Eirene Eleni

@eireneeleni

This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales. Recent: Claudine, Does it have pockets, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.

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Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· 5d

People! I have a new poem out in Electric Pink and have somehow neglected to inform you. How? I don’t know. Do you care? Probably not. But I do! So here it is. ✌️ www.electric-pink.org/poetry/if-we...

If we knew would we be anything but damp by Eirene Gentle
31 JULY 2026

We thought our world would flare. Not burn. But water isn't often where we need it. We dreamed of flight/plucked fragile wings from flying things. We punctured space and left Trash. From outside earth is too bright to look at. that why we burned it? There's nothing more flammable than human ambition. We torched little kids like they were sparklers. If we knew would we be anything but damp? Sprinkle us over the burning.
Soothe this blistered world

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· 6d

What the eclipse left behind

Scattered bird footprints and a black bird vanishing out of the frame.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· 12d

Hold on now

Defining discursive
1 a : moving from topic to topic without order: RAMBLING
gave a discursive lecture discursive prose
b : proceeding coherently from topic to topic

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· 16d

Wanted a coffee, got a hell cat

Disturbed coffee crema in the loose form of an electrified cat. Woah.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· 29d

The answer to the enshittification of things is not little yellow flowers but it’s not NOT yellow flowers either

Little painted pale to butter yellow flowers on bendy stems, not realistic, not even good but little yellow flowers anyway

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jul 3

Learning to bear the storm. Which one is you?

Two painted trees bending into the wind on a stormy, rainy day, one bigger and older, one still a sapling. Which are you? We can be either any time.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jun 25

Friend or foe

Some kind of plant with a thistle-like head except not surrounded by spiky thorny kind of points uh like a villain-era cape, all of it still green. Everyone but me probably knows what this is. But it’s pretty cool, plant. 12/10.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jun 7

Life in one image

Large tree with a huge break in the lower image with the cleaved inside wood showing and the rest of the tree healthy looking above it with sun peeking through leaves.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jun 3

Bonkers little story but life affirming! So there’s that. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/eire...

Ordinary people spend 3 years of their lives just blinking but there was no point in that for Phyllis so she saw everything.
Flickers of deceit, the tiny tells of worst selves exposed daily in thousands of unblinking nanoseconds. She was like a psychological x-ray at the office, so uncomfortable they asked her to work from home. Then she was fired. There wasn't much to pack up from her desk.
She dumped it all in the trash just past the revolving door.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jun 1

Me too

Abandoned paper on leafy dirt ground handwritten with Bin Awaiting Repair.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· May 25

Be impossible

Small not realist style painting of a very spindly very twisty tree with mostly bare bark and some poofs of green at the top. A tree of peace and implausibility.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· May 12

Bright red wide open tulip poking through a small wood fence

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· May 10

Story without words

One solo long stemmed white flower lies alone on a pavement, one petal missing like a tooth.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· May 6

Hello

Brown mushrooms huddle in some green grass like a nest

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· May 6

A little bright yellow dandelion poking out of a crack on a path

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· May 3

whimperbang.com/issue-28/eir...

Jaws are real wish bones, they wish and wish and then splinter.
Did you know, there are four reasons to speak and one to hear

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· May 3

whimperbang.com/issue-28/eir...

The ruined are spared little.
Just the burden of being monsters.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Mar 30

Love is

Tiny purple spring flowers which are somehow definitely not snow or ice.

Tiny yellow spring flowers with a few snowdrops in the upper left corner. Also definitely not snow or ice.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Mar 25

Nature art

Birdbath water frozen with leaves captured inside it lifted up so it looks kind of like a decorated ice plate.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Mar 9

And found this which I don’t remember reading but will.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Feb 28

💔 again. mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Splashed with grime and the spattered courage of the voiceless and limbless. They don't know I hear them even after they die. The calls of their last days and hours reverberate endlessly through the buildings and trees, carried on the wings of any buzzing thing that survives the heat. I am sometimes beak and sometimes claw, sometimes two legs like the fallen. I am meant only to record what I see here in the tones of bitter neutrality but of course at times I help. The wretchedness gets the better of me and what bones I have left swell with a pity so monstrous I become almost like them. I rip my clothes to make bandages and when that runs out I tear my skin in strips to tie their wounds. It takes so long to grow back, sometimes even the gap years aren't enough and I return to the next scene oozing pus and plasma.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Feb 13

How your email finds me

Black glove stranded on a snow bank and sliding down, leaving little finger tracks as it goes as if struggling to cling on

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Feb 7

Dog having had it with winter dresses up as summer.

Dog in black sweater with two hibiscus leaves stuck to her.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jan 10

when they tell you a salt ring is the real moon you can say yes sir or think for yourself and look up to the sky and over to your neighbours and into yourself and say I decline.

Winter salt ring in the shape of a crescent moon on pavement.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jan 3

Remember who you want to be. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

Winter willow tree unique against a sun/cloud sky.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Jan 1

May this first day find you like:

Peaceful little cove with rocks and pebbles looking out to the larger lake and cloudy sky. Cold but comfortable.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Dec 22

Tell your friends and family this issue is the ghost of Christmas future. If they don’t celebrate Christmas tell them this issue is a reprieve from the tinsel, not a single Christmassy thing in it just haunting, gorgeous brilliant writing. Very restorative. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

Image of bay ice and some rips in the ice shaped kind of like a seal or a bird for absolutely no reason except there’s ice with tears in it like a seal or a bird or something and hey, cool.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Dec 22

Want to be in the holiday spirit? This issue probably won’t do it. But it will make you fall deeply in love with the variety of human experience and for even a brief moment feel the wonder and pain of existence. So there’s that. templeinacity.com/category/imp...

Photo of a frond almost like a fossil imprint on pavement. In brown/sepia kind of tones but not from filters, just the actual process of transition.

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Dec 19

Charming or vaguely threatening, you decide

Eirene Eleni@eireneeleni· Dec 19

Did I title it this way so I could call it a banger? No. No I did not. But I love this little weird thing and thank @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social for publishing. See the whole really quite stupendously beautiful issue here: suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue11