Claire Polders

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    National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2021

    On June 26th, the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2021 was launched. Legerdemain is a collection of over fifty excellent stories on magic by authors from around the world. Some of my favorite flash writers contributed their work, such as…

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    Anthology: “Stella Is” Chosen for Best Microfiction 2021

    On Saturday, July 10 the anthology Best Microfiction 2021 will be released. I am very grateful that the serie editors, Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and guest editor, Amber Sparks, have chosen my story “Stella Is,” originally published by The…

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    Reading: Who is Jane Doe?

    Last December, Sally Reno and Doug Mathewson published my very short story “Stella Is” and nominated it, to my great gratitude, for a Pushcart Prize, Best Microfictions, and Best Small Fictions. This Saturday, I will be reading that story in…

  • Publications,  Wander, Wonder, Write

    Tone Determines What You Say

    Thailand does not border China, right? People exaggerate; fear makes money. We count our pills, our inoculations. It is February and we fly. The water is turquoise, the curry spicy. We worry, just the tiniest bit, about mosquitoes and dengue…

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    The Wrong of My Birth

    Do you ever scratch until you bleed? Do others look at you in disgust because they can't stomach your raw red lesions or the scattering of flaky dust you leave in your wake? Do you know what it feels like…

  • Bleeding Girls Initiation Ritual
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    Bleeding Girls Initiation Ritual

    We arrive in the dark at the shortest night and cluster away from the pyre. We are nameless and unsure, bleeding without a wound. We count: forty of us against three of them. Still, we feel outnumbered. We rub our…

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About Me

  • ‣ Born in: the Netherlands
  • ‣ Currently in: Mazunte, Mexico
  • ‣ Arrived from: Los Angeles, USA
  • ‣ Next destination: Unknown
  • ‣ Writing online since: 2005
  • ‣ Novels Published: 5
  • ‣ Current projects: a memoir on elder abuse, a speculative novel for adults, two short prose collections, and a ghost story for younger readers

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