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Lillie E. Franks

@lilliekoi.bsky.social

@onyxaminedlife on Twitter. Chicago trans woman/entity/entities. She/her or they/them. A short story writer and all around pretentious person. Weird jokes, political rants, some positivity. Friendly!

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Lillie E. Franks@lilliekoi.bsky.social · 2w ago

New one up at Hex Literary! Is this story me working through my childhood reaction to reading The Sneetches? …Maybe!

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 2w ago

"You couldn’t tell there were three of them at first, not until they had almost cleared the courthouse and started towards the post office." We are so excited to have @lilliekoi.bsky.social back in hex with a TRUE work of strangeness. The machines are here. Will you enter? Don't miss this one!!

Lillie E. Franks@lilliekoi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This collection has a story from me that started out as a version of the shapeshifter's chase and pretty quickly became it's own extremely different thing! www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBRCLSHP

Ogerog Annual: Dawson, Korey, Bartlett, Matthew M., Hall, Coy, Hampton, Viggy Parr, Beauchamp, Richard, Kaplan, Jo, Warra, Brooke, Ellis, Stephanie, Fleming, Liam, Trifan, Matthew: 9798188774981: Amaz...

Ogerog Annual [Dawson, Korey, Bartlett, Matthew M., Hall, Coy, Hampton, Viggy Parr, Beauchamp, Richard, Kaplan, Jo, Warra, Brooke, Ellis, Stephanie, Fleming, Liam, Trifan, Matthew] on Amazon.com. *FRE...

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Anneke@ernerker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My very weird story about cottaging, Brighton in the 1960s, numbers stations, Polari, the deep scattering layer, Punch and Judy, and the experience of being profoundly alienated from your own desires, even as you find yourself the object of others’, is up now on @ergot.bsky.social.

A Punch and Judy show, with Brighton’s ruined West Pier in the background
Nic McConnell@mcconnell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

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Ani King (they/them)@aniking.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Delighted to have two poems in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social! Please check out repetitive stress injuries and (i am begging you to) let my people go. CW for rep stress inj: references to losing a queer loved one to addiction

Blood+Honey@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Two Poems" by Ani King “lips stained pink or red or purple or black / let them be tender as overripe fruit / let them be girls / bursting sweetness / new names plucked from field guides to flowers…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/king-...

Lillie E. Franks@lilliekoi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

These stories are strong on their own but I really like the way they fit together. Both magic, but opposite magics; a magic of holding on and a magic of letting go

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"A girl and her brother are on vacation in the mountains." Such a thrill, this week, to have two new fairy tales by @noramaynard.bsky.social up on hex! Dreamy and dreadful, these pieces feel like contemporary cautionary tales unperturbed by clean, wrapped up endings. Don't miss this fantastic pair!

RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
Lillie E. Franks@lilliekoi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This anthology has a flash from me in it, an adaptation of the Grimm’s fairy tale “Sweetheart Roland”, or ATU 1119 ”The Ogre Kills Their Own Child”, if you’re a pervert. Don’t worry too much if you haven’t read it!

GossamerWight Literary Magazine@gossamerwight.com · 6mo ago

Published today... #Thresholds #Anthology. Available in our store at bit.ly/4m9wiHG. #Booksky #LiteraryMagazine #Writing #WritingCommunity #Microfiction #FlashFiction #ShortStory #Poetry #GraphicNarrative #Horror #Weird #Supernatural #Spectral #Speculative #Dystopian #Fantasy #Gothic

The front cover of the GossamerWight Literary Magazine Anthology, "Thresholds."