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A.A. Balaskovits
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Author: Strange Folk You'll Never Meet and Magic For Unlucky Girls (SFWP). Fairy Tale Enthusiast. She/Her
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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It's biblically accurate gourd season, motherfuckers
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Free will rules
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Feels bad when the hospital asks
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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To be fair, these fallacious court wizards can pull off a full choreo and song whenever a wandering monotheist arrives, so they earned their paycheck
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October 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Hobbits getting into the graffiti game
September 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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World is falling apart so I'm going to watch the Autopsy of Jane Doe but pretend it's Logan Roy at his hobby job with the only kid of his he actually likes
June 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Learn about @aabalaskovits.bsky.social‬'s writing process and inspirations for STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET, and more, in this interview with @thirdcoastmagazine.com‬! buff.ly/9SmDWrJ

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June 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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So honored to be interviewed by Third Coast! We discussed many lovely topics, including but not limited to violence and defecation
thirdcoastmagazine.com Third Coast Magazine @thirdcoastmagazine.com · Jun 16
Check out Zoe Presnal's interview with A.A. Balaskovits, author of contemporary fairy tales! @aabalaskovits.bsky.social

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June 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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No kings, no fascists
June 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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"They pass her skin from one hand to another. A lesson for the wide-eyed children present: Good people share among themselves."

In this week's miCRo, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference. buff.ly/uEryOGQ
Quote from Balaskovits: "In this Shirley Jackson-like fable, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference." A. A. Balaskovits, a white woman with long blue hair and purple glasses, looks into the camera. She's standing in a park-like setting.
June 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Deeply honored to have my latest flash, about a selkie and her skin, in the Cincinnati Review miCRo: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...
miCRo: "A Village Tries On Her Skin," by A. A. Balaskovits
In this Shirley Jackson-like fable, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"would you like some erotica I found on the street?" Is a real thing I asked today
June 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Dust storm in Chicago. Repeating all the great hits of the 1920s
Dust storm, low visibility buildings
May 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Chicago is now Silent Hill :(
May 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Made a street friend today
Grey cat in a sidewalk. He appears to be pissed but he is actually just a cat.
May 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Woke up to my two cats laying on me, licking each other's assholes. Life comes at you fast
May 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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“What if we replicated the atrocities of Abu Ghraib every day, in startling clarity, for the express purpose of letting the world know that we enjoy kidnapping and torturing people en masse” is a pretty goddamn grim agenda to set for your political party.
April 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Make the weekend magical when you read @aabalaskovits.bsky.social's #fracturedfairytale collections, STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET, and MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS! buff.ly/d7sMLN3

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April 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM