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!
This whole thread is wholesome and cool, and somehow, I’m part of it!
Everything that @hexliterary.bsky.social publishes is gold, but today I'm ruminating on @lilliekoi.bsky.social's story Out.
"Eli’s all smiles and Thank you, Mrs. with my parents, but when they drive away, the other face comes out, the one that makes me think of a fox with its leg in a trap."
"Eli’s all smiles and Thank you, Mrs. with my parents, but when they drive away, the other face comes out, the one that makes me think of a fox with its leg in a trap."
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This whole thread is wholesome and cool, and somehow, I’m part of it!
Soulless facsimiles of your dead relatives should be free, but for extra money, I should get to improve them. $8 a month for a grandmother who loved me a little bit more. $12 for one who likes commentary youtubers and wants to hear me talk about them. $16 for one who lived her dreams fully.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Soulless facsimiles of your dead relatives should be free, but for extra money, I should get to improve them. $8 a month for a grandmother who loved me a little bit more. $12 for one who likes commentary youtubers and wants to hear me talk about them. $16 for one who lived her dreams fully.
Oh, hey, one of these is me!
Our "Best of 2025" picks feature party planners, new chess pieces, sewer dwellers, Kyle Energy, and more!
Best of PIC 2025
Our "Best of 2025" picks feature party planners, new chess pieces, sewer dwellers, Kyle Energy, and more!
www.pointsincase.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Oh, hey, one of these is me!
On September 11th, America was attacked. It would be years before we’d discover the true weight of that horrible day.
December 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
On September 11th, America was attacked. It would be years before we’d discover the true weight of that horrible day.
Reposted by Lillie E. Franks
Seems fitting that this odd angel prose poem go live on a Sunday :D Thanks to scaffold for giving it a home!
www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
an angel came to me by ani king — scaffold literary magazine
prose poetry
www.scaffoldlit.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Seems fitting that this odd angel prose poem go live on a Sunday :D Thanks to scaffold for giving it a home!
www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...
Reposted by Lillie E. Franks
two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
Reposted by Lillie E. Franks
Three little 🤏🏻 micros from yours truly are up in the December issue of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! Thank you to Camille and the editorial team! ✨
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Mizuki Yamamoto — Does It Have Pockets
Receipt | Bath House | Molting Season
www.doesithavepockets.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Three little 🤏🏻 micros from yours truly are up in the December issue of @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! Thank you to Camille and the editorial team! ✨
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
Developing a theory
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Developing a theory
Clarified butter? I understood it perfectly well the first time
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Clarified butter? I understood it perfectly well the first time
The difference is simple: if you see him in an advertisement selling rolls, that's Poppin' Fresh. If you see him as a cryptid in real life, that's the Pillsbury Doughboy
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The difference is simple: if you see him in an advertisement selling rolls, that's Poppin' Fresh. If you see him as a cryptid in real life, that's the Pillsbury Doughboy
Reposted by Lillie E. Franks
Reading for year-end award recs, etc.? Why not try @cyankatz.bsky.social's ANOTHER MOTHER AGAIN, (favourably reviewed in Locus) and just their second published story:
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/another-moth...
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/another-moth...
Another Mother Again — Weird Horror Magazine
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Reading for year-end award recs, etc.? Why not try @cyankatz.bsky.social's ANOTHER MOTHER AGAIN, (favourably reviewed in Locus) and just their second published story:
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/another-moth...
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/another-moth...
Watching a gimmicky 2D movie where the characters keep throwing objects to the left
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Watching a gimmicky 2D movie where the characters keep throwing objects to the left
Phrenology actually can predict criminal behavior among cartoon mice, but only because eating a large piece of cheese reshapes your skull
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Phrenology actually can predict criminal behavior among cartoon mice, but only because eating a large piece of cheese reshapes your skull
This is so cool! Checking out my conominees that I haven't read; the ones I already have very much deserve it!
If you missed this story, here it is, once again!
dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-13-25/tomo...
If you missed this story, here it is, once again!
dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-13-25/tomo...
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is so cool! Checking out my conominees that I haven't read; the ones I already have very much deserve it!
