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What if Death wasn't cruel, but deeply in love with life?In Straight From Death, the Reaper steps out of the shadows to tell her own story—part confessional, part cosmic comedy. From ferrying souls through their transition from bodily incarnation to questioning the perceived chaos of the life, she divulges secrets of existence and human experience by sharing her favorite soul collections. Told in a voice that's sharp, wry, and unexpectedly tender, this book dances between the mystical and the mundane—like The Good Place meeting Neil Gaiman on an existential road trip.A love letter to existence itself, Straight From Death invites you to laugh, cry, and possibly forgive the universe for its weird sense of humor.

The ocean does not care whether you believe in it.Maritime Mysteries | FrankiVerse Cafe Backrooms is the third volume in the Backrooms series — twelve chapters, twelve bodies of water, twelve documented maritime mysteries examined through the verified record, the regional lore layer, and the Coffee & Cryptids transcript, in which Franki and Franny Lynn sit down with the entities that have been in these waters since before the waters had human names and ask them what they know.Flight 19 and the last transmission. The Mary Celeste and the table that was set. The Ourang Medan and all hands dead with no explanation. The Flannan Isles keepers who vanished between one log entry and the next. The SS Waratah and two hundred and eleven people who left no wreckage. The Flying Dutchman, still rounding the Cape. The Baltic Sea Anomaly. What Gitche Gumee keeps. The Devil's Sea. The twelve vile vortices. The Bimini Road, built to go underwater. The SS Valencia and the boats that came back with skeletal figures at the oars.Also at the table: Captain Connie, formerly earthly matriarch, currently Quantum Royal Space Pirate, possessor of a legitimately acquired wormhole deed and a hat with small moons in orbit. She arrived before the series did. Morrish the selkie barista is at the table for the full volume and returns to the counter at the end changed by old water, permanently and correctly. The BooBerry K Muffins are on every menu. By the outro, the record knows why.The entities did not take the ships. The ocean is not against you. The held are held with care.Let's sail.

What would you do if another version of yourself appeared in your kitchen… and invited you to follow a glowing green light into infinity?The Adventures of Abernathy Franklin is a collection of witty, whimsical, and occasionally chaotic multiversal travel tales exploring what happens when ordinary curiosity collides with infinite possibility.From accidental shark encounters and ice house disasters to unexpected visits with reptilian café owners and alternate selves living wildly different lives, Abernathy Franklin discovers that reality is far less fixed than she once believed.In the FrankiVerse:There is no single self.There is no single timeline.There are no limits to where a curious heart might wander.These stories began as playful experiments in returning to creative writing — and evolved into the narrative foundation of an expansive fictional multiverse where:Every self has infinite fractalsEvery fractal has infinite versionsAnd all possibilities exist simultaneouslyThis volume collects the core short stories that launched the world of Abernathy, Frankie, Franki, Bernie, and beyond.If you enjoy character-driven speculative fiction with humor, heart, and a touch of the absurd, step through the green light and see where it leads.To explore more stories, updates, and ongoing multiversal mayhem, visit:Franki Was Here DOT com

KC and Maurice are back in the van. The GPS is doing a thing again.Ghosts Are Bigger in Texas is the fourth installment in the FrankiVerse Cafe Haunted Travel Guide series — eleven fully researched paranormal investigations and one location that does not appear on any standard map, spanning the full impossible breadth of the Lone Star State. From the cattle baron's cigar ghost presiding over Austin's most glamorous hotel to a dirt road in the Big Thicket where a light has been refusing explanation since 1903, from the oldest exposed rock on the continent to a WWII aircraft carrier that the Japanese reported sunk four times and could not manage to sink, Texas delivers the kind of haunted that matches its own mythology and then quietly exceeds it.KC documents everything. Maurice talks to the ghosts and says thank you afterward. The brisket is treated with the same seriousness as the REM pod data. Some investigations are extremely active. Some are a clean bust. One produces a one-liner that the Hill Country absolutely earned.Locations include the Driskill Hotel in Austin, the Menger Hotel and the Alamo in San Antonio, the Grand Galvez in Galveston, the haunted small town of Jefferson and its most reluctant house, Bragg Road and the Saratoga Light in the Big Thicket, the Devil's Backbone in the Hill Country, the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, the Gage Hotel in Marathon, the Marfa Lights, the San Antonio Ghost Tracks, and the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells — plus a bonus Chapter 12 that does not appear on any map and is staffed accordingly.This is Volume 1. Texas is too large for one book and everyone involved knew that going in.

