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Kleopatra Olympiou
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Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, reader, editor | swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Maudlin House, Raw Lit | Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction, Best of the Net nominee | She/her.

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Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!

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Hand holding up a copy of Rebecca van Laer's book 'Cat' in front of foliage seen through a window. Shelf containing the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series, all with black spines and colourful titles. Rebecca van Laer's CAT is facing out to the camera. Rebecca van Laer's CAT held in front of a triple window facing trees from above. The book cover shoes a pensive green eyed white cat.
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Finished @fionamckay.bsky.social's incredible novella-in-flash THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (Ad Hoc Fiction) today. This is a devastating and sensitively observed book about a woman's marriage and foray into motherhood, against the backdrop of retold, un-idyllic fairy tales. I loved it ❤️
Book cover of Fiona McKay's The Lives of the Dead Photo of text which reads: Today will be a good day, Kate pleads through sudden tears. Notices that the windows are edged with dirt and wishes for rain to clean them. The sun continues shining, but in Kate, the sea-mist is rolling in and blotting out everything on its way, blotting out the very sun. Somewhere in the house is a vortex, and it sucks her in, leaves her spiralling down in the gloom, wondering where it all went wrong, and hoe many times she will have to do this all over again until she can sit down, switch off, just be for a while without being wanted or needed. Never, the sea-mist says as it rolls through her head. Never.
August 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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And to get to hear Smokelong friends @kimsrogers.bsky.social and @quickasaflash.bsky.social read their stories!! @smokelong.bsky.social ❤️
June 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Sooo so nice to get to meet flash writers in person at yesterday's launch of the 2025 National Flash Fiction Anthology in Bath! Thanks for a wonderful time @natflashfictionday.bsky.social ❤️
June 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Finally gave my cyanotype paper a go. Kinda love the result
March 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Just try and beat my evening reading 🤓
@marioaliberto3.bsky.social / @fracturedlit.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Hey, I made a little woven basket! New skill unlocked for 2025
Hand woven basket in the shape of a bowl, photographed from above. You can tell it was made by a beginner because the raffiah bits are looking messy, but thankfully I like messy crafts!
January 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Richmond Park earlier today
A wide landscape shot of an afternoon blue sky and clouds, with two sets of dark trees on either side. In the middle are the dark silhouettes of deer, with one raising its antlers toward the sky.
November 25, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Weird! It's showing me two options, one won't open till the 20th of December, and the other is sold out:
November 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM