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. Most recently Blood & Honey, Painted Pebble, ANMLY.
https://eirenegentle.com https://templeinacity.com
Lit in cool places. Most recently Blood & Honey, Painted Pebble, ANMLY.
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So honkin excited!
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
So honkin excited!
Is this a bad time to say I’m looking forward to a little story of mine coming out in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social this month? Probably. But still, it is. I’m excited! Thanks, @sillygoosepress.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Is this a bad time to say I’m looking forward to a little story of mine coming out in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social this month? Probably. But still, it is. I’m excited! Thanks, @sillygoosepress.bsky.social
So, will someone tell her?
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
So, will someone tell her?
Whatever else you may find in the new Frankenstein movie ‘I find myself unfit for the company of strangers’ is now my motto and epitaph.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Whatever else you may find in the new Frankenstein movie ‘I find myself unfit for the company of strangers’ is now my motto and epitaph.
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The link to submit, until Nov 15. Whee! templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
templeinacity.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The link to submit, until Nov 15. Whee! templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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Anyway hi! Much to come. Great gratitude to all who make it happen. This writing community is also a joy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Anyway hi! Much to come. Great gratitude to all who make it happen. This writing community is also a joy.
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Choose your metaphor but if you can write your heart and vision and send it into the world, here and other great lit mags. The counter to the dehumanization of our work and our lives is us. It’s you. It’s we. It’s putting one word after another because we can and we will.
a woman writes the word we on a whiteboard
Alt: Myley Cyrus writes the we will on a whiteboard
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Choose your metaphor but if you can write your heart and vision and send it into the world, here and other great lit mags. The counter to the dehumanization of our work and our lives is us. It’s you. It’s we. It’s putting one word after another because we can and we will.
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It’s full size and full of interest with so many talented authors and poets including a first-time publication. How great is that? Expect it in December which is sooner than we think. Wait, what? Well it is.
3 - Subs open until Nov 15 for issue 4. Join the fam, write the wind, lay down your track.
3 - Subs open until Nov 15 for issue 4. Join the fam, write the wind, lay down your track.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s full size and full of interest with so many talented authors and poets including a first-time publication. How great is that? Expect it in December which is sooner than we think. Wait, what? Well it is.
3 - Subs open until Nov 15 for issue 4. Join the fam, write the wind, lay down your track.
3 - Subs open until Nov 15 for issue 4. Join the fam, write the wind, lay down your track.
I’m sorry to report Mercury is indeed retrograding.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I’m sorry to report Mercury is indeed retrograding.
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This was such a lovely surprise!Thank you to @catherineredford.bsky.social & @tarawheeler.bsky.social for this vote of confidence 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This was such a lovely surprise!Thank you to @catherineredford.bsky.social & @tarawheeler.bsky.social for this vote of confidence 🤩
Yesterday and today
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yesterday and today
Holding some yoga poses is an excellent reminder of how long a minute can be
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Holding some yoga poses is an excellent reminder of how long a minute can be
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I agree with everything this nigga said
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I agree with everything this nigga said
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My story "Highway 1, Past Hope" in @thedeadlands.com - psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
The guest columns I edited for Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social - ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...
The guest columns I edited for Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social - ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My story "Highway 1, Past Hope" in @thedeadlands.com - psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
The guest columns I edited for Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social - ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...
The guest columns I edited for Thoughts From the Writer's Desk at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social - ruadanbooks.com/category/tho...
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“Last Thursday, for example, I stuck my head in the oven and waited for death; but instead I grew wings, flew to Heaven, and killed God. It was a whole thing.”
new new: "Whalefall," by Kimberly Potthast: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Last Thursday, for example, I stuck my head in the oven and waited for death; but instead I grew wings, flew to Heaven, and killed God. It was a whole thing.”
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Incredible work, such power in these micro-sized stories.
Thrilled to have two micros
www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav... in Ilanot Review. Warm thanks to guest fiction editor @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social and managing editor Marcela Sulak for including me in their lovely community.
www.ilanotreview.com/flaw-and-fav... in Ilanot Review. Warm thanks to guest fiction editor @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social and managing editor Marcela Sulak for including me in their lovely community.
Stories by Claudia Monpere - Ilanot Review
Word Palate The more my mother shames me for my weight, the stronger words taste. The word sun is watermelon, juicy and sweet. The word violin tastes like warm, velvety chocolate sauce. My younger sis...
www.ilanotreview.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Incredible work, such power in these micro-sized stories.
