Joelle Killian

FREAKSLAW by JANE FLETT
A worthy GEEK LOVE descendant! The carnival comes to a small Irish town to rescue the weirdos and extract revenge.

Are you looking for some freaky sh*t? (no judgement)
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MOONFLOW by BITTER KARELLA
Cosmic sporror featuring a trans mycologist trapped in a psychedelic mommy-milker-cult of TERFS powered by the eldritch gods of the forest. Extraordinarily funny and SO VERY, VERY MOIST.

Existential BDSM by Joelle Killian You’re a masochist. Orchestrating the universe’s workings for your own pleasure, transforming everyone into a whip-wielding master. Pervert. Not satisfied with mundane dungeons and pro-dommes, you’…

In honor of today's Folsom festivities, here's my story "Existential BDSM" (link in bio).

I'd also like to apologize for manifesting this reality (written pre-election) 😢

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Reading it right now and it slaps so hard 🍄

Ah! Thank you so much, I'm so glad it hit like that for you! <3

Yay, thanks for the share! <3

I’m Entering My Apocalyptic Era by Joelle Killian People villainize Zoey for how things went down. Which is wild, considering what a complete dumpster fire your world was, even before I returned. 0/10, would not recommend. But I’ve been planning a…

"I’m Entering My Apocalyptic Era", in which an undead dance troupe threatens to end this stupid epoch, is now up at Die Laughing!

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[NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or dance troupes, living or undead, is purely coincidental.]

A Real Emergency by Joanna Sokol: 9780771006579 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Introspective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career. For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private n...

We have already nominated our nonfiction of the year, and it's this memoir from a local paramedic. A behind-the-scenes look at our broken systems and history of the ambulance, told with both dark humor and compassion.

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Die Laughing Magazine, Issue 4 - Die Laughing Mag's Ko-fi Shop You are purchasing a PDF copy of Die Laughing Magazine, Issue 4, featuring stories by A.C. Bauer, Lillie E. Franks, Joelle Killian, Randall Madden, SJ...

Yay, my story about an undead dance troupe attempting to end this stupid epoch is out in Die Laughing today! 🤡

Great people at a great magazine:
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THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
Another Dickensian epic featuring the woes of an orphan and the trauma-to-addiction pipeline, but packed into an art-heist thriller set in the New York antiques world. (Even after 771 pages, it was hard to leave this world behind!)

WELLNESS by Nathan Hill
Portrait of a Gen X marriage that is also about everything else–conspiracy theories and Facebook algorithms, the 90s, open marriage, photography, the placebo effect, and the power of story to shape our lives.

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DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver
Pulitzer prize-winning epic about an Appalachian orphan, and also the best audiobook I’ve ever heard.

Literally just finished The Good Place and hence this is freshly relevant 💜💜💜

Transferable Skills Ready to match with a future of professions?

My story "Transferable Skills" (a vocational history gone awry in our tech-saturated hellscape) is out now at Phano!

Love the accompanying image, and impressed with the thoughtful editorial process. Thank you Phano crew!

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Fantastic! Thank you for a wonderful editorial experience 🎉 So proud to be part of this issue!

CASUAL by Koji A. Dae
Sci-fi dystopia that explores bodily autonomy via a pregnant woman forced to discontinue the neurological implant that manages her mental health symptoms. Dae writes powerful interiority and immersive settings in a world far too close to our own.

I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN
by Jacqueline Harpman
An anonymous narrator raised in a cage with 39 other women without memory of her previous life or how they came to be imprisoned. A Kafkaesque existential classic.

Q: Could it be worse?
A: Yes :(

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Gladiators fight for their freedom within a dystopian private prison system on reality TV. Adjei-Brenyah illustrates the need for prison abolition via sharp writing and superb characterizations.

Holy shit, I regularly watched that show, and yet completely do not remember this bit!

Wow, this is the best descriptor of this story yet 👍

Thank you honey!

From last week's Tesla protest, sentiment still stands

Ahhh, thank you so much! 💜💜

Still completely haunted by this story, amazing 👀

Thanks for being so wonderful to work with, and for putting such creative effort into making these incredible collages <3

Toxic Positivity – Joelle Killian Toxic Positivityby Joelle Killian I dig ragged nails into my thighs, quietly hyperventilating as our Quest Guides circle around us. Neither their altar crowded with owls, nor the sunlight flooding …

In "Toxic Positivity," a depressed skeptic confronts an intense inner critic while on an esoteric Wisdom Quest.

The editor of Cold Signal makes unique collage art to go with each story, and I adore what he chose for mine! An Underworld-themed issue of dark stories.

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Do YOU want to revisit your goth-club glory days and escape this grim meathook reality?

Read "10 Signs You’re Addicted to ReVisit" to learn more about this immersive VR--but beware its hidden nostalgia traps.

Now up at Exquisite Death!

www.exquisitedeathezine.com/10-signs-you...

I watched a lot of it at 2x speed, then a YouTube summary of the ending 😆

Slavoj Žižek, perhaps?

A purposefully mystifying theorist 😭