"A yoga studio. An envelope full of cash. Small details. A short walk. Bananas. Circumstances beyond our control." A searing micro @kathyfish.bsky.social in @reideasjournal.bsky.social reideasjournal.com/kathyfishfic...
Claudia Monpere
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
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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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Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Megan. đź’™
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"I was shocked. Too young to understand the contradictions stitched into all humans."
A great profile of being purposeful but lost by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
"All I remember is...one lesson that involved us walking around blindfolded, our feet tied to blocks of wood"
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social takes us to school, and the painfully awkward first year teaching, in her essay "When I Knew Nothing"
Read it here! flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/
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Thanks, Kathryn. Glad you liked the ending! I usually have a hell of a time thinking of endings.
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Aw, thank you Bronwen. 🌷
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Thank you for sharing, Patricia. đź’™
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Are you on drugs?” a student asked me the last week of class. “You smile so much.” I wore my smiles like Meg wore her wigs. Like Shelly wore her Marine officer face and navy slacks when she taught business.
An astounding personal essay! Tender and raw and real.
Thrilled to be in the inaugural issue of the wonderful @flightlit.bsky.social. Grab a beer and enjoy! Thank you, Frances and Will.
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Thanks for sharing, Melissa. đź’™
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Assistant Editor Tiny Elvis is here to warn you about the dangers of reading near the bath…sometimes you fall in
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Submissions for Flight 2 are now also open! The first ten submitters will get editorial feedback on their submission.
Submit here: flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...
