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Channel
Moscow-based English Literature Club
@short_story_of_the_week
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
2,835subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001380011382 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @short_story_of_the_week |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 17 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 11 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 17 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/short_story_of_the_week |
Topic
Literature — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 15 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Sept 2026, 04:19 | 2,835 | +3 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 15:38 | 2,832 | -8 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 18:12 | 2,840 | +2 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 16:16 | 2,838 | +4 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 06:11 | 2,834 | -3 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 12:52 | 2,837 | -1 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 20:33 | 2,838 | +2 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 00:55 | 2,836 | +3 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 08:58 | 2,833 | -4 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 13:32 | 2,837 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 12:59 | 2,837 | first reading |
Engagement
11 posts held, back to 9 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 11 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
18 reactions across 6 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 38.9% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 7 | 38.9% | |
| 🔥 | 6 | 33.3% | |
| 👍 | 3 | 16.7% | |
| ✍ | 2 | 11.1% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 6 of the 11 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 18 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 11 most recent posts we hold, published 9 July 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Story Discussion Hell Is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang 12 August 2026 at 18:45 at Svetlovka Ted Chiang is one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers of speculative fiction, celebrated for combining scientific imagination with profound philosophical inquiry. Although he has published relatively few stories, each has earned a reputation for exceptional intellectual depth and emotional resonance, winning mul…
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🔥3
English Literature Club in "Svetlovka" Discussion of the short story "The Little Governess" by Katherine Mansfield 5 August 2026 at 18:45 (MSK) New Zealand and English writer Katherine Mansfield is considered one of the key representatives of literary modernism. In her work, she moved away from the traditional event plot in favor of psychological sketches, becoming a master of impressionism in prose. Her method is…
❤2
Censorship and Freedom of Speech The word "censorship" often carries negative connotations — it brings to mind the suppression of dissent and the silencing of societal problems. At the same time, it's hard to argue that completely unrestricted freedom of speech wouldn't come with mutual insults, incitement to violence, drug propaganda, and so on. But where is the line between these fairly obvious extremes — for ins…
👍2
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Story Discussion Keuka Lake by Joseph O'Neill 29 July 2026 at 18:45 (MSK) at Svetlovka Joseph O'Neill is an award-winning Irish novelist and writer widely acclaimed for his elegant prose style and deep psychological insights. He is perhaps best known for his New York Times bestselling novel Netherland, which secured the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Born in Ireland and raised across multiple countrie…
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Story Discussion “Neck" by Roald Dahl 22 July 2026 at 18:45 (MSK) at Svetlovka British writer Roald Dahl is known all over the world as a children's storyteller, but he is also the author of fairy tales for adults – gloomy, sarcastic and often having an unpredictable ending. The "New York Times" aptly called Dahl a writer who is characterized by "a grotesque imagination, the ability to discern an anecdotal situati…
❤4👍1
The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies ("The Aeneid", Virgil) A wealthy American collector of occult literature hires a rare-book dealer to establish the authenticity of a book titled "The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows". It was written in the 17th century by Aristide Torchia - who, le…
🔥3❤1
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✍2
Showing the 11 most recent of 11 posts we hold for @short_story_of_the_week. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 14 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Moscow-based English Literature Club” (@short_story_of_the_week), 2,835 subscribers as measured 14 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/short_story_of_the_week.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.