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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦

@yelenacrane.bsky.social

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Borscht and black coffee meets mad scientist turned science/spec fiction writer https://www.yelenacrane.com/ Assistant Editor FFO

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · Nov 1

Got noms? Here are my eligible works for 2024 awards. The short stories aren't free so hit me up and I gotchu.

"Eyes on History" a short flash about the gulag and the future of misery tourism. Published in Nature Futures

Free to read: media.nature.com/original/mag...

media.nature.com

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 5d

As a city lover, I appreciate how these poems show the power of cities imprinting on one's body and soul.

Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote some Chicago-inspired city poems

HAD @havehashad.com · 6d

really really nice, careful trio today from Elena Zhang, love the way they weave together! here's the first
https://www.havehashad.com/i28zv

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 5d

I like the positive mindset but not sure one big delicious gummy makes up for that kind of heat

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 5d

Really love the imagery of holding hands with tipped over skyscrapers. How fragile, indeed!

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 7d

I feel physically ill thinking there are places out there that use AI for slushreading and don't even notify writers.

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 7d

I have a few short stories out in anthologies but they still don't give me the "now I am not just a writer but an author" feel

LOL, I love that the submission grinder name is so easy to confuse with Grindr. Writers need some lovin too!

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 7d

#writestuff A5: I wonder what it will take for me to actually think of myself as an author. Maybe a published book in a store? A library? One day!

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

How ironic that it's called Dead End! I hope you're able to complete it to your liking. Tapping into insanity has produced some amazing art (not that I'd recommend the technique).

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

#writestuff A3: nothing comes to mind. Every project, no matter it's success or failure, has contributed something to the growth of my craft. In fact, I'd love to go back in time and tell myself to go and fail at more things.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

#writestuff A2: oh so many things. It's all about finding a balance between finishing a thing and moving on versus editing ad infinitum. In some ways, no work is ever complete to perfection, it can always be improved on. But best not to miss the forest for the trees!

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

Really enjoyed this, as much as one can given the message. It pairs well with Miami Airport from Raymond Antrobus:

onbeing.org/poetry/miami...

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for writing it. I really loved how it explored relationships

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

To clarify, it doesn't speak about the number 1 but got me thinking of it.

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 8d

A fascinating way to think of numbers (and people by extension).

In particular, what it says about the those who like 1 because it means they mirror what they encounter.

HAD @havehashad.com · 9d

oh, wow, everything about today's Andrew Maynard short is wonderful, and then that ending!!

"She continues: I like five because you never lose it when it multiplies with something odd. And I think about saying, What if I’m even?"

https://www.havehashad.com/envc8

Number Games by Andrew Maynard

Five is my favorite number, she says, because no matter how many times you multiply it by an odd number, you can always find it at the end of the product. 25. 35. 1975. Always in plain sight. I add…

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 9d

Lucky for me because I get two titles!

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you so much! I am very proud of this one and to have it published in HAD of all places. A tongue for a skull, in a way.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 9d

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Somehow this story manages to start with incredibly high stakes and never lets up from that, ending with (for me) a philosophical thought to readers about when/how to end the cycle of (unnecessary) sacrifice.

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 9d

Gah, reminds me of this short I wrote very tongue in cheek except seems to be playing out in real time. cosmorama.site/fiction/capt...

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) — Cosmorama

The internet is a dangerous place because you never know who you're talking to. Be wary next time someone nonchalantly tries to ask for help with figuring out the letters on a captcha; they're bypassi...

cosmorama.site

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 9d

Also forgot to add that I am so incredibly stunned and honored to have my first skull. Just to be able to make it in time to submit and get a rejection from HAD is a milestone in my book.

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you so much. Lets hope it remains a fiction!!

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 10d

Who hasn't had free speech on their mind lately?
What would your last word(s) be? Can we join together as a group so our 1 or 5 words can become more.

HAD @havehashad.com · 10d

powerful wonder of a new story today from 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..."

https://www.havehashad.com/5fict

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

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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · 12d

it's a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! 🔥

enter before October 10th to win!

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social are giving away 100 ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra 🤯

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

*US entrants only

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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 27d

Nothing like reading “we’re happy you…” and feeling hope/excitement for 1 ms before the “however, we will not.”

Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · Sep 3

#writestuff Q4 first things that come to mind for me are the A Song of Ice and Fire books and The Expanse series. I'd have loved to have seen conflicting POVs in LotR! For classics there are As I Lay Dying by Faulkner and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.