Toni and Frankie met between library stacks and late-night study sessions, drawn together by a shared reverence for the strange, the storied, and the beautifully unfinished. Flesh and Parchment is their joint offering — a space carved out for the quiet hauntings, the half-said, the overlooked. Rooted in friendship and a love of history, art, and the offbeat, the zine is a home for work that slips through the cracks; the fragmentary, the fierce, and the forgotten.
Toni Burns (she/her) is a quiet seeker of language, newly leaning into the rhythms of poems and the architecture of thought. After years of hesitation, she now follows her curiosity with gentle boldness, sharing what she finds on her Substack, @curi0sitycabinet — a cabinet of wonders where ideas unfold slowly, in their own time. She is also the co-host of Past and Picture, a podcast where film, history, and philosophy meet in conversation, tracing meaning through image and memory.
Frankie Reed (they/them) is a poet and visual artist exploring the liminal spaces between history, divinity, and the mysteries of the body. With a background in art and historical inquiry, they work across media to unearth the symbolic threads that bind us to time, memory, and the sacred unknown. Their work lingers in the in-between: the haunted, the half-remembered, the holy. Find their poetry and visual pieces on Instagram at @frankensteins.curios.