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The Doctor of Spooktober Past @lucidillusions.in · 10d

Just finished reading They Promised This Would be Beautiful by @esichr.bsky.social

It was amazing!

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

I hope to see the PDF version in the future for the proper formatting ^_^

#WritingCommunity #ReaderSky

They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky

Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

inner-worlds.ghost.io

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 10d

Omg thank you so much!! And the pdf will be available on inner worlds website end of the year I think

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 12d

ALL HAIL THE BLACK FLAME this book made me fall in love with novels again @scumbelievable.bsky.social

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 23d

EeeeeeEeeE thank you so much!!!

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 25d

finally catching up on posting after being offline/ill/travelling

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 25d

this story is a mix of many different vulnerablities and inspirations, i wasn't sure if it would ever get published - im so grateful to @innerworlds.bsky.social for giving it a beautiful home. (also this is my year of scifi and i love it!)

inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...

They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky

Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

inner-worlds.ghost.io

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 25d

my story that's the pitt meets annihilation is in here!! 🌌🏥

Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Aug 31

💚💫 Issue Eight has landed! 💫💚

This one includes a larger-than-usual number of ghosts and doubles, and the usual dizzying range of emotions and experiences.

If you're ready for a rollercoaster ride through our inner lives, check out the issue now: inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-eight-...

#SFF #Horror

Inner Worlds cover with acid green masthead and artwork showing a part of a Black person's face in dark blue with a glitchy texture, surrounded by flame like shapes like heatvision hotspots, with green and yellow edges and bright scarlet centres. The person's gaze is very intense, and seems hurt, wary, angry.

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · Sep 10

Elena's story was one of three chosen from the open submission call I ran, and it gave me chills. Within seconds I knew I wanted it in my anthology!!

Hopefully we'll get to work together again in the future!

Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Sep 10

cannot BELIEVE my story is in here thank you @manylittlewords.bsky.social for making my dream come true!!

Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy Book Birthday to ROOTS OF MY FEARS! 🌱🩸

Gemma Amor brings together a unique line-up of 14 authors to explore heritage and horror, featuring stories from Gabino Iglesias, Erika T. Wurth and many more!

Order your copy now! https://tinyurl.com/y2ufysha 🖤

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 25d

I LOVE THAT YOURE HERE FOR MY BONKERS

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 25d

omg ive been offline and coming back to socials to see this is AMAZING THANK YOU i hope we get to work together on all kinds of cool stuff!

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Sep 19

General submission open on Monday 22 September. We are looking for speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Our remit is very broadly fun, but don't self-reject - a truly superb story offers an enjoyment of it's own.

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Sep 15

Our story submission portal for writers of color is open. Please read the guidelines, as that makes things easier for everyone! Looking forward to seeing your stories. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Sep 15

Our story submission portal for writers of color is open. Please read the guidelines, as that makes things easier for everyone! Looking forward to seeing your stories. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Sep 10

cannot BELIEVE my story is in here thank you @manylittlewords.bsky.social for making my dream come true!!

Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy Book Birthday to ROOTS OF MY FEARS! 🌱🩸

Gemma Amor brings together a unique line-up of 14 authors to explore heritage and horror, featuring stories from Gabino Iglesias, Erika T. Wurth and many more!

Order your copy now! https://tinyurl.com/y2ufysha 🖤

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Aug 30

Deliverance by @esichr.bsky.social a story about the end times, of heaven coming down from it's hiding place in the moon, and how terrible and sordid that is. translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/d...

Sometimes I try to imagine what she would say if she knew that the ‘blessed day’ would involve airborne gold spores eating through the throats of the elderly, or that pearly gates the size of semi-trailer trucks would spin across states with the fury of tornadoes, or that apples would stop rotting, no matter where you buried them.

Tonight the sky is obfuscated; ornery, perhaps, at the increased amount of observation it’s received over the past eighteen months. The gold triangle is still visible, hovering above the Earth like breath on frosted glass. I wonder if any of my friends across the country are seeing the same view and sending end-of-the-world wishes towards me.
Deliverance
Elena Sichrovsky

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Robert Helfst is doing the best he can @roberthelfst.bsky.social · Aug 19

@augursociety.bsky.social if an author submits 2 stories to augur during an open call but has to withdraw one, can said author submit another story or is the cap 2 submissions total regardless of withdrawal?