If you missed this story, here it is, once again!
dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-13-25/tomo...
If you missed this story, here it is, once again!
dishsoap-quarterly.com/5-13-25/tomo...
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take? That sucks. I used to be like that too but then I practiced more by getting up early every morning and not taking any shots. Now I only miss 70% of the shots I don’t take. 30% of the time, the ball just leaps up and goes in the hoop on its own.
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take? That sucks. I used to be like that too but then I practiced more by getting up early every morning and not taking any shots. Now I only miss 70% of the shots I don’t take. 30% of the time, the ball just leaps up and goes in the hoop on its own.
Reposted by Lillie E. Franks
"If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a Republican..."
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
Narc Rules by Sasha Brown
If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a…
www.havehashad.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a Republican..."
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
The basic concept behind tabletop games is pretty simple. Players represent all the characters who are human. The GM, or game master, represents everyone who's a Muppet
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The basic concept behind tabletop games is pretty simple. Players represent all the characters who are human. The GM, or game master, represents everyone who's a Muppet
I'm currently watching every Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie and no, it isn't worth it, even a little bit, but the one that's *sighs deeply* in 3D did introduce me to this song, which I will encourage you to listen to exactly 30 seconds of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwt...
Hand Of The Almighty - John R. Butler
YouTube video by clotho98
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm currently watching every Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie and no, it isn't worth it, even a little bit, but the one that's *sighs deeply* in 3D did introduce me to this song, which I will encourage you to listen to exactly 30 seconds of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwt...
Reposted by Lillie E. Franks
"Eli’s all smiles and Thank you, Mrs. with my parents, but when they drive away, the other face comes out..."
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Eli’s all smiles and Thank you, Mrs. with my parents, but when they drive away, the other face comes out..."
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
HUGE fan of this new @lilliekoi.bsky.social story we are featuring in @hexliterary.bsky.social this week! Lillie captures so well the prickliness of childhood. Don't miss this new creeper!
New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
"Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day."
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
We are so stoked to feature a new one by @lilliekoi.bsky.social today that is absolutely oozing with a phenomenal sense of childhood dread and weirdness. Don't miss "Out," up now!
Out by Lillie E. Franks
Eli says I can come over on Saturday, but I have to be quiet when we go inside, because his mom will be home all day. One time on the playground behind the swings, Eli told me that he hates his mom, a...
hexliterary.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New flash out with Hex Literary about the horror of childhood and the allure of finally finding an escape! I’m proud of this one!
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Eli says he wants to show me a secret. He says even his mom doesn’t know it, and she’s always spying on him trying to figure it out.”
“Take me out to the ball game” is just an ode to 1908 gamer girls. I love that every baseball game, it’s a tradition to stand up, raise your voice, and imagine a girl who’s just not like other girls. She’s into baseball, and she even knows how many strikes make an out!
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“Take me out to the ball game” is just an ode to 1908 gamer girls. I love that every baseball game, it’s a tradition to stand up, raise your voice, and imagine a girl who’s just not like other girls. She’s into baseball, and she even knows how many strikes make an out!
This is redundant; every poster is a clown
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is redundant; every poster is a clown
The quote “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it” is often taken out of context. George Santayana was talking specifically about Starfleet officers trapped in the Typhon Expanse
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The quote “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it” is often taken out of context. George Santayana was talking specifically about Starfleet officers trapped in the Typhon Expanse
Gender is a performance, and I'm sneaking in some coy jokes that the censors won't get
Gender is a performance and I don't allow video recording
Gender is a performance and I'm in a church basement playing with circuit-bent toys on the noise table at 130dB.
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Gender is a performance, and I'm sneaking in some coy jokes that the censors won't get
Conversation partner is neurotypical
Yappers be critical
Conversation partner is Autistic/ADHD
Yappers be free
Yappers be critical
Conversation partner is Autistic/ADHD
Yappers be free
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Conversation partner is neurotypical
Yappers be critical
Conversation partner is Autistic/ADHD
Yappers be free
Yappers be critical
Conversation partner is Autistic/ADHD
Yappers be free