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Blood+Honey officially welcomes a new Flash Fiction Editor Rebecca Tiger to the editorial team! She will be joining Mileva Anistasiadou @happilander.bsky.social for all kinds of chicanery, shenanigans, and all-around-tomfoolery behind the micro/flash scenes.
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Blood+Honey officially welcomes a new Flash Fiction Editor Rebecca Tiger to the editorial team! She will be joining Mileva Anistasiadou @happilander.bsky.social for all kinds of chicanery, shenanigans, and all-around-tomfoolery behind the micro/flash scenes.
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So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here:
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So honored to be nominated in such great company by @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for the @monarch.gay awards! You can read my piece here:
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/ani-...
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At 28 bars across the city, the worker-owned local news site Hell Gate became the broadcaster of choice. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/hell...
Hell Gate took on the New York City mayoral election with a livestream and watch parties
At 28 bars across the city, the worker-owned news site became the broadcaster of choice.
www.niemanlab.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
At 28 bars across the city, the worker-owned local news site Hell Gate became the broadcaster of choice. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/hell...
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Hello lovelies. Ghost Light Lit's Myths and Monsters finds beauty and hope in the darkness.
I'm so excited that my story is included with these inspiring works of poetry and fiction.
Hope you enjoy. 🧡
#amwriting #fiction #writingcommunity
www.ghostlightlit.com/read.html
I'm so excited that my story is included with these inspiring works of poetry and fiction.
Hope you enjoy. 🧡
#amwriting #fiction #writingcommunity
www.ghostlightlit.com/read.html
Read
Ghost Light Lit
www.ghostlightlit.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hello lovelies. Ghost Light Lit's Myths and Monsters finds beauty and hope in the darkness.
I'm so excited that my story is included with these inspiring works of poetry and fiction.
Hope you enjoy. 🧡
#amwriting #fiction #writingcommunity
www.ghostlightlit.com/read.html
I'm so excited that my story is included with these inspiring works of poetry and fiction.
Hope you enjoy. 🧡
#amwriting #fiction #writingcommunity
www.ghostlightlit.com/read.html
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'Claude spots a row of four blue padded worms. Blonde curls spring from the top of a small sleeping bag.' Sumptuous descriptions in this heartwarming heartbreaking story by @deniseb.bsky.social in @underbellypress.bsky.social today⬇️⬇️⬇️
Exciting to be part of this excellent edition of @underbellypress.bsky.social Beautiful production
I’m thrilled to share Issue 5 of Underbelly Press!
Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
Our website (in bio) features a PDF copy to download or read as a flipbook: underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
'Claude spots a row of four blue padded worms. Blonde curls spring from the top of a small sleeping bag.' Sumptuous descriptions in this heartwarming heartbreaking story by @deniseb.bsky.social in @underbellypress.bsky.social today⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Thrilled my #poem "Theories of Rain" is in the new Hood of Bone Review! It's about midway down - ctrl+f "colleen" will get you there. Grateful to editor Grace Ezra for including me w/such talent!
www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-four-n...
#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-four-n...
#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
Issue Four - Nov. 2025 | Hood Of Bone
www.hoodofbonereview.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thrilled my #poem "Theories of Rain" is in the new Hood of Bone Review! It's about midway down - ctrl+f "colleen" will get you there. Grateful to editor Grace Ezra for including me w/such talent!
www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-four-n...
#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
www.hoodofbonereview.org/issue-four-n...
#booksky 📚💙 #poetry 📖 #writing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social 📝
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Smorgasbord Short Stories - Tales from the Irish Garden - Summer: Chapter Thirteen - Trouble in the Rose Garden by Sally Cronin smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social
Smorgasbord Short Stories – Tales from the Irish Garden – Summer: Chapter Thirteen – Trouble in the Rose Garden by Sally Cronin
I did record this collection for my podcast but those recordings will now disappear as I stop my Soundcloud account. However they and the Tales from the Garden will be on my YouTube channel later i…
smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Smorgasbord Short Stories - Tales from the Irish Garden - Summer: Chapter Thirteen - Trouble in the Rose Garden by Sally Cronin smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social
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I am absolutely delighted to have a new story out - Love (a journey) - with Fictive Dream. Huge thanks to editor Laura whose dedication to short fiction is phenomenal.
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
"After we sign the divorce papers, my soon-to-be ex-husband and I decide to go for lunch." Love (a journey) by Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/07/l...
fictivedream.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I am absolutely delighted to have a new story out - Love (a journey) - with Fictive Dream. Huge thanks to editor Laura whose dedication to short fiction is phenomenal.
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
#fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity
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