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Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social · Aug 24

⭐️ One week to go and it's Issue Eight TOC time! ⭐️

Featuring 14 fantastic stories by
@cindyphanauthor.com
@busayo.bsky.social
@jolantru.bsky.social
@catherinemccarthy.bsky.social
@katharinetyndall.bsky.social
@esichr.bsky.social
@chloehsmith.bsky.social
@lost-squonk.bsky.social
& more!

I Don’t Mind by Josie Levin
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Lily Facsimile by D. W. West
Forest by Joyce Chng
What To Do When A Demon Is Talking Shit To You
by Cindy Phan
Glitches by Arvee Fantilagan
Soul Cakes by Catherine McCarthy
Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall
The Cockatrice by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann
In The Vanguard by Chloe Smith
They Fear Our Open Hair by Sabahat Ali Wani
The Shift Room by Mary Wanjiru
River Kin by Gail Brown
Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Aug 23

Most of my friends feel the same way as you 😅 to me the only good parts were krypto and mr terrific

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Aug 23

biggest cinema letdown of the year

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Aug 16

The new issue of Translunar Travelers Lounge is live, issue number lucky 13 for August 2025 with 14 brand new stories

Cover of Issue 13 of Translunar Travelers Lunge for Issue 13 August 2025. People are being sucked upwards in a collapsing city. The author's names are Chidera Anikpe, Michelle Carrera, Camille Koob, Clair McNerney, Rukman Ragas, HJ Ramsey, Vijayalaxmi Samal, Abhijeet Sathe, Anita Harris Satkunananthan, Amanda Saville, Elena Sichrovsky, Dale Smith, Rose Strickman, Kay Vaindal. Edited by Bennet North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Aug 16

sooo excited to have a new scifi story out with
@translunartl.bsky.social! this one is inspired by the lore of the cult i was raised in (yes they believed in a triangular heaven literally lodged inside the moon🌚) translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/d...

Deliverance, by Elena Sichrovsky

My grandma used to say “every terrible thing will fade when that blessed day comes, my dear.” Now that it’s finally happening my only comfort is that she isn’t around to be disappointed.

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Tinamarie Cox @tinamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 15

#sealeychallenge2025 @ghostcitypress.bsky.social @esichr.bsky.social
31 Days of August = 31 Books of Poetry
#sealychallenge #poetry #poets #poems #poetrychallenge #readingchallenge #poetrybooks #poetrychapbooks #readmorepoetry #poetryisnotdead
#poetryisforeveryone #tinamariethinkstoomuch

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Aug 16

omg thank you for reading!!

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

raum pushes back against the sanitized polite, pliable, and otherwise "perfect" trans ideal deemed acceptable by society—if, and when, they are accepted at all—with poems that highlight the righteous, the cruel, and the ugly; these are the real truths we’re dying to say.
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

with gasoline
nat raum

cover:
a pink Molotov cocktail on a background of blue

text:
Defiantly calling to attention ordinary and extraordinary transphobia, this collection bares its teeth at the world and refuses to take “no” for an answer. [raum's] succinct and biting language gives their anger a beautiful clarity that resonates beside their unending resolve for embodying trans joy.

Sarah Klein,
author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus

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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · Jul 24

struggling not to dnf this book because the cool concept is absolutely destroyed by the truly terrible and sloppy writing quality and i haven't read a worse main character since tender is the flesh

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · Jul 22

"möbius loop" - my retrofuturist scifi short story about trauma, time traveling, and healing while being viciously unwell - is now free to read & listen to.

big thanks to @khoreo.bsky.social (and to @danaiwrites.bsky.social in particular) for fine-tuning this story & giving it a home.

möbius loop

On the day a space pod crashes in Quito, its nose buried in a flowery explosion of cobble, its legs bent, swooping wing-fins and webs of chrome tubing scorched, scarlet handprints dripping down the in...

www.khoreomag.com

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