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Nicholas Claro

@nicholas-claro.bsky.social

Author of THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE (Roadside Press, 2025) • WSU MFA • Fiction Reader for Write or Die • Editor • Teacher • Wichita, KS

107 Followers  |  145 Following  |  6 Posts  |  Joined: 11.11.2024  |  1.7652

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You’re welcome! I was so happy to revisit this today. It’s great!

12.11.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love your story so much! Thank you for trusting me with your amazing work!

12.11.2025 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Man, this piece jumped right out to me while reading submissions for @necessaryfiction.com Give this short, devastating piece a read!

12.11.2025 14:56 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks @turnandwork.com for including my short story “Acts of Service” on their short list! ☺️@necessaryfiction.com @nicholas-claro.bsky.social

07.11.2025 16:03 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Awesome!

07.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you're in our area, NF fiction editor @bookbent.bsky.social will be coming to town next week for an event.

06.11.2025 19:51 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Love this story and it was amazing to work with you, Kim!

05.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

This week's story, chosen by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social, is "Acts of Service" by
@kimhartweldin.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/acts...

05.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

Submissions are open until July 20 for guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social to select some stories for fall.

25.06.2025 23:14 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
Necessary Fiction Submission Manager Necessary Fiction Submission Manager Powered By Submittable - Accept and Curate Digital Content

From June 21 until July 20, @nicholas-claro.bsky.social‬ will be selecting some stories for us to publish in fall. We look forward to reading what he discovers! Guidelines will be visible here when submissions open on Saturday:

18.06.2025 14:18 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals and help readers find awesome books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Me? I have a creepy tale about friendship, vengeance, old gods, and monsters from the deep.

“Stunningly visceral.” — NYT

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

22.11.2024 15:44 — 👍 312    🔁 143    💬 85    📌 32

This was my first ever flash CNF piece (!), and I was really, really hoping you all would pick it up at Hobart. I remember trying to nail the voice here.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane, my dude!

21.11.2024 03:27 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hey hi hello, we’re happy to be here with y’all! We’re ready to keep highlighting the diversity of our region and fighting for a better South.

18.11.2024 19:51 — 👍 51    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 1
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Exciting news over here today!!!

26.04.2024 15:01 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 2
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Split Lip Magazine Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary journal with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print. Poetry, fiction, memoir, flash, reviews, interviews, art.

You know what would make great lunch-break reading? Split Lip's brand new NOVEMBER ISSUE! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

15.11.2024 18:05 — 👍 35    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

"This is the netherworld of the uncanny, and I think it’s definitive of the moment we’re living in now, where the past both promises and threatens to return, while the future always seems just out of reach, or else it seems like it’s already arrived and somehow we’ve missed it."

16.11.2024 17:21 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Be Nice, You Never Know What Other People Are Going Through by Troy James Weaver She tossed her coat over the lamp, staining the room black, and fell to the floor. She patted her small dog, who found her there, while her voicemails played. “Hey girl, it’s Courtney. Can’t wait to…

a perfect little gut punch of beauty and ache today from Troy James Weaver

"She tossed her coat over the lamp, staining the room black, and fell to the floor.

She patted her small dog, who found her there, while her voicemails played."
https://www.havehashad.com/kgmx0

23.02.2024 18:47 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Safe Distance — Write or Die Magazine It’s the end of July and this place is something like the beach. A glacial lake owned by the state with enough sand to convince Marina that this is salt water and there are fish waiting at the bottom....

Read the latest short story published in Write or Die Magazine! This piece by Cerissa DiValentino is an absolute stunner.

writeordiemag.com/fiction/safe...

12.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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