Claire Humphrey
@clairehumphrey.bsky.social
Writer of fiction. Career in books. Spare time in sports, pickling and historic homes.
My cat Tybalt also screams to go outside. What he does outside: walks approximately ten feet on his leash, eats a blade of grass from the neighbours' lawn, and peers under parked vans. That's it. That's the walk. It is his favourite thing.
September 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My cat Tybalt also screams to go outside. What he does outside: walks approximately ten feet on his leash, eats a blade of grass from the neighbours' lawn, and peers under parked vans. That's it. That's the walk. It is his favourite thing.
Raymond Chandler, A.S. Byatt, Mary Stewart, Jim Carroll, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jack Spicer. A weird mix of grit and myth and the sensual world, I guess
September 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Raymond Chandler, A.S. Byatt, Mary Stewart, Jim Carroll, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jack Spicer. A weird mix of grit and myth and the sensual world, I guess
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“Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves” by @clairehumphrey.bsky.social is not as grotesque as the title sounds but twists the interpersonal knife www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wood...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves by Claire Humphrey
We dry the tongues on butcher's paper beside the stove. Once desiccated, they barely have a scent. Uncle Sholert has shown me how to arrange them like tiny shingles or scales, overlapping. We fix them...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves” by @clairehumphrey.bsky.social is not as grotesque as the title sounds but twists the interpersonal knife www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wood...
Right? It makes me think there must be people who don't have daily or hourly ideas. It sounds unpleasant to be one of those people. But if anything I am the opposite and ideas are always overstocked in my personal cupboard.
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Right? It makes me think there must be people who don't have daily or hourly ideas. It sounds unpleasant to be one of those people. But if anything I am the opposite and ideas are always overstocked in my personal cupboard.