Claire Polders

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  • Forbidden Friends
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    Fictive Dream

    Who are we when our life doesn’t allow us to let anyone get close? It's the question that sparked my flash fiction "Five Forbidden Friends."

  • The Threatened Swan, oil painting by Dutch Golden Age Painter Jan Asselijn
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    Showcase Object & Idea

    Lost Animal Identities: The first time I turned, I was seven years old. I sat on a hard mattress in my grandmother’s guest bedroom on the second floor with a man I truly liked, the clean-faced husband of my grandmother’s…

  • The Hour of Water
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    Superstition Review

    How do we behave in unfamiliar environments? When do we know how to trust someone? How do strangers become friends? What is the Hour of Water?

  • The Cincinnati Review
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    The Cincinnati Review

    The Cincinnati Review published my story "Mirror" in their MiCRo series. I've been reading work from this series for years and was happy they selected this piece to include.

  • Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
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    Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

    I'm proud that Randall Brown selected my creative nonfiction piece "Marzipan" for publication in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

  • Woman of the Hour
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    Fractured Lit

    I am grateful to the editors of Fractured Lit for publishing my story "Woman of the Hour."

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About Me

  • ‣ Born in: Gouda, the Netherlands
  • ‣ Currently in: Japan
  • ‣ Arrived from: South Korea
  • ‣ Next destination: Unknown
  • ‣ Writing online since: 2005
  • ‣ Novels Published: 5
  • ‣ Current projects: a memoir on elder abuse, a multi-generational novel about the dark Dutch colonial past, and two short prose collections

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