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Francis Van Ganson 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 three-time champion 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 fan fiction in which Harry Styles gets brain cancer and dies. Find them on Instagram @fire.motif.


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10 Aug 2026

the sleeping are so hard to distinguish / from the dead
We'd only lived in Arizona four years—it was our retirement place. But I'd died there, and she'd dumped my ashes out in the desert without fanfare, without any poem or prayer, unless you considered, “Jesus, Marty, don't leave me. Why'd you leave me, you old bastard" to be an elegy.
Nature, desecrated, refused to yield more than bone
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