Haunted Andalusia: FrankiVerse Cafe Haunted Travel Guide | Spain Edition is the third installment in the Haunted Travel Guide series from FrankiVerse Media — where real paranormal history meets offbeat humor, genuine research, and just enough interdimensional seasoning to keep things interesting.Paranormal investigators Fabian and Brodie are heading to southern Spain, and Andalusia is not a subtle destination. This is a region where Phoenicians, Romans, Moors, and Christians have been stacking their histories on top of each other for three thousand years, and the result is one of the most paranormally active landscapes on earth — every courtyard arguing with itself across eight centuries, every castle ruin holding more than it lets on, every gorge with something at the bottom that the standard equipment was not quite designed to measure.Across twelve investigations, Fabian and Brodie explore the Alhambra at dusk, the forest of columns inside the Mezquita, the ruined dream-city of Medina Azahara, the Civil War ghosts of the Ronda gorge, the prehistoric caves of Nerja where someone tuned a stalactite column into an instrument forty thousand years ago, the marshlands of Doñana where a lost Bronze Age civilization may be sleeping under three thousand years of sediment, and a flamenco venue in Jerez where the duende arrived and everyone in the room felt it simultaneously and nobody reached for their phone.Some investigations yielded activity. Some yielded nothing except a strong conviction that something in the location was aware of them and simply chose not to engage, which is its own kind of data. One yielded the best salmorejo either investigator has encountered in Andalusia, which is documented alongside the REM pod readings as equally relevant field information.Real locations. Real history. Real lore. FrankiVerse flavor. The jamón ibérico was exceptional throughout and this too is in the record.For fans of Buzzfeed Unsolved, Last Podcast on the Left, paranormal travel, haunted history, flamenco, sherry, olive groves, and the specific quality of light that Andalusia produces at dusk when a place has been dreamed about for long enough that the dreaming has gotten into the landscape itself.Part of the FrankiVerse Cafe Haunted Travel Guide series. Find the full universe at Franki Was Here DOT com.

Welcome to FrankiVerse Cafe and Casino — the multiversal mayhem arena where the house always wins, the slot machines dispense pirate treasure to whoever needs it most, and the FrankiVerse Cafe location off the cardamom corridor doesn't appear on any floor plan but is always exactly where you need it to be.FrankiVerse Cafe: Infinite Patrons — Casino Edition is the second volume in the Infinite Patrons character compendium series and the official prequel to the FrankiVerse Cafe After Hours broadcast. Meet the full roster of the Foxander Casino and Resort Complex — the gorilla head of security who knits in natural fibers only and takes bets on throwing distance. The rhino accountant who has been inside Fort Knox and can confirm it contains vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. The leopard CMO who has painted every train on Earth in watercolor and oil pastel and has never once ridden one, saving it for retirement. The panther events coordinator who is ostensibly dismantling old Earth matrices in his sleep and is actually orchestrating the most elaborate meet-cute in multiversal history. The meerkat dealer who connects to the molecular structure of the cards. The tiger talent manager with a firm policy about backup dancers and a flexible policy about consequences. The lion concierge who does not own a single pair of socks that wasn't handmade. The gold personal shopper who ate twenty pounds of BBQ ribs in under twenty minutes to prove a point and would absolutely do it again.And more — the salon at the end of the multiverse, the After Hours broadcast hosts, the stand-up comedian who wants to sell out the auditorium, the DJs who set the frequency of any room they walk into, the roller derby queen on a scouting mission, the night manager whose leather journal contains everything he officially remembers nothing about, and two travelers who came through a heart-shaped portal in the south of France and found exactly what they were looking for.At the center of it all is Morrish the selkie barista, who smells of saltwater, keeps a small starfish behind one ear, observes everything, and notes it quietly in the log.This book began with real paintings on the walls of a house in the south of France, a pool, a view of vineyards and sunflower fields, and a notes app open during a spiritual retreat where two people met in person for the first time after falling in love across opposite ends of the planet. The mysterious artist whose paintings inspired every character in this book was never found. In the FrankiVerse Cafe universe, this is because she is the oracle — the creator goddess whose paintings do not represent beings but bring them into existence.Her work is on these pages. She left no name. She left everything else.Deadpan absurdist warm punchy fiction for neurodivergent minds, cosmic thinkers, and anyone who has ever followed a smell of cardamom down a corridor and found something on the other side that wasn't on any floor plan but was exactly right.The FrankiVerse Cafe After Hours broadcast is now running. You are already tuned in.

