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Vanthology

A genre-bending collection of 16 original tales by local Vancouver writers… including me!!

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Hi, I’m Franky

I write fantasy, fairytales, and everything in between. Short stories, flash fiction, and things you don’t realize are stories until after you’ve finished reading them.

Competitions & Awards

Winner of the 2024 Write Mango Short Story Award, part of the 2024 Edinburgh Writing Awards.

Longlisted for the 2024 Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction

Finalist for the 2023 and 2024 NYC by Midnight Flash Fiction and Short Story Challenges

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Short Stories

A Letter Was Left at the Front Desk for You, Sir

“I saw you today, down by the water, walking a dog we both know isn’t yours. You looked happy. You looked content.

Maybe that’s why I’m writing this letter.”

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In Conversation With Machines

“Careful, K-i. Call yourself human again, and the Fleet Guard will have you reprogrammed.

“I apologize, Tal. I use the term ‘us’ to establish a sense of shared identity. You know I cannot truly align myself with humans.”

“I know, Kai. I’m only messing with you.”

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Offerings

My grandmother was a witch. We did not see eye to eye. While my peers were raking leaves and scrubbing stoves for their pocket money, I was picking gypsy-flower and chasing crows from rafters.

“Offerings for the Faerie folk,” she called it.

“How you get ants,” I would mutter.

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