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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My fav by Akis. "The Bot Who Cried ‘Wolf Motherfuckers Wolf’" is great dark humor and a crit of our times. "Surely the rich didn’t come to be wealthy by telling only lies."

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So many fantastic stories in this issue. I am especially obsessed with @parkeriswriting.bsky.social 's flash "right here, on this spot" and how exploring the past of one place serves as an exploration of self.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Missing Helen" by @tiatashiro.bsky.social is a deep introspection on "self" that ingeniously uses the 2nd person to build characters and story immersion (a lot coming from me as ordinarily I hate this POV but it really worked here). Loved it! A must read: clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/

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Missing Helen by Tia Tashiro

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They don't make em like Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure anymore. What a film. "Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes!"

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Of all the overrated movies in AFIs 100 list, American Graffiti takes the cake (so far) What are the people making this list being bribed with? At a certain point admit you want a 2hr car advertisement and go look at a magazine (the cars were nice!) Which flick on this list do you love to hate?

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The poor know all about poverty and only the morbid rich would find the topic glamorous." -Butler in Sullivan's Travels, 1941.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"To Walk This Distant Shore with You" by A.D. Sui is a beautiful and bittersweet love story across space time. Read it here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/sui_09_26/

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To Walk This Distant Shore with You by A.D. Sui

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“So Many Many Awful Things Lived On; And So Did I” is it. It's the best of me. All of my heart went into this. If I never write again, this will be enough.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Current WIP (among my many other WIPs). This one is for the children. Someone jump on it before it sells like hotcakes.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions." -Middlemarch by George Eliot. A case where fewer presents is truly better.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As if it's not bad enough that AI is trained on us. Read Kings_Gambit.exe to see how much worse it can still get. Be careful, you Viktor Korchnois of today! www.adventitious.net/stories/king...

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thoughts on AI published & award winning works that give me solace: eventually they'll be found out. People will pikachu-face surprise, though the tells were always there. It took 15 years for the truth to come out about Rosalind Franklin's work being stolen. See how the arc of the universe bends.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb'ring my good" writers.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"A pickle is just a cucumber with experience." - Irena Chalmers We love our experienced cucumbers.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The irony of AI is it had all the potential to be a great tool. Instead, the powers that be created a tumor that feeds on the fat of our knowledge, creativity, and desire for connection.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Unpopular opinion: There are way too many Westerns in AFI's 100 greatest American films of all time.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Mystery solved? Peanut snuck in while my darling true love was unloading groceries from the car. A feeling of whimsy overtook the feline. Sure he's had the zoomies before. But this? This is new! This is wild! In a moment of idiot savantness, he locked himself inside. So... do I drive to work?

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Remember me," he meows. I imagine he is thinking of driving off into the sunset.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We're playing tippy tap. Well I am playing, trying to keep him calm. He wants to break the window.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This idiot cat got himself stuck in the car. Battery is dead. Key fob is inside. Can't get him out. And so the cat car adventure begins.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Kiddos: Mama, can we play video games. PUHLEASE!!! Me: We have video games at home Video games at home 😈:

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Great short that uses a pigeon to tell us what matters without being preachy about it. Listen to the little birds in our chests and let em loose.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You know that feeling when you read something and afterward you're stunned by the craft? That is Clive Barker's "In the Hills, the Cities." Everyone should read it, though be warned, it may make you never want to see your own writing again (no offense, speaking from my own feelings of inadequacy).

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

As a teen, all my various identities made me feel like a phony. Like I didn't know or have a real me. As an adult, how lucky (in the paraphrased words of Walt Whitman) am I to contain multitudes?

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When you're so depressed and even writing offers no relief given the current state of the industry only adds to the grief.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Four khoreo magazine covers over an orange background.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My short story "Numbers Count Deliverance" gavagai.com/posts/4319 is out at gavagai. It's about a group of religious fanatics who pray for a rapture and then have to live with its ramifications once their prayers are seemingly answered. Who do you become when you survive the end of times?

