Claudia Monpere

@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)

"Three is how many days my grandfather spoke words that made no sense from his hospital bed, zero is how many of us understood his babbling. Two is the number of doctors who told us he was gone." Deeply moving CNF @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Briliant playing with numbers.

Lisa Thornton@thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Thrilled to be included in @flightlit.bsky.social! Thanks to Frances and Will for their careful editing. Check out the whole 1st birthday issue here ⬇️ 🍻

Ah, such a thrill to see this! Thanks to @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social for including my story "At the Gun Show You Say to Me, You Look Good," @trampset.bsky.social along with these other fabulous writers via @turnandwork.com

Turn and Work (Hugh)@turnandwork.com · 5d ago

The Shortlist for September 25, 2025: With guest editor Elizabeth Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social. Short writing from: Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Asher Kelsey Georgia Maull-Keyser Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social Wade Harris James Keith Smith

"But I’m not dead obviously. I didn’t even see any bears while I was camping. I pinch a fold of skin on my right arm until it hurts so much I have to stop. This is how I know I’m alive." Terrific story @iamchrisscott.bsky.social & what an end!

Chris Scott@iamchrisscott.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a new micro about DYING in the latest @identitytheory.bsky.social. Thanks to @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting this, and to you for reading it! It's very short.

So excited to be in this issue of @trashcatlit.bsky.social and particularly to be teasered with my mate @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social!! Grab a tinny and your cork hat! We’re off on an Aussie adventure! 🦘🧡🧡🧡

Trash Cat Lit@trashcatlit.bsky.social · last wk.

More teasings for our first prose poem issue, coming Monday 🦝 @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social gives us a vast fragment of love in one piece, and the sea, senses, & structure in her second 💜 Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social gives us relatable pain, momentum and acceptance in the yoga studio 💜