FrankiVerse Cafe Backrooms: Don't Trust Time Edition is the first volume in a new series from the creators of the FrankiVerse Cafe Haunted Travel Guide and Coffee & Cryptids — and this time, the investigation isn't a place. It's the information layer itself.Franki and Franny Lynn quantum-leap through twelve documented cases of time anomaly, lost time, and high strangeness organized by geographic location — from a backyard vortex in rural Missouri to the oldest written lost time story in recorded history on the coast of Japan. Each chapter goes to the verified record first: what is documented, what is corroborated, what is genuinely unknown. Then it goes to the lore layer: what the internet built on top of the evidence, how the story traveled, and what the distance between those two things reveals about the human need to make sense of experiences that refuse to cooperate with the available categories.At the end of every chapter, Franki and Franny Lynn fire up Coffee & Cryptids from whatever FrankiVerse Cafe location sits closest to the frequency of the case in question, joined by investigators KC and Maurice, chaos agents Fabian and Brodie, and occasionally Mothman, who has opinions about everything and is never wrong.Twelve locations. Twelve cases. One very well-stocked pharmaceutical kit. And the persistent, documented, globally consistent evidence that time is unreliable at best and entirely arbitrary at all other times — no matter how good the clocks get.For fans of deadpan paranormal travel writing, interdimensional coffee shop lore, and the specific pleasure of finding out that the verified record is stranger than the legend.FrankiVerse Cafe Backrooms is a companion series to the FrankiVerse Cafe Haunted Travel Guide and Coffee & Cryptids series. Don't Trust Time Edition stands alone.

KC and Maurice are FrankiVerse Cafe's resident paranormal investigators and ethereal energy cleansers, and they have taken their REM pods, their field notebooks, and one extremely patient terrier named Lucy on a road trip through the haunted heart of the Pacific Northwest.From the stone ruins of Portland's Witch's Castle to the underground passages beneath Old Town, from a lighthouse on the Oregon coast where a ghost named Rue has been tidying up since 1894 to a floating log at Crater Lake that made it snow in August when someone tried to tie it down — KC and Maurice investigate twelve of the most documented paranormal locations in Washington, Oregon, and Vancouver, BC, and report back honestly on what they found, what they didn't, and what found them instead.Hauntings in Sasquatch Territory is part real history, part paranormal case file, part road trip dispatch, and entirely FrankiVerse. The investigations are genuine, the busts are documented with appropriate humor, the local coffee is always noted, and Drew — a nine-foot zen Buddhist Sasquatch and FrankiVerse Cafe's Pacific Northwest regional manager — is waiting at the end of the road with oat milk lattes and some information about the vortex system that connects several of the locations you just read about.You were going to want to know about that.For more FrankiVerse Cafe — experimental media, self-help, and entertainment for the neurospicy brain — find the YouTube channel and the full universe of ebooks, merch, and membership at Franki Was Here DOT com.

Nobody warned you that the alignment would be exhausting.You made the vision board. You said the affirmations. You let go of scarcity, trusted the process, and somewhere in the middle of your third gratitude journal you started to wonder if the universe had ever actually met your nervous system. Because your nervous system had opinions. Loud ones. And none of them sounded like alignment.Mask Harder B*tch is for the neurodivergent reader who has spent real time and real money in the manifestation and spiritual wellness world and come out the other side still forty dollars short on rent and significantly more exhausted than when they started. It is for the brain that already clocked three hundred variables before the gratitude journal came out. It is for the person who was told they were blocked by someone who happened to sell the unblocking.This is not an anti-spirituality book. It is an anti-gaslighting one.Across twelve chapters, FrankiVerse Cafe host Franki walks through the specific and well-documented ways that mainstream manifestation culture misses the neurodivergent nervous system entirely — and what actually works instead. Part cultural critique, part practical reframe, part interdimensional coffee shop conversation, this book takes your nervous system seriously, locates the difficulty in the design rather than the person, and issues a formal reassignment notice to anyone who has been working the wrong job description for too long.Your nervous system is not broken. It is overqualified and under-resourced. There is a difference and it matters.The café is open. No affirmation homework. No performance required.Welcome to the reassignment.

