Claudia Monpere

Claudia Monpere received the 2023 Smokelong Workshop Prize, the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize from New Flash Fiction Review, and the Genre Flash Fiction Prize from Uncharted Magazine. She has stories in Best Small Fictions 2024 and 2025 and Best Microfiction 2025 and 26. Her flash collection, The Periodic Family, is forthcoming from Cowboy Jamboree Press in fall, 2026.

We Didn’t Wear Masks

by Claudia Monpere | Jun 29, 2026 | micro

because the tightness the itch the stiff rectangle smothering us. Because eyes bore when mouth and nose hide. Because micro mold, the uglies. Didn’t get vaccinated because— well duh. Didn’t quarantine because we’re all...

The Touch Forecast

by Claudia Monpere | Feb 3, 2025 | contest winner, flash fiction

Your best friend, Meg, is scared for you. She wants to accompany you to the lake, but you need to be alone, so you drive there and wander the aspen grove, leaves trembling in the light wind. You touch the smooth,...

Claudia Monpere

We Didn’t Wear Masks

The Touch Forecast

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