Eirene Eleni
@eireneeleni.bsky.social
This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
Lit in cool places. Recent: Blood & Honey, Painted Pebble, ANMLY, Silly Goose Press. Grateful for Pushcart, best short fiction noms.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
Lit in cool places. Recent: Blood & Honey, Painted Pebble, ANMLY, Silly Goose Press. Grateful for Pushcart, best short fiction noms.
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Something I wish I'd understood when I was younger is that all the words you cut are still in the story. That's why it's stronger without them, but only if you write them first. Those missing words are deep inside the remaining words.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Something I wish I'd understood when I was younger is that all the words you cut are still in the story. That's why it's stronger without them, but only if you write them first. Those missing words are deep inside the remaining words.
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Unruly but good at heart describes like 95% of my writing
Closing out 2025 with yet another ghost story
So excited that this story I initially drafted in 2021 finally found a home. Thank you to editors at @templeinacity.bsky.social: templeinacity.com/fiction-chri...
Closing out 2025 with yet another ghost story
So excited that this story I initially drafted in 2021 finally found a home. Thank you to editors at @templeinacity.bsky.social: templeinacity.com/fiction-chri...
Hello. Please meet our latest issue, Imprint. It’s unruly but good at heart. It has geese and god and Brian Wilson, yin-yang rats, crazy blue, absentia, a screaming need to yell ‘RUN!’, cyanide rum, praying mantis, plural, a swallowed mirror, island breeze…
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Unruly but good at heart describes like 95% of my writing
Closing out 2025 with yet another ghost story
So excited that this story I initially drafted in 2021 finally found a home. Thank you to editors at @templeinacity.bsky.social: templeinacity.com/fiction-chri...
Closing out 2025 with yet another ghost story
So excited that this story I initially drafted in 2021 finally found a home. Thank you to editors at @templeinacity.bsky.social: templeinacity.com/fiction-chri...
I mean…
Hello. Please meet our latest issue, Imprint. It’s unruly but good at heart. It has geese and god and Brian Wilson, yin-yang rats, crazy blue, absentia, a screaming need to yell ‘RUN!’, cyanide rum, praying mantis, plural, a swallowed mirror, island breeze…
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I mean…
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We’ll post a story or two or three a day for many, many days. But here is the whole issue. You can conduct your own unguided tour. We’re not the boss of you.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We’ll post a story or two or three a day for many, many days. But here is the whole issue. You can conduct your own unguided tour. We’re not the boss of you.
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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Cinnamon gum, a notebook of wonderings, monsoon chillies, salt, ash and static, a home revisited, a last black tea, a first morning, love and war, a first publishing (!!! Shoutout @robm67.bsky.social ), a tragic willow, a transferred burden, a brutality in bronze.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Cinnamon gum, a notebook of wonderings, monsoon chillies, salt, ash and static, a home revisited, a last black tea, a first morning, love and war, a first publishing (!!! Shoutout @robm67.bsky.social ), a tragic willow, a transferred burden, a brutality in bronze.
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Hello. Please meet our latest issue, Imprint. It’s unruly but good at heart. It has geese and god and Brian Wilson, yin-yang rats, crazy blue, absentia, a screaming need to yell ‘RUN!’, cyanide rum, praying mantis, plural, a swallowed mirror, island breeze…
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hello. Please meet our latest issue, Imprint. It’s unruly but good at heart. It has geese and god and Brian Wilson, yin-yang rats, crazy blue, absentia, a screaming need to yell ‘RUN!’, cyanide rum, praying mantis, plural, a swallowed mirror, island breeze…
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
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Ok FINE! The wait is over. Please welcome our not quite bouncing new issue into this squalling world. Filled with sharp corners, deep sighs and things that linger long after you’ve read them. Bonkers and beautiful. We named it Imprint. We hope you like it. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
Imprint, Temple in a City issue 3
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Ok FINE! The wait is over. Please welcome our not quite bouncing new issue into this squalling world. Filled with sharp corners, deep sighs and things that linger long after you’ve read them. Bonkers and beautiful. We named it Imprint. We hope you like it. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...
It’s a great story, everyone. Fun, offbeat and meaningful. I think you’ll like it.
Really thrilled to have a piece in the fantastic new issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social. It's called "God Is Trapped In The Verizon Helpbot." Thank you to @eireneeleni.bsky.social for giving this one a home, and I hope you like it.
Temple in a City Literary journal
Flash fiction God Is Trapped In The Verizon Helpbot by author Chris Scott. Published in Temple in a City Literary journal.
