Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦
@yelenacrane.bsky.social
Borscht and black coffee meets mad scientist turned science/spec fiction writer
https://www.yelenacrane.com/
Assistant Editor FFO
https://www.yelenacrane.com/
Assistant Editor FFO
Pinned
Tongues To Wild and Tame by Yelena Crane
The city of Acirema was serious about its free speech. Each citizen had five words a day, and damned if anyone knew how the count was kept. But kept it was. Tongues of rebels hung by hooks like Peking...
www.havehashad.com
Got noms? Below my eligible works for 2025 awards. Comment and I'll hook you up with what's not free
Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ton...
Museum of Monstrous Curiosities: www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22...
For Love and Country: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/
Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ton...
Museum of Monstrous Curiosities: www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22...
For Love and Country: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/
bsky asking for my bday? Not cool. I'm getting older I get it, you don't have to rub it in!
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
bsky asking for my bday? Not cool. I'm getting older I get it, you don't have to rub it in!
Winter Fear by Kay Ryan
Is it just winter
or is this worse.
Is this the year
when outer damp
obscures a deeper curse
that spring can't fix,
when gears that
turn the earth
won't shift the view,
when clouds won't lift
though all the skies
go blue.
-
Here's to hoping it's just winter.
Is it just winter
or is this worse.
Is this the year
when outer damp
obscures a deeper curse
that spring can't fix,
when gears that
turn the earth
won't shift the view,
when clouds won't lift
though all the skies
go blue.
-
Here's to hoping it's just winter.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Winter Fear by Kay Ryan
Is it just winter
or is this worse.
Is this the year
when outer damp
obscures a deeper curse
that spring can't fix,
when gears that
turn the earth
won't shift the view,
when clouds won't lift
though all the skies
go blue.
-
Here's to hoping it's just winter.
Is it just winter
or is this worse.
Is this the year
when outer damp
obscures a deeper curse
that spring can't fix,
when gears that
turn the earth
won't shift the view,
when clouds won't lift
though all the skies
go blue.
-
Here's to hoping it's just winter.
Haiku for the sad state of my phone:
Nokia brick phones,
you were true perfection.
Others never last.
I thought the front was bad and then I saw the back. Thoughts and prayers for my phone to make it another year!
Pic taken with partner's phone
Nokia brick phones,
you were true perfection.
Others never last.
I thought the front was bad and then I saw the back. Thoughts and prayers for my phone to make it another year!
Pic taken with partner's phone
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Haiku for the sad state of my phone:
Nokia brick phones,
you were true perfection.
Others never last.
I thought the front was bad and then I saw the back. Thoughts and prayers for my phone to make it another year!
Pic taken with partner's phone
Nokia brick phones,
you were true perfection.
Others never last.
I thought the front was bad and then I saw the back. Thoughts and prayers for my phone to make it another year!
Pic taken with partner's phone
Reposted by Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦
AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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Flash Fiction Online December 2025
The theme of Flash Fiction Online’s December 2025 issue is “Menagerie.” Within these stories we follow a variety of creatures – scaled and feathered, warm- and cold-blooded.…
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December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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it's that time of the year again!
this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!
this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
it's that time of the year again!
this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!
this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!
Ever had an amazing experience with an editor on an accepted short (or longer) story? Let’s talk about it! For me, the best ones have made me feel like it's a conversation about my story.
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Ever had an amazing experience with an editor on an accepted short (or longer) story? Let’s talk about it! For me, the best ones have made me feel like it's a conversation about my story.
Reposted by Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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If you want an angsty Christmas, check out Titanic Voyage! (I toyed with the idea of doing a December read-along, but I think people are too busy and don't want to have angst. I promise your heart gets mended at the end, though!) #WriteStuff
bsky.app/profile/juli...
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Toying with the idea of a Titanic Voyage readalong in December.
✅ Almost all of the book takes place in December
✅ Each chapter has a date
✅ Free on Hoopla
✅ Light reading on holidays
✅ I did it alone once; enjoyed it
❌ Some days are long
❌ ANGSTY Christmas
✅ Your heart will get mended at the end?
✅ Almost all of the book takes place in December
✅ Each chapter has a date
✅ Free on Hoopla
✅ Light reading on holidays
✅ I did it alone once; enjoyed it
❌ Some days are long
❌ ANGSTY Christmas
✅ Your heart will get mended at the end?
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
If you want an angsty Christmas, check out Titanic Voyage! (I toyed with the idea of doing a December read-along, but I think people are too busy and don't want to have angst. I promise your heart gets mended at the end, though!) #WriteStuff
bsky.app/profile/juli...
bsky.app/profile/juli...
