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
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
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.
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.
Paint me like one of your french boys
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Paint me like one of your french boys
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.
Nothing like reading “we’re happy you…” and feeling hope/excitement for 1 ms before the “however, we will not.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Nothing like reading “we’re happy you…” and feeling hope/excitement for 1 ms before the “however, we will not.”
The struggle to write is timeless:
June 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The struggle to write is timeless:
"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky
Incredibly resonant. And o, there are so very many wars.
Incredibly resonant. And o, there are so very many wars.
June 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky
Incredibly resonant. And o, there are so very many wars.
Incredibly resonant. And o, there are so very many wars.
The poem Grass by Carl Sandburg pairs well with my flash "Eyes on History" media.nature.com/original/mag...
Maybe sometimes we ought to let the grass rest.
Maybe sometimes we ought to let the grass rest.
May 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The poem Grass by Carl Sandburg pairs well with my flash "Eyes on History" media.nature.com/original/mag...
Maybe sometimes we ought to let the grass rest.
Maybe sometimes we ought to let the grass rest.
At least I can feel less guilty about not having the capacity to write this week.
April 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
At least I can feel less guilty about not having the capacity to write this week.
This is what is happening:
So many important cancer research programs just gone.
So many important cancer research programs just gone.
March 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is what is happening:
So many important cancer research programs just gone.
So many important cancer research programs just gone.
Defiance for (ethical) Science
March 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Defiance for (ethical) Science
With eggs like these who needs chicken
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
With eggs like these who needs chicken
May no ones taste grow so insensitive despite the hells we live through
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
May no ones taste grow so insensitive despite the hells we live through
To spin Ukraine as the aggressor is the start of a very short plan to make the American people "know" 2+2 =5
слава Українi
слава Українi
February 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
To spin Ukraine as the aggressor is the start of a very short plan to make the American people "know" 2+2 =5
слава Українi
слава Українi
I tried duct taping them and hot gluing but they didn't stick. Apparently there's a whole art to fixing glasses that break in this way. Am now contemplating this look:
November 11, 2024 at 7:43 PM
I tried duct taping them and hot gluing but they didn't stick. Apparently there's a whole art to fixing glasses that break in this way. Am now contemplating this look:
"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
Currently I am having a hard time seeing
Currently I am having a hard time seeing
November 10, 2024 at 9:47 PM
"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
Currently I am having a hard time seeing
Currently I am having a hard time seeing
Got my copy of "It Was All A Dream 2." Great stories and art in this anthology by Hungry Shadow Press.
August 18, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Got my copy of "It Was All A Dream 2." Great stories and art in this anthology by Hungry Shadow Press.
Reliving our dreams
April 10, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Reliving our dreams
"Somebody That We Used to Know" is here! So lucky to be among this amazing lineup of authors like @linardos.bsky.social , @cornellwriter.bsky.social , and more.
Here's a perfect song to get you into the mood for my sad tale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVN...
Thank you Flame Tree!
Here's a perfect song to get you into the mood for my sad tale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVN...
Thank you Flame Tree!
February 7, 2024 at 11:38 PM
"Somebody That We Used to Know" is here! So lucky to be among this amazing lineup of authors like @linardos.bsky.social , @cornellwriter.bsky.social , and more.
Here's a perfect song to get you into the mood for my sad tale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVN...
Thank you Flame Tree!
Here's a perfect song to get you into the mood for my sad tale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVN...
Thank you Flame Tree!
It's here!!!! Bug, beast, or beauty- always choose love.
January 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
It's here!!!! Bug, beast, or beauty- always choose love.
How it started vs how it's going.
I have the great privilege to restore these garden plots.
I have the great privilege to restore these garden plots.
December 17, 2023 at 6:23 PM
How it started vs how it's going.
I have the great privilege to restore these garden plots.
I have the great privilege to restore these garden plots.
Got to live life to write life. So a rare glimpse of me living it:
September 11, 2023 at 11:48 PM
Got to live life to write life. So a rare glimpse of me living it: