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Claudia Monpere
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
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San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
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“The swollen traffic comes and goes. The heart roosts where it can.”
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Photo by Paul Arky on Unsplash by Claudia Monpere A piano tilts on the dirt beside a freeway entrance like an unbalanced stilt walker: chipped keys, case body cracked, chunks of wood missing, and stil...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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“The last anything doesn’t announce itself.” Love this one Claudia, another stunner.
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"Crow's angry with me after my indulgent breakfast.
'I know, I know,' I tell him as the rain picks up and I start moving again." I'm thrilled to have "Yellow Gifts" in @necessaryfiction.com. Huge thanks to @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for all the love he gave it, and to editor Steve Himmer.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"But no, fucking Melody, with her green thumb and her horny hands in the fecund earth was the culprit." Wow, love this voice @rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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The Roses Were Really Something - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Simon HUMLER on Unsplash by Robert Vaughan I hadn’t noticed them when we arrived, too caught up in running into Melody who’d fucked half of her co-workers and the entire neighboring Waukesha ...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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"Freddy’s notebook on the bed that Grammy Ruth returned to Freddy’s parents’ house right away, never showing it to Grampa Earl—“I wish they didn’t fight so much”—pencil drawing of a boy with X’s for eyes." Love this
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Keepsakes - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Lena Polishko on Unsplash by Timothy Boudreau Freddy’s green lizard race car with a pink tongue painted on the hood, pulled from under the couch when Grammy Ruth scrambled to find her pearl e...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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"I wallow home from the nearby café, my pancake belly leading, my sausage belly thudding with each step"

Love the voice in this brilliantly creative piece from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Man, this piece jumped right out to me while reading submissions for @necessaryfiction.com Give this short, devastating piece a read!
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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"Crow's angry with me after my indulgent breakfast.
'I know, I know,' I tell him as the rain picks up and I start moving again." I'm thrilled to have "Yellow Gifts" in @necessaryfiction.com. Huge thanks to @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for all the love he gave it, and to editor Steve Himmer.
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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🚨 Come join us!!! @cbigs.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @csquareh.bsky.social @francinewitte.bsky.social
 Francinewitte @francinewitte.bsky.social · 6d
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.

Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Please register here for zoom link:

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November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"Jerzy is on hands and knees, fishing out tiny pill bugs scrabbling in the folds of the corrugated metal and twisted rebar. Our next happy meal, he announces." @karenschauber.bsky.social Chilling & beautifully written
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Tin Can ~ Karen Schauber  — Sardine Can Collective
Artwork: Flecks of Foam- Henry Golden Dearth, 1912
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November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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"The more my mother shames me for my weight, the stronger words taste." If you have a few minutes, I hope you enjoy me reading my micro "Word Palate" in the lovely new issue of The Ilanot Review.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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"let’s say we splash until the water is frothing on top and then we come out roaring and stomping, we smash our ugly, SoftServe shit castles" @aniking.bsky.social 3 dazzling flash fictions @doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Love each story & the endings are 🔥
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Ani King — Does It Have Pockets
Summerland® | Mermaid Park | The Sounds of Summer Camp
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November 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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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:

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November 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Incredible work, such power in these micro-sized stories.
October 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"My brother’s only forty-six, but he moves like he’s eighty."

Check out contributor @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's flash piece in @lostballoon.bsky.social! buff.ly/bTXG0vd
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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“Do you see it?” She was almost hyperventilating with excitement, pointing to where a clump of fruit flies was floating in a liquid grave. I hesitated.
“It looks like your father.”

Stunning! @kellypedro.bsky.social 1 of 3 winners, CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize
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Pareidolia by Kelly Pedro - CRAFT
My mother sees my father’s face everywhere. Last week it was in our neighbour’s wilting asters. Then, an angry version in a banana she decided to save. “Maybe it’ll brown into the Virgin Mary, and we ...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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This chilling story by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social is going to haunt me, I can tell.
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The Touch Forecast | Fractured
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November 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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@brettpribble.bsky.social's done it again. Another stunning Ghost Parachute issue packed with terrific writers. Can't wait to dive in. And best cover ever!

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November 2025 Issue — Ghost Parachute
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November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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"The actress feels a buzz that she hasn’t felt since before she lost the role in the soap opera. New meds the doctor prescribed make her feel calm. Calm enough to talk to a mastodon in her bathtub." Love! @megpokrass.bsky.social
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Paradise — Ghost Parachute
The out-of-work actress finds a mastodon in her bathtub. Her thirty-five-year-old hands are beginning to show blue veins and instead of staring at them all night long, she has someone to talk to. She’...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Wow, 3 incredibly creative ways to write about/around sex. I love @dawnsteffler.bsky.social's "Sex in Public: A Triptych."
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Sex In Public: A Triptych — Ghost Parachute
Hustling She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed. And he wallpapers the back of his many fish ...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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"fifteen and doing a star float in the twilight, ears underwater, the world muted except for the hiss of waves pushing pebbles up the beach" Gorgeous, joyful CNF @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social
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Kleopatra Olympiou | Here I Am
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November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"she tells me that it’s a dangerous world out there, says things happen that we can’t plan for, says, for example, grizzly bears can smell menstrual blood from 20 miles away" Stunning @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
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2nd Prize, October 2025 Award: Emily Rinkema
Vagina First by Emily Rinkema Two weeks after my twentieth birthday my mother begs me not to move to Montana by myself because she says I will be eaten by a grizzly bear, vagina first, and I laugh …
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November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Really looking forward to hosting this panel discussion on "Emotional Depths" with @claudiamonpere.bsky.social & @dawnsteffler.bsky.social. Should be such a great event. It's a week on Monday at 7pm GMT for anyone who'd like to sign up:

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Write Beyond the Lightbulb. Emotional Depths. Hearts, Souls and Minds. Panel discussion on creating resonance (with Claudia Monpere and Dawn Tasaka Steffler)
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Thirty days to write 100 words. Simple!!! Hope lots of you will consider sending in entries 👇
welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 16d
**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Get ready, humans. Our November issue drops Nov 3rd! We’ll be featuring reviews of Being Seen by @suzyeynon.bsky.social and For Every Tower, A Princess by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social.

We’ll also be unveiling Claudine’s Bookshelf!
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October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Me: (tries to sleep)
Body: "No, see, you need to pee."

Me: (gets up and tries to pee)
Body: "No, see, you need to sleep."
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM