Zoe Presnal's interview with A.A. Balaskovits, author of contemporary fairy tales! @aabalaskovits.bsky.social thirdcoastmagazine.com/2025/06/16/a...
"They pass her skin from one hand to another. A lesson for the wide-eyed children present: Good people share among themselves." In this week's miCRo, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference. buff.ly/uEryOGQ
Deeply honored to have my latest flash, about a selkie and her skin, in the Cincinnati Review miCRo: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...
miCRo: "A Village Tries On Her Skin," by A. A. Balaskovits
In this Shirley Jackson-like fable, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference.
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"would you like some erotica I found on the street?" Is a real thing I asked today
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Dust storm in Chicago. Repeating all the great hits of the 1920s