South Dakota is full of legends — some historic, some whispered, some strange enough that only the brave mention them out loud.This is not the version humans know.The FrankiVerse Haunted Travel Guide: South Dakota Edition is a portal-hopping tour through the Black Hills and beyond, where ghosts aren't stuck, they're social — and every haunting turns out to be something far more interesting than a tragedy. Join Franki, Guffrey, and the Mad Fisherman as they crash-land in Rapid City, fish for Nebula Trout at Pactola Lake, play cards with interdimensional cowboys in Deadwood, lose count of bridges on Spook Road, say hello to the whispering trees of Sica Hollow, meet the resident ghost of the Orpheum Theater, and come face to face with the Woman in White in the Badlands — before ending up exactly where all roads in the FrankiVerse eventually lead.Part haunted travel guide, part cosmic comedy, part love letter to a state that has always whispered back — written through a neurospicy lens for the weird ones, the open ones, and the ones who already suspected the veil was thinner than advertised.Tourism, but multiverse.Find more FrankiVerse adventures at Franki Was Here DOT com.

What happens when a creative life doesn't wait to be finished before it's shared?Franki Unfinished is a multiversal sketchbook of stories, fragments, meditations, satire, horror, comedy, cosmic philosophy, and creative experiments gathered mid-journey.This is not a polished novel.This is not a neat collection of short stories.This is the work that exists before everything makes sense.Inside, you'll find:• Stream-of-consciousness explorations of infinite selves• Darkly playful meditations for people who don't resonate with "e;love and light"e; spirituality• Cosmic news broadcasts from the FrankiVerse• Horror rooted in childhood memory• Satirical prophecy and interdimensional PR ads• Stand-up comedy fragments and unfinished fiction• Alternate lives that may or may not exist simultaneouslySome pieces end abruptly.Some are only beginnings.Some feel disturbingly complete.All of them are real in the way creative thought is real — alive before it becomes "e;finished."e;This collection exists because creative timelines are rarely linear.Sometimes the most honest thing an artist can share is the work-in-progress itself.If you enjoy strange humor, cosmic storytelling, shadow-friendly spirituality, or witnessing the messy middle of imagination — you may find something here that feels like home.More from the FrankiVerse lives at Franki Was Here DOT com.

The caves were here before the map. They will be here after.FrankiVerse Cafe Backrooms: Missing 411 Caves Edition is the second volume in the FrankiVerse Cafe Backrooms series — twelve chapters, twelve cave systems, twelve documented missing persons cases, and twelve entities who have been in the underground world long enough to have opinions about all of it.Each chapter covers a real disappearance connected to a real cave system, from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Shenandoah Valley, from Carlsbad Caverns to Jewel Cave to the breathing limestone of Mammoth Cave. The verified record comes first — what was documented, by whom, under what circumstances, and what the documentation cannot account for. The lore layer comes second — what the regional tradition has always known about what lives in these systems, and what the internet did with that knowledge, and the distance between those two things. Then Franki and Franny Lynn set up the booth, Franny Lynn opens the pharmaceutical kit, and the cave entity gets the chair and the microphone.The entities in this volume are not monsters. They are witnesses. They have been in these cave systems longer than the missing persons cases and longer than the legends and longer than any survey that has attempted to document the territory they occupy. They watched what happened. They have things they would like the record to reflect. Several of them have been waiting a very long time for someone to come in honestly and ask.The Wampus Cat is tired of the lawn ornaments. The Gowrow has not had tusks for one hundred and twenty-seven years and would appreciate the correction. The Fouke Monster sat in the bluff above a boy on a ledge and waited until someone came. The Being Below was in Sand Cave for all seventeen days. The cave holds what it holds completely and without decay and the holding is not nothing.Come in honestly. That is all the cave has ever asked.Written in the FrankiVerse Cafe universe — deadpan absurdist, genuinely curious, warm underneath everything — for neurodivergent readers, paranormal enthusiasts, cave nerds, and anyone who has ever stood at the entrance to something dark and felt, correctly, that something in it was aware of them standing there.The BooBerry K Muffins are on every menu. The coffee is always good. Franny Lynn's kit is fully stocked.Let's go in.