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I've got 38 different holidays right here! Check out Lollipop Celebrates: Deluxe Edition! Available at www.adventuresoflollipop.com or as an e-book from my Ko-fi site www.ko-fi.com/adventuresoflollipop . #writestuff
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I've got 38 different holidays right here! Check out Lollipop Celebrates: Deluxe Edition! Available at www.adventuresoflollipop.com or as an e-book from my Ko-fi site www.ko-fi.com/adventuresoflollipop . #writestuff
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#WriteStuff Here's my web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com
Trish Wilson - Author
trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
#WriteStuff Here's my web site: trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com
Was duolingo this ridiculous before the AI takeover?
To think it can use amazing literature to help improve language learning but chooses to do this.
At least I use the free version so am not financially contributing toward this company.
To think it can use amazing literature to help improve language learning but chooses to do this.
At least I use the free version so am not financially contributing toward this company.
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Was duolingo this ridiculous before the AI takeover?
To think it can use amazing literature to help improve language learning but chooses to do this.
At least I use the free version so am not financially contributing toward this company.
To think it can use amazing literature to help improve language learning but chooses to do this.
At least I use the free version so am not financially contributing toward this company.
The tetris game but it's redesigned as a fridge where you need to get all the dishes to fit with the groceries. Make different versions for the holidays too.
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The tetris game but it's redesigned as a fridge where you need to get all the dishes to fit with the groceries. Make different versions for the holidays too.
Paint me like one of your french boys
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Paint me like one of your french boys
Please tell me this is a sign we're out of the bad simulation finally.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Please tell me this is a sign we're out of the bad simulation finally.
Got noms? Below my eligible works for 2025 awards. Comment and I'll hook you up with what's not free
Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ton...
Museum of Monstrous Curiosities: www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22...
For Love and Country: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/
Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ton...
Museum of Monstrous Curiosities: www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22...
For Love and Country: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/
Tongues To Wild and Tame by Yelena Crane
The city of Acirema was serious about its free speech. Each citizen had five words a day, and damned if anyone knew how the count was kept. But kept it was. Tongues of rebels hung by hooks like Peking...
www.havehashad.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Got noms? Below my eligible works for 2025 awards. Comment and I'll hook you up with what's not free
Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ton...
Museum of Monstrous Curiosities: www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22...
For Love and Country: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/
Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ton...
Museum of Monstrous Curiosities: www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22...
For Love and Country: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/063/
That feeling when a reviewer really gets your story. Is this what meth is like?
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REVIEW: “For Love and Country” by Yelena Crane
Review of Yelena Crane, “For Love and Country,” Luna Station Quarterly 63 (September 2025): 145-159 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman. This is fundamentally a story ab…
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November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
That feeling when a reviewer really gets your story. Is this what meth is like?
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The real fantasy in Batman and Iron Man isn’t the tech or the bad guys.
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The real fantasy in Batman and Iron Man isn’t the tech or the bad guys.
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We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We have 10 days left in the @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 Kickstarter and we've crossed 60% funding! Help us get to 100%! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
The gift of the internet was also its curse.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The gift of the internet was also its curse.
Discovered the touching poem "Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/....
Pairs well with my HAD short Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
Pairs well with my HAD short Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
Tongues To Wild and Tame by Yelena Crane
The city of Acirema was serious about its free speech. Each citizen had five words a day, and damned if anyone knew how the count was kept. But kept it was. Tongues of rebels hung by hooks like Peking...
www.havehashad.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Discovered the touching poem "Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49238/....
Pairs well with my HAD short Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
Pairs well with my HAD short Tongues to Wild and Tame: www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
As a city lover, I appreciate how these poems show the power of cities imprinting on one's body and soul.
I wrote some Chicago-inspired city poems
really really nice, careful trio today from Elena Zhang, love the way they weave together! here's the first
https://www.havehashad.com/i28zv
https://www.havehashad.com/i28zv
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As a city lover, I appreciate how these poems show the power of cities imprinting on one's body and soul.
Reposted by Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦
It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
Concept art for a story I have coming out soon. This is horrible but see the vision and not the product.
I never said I was an artist!
Yes, that is meant to be a face (half of it as strings of 1's and 0's) coming out of the chess piece.
I never said I was an artist!
Yes, that is meant to be a face (half of it as strings of 1's and 0's) coming out of the chess piece.
September 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Concept art for a story I have coming out soon. This is horrible but see the vision and not the product.
I never said I was an artist!
Yes, that is meant to be a face (half of it as strings of 1's and 0's) coming out of the chess piece.
I never said I was an artist!
Yes, that is meant to be a face (half of it as strings of 1's and 0's) coming out of the chess piece.