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Joelle Killian
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Joelle Killian's fiction has appeared in Fusion Fragment, Mythaxis, Weird Lit Mag, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. One of her doppelgängers is a psychologist writing about psychedelic therapy. Another was once in an undead dance troupe.
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Freddy misses her gogo block 👻🎃👺💀
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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TWENTY YEARS AGO today the Living Dead Girlz had our first performance!

Kicking off five years of Amber’s choreography, youtube parodies, horror cons, deep/dumb bonding, and over-the-top hemotechnics.
October 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I'm honored as hell to be included in this anthology, along with these total monsters of the weird horror world.
October 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Are you looking for some freaky sh*t? (no judgement)
Check out these wild rides:

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.
October 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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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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’…
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September 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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"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.]
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…
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August 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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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.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729122...
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...
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August 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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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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...
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July 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Are you a size queen who craves absorbing worlds with massive pagecounts? Check out these chonky tomes:

DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver
Pulitzer prize-winning epic about an Appalachian orphan, and also the best audiobook I’ve ever heard.
July 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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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!

www.phano.co/articles/tra...
Transferable Skills
Ready to match with a future of professions?
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July 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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.
June 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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From last week's Tesla protest, sentiment still stands
April 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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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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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 …
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April 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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...
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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New story out in Inner Worlds today!

This love letter to the good ol’ days of Bay Area warehouse life captures a moment of unexpected insight amidst the chaos.

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Ghosting Begets Haunting, by Joelle Killian
She stands motionless on the dance floor, surrounded by ravers who paid to get into this warehouse—her home—for a party that’ll help cover next month’s rent.
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March 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A bunch of 10p folks (including me) appear in next week's Inner Words! Super excited 🎉
Inner Worlds issue six
March 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I am *51* today, which is truly a no-fucks-given age, I gotta tell you 💀
February 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Do you hate reading but want someone to tell you spooky stories?

"Treatment of the All-Consuming Client" is now on the Lunatics Radio Hour podcast!

It's my very first audio publication! Their production slaps <3

Story starts less than two minutes in:
www.lunaticsproject.com/episodes/epi...
EPISODES | Lunatics Project
The Lunatics Radio Hour podcast deep dives into the history of horror and the craft of modern day storytelling. Listen to all epsiodes here.
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February 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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My story "This Place Will be the Death of Us," in which therapists are haunted by bureaucracy, is now free to read online! Link in bio.

This one goes out to all my former Work Spouses + everyone we trauma-bonded with at our Agency from Hell <3

www.metastellar.com/fiction/this...
This Place Will Be the Death of Us - MetaStellar
A group of therapists are attacked by their own building. They must rely on a drug-induced second sight to survive.
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January 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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WAY behind, but I finally finished my Top 11 Books of 2024! (because I couldn’t narrow it down to 10, and in no particular order)

There were so many great things I discovered!
What were some of your favorite reads last year?
January 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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These three featured immersive worldbuilding and cool conceits...

"Blackfish City" by Sam J. Miller:
Multi-POV post-climate-change metropolis sci-fi thriller with many queer/NB characters. (Love how the author's community organizing background shows up.)
January 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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This is what happens when you have no other hobbies! Do you want book recommendations? COME AT ME, BRO 🤓
December 31, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Books about the beauty/wellness industry are so hot right now (see: "The Substance"), but these are my favorite!
December 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Two absolute bangers that I missed back in the 90s but are 100% my jam:
December 10, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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Four queer extreme/body horror bangers that you probably shouldn't read (unless you, like me, are very desensitized):

Gretchen Felker-Martin:
-Manhunt
-Cuckoo

Alison Rumfitt:
-Tell Me I’m Worthless
-Brainwyrms
December 4, 2024 at 8:43 PM