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claudiamonpere.bsky.social
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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" Sometimes, I’d put on the Bigfoot onesie pajamas my parents got me for Christmas and wander outside. When someone spotted me and called for help, I ran in the opposite direction." Such powerful longing in this great piece @willmusgrove.bsky.social cah.ucf.edu/floridarevie...

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"The news is on mute. TV light flickers blue and green on our faces, then all the colors of the rainbow. “The ills of capitalism,” you say. “Fuck money,” I say. “Fuck everyone who uses money.” “Wait, that’s us.” Love this flash. Terrific wit, tenderness, & social critique @nomad-sw18.bsky.social

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The cowardly Congress.

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

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"During a celebratory kiss outside Pizza Pilgrims, he presses her for an answer: “Should I be a philosopher or a rockstar?” Love this micro @katiecoleman.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social

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"what if you, without glancing behind you to see if anyone was looking, had sashayed right up to him and put your hands into his long, curly, presumably permed, Poison-inspired rocker hair and run your fingers through it until you reached his chest." Great what if story @thorntonforreal.bsky.social

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"“The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up,” Ms. Ortiz said in an interview with The Times. “I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact." Judge Ortiz: one of many brave, ethical federal employees resisting the evil.

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Amazing @smokelong.bsky.social workshop with @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social on Physicality in Flash. Feeling so inspired! Thank you Finnian and Chris.

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Thank you @megpokrass.bsky.social for Prompts of Resilience. Thank you to these wonderful winners: @johnsheirer.bsky.social & Rory Perkins & Honorable Mentions, including @louellalester.bsky.social pokrassprompts.substack.com/i/157452337/...

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“ I try to use some of my commute time for story ideas, revisions, or lines of a story. It’s really helped me. Once I wrote an entire essay in traffic jams!” SUCH a great interview with the fabulous @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social ❤️

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I love this book by Koss. Steeped in grief and beauty. Utterly original.

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The hauntings in @marioaliberto3.bsky.social's new chapbook, All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury, are mournful, funny, tender-- and absolutely stunning & and original. Mario is a master storyteller who not only writes gripping narratives but makes language soar. Pub: @chestnutreview.bsky.social

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"Who was I in high school? An extra in a play. I moved around onstage. I mouthed all my lines. No one could hear me, not even myself." Powerful story about who we want to be & who we become @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

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"but this is not a horror film and the only sounds are the key scraping, the lock clunking, and the boy’s shivery breaths as he wonders what he’ll find on the other side of the door tonight." So powerful @jaimegill.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social trampset.org/this-is-not-...

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"I really fell in love with the form and the flash community. There’s something so special and supportive about flash writers." Big love for this interview about @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's amazing award-winning piece (a powerful story) and other insightful observations! In @nffr.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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"Betty cracks and begins to smell. Mom crinkles her nose whenever I’m around and orders me to throw her away. But you don’t give up on the story of love." Such a beautiful story @lmariharris.bsky.social harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/harris-l-mar...

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"“It is a body part. A one-time donation. I’m not replacing my intestines with garden hoses even if you bake me zucchini bread,” Darla said."" I love love love this funny, tender story. @amygcb.bsky.social in @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/01/06/r...

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So much talent here!

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Claudia is a star! "I’m also trying to decide which novella in flash idea to pursue: one about a mother with hoarding behavior and her daughter, and one that’s speculative." I hope you write both! @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @nffr.bsky.social

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Huge thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for making me feel so comfortable during this interview--& for such great questions! Big thanks, also, to @nffr.bsky.social Valerie Fox & Keith J. Powell. And Nathan Leslie, I am so grateful to you for honoring my story, "After."

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“You realize how much of your body you’ve never touched with intention: the satiny inside of your arms, your knuckles’ bony hills– Why did you never notice how irregular they are?” wonderful story from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!!

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Gorgeous conversation on my book PARTS between @kimsrogers.bsky.social & @claudiamonpere.bsky.social . Thank you, @rgvaughan.bsky.social And thank you both for the beautiful review and for seeing me - and my work - in ways that weren't even clear to me. bendinggenres.com/popcorning-p...

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