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Elena Sichrovsky
@esichr.bsky.social
210 followers 380 following 86 posts
🏳️‍🌈 she/they/it
🪦 writing horror is cheaper than therapy
📘 debut chapbook EATING OUT ANNE SEXTON with Ghost City Press
🌐 https://www.elenasichrovsky.com/
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Elena Sichrovsky @esichr.bsky.social · 3d
award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
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emmikhor.bsky.social
I just enjoyed this awesome story by @esichr.bsky.social published in @innerworlds.bsky.social
Try out this sci-fi read... It'll leave you thinking!

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

#shortstory #sciencefiction #scifi #amreading #shortstories
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
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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phenomenapress.bsky.social
Open call for submissions!

Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters

Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻

Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th

paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
🌈📚🪐💙
Image reads: Open call for submissions. Seeking aro/ace paranormal short stories for an upcoming anthology project! Submission period: September 15 - November 30 2025 There is a website link: paranormal-aspecs.carrdd.co/ There are three photos, one of a smoky figure, one of a hand against a pane of glass, and a foggy forest Image reads: What we're looking for Stories that centre asexual and aromantic characters (or identities that fall under those umbrellas) in a paranormal context. Give us your ghosts and ghouls, your werewolf packs and vampire covens, the things that hide beneath the bed and between the trees. Image reads: Submission Guidelines Word Count: 2,000-7,500 words Submission Period: Sept 15-Nov 30 Stories must feature aspec characters and contain some aspect of paranormal or speculative fiction Submission Guidelines: Please email your submission to phenomenapress@gmail.com with '[STORY TITLE] - Aspec Paranormal Anthology' in the subject line Include: name, email address, WIP title, word count and short synopsis For more info: paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co/
September 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
esichr.bsky.social
award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
esichr.bsky.social
in love with my haul from @ascalaphid.com - shipping was so fast and these lil critters are my fave lil guys
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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katemaxlow.bsky.social
When you feel a story with your whole dang heart, and realize now's as good a time as any for a cathartic cry and fist shake at the universe ...

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

@esichr.bsky.social
@innerworlds.bsky.social
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
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
esichr.bsky.social
two new releases that i didn't expect to love but they delivered
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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lucidillusions.in
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
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
esichr.bsky.social
ALL HAIL THE BLACK FLAME this book made me fall in love with novels again @scumbelievable.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
esichr.bsky.social
finally catching up on posting after being offline/ill/travelling
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
esichr.bsky.social
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
September 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
esichr.bsky.social
my story that's the pitt meets annihilation is in here!! 🌌🏥
innerworlds.bsky.social 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.
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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manylittlewords.bsky.social
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!
esichr.bsky.social 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!!
titanbooks.bsky.social 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 🖤
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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translunartl.bsky.social
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.
translunartl.bsky.social 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
September 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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translunartl.bsky.social
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
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
esichr.bsky.social
cannot BELIEVE my story is in here thank you @manylittlewords.bsky.social for making my dream come true!!
titanbooks.bsky.social 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 🖤
September 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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translunartl.bsky.social
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
August 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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roberthelfst.bsky.social
@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?
August 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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innerworlds.bsky.social
⭐️ 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
August 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
esichr.bsky.social
biggest cinema letdown of the year
August 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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translunartl.bsky.social
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
August 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
esichr.bsky.social
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.
translunartravelerslounge.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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tinamariecox.bsky.social
#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
August 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
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
July 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
esichr.bsky.social
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
July 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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spicycloaca.bsky.social
"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
July 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM