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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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13 Apr 2026

...fury tongued, we lash the breeze with our foxing song
From my broken streets and crumbling towers; Sterilized my self-haunted hospitals
Every single time, the Skiin™ gave me a rash. I scratched. I scratched so deeply that I clawed through the aug and into my own skin and then I tore out chunks of that too.
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