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Flávia Monteiro

@flaviamonteiro.bsky.social

Brazilian writer based in Miami, FL.

124 Followers  |  274 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 20.09.2023  |  1.6253

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I Want a Do-Over by Helen Collins Sitler | The limits of change.

This flash by Helen Collins Sitler completely floored me.

www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...

01.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If My Mom Was So Angry Around Me, I Must Have Been the Reason - Electric Literature “Queen Bee” by Flavia R. Montiero

“I can only take so many apologies, she often said. Once I give up on a person, there’s no turning back.” (@flaviamonteiro.bsky.social)

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14.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And so I find out (slightly late as a perfect Latina/Miamera) that my work was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 😱💀

Thank you @havehashad.com for publishing it and @wigleaf.bsky.social for finding it <3

31.07.2025 22:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
This Is My Face When You Won’t Stop Talking I let go of the handle and slowly turned my head back at Pedro, to find thick melancholy already pouring out of his mouth in the form of a teenage love tale. What kind of person would interrupt a poor...

I wrote a funny essay, but don't trust me: there will be evil mom and there will be heartbreak.

Out today in Shenandoah ✨
www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/this-...

17.06.2025 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So honored to see my lil crab essay included in this week's roundup 🦀

(Also stunned by another essay on the list: In the Deepest of Night, by @judybf.bsky.social)

18.03.2025 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Solid background with copy that says: "I ask myself if my mother loves me. The more I ask the less I know the answer. But they say no love is greater than a mother's love."

Solid background with copy that says: "I ask myself if my mother loves me. The more I ask the less I know the answer. But they say no love is greater than a mother's love."

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I have four short pieces out this month about my mother's micro-abuses. This one, up in Fatal Flaw, is probably the most heartbreaking of them.

www.fatalflawlit.com/essay-pieces...

19.02.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GOOD GRIEF by SG Huerta About the book: GOOD GRIEF is a collection of flash essays about grief in all its everyday ugliness and, well, goodness. These essays grieve a writing journey marred by racism and queerphobia, a fathe...

If you feel art might help you process grief, get a copy: fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/goo...

27.01.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The poet in disguise did it again. @sgpoet.bsky.social's new chapbook is stunning 🐅

27.01.2025 16:42 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Thrilled to be one of the 2025 Periplus fellows 🤸🏽‍♀️

22.01.2025 17:23 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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