@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)
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social"Her crew and passengers are haunted too. She’s not sure when the massacre happened, maybe generations ago. But they know something’s missing. There’s a puzzlement in their folk memories. A glitch, like hers. A phantom limb." Stunning @emlinden.bsky.social www.orions-belt.net/archives/gho...
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialHe is pure evil.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social"Should she tell the school about when her daughter drops by, always unannounced, always sorry, always happy to see them, sometimes during Jeopardy and sometimes on a Saturday, and a boy runs to her like a magnet drawn to its opposite?" What a terrific heartbreak of a story.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialI can tell your at is a close, thoughtful reader.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialThanks so much for sharing this, Dan.
@danbillyc.bsky.socialReposted by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social"...Monpere builds a constellation of sixty stories that continually shift between the microscopic and the immense, the domestic and the cosmic."
I love this phenomenal review by @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social on @claudiamonpere.bsky.social's brilliant collection! 💙💙💙
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialAwww, thanks so much, Kathryn. 🌺
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialElissa! Love love love this. Congratulations!!!
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social"It will be touch and go – now he knows how to slip out and slip back. I’ll feel him fly through my house, dip down low to check on my sons. Hear his laugh, feel his laugh, his voice asking, Are you seeing this?" Absolute stunner, this story @elissafield.bsky.social.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social"The train whines and grinds and clicks and clacks. Mama running down the platform chasing after it" Love the rhythm in this heartbreak of a micro @karenc.bsky.social.
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@claudiamonpere.bsky.social"Some argued my hands should be chopped off but they decided bindings would be sufficient." These words are 🔥@bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Exactly what the world needs right now.
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@claudiamonpere.bsky.social"I spent hours in the bathroom trying on shades of stolen lipstick and eye shadow. The last thing I needed was Petunia the Clown showing up, ruining everything." Beautiful story @bsherm36.bsky.social. Love the blend of humor and tenderness. fictivedream.com/2026/10/09/s...
@gilloshaughnessy.bsky.socialReposted by @claudiamonpere.bsky.socialFantastic book Claudia. A joy to read.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialI'm over the moon by @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social's review of my book, The Periodic Family, out on Oct. 13. Gillian! Thank you thank you thank you for your incredibly generous words.
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@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialThanks so much for reading, Megan.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialThanks so much for reading and sharing, Suzanne.
@sagreene1.bsky.socialReposted by @claudiamonpere.bsky.socialSuch an evocative, propulsive and sad piece. I love how Tara‘s love for her children runs through it.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social"The real world wouldn’t find us. We’d slip away. Tall shadows in a sea of silver trees. Steeping birch tea. Brewing birch beer." Gorgeous @writesofkathryn.bsky.social
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@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialThanks so much, Myna. 🌺
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialThanks so much, Maureen. Great to know about how life changing it was for folks you know.