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The algorithm thinks I'm constantly pregnant but I'm actually just searching for character names.

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Jeanna Cammarano @wordrat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RELEASE DAY! I’m proud to present RESIST, a @flashfictiononline.bsky.social anthology dedicated to resistance! It was a pleasure working with the many talented writers whose work is showcased here. These stories are sure to inspire even in the darkest of times. Links below.

Pictured here a walled in tree grove at night with books sprouting from tree limbs. Pages emerge from the books spelling out RESIST. The wall that surrounds the grove is topped with barb wire. Kneeling in the middle of the grove is a woman who is hovering over a small sapling with a book sprouting from it. The book is casting a yellow glow.

#shortstorycollection #SciFiAnthology #FantasyShorts #shortstories #specfic #anthology #newrelease

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It's out! On the 10 year anniversary of Viktor Korchnoi's death! It has something for all: history, chess, and the horror of greedy corporations using AI to find new ways to exploit us even after we’re gone. Do you have a favorite chess opening & defense? Any style you lean more toward? Lets talk

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess." -Viktor Korchnoi My chess story is out tomorrow!

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Too much of my day was spent trying to debug basic functions for RNAseq analysis. Feeling like a character in one of my stories that's stuck echoing to broken code.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It pays off to be early on the COMMON BONDS 3 train! We put together a cute little zine with little bits of information from our authors about their pieces and the inspiration and thougths behind them. If you like to peel the curtain a bit, hop on in and Follow~ www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Interested in our anthology of aromatnic SFFH poems and stories? Follow us before launch on BackerKit and get a small behind the scene printable zine when you back!

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

So pumped to be part of Issue 3 at Adventitious alongside so many talented writers. Kings_Gambit.exe gives chess, classic Black Mirror, and existential dread. I can't wait for you all to read it!

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Loved this flash by @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social and what it says about how we keep/lose our humanity in desperate situations. Nice accompaniment to read with the very depressing Kolyma Tales.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Please share as widely as possible. This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not. Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

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Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions

Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A friend used my "For Love and Country" www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/ in her HS English class & I came in as a guest speaker to talk craft, influences, and the writing industry. Great discussions, from generally wanting to be seen and fit in, to Eva's agency and her final decision.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's the Big Day for COMMON BONDS 2! If you missed on our crowdfund and long "late pledges" tail, you can now get COMMON BONDS 2 from (most of) your favourite retailers 💙 🧡 Massive thank you to all of our backers who made this possible Buy it: buy.bookfunnel.com/yilbsiz3a6

Our aromantic SFFH anthology is out today! Get your copy!

Features the cover for Common BOnds 2, on which two friends in blue tones are knitting a sweater together, framed by bright orange autumn leaves

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9150... “Mr Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country [...] and what we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless, small, little acts of complicity."

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Mr Nobody Against Putin - Official Trailer

YouTube video by Madman Films

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Saw this sweet video of two besties: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil... They fit right in with my story "Pastport to Franchesca and Luna of Brooklyn" in Common Bonds 2 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

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From the MadeMeSmile community on Reddit: Friends since 1977

Explore this post and more from the MadeMeSmile community

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

TMI vampires just need themselves a heavy bleeder

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Thoughts to My Flu It's 70F outside and snowing inside. No snowmen, snowball fights, or unique snowflakes. These 4-cornered white rectangles crumpled with my DNA blanket the floors and drape over the stuffed trash bin. It's Siberia in here. I shiver under a mountain of covers and make more snow.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Kiddo's HW makes for nice story/worldbuilding prompt:

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Lessons from improv: "What's better than being a person, is being a bear with a person" -Quote from fellow team member that cuts deep. Find the person/thing that makes you better.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So honored my "PastPort to Franchesca and Luna of Brooklyn" is included among this collection of heartfelt stories. PastPort celebrates a different kind of lifelong love built on devoted friendship.

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