Claire Polders

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    Woman of the Hour—Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion

    This collection will transport the reader from an Amsterdam canal to the Oaxacan coast, from a silt-streaked Venice to an imaginary world, from an Icelandic waterfall to a hall of mirrors. 

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    Closed Circle: New Flash Fiction in the Sunlight Press

    The others and I hike up the winding trail from the riverbank to the queen of glacial waterfalls. The canyon is steep and stark as though warning me for what’s to come. Forty-five meters high, a hundred meters wide, two…

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    Meet Châu Quỳnh Lê from Swing Love

    Swing Love: Meet the woman whose love for swing dance inspired her business in handcrafted sustainable leather shoes in Vietnam.

  • A fragile butterfly perched on a finger tip
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    Micro Memoirs in DIAGRAM

    Three micro memoirs in DIAGRAM about murder as a protective force, the sound of lines slapping against masts, and childhood shame.

  • Two hands framing a small box of possessions
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    From Paris to Nowhere

    For 18 years, I lived with my (now) husband in a charming old artist atelier in Paris. But in the winter of 2019, we were expelled.

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    Midway Journal: The Broken Clock

    It’s not that the clock lags by an hour or so. That would be forgivable for such an old lady. It’s that every time she looks at it, the time is different.

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