Francis ✧ ₊ ˚ 🐇・₊✧

Francis is a fiction writer, bookseller, and organ donor. They attended the Clarion 2023 Writers’ Workshop, their short story What I Know is in the Ocean was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and their favorite NASCAR driver is Joey Logano. Their writing explores violence in movies, sex on tv, and what grief, trauma, and mental illness do to narrative. Some would say that they are best known for a One Direction fanfiction in which Harry Styles gets brain cancer and dies.

CRAFT ESSAY: Monster of the Week as Realism
Summary: "I’m not truly arguing that Monster of the Week shows are more realistic than realism, only that their expansiveness is what allows them to get so close, sometimes closer than straight realism seems to, to an accurate reproduction of daily life. And yet, that’s exactly what I’m arguing."

SHORT STORY: Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini Make Out in Wisconsin Weeks Before Disaster 
Tags: handcuffs, bad taxidermy, con-men, melodrama, sherlock holmes kinning, being an unreliable narrator of your own life, smashing your heart into a million bajillion pieces, fun facts about glaciers

SHORT STORY: She's so Lucky, She's a Star 
Tags: one deeply busted monster ex-girlfriend, hot girl problems, pop villains, rabies symptoms, daddy issues if it meant that your dad has issues, some of the most homophobic dyke drama put to paper, NOT what happened to Fifth Harmony

ZINE: Same Shitty Life, New Positive Attitude 
Tags: emoji poetry about grief

ESSAY: Juno to Juno Communication
Tags: i_love_my_cat.exe

SHORT STORY: The Ratcatcher
Tags: cycles, rats, becoming your dad (affectionate), becoming your dad (derogatory)

Testimonials:

"why would you do this to another human person"

"I'm gonna kill you"