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It’s a great story, everyone. Fun, offbeat and meaningful. I think you’ll like it.
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Really thrilled to have a piece in the fantastic new issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social. It's called "God Is Trapped In The Verizon Helpbot." Thank you to @eireneeleni.bsky.social for giving this one a home, and I hope you like it.
Temple in a City Literary journal
Flash fiction God Is Trapped In The Verizon Helpbot by author Chris Scott. Published in Temple in a City Literary journal.
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Really thrilled to have a piece in the fantastic new issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social. It's called "God Is Trapped In The Verizon Helpbot." Thank you to @eireneeleni.bsky.social for giving this one a home, and I hope you like it.
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@sagreene1.bsky.social with towers of phones and a sprinkling of Beach Boys...a parallel universe awaits
Bonkers great story, everyone. You don’t have to care about Brian Wilson at all to love it. It doesn’t let up.
I am so honoured to have my story, 'Brian Wilson Is Dead And Why Can't I Stop Crying?' included in this amazing third issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social. Thank you, Temple, and @eireneeleni.bsky.social for being such an amazing and lovely editor!
templeinacity.com/fiction-s-a-...
templeinacity.com/fiction-s-a-...
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
@sagreene1.bsky.social with towers of phones and a sprinkling of Beach Boys...a parallel universe awaits
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I am so honoured to have my story, 'Brian Wilson Is Dead And Why Can't I Stop Crying?' included in this amazing third issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social. Thank you, Temple, and @eireneeleni.bsky.social for being such an amazing and lovely editor!
templeinacity.com/fiction-s-a-...
templeinacity.com/fiction-s-a-...
Temple in a City literary journal
Flash fiction Brian Wilson Is Dead And Why Can’t I Stop Crying? by author S.A. Greene. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I am so honoured to have my story, 'Brian Wilson Is Dead And Why Can't I Stop Crying?' included in this amazing third issue of @templeinacity.bsky.social. Thank you, Temple, and @eireneeleni.bsky.social for being such an amazing and lovely editor!
templeinacity.com/fiction-s-a-...
templeinacity.com/fiction-s-a-...
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"People depart through trains and cars and you are rend with loneliness after they are gone. Your departure imparted me with with a sullen longing. A crater of mixed emotions fell on my chest after the happy meeting was over."
—Hashsham Khalid
anmly.org/ap41/hashsha...
—Hashsham Khalid
anmly.org/ap41/hashsha...
Hashsham Khalid – ANMLY
anmly.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"People depart through trains and cars and you are rend with loneliness after they are gone. Your departure imparted me with with a sullen longing. A crater of mixed emotions fell on my chest after the happy meeting was over."
—Hashsham Khalid
anmly.org/ap41/hashsha...
—Hashsham Khalid
anmly.org/ap41/hashsha...
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You should!
Tagging @templeinacity.bsky.social who were generous enough to give this a home. You should go follow them.
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
You should!
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@crankypacifist.bsky.social has given us a little treat. It won't take you but a minute to read it. It's lovely.
Temple in a City literary journal
Letter, Constance, Regarding the Sculpture of Constance Lloyd Wilde Holland at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue in Central Dublin] by author Jay Parr. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
templeinacity.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
@crankypacifist.bsky.social has given us a little treat. It won't take you but a minute to read it. It's lovely.
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This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December.
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December.
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
If your dog is in the room you’re about to exit do you leave the light on for them?
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If your dog is in the room you’re about to exit do you leave the light on for them?
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I genuinely don’t know how we navigate this new unreality we’re headed to. I feel like we’ll need to go back to the early days of the internet - to websites and curated spaces and blogs, to groups of people who share interests, not the viral broadcast of slop www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I genuinely don’t know how we navigate this new unreality we’re headed to. I feel like we’ll need to go back to the early days of the internet - to websites and curated spaces and blogs, to groups of people who share interests, not the viral broadcast of slop www.artforum.com/features/yea...
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Happy 10th anniversary to the wonderful Whale Road Review!!🎉🎉🎉
I’m very thrilled to be a part of this issue with my review of ‘Down River with Li Po’ by the multi-talented creative whirlwind @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social!
Please check it out!
www.whaleroadreview.com/karen-pierce...
I’m very thrilled to be a part of this issue with my review of ‘Down River with Li Po’ by the multi-talented creative whirlwind @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social!
Please check it out!
www.whaleroadreview.com/karen-pierce...
