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Claudia Monpere

Claudia Monpere's flash appears in Split Lip, The Forge, Craft, SmokeLong Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Atlas and Alice, Milk Candy Review, and elsewhere. Her short stories and poems appear in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, and Hunger Mountain. She received the 2023 SmokeLong Workshop Prize and will appear in Best Small Fictions 2024.

We Undark Night With Our Tongues

Claudia Monpere

We were instructed to point the brush with our lips ––Grace Fryer, a dial-painter for The Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, 1930 1.Glow Twirling the paintbrush in our mouths to sharpen the point glow-in-the-dark watches airplane dials clocks in the company darkroom our glow-in-the-dark cheeks necks hands our radium tongues constellations of luminous dust drifting as […]