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Kleopatra Olympiou

@kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social

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Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, reader, editor | swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Maudlin House, Raw Lit | Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction, Best of the Net nominee | She/her. kleopatraolympiou.com

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 1d

soooo excited to have a story in the new issue of swamp pink out today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

The Mattress – swamp pink

swamp-pink.charleston.edu

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 18h

❤️❤️❤️

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 19h

Really excited for this!!!

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 21h

congratulations!!

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks so much Dan!!

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 22h

"She who had spent her life in the fields, tending to crops and animals, strong like the earth she cared for, cheeks bronzed by the sun like baked clay."

I really love this gem by @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 1d

soooo excited to have a story in the new issue of swamp pink out today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

The Mattress – swamp pink

swamp-pink.charleston.edu

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!!

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you soo much, Anna!

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 23h

🥺❤️ thanks so much for reading, Suzanne!!

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S A Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social · 1d

'The next morning Mrs. Panayiota tried the grocery store, slowly following the sweeping curve of the downhill road. Above her the mountain rose steep, shadowy, and uncaring.' Gorgeous story from @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 1d

soooo excited to have a story in the new issue of swamp pink out today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

The Mattress – swamp pink

swamp-pink.charleston.edu

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks so much, Nadia!

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Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social · 1d

This made me smile - lots! What a lovely story.

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 1d

soooo excited to have a story in the new issue of swamp pink out today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

The Mattress – swamp pink

swamp-pink.charleston.edu

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much for reading! ❤️

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 1d

soooo excited to have a story in the new issue of swamp pink out today! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the...

The Mattress – swamp pink

swamp-pink.charleston.edu

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 14d

“I do not think love comes easily to me—love for people, that is. For cats, who have been accused of loving back too little or not at all, it is a different story.” Rebecca van Laer on what humans can learn from our relationships with cats.

What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves

One fantasy that comes up again and again: I wish cats ruled the world. When we imagine this alternate reality, all our favorite projections blur together in a vague impression of what might be—a …

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 4d

So excited for this, and the page size makes me love it already @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social

Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social · 5d

It's incredible how much @travisflatt.bsky.social can pack into this 360 word story, creating a little miniature world of fully-fleshed characters and seasonally appropriate strangeness.

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Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social · 9d

www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/six-st...

Five Stories, a chapbook by @travisflatt.bsky.social is available now on our website!

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Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social · 5d

It's incredible how much @travisflatt.bsky.social can pack into this 360 word story, creating a little miniature world of fully-fleshed characters and seasonally appropriate strangeness.

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 4d

Hey friends and mutuals: writtend.bsky is almost certainly not Ottessa Moshfegh’s Bluesky account. She states very clearly on her s*bstack about page that she doesn’t use social media. And this is pretty textbook impersonation vibes. I’ve reported the account, please do the same.

Picture of the writtend account claiming to be Ottessa Moshfegh. There is only one post from a month ago, and the follow behavior is pretty consistent with impersonation accounts.

Picture of a conversation between myself and the Ottessa Moshfegh impersonator where I ask them to reply to the email I sent today if they want to confirm they are really her.

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 7d

Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!

@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Hand holding up a copy of Rebecca van Laer's book 'Cat' in front of foliage seen through a window.

Shelf containing the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series, all with black spines and colourful titles. Rebecca van Laer's CAT is facing out to the camera.

Rebecca van Laer's CAT held in front of a triple window facing trees from above. The book cover shoes a pensive green eyed white cat.

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Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social · 14d

New CNF up at Aesterion Lit.

www.aesterion.com/fall-2025-1

General 2 — aesterion

www.aesterion.com

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 11d

such an eerie, mesmerising story! Loved this!

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 11d

Hope the interns are enjoying a well-deserved break! :)

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 13d

"We gather outside under the stars and sing her praises"

Love the swell and momentum of this wonderful micro!

Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 13d

Check out my latest Pele micro in Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and love the art @damicandrea.bsky.social ❤️

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 13d

Read "One Day, Pele Decides She Wants to Visit Us" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and illustrated by @damicandrea.bsky.social.

"her lava coursing down our streets into our houses, like liquid gelatin, as we eat our cereal and go to school, swimming through her."

tinyurl.com/y8jmem3w

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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 15d

Nice!!! Congratulations!

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats!!