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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Truly, immensely honored to be nominated. Thank you, @ettereview.bsky.social , and congratulations to my fellow nominees!

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Embrace the start of #Fall with @aabalaskovits.bsky.social's collection of #fracturedfairytales, MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS! Grab a copy of MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS from SFWP right here: bit.ly/2DNwKKj

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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In @aabalaskovits.bsky.social dark fairy tale “The Obedient and the Bitch,” a dutiful daughter sets out on an epic quest to outsmart Death. Read it in our Summer issue! ettereview.com/summer2026/b...

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A.A. Balaskovits in -ette-review Issue 8: Summer 2026

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Honored to have my latest in @ettereview.bsky.social amongst these wonderful writers, and a beautiful issue

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I have a mouth but it is cringe to scream

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS by @aabalaskovits.bsky.social and Jessica Danger's upcoming memoir, NO HEROIC MEASURES, in your Women’s History Month reading list! buff.ly/1y5lnI2

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Waymo commercial: "remove the error of human choice." Bleak

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This opens with God shoving his tongue down the throats of Adam and Eve. 10/10

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Cheers to my mother who always buys the most perfect gifts

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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…

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

It's biblically accurate gourd season, motherfuckers

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hobbits getting into the graffiti game

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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 Get STRANGE FOLK YOU'LL NEVER MEET here: buff.ly/0WIEWKj @susanschulman.bsky.social‬ @ipgbook.bsky.social‬

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

So honored to be interviewed by Third Coast! We discussed many lovely topics, including but not limited to violence and defecation

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"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.

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"would you like some erotica I found on the street?" Is a real thing I asked today

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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.

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Dust storm in Chicago. Repeating all the great hits of the 1920s

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A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Woke up to my two cats laying on me, licking each other's assholes. Life comes at you fast

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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“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.

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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 Strange Folk You'll Never Meet: buff.ly/0bZf9i2 Magic for Unlucky Girls: buff.ly/kyYwCpa

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm supposed to be at Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

Screenshot of a letter. Full text here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WFgiczX6J1VYtVnSLzvaX3L02WuxCuLn/view?usp=drivesdk

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Don't miss out on reading @aabalaskovits.bsky.social's short non-fiction piece, "Of the moment," over in The Palisades Review! buff.ly/jrk9I3K Treat yourself to her first #shortstory collection, MAGIC FOR UNLUCKY GIRLS, here: buff.ly/bpciUzk

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OF THE MOMENT

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Misha Rai @misharai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m going to be zooming in for this, but I’m so glad to be part of this community at 100 West Corsicana, and I can’t wait to be there soon to do work that feels urgent to me.