Somewhere between the third and fourth dimensions — in a liminal space that smells faintly of cardamom and old starlight — there exists a coffee shop. It doesn't always look the same. The staff are, to a one, cryptids. And the guest book, it turns out, has no last page.FrankiVerse Cafe: Infinite Patrons Volume 1 is a compendium of cosmic characters — wizards, oracles, con artists, dreamworld drifters, sentient waterfalls, and at least one interdimensional carnivore who subsists on fear energy and tips very well — drawn from the vast and ever-expanding FrankiVerse universe created by author and cosmic traveler Haleigh Overseth. Each patron arrives with a bio, a backstory, and a tale from their time at the Cafe, where the seasonal menu responds to your vibrational state, the window looks out onto something different every visit, and the staff already know your order before you've thought to give it.Part character compendium, part anthology, part love letter to every neurodivergent, cosmos-curious, beautifully weird mind that has ever felt slightly outside the reality everyone else seems to be operating in — this book is for you. Pull up a chair. Your order is already on its way.

FrankiVerse Cafe is open. The frequency is live. The entities have been waiting.Coffee and Cryptids is the first volume in the FrankiVerse Cafe Paranormal Travel Guide series — the spin-off that grew directly out of the West Virginia Haunted Travel Guide when it turned out that sitting across from Mothman in a cafe booth and asking him how he was doing actually worked, and that he had a great deal to say, and that he ordered house coffee black and meant it.This is the Earth Edition. Eleven entities. One off-map franchise location below the thermocline. Two hosts who show up to every interview with genuine curiosity, a fully stocked pharmaceutical kit, and the regional food equivalent of a pepperoni roll for every location on the planet.Franki runs the interviews. She is the one who will look directly at something that has been misidentified for a thousand years and ask it, sincerely and without irony, how it is doing and whether it has had water recently. She means it every time. This turns out to matter.Franny Lynn manages the pharmaceutical dimension of the operation — the part that makes the interviews possible at all. Her inventory comes through channels that bypass most regulatory frameworks currently in existence. Her supplier is very reliable, very interdimensional, excellent communication except during Mercury retrograde. The pharmaceutical choice is always specific to the entity. The pills work. The interviews happen.Inside this volume: Mothman confirms he was never trying to frighten anyone. Sasquatch clarifies that he has never been lost. The Jersey Devil explains that the Pine Barrens require care and the care is not optional. The Beast of Gévaudan says something true and difficult about the people of the Gévaudan that has not been said clearly enough in two hundred and fifty years. Black Shuck wants it known that witnessing and causing are not the same thing. Spring Heeled Jack is still sitting with the part that doesn't resolve cleanly and has been for a hundred and twenty years. The Dover Demon confirms the drawing is accurate. The Yeti is clear that the mountains are not a destination. The Chupacabra wants to know why nobody has asked the actual question yet. The Thunderbird says the sky has never been empty. And Nessie, from her regular Thursday evening booth at the Deep Meridian franchise location below the thermocline, says the water is real and she is in it and that is enough.One chapter is a bust. That chapter is handled with the honesty it deserves, because some things know they belong to somebody, and honoring that is the whole point.Researched, warm, funny, and deeply weird in the best way — Coffee and Cryptids is for anyone who has ever suspected that the entities the culture got wrong had something specific they wanted to say about it, and that the right question, asked sincerely, with good coffee available, might actually get an answer.Neurodivergent-coded humor throughout. Cannabis and psilocybin woven in lightly as texture. Writing influences: P.G. Wodehouse, H.P. Lovecraft, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Tone reference: Last Podcast on the Left, if it were run by two women who genuinely wanted to know how the entities were doing and whether they needed anything.FrankiVerse Media™ frankiwashere DOT com

She was four years old the first time the man in the mirror told her not to look.She looked anyway. She always looked. And something at the end of the hallway moved.FrankiVerse NightMares, Volume 1 is a collection of original horror fiction drawn entirely from the real nightmare archive of author Haleigh Overseth — a lifelong vivid dreamer whose nocturnal life has run, with the fidelity of film, since before she had language adequate to describe it. These are not stories inspired by nightmares. These are the nightmares, shaped into fiction by the hand that survived them.Inside: a little girl who finally does something about the shadow in her hallway. A woman who keeps drowning in the same car until a stranger in a shop tells her what the car actually is. A boy locked in a house with something that should not be walking. A watcher in a long black cloak whose burned handprints survive long after the witness who saw them. A paranormal investigator who drives into a small town and understands, too late, why they invited him. A woman who stops locking the doors. A student with a perfect memory trapped in a loop that keeps resetting — and the forest that finally lets her out.No explanations. No resolutions. No reassurance that the thing at the end of the hallway was something ordinary all along.Just the archive, opened. Just the nightmares, given their proper names and set loose on the page.FrankiVerse NightMares is published under FrankiVerse Media by author and content creator Haleigh Overseth. Volume 2 is already dreaming.