December 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Happy 10th anniversary to the wonderful Whale Road Review!!🎉🎉🎉
I’m very thrilled to be a part of this issue with my review of ‘Down River with Li Po’ by the multi-talented creative whirlwind @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social!
Please check it out!
www.whaleroadreview.com/karen-pierce...
I’m very thrilled to be a part of this issue with my review of ‘Down River with Li Po’ by the multi-talented creative whirlwind @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social!
Please check it out!
www.whaleroadreview.com/karen-pierce...
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Eeeek! Nominated for a Pushcart by @riverteeth.bsky.social 💕
✨🗣️River Teeth’s 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations are official!
Your words have inspired, challenged, and left a lasting mark on everyone here at River Teeth and our readers! Help us celebrate these outstanding authors! 🎉
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Pushcart #PushcartPrize #PushcartNomination
Your words have inspired, challenged, and left a lasting mark on everyone here at River Teeth and our readers! Help us celebrate these outstanding authors! 🎉
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #Pushcart #PushcartPrize #PushcartNomination
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Eeeek! Nominated for a Pushcart by @riverteeth.bsky.social 💕
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Thanks to @ketchiklein.bsky.social and @fklein907.bsky.social at @flightlit.bsky.social for nominating my story "Polecatz" for a @pushcartprize.bsky.social!
Nice company here with @seanennis.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!
Nice company here with @seanennis.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thanks to @ketchiklein.bsky.social and @fklein907.bsky.social at @flightlit.bsky.social for nominating my story "Polecatz" for a @pushcartprize.bsky.social!
Nice company here with @seanennis.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!
Nice company here with @seanennis.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!
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“My Uncle Louie beat a man to death with his bare hands, the same hands that now hold my baby in the living room of my newly dead grandmother’s house.”
been reading through the @nffr.bsky.social issue this week and man, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social’s piece is a stunner. ♥️
been reading through the @nffr.bsky.social issue this week and man, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social’s piece is a stunner. ♥️
Thrilled to have my story “Bare Hands” in @nffr.bsky.social! So many great stories by incredible writers in this issue. Honored to be among them! newflashfiction.com/bare-hands/
Bare Hands | Issue #39
My Uncle Louie beat a man to death with his bare hands, the same hands that now hold my baby in the living room of my newly dead grandmother’s house.
newflashfiction.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“My Uncle Louie beat a man to death with his bare hands, the same hands that now hold my baby in the living room of my newly dead grandmother’s house.”
been reading through the @nffr.bsky.social issue this week and man, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social’s piece is a stunner. ♥️
been reading through the @nffr.bsky.social issue this week and man, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social’s piece is a stunner. ♥️
Writing award season is bonkers because the odds of being published at all is so small, with rejection rates often between 90-99.8%. True madness. Writers are amazing, willingly signing up to be told no, a lot. Doing great things against the odds. And the writing community is so great. 2/3
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Writing award season is bonkers because the odds of being published at all is so small, with rejection rates often between 90-99.8%. True madness. Writers are amazing, willingly signing up to be told no, a lot. Doing great things against the odds. And the writing community is so great. 2/3
Congratulations to all these fine people of which I am somehow one.
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Congratulations to all these fine people of which I am somehow one.
Am I reeling from this nomination? Yes. Yes I am. Massive thanks @sillygoosepress.bsky.social
A lot happened to bring me to this moment. I’m very grateful.
A lot happened to bring me to this moment. I’m very grateful.
Happy Holidays and Happy Awards Szn pt 2 (!!) to our Geese! We still love you all and still love to honk about our love for you! SGP is so proud to nominate these amazing writers for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social (our first time nominating!) 🪿🤩 Good luck, geese! 🪿🤩
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Am I reeling from this nomination? Yes. Yes I am. Massive thanks @sillygoosepress.bsky.social
A lot happened to bring me to this moment. I’m very grateful.
A lot happened to bring me to this moment. I’m very grateful.
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Always honored to be published in the first lit mag I ever submitted to :)) Also a reminder to vote for beestung in best lit mag on chill subs!!
“They made me and dissected me and sold me for ¥68 a ticket to college girls who all come with best friends and cups of boba tea.”
—Yufan Lu
beestungmag.com/issue25/two-...
—Yufan Lu
beestungmag.com/issue25/two-...
Two Poems by Yufan Lu – beestung
beestungmag.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Always honored to be published in the first lit mag I ever submitted to :)) Also a reminder to vote for beestung in best lit mag on chill subs!!