<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[M. Francis Le]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francis Le]]></description><link>https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/all</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:21:16 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Breathing Life into Loss: Q&#38;A with  Raven Reighard on "About Grief"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stop me if you've heard this one before: two university transmascs walk into a coffee shop to discuss grief and writing over (somewhat) overpriced drinks. Raven Reighard  (they/he)'s order of choice was a caramel macchiato, one espresso shot, please, because they don’t actually like coffee. Their drink came out white and gold, a blend so perfect in its clear plastic shell that it was impossible to tell where the drink started and where the whipped cream ended. Raven’s alt-meets-artist attire...]]></description><link>https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/post/breathing-life-into-loss-q-a-with-raven-reighard-on-about-grief</link><guid isPermaLink="false">691ca1b6cf1100bb61d7d368</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:45:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/09292a_7c1d1bebb679488b8b07b94f84fb01b9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>mfrancisle89</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Piece Preview: "I Wrote This For the You I Made Up Long Ago"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Personal essays, as many artists know, take time to craft. In a conversation with writer Raven Reighard, we shared the works currently haunting our drafts --- and now here I am sharing it with you, too.]]></description><link>https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/post/piece-preview-i-wrote-this-for-the-you-i-made-up-long-ago</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6931f5e7346ce9789f5705f3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:19:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>mfrancisle89</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss All Your Girlfriends: A Critical Comparison of Carmilla and Jennifer's Body]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Jennifer’s gotta be a vampire,” my friend said as we watched the critical flop Jennifer’s Body  one summer night. I wanted to laugh and wait for the film to prove her wrong when, to my dismay, I realized she made a compelling point. Jennifer Check’s succubus qualities didn’t evoke anything necessarily vampire-esque, yet the manner in which her character was written rang familiar to the vampire canon. This film eerily mirrors the fictional life of Carmilla, the seductive vampiress who...]]></description><link>https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/post/kiss-all-your-girlfriends-a-critical-comparison-of-carmilla-and-jennifer-s-body</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6931ba199b06fc064bdcd3e9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:43:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/09292a_7898b2b7eb434d588c6c8b1239aa45e1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_643,h_341,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>mfrancisle89</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a Fairy Tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Essay | Published with the Kolob Canyon Review | Apr. 2025 Editor's Choice for CNF 2025 Once upon a time,  there was a woman in love. This woman has been an old friend of mine for years now, so don’t judge her for her actions. Love incites many fairy tales. My dear friend sounds boring, I know, but I promise you she’s different because— Once upon a time,  there was a married woman named Virginia, and she was in love with a girl . That’s like something right out of the movies, wouldn’t you...]]></description><link>https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/post/this-is-a-fairy-tale-cnf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6931b7cfd6a3f601d646c4c8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:35:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>mfrancisle89</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["I Get It Now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Short Fiction | Published with Levitate Magazine Issue 9 | May 2025 You look good, Raina. Even despite… everything. I mean, I guess I should have known that this would happen eventually. You always said you felt trapped in the wrong body. Mom blamed our first grade teacher Mrs. Crane. She said the fairy tales Crane read us were stuffing our heads with cotton. But you know Mrs. Crane. She didn’t show us Grimm Brother picture books or Disney movies. We got to hear the real fairy  tales. She...]]></description><link>https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/post/i-get-it-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6931b3f09b06fc064bdcc624</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:21:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>mfrancisle89</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing Like You're Running Out of Time -- On Booktober 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ever saw a challenge you couldn't resist? Visual art has never been my forte, but like many writers and readers alike I've been enamored with the concept of Inktober  since I first got a Tumblr account in 2019. And who wouldn't be? Thirty-one fresh but vague one-word prompts are offered to open-minded artists. The catch? You had to post one a day in the order in which it was listed. (Or hey, you could throw that rule out the window, too. It was an art challenge! Since when was staying inside...]]></description><link>https://mfrancisle89.wixsite.com/mfrancisle/post/writing-like-you-re-running-out-of-time-on-booktober-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">692d118f745789e635cc3f5f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:31:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/09292a_a424e64cfc174d8189188f808aa2454e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_906,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>mfrancisle89</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>