This app was an experiment and it’s not working. I can’t see anything of yours and you can’t see anything of mine. Deleting Bluesky, but find me on IG with @clairehopple ✌️

Forgot to turn on the fan during the “everything” shower 😶‍🌫️

Gonna make a text and video platform called GreenerGrass

I fought the nap and the nap won

This is going to be good ✨ come thru if you're in Asheville.

Never would I have dreamed that Malaprop’s would ask to host my book launch. And the brilliant poet and translator @niina.bsky.social agreed to join me! Reserve your spot! www.malaprops.com/event/store-...

She spent her life entering passwords and verification codes

My secret power is getting through life without knowing any street names

When I say “in da club” I mean the grocery store parking lot, eatin’ a lil treat

HMU if you still need an ARC ✌️

Today is January 50th. Only 127 days until the end of the month.

I don’t want to age like Demi Moore, skinny and botoxed and beautiful and working her ass off and looking 40 at 62. I want to age like a Mediterranean man, wrinkling like a raisin and playing cards and drinking grappa all day with my friends in a bar that smells of salt and cigars.

These blurbs! 😍 Have you preordered yet? www.stalkinghorsepress.com/product/take...

Happy Wednesday everybody! Here’s to a great Wednesday

Just like the planet you’re getting hotter every year but at what cost

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can go to bed whenever you want on NYE; the new year will still arrive on time

2024 was rough, but I’m so thankful for potable water, my new job, YOU, and a slowly healing city. I recorded this a day or two after Helene when I was still in shock.

Gracefully leaving a party by rolling credits of the hosts

Dine in? Nope, I’ll eat my 11-inch personal pizza in the car like a savage, thank you.

I am built for regular, unfestive days

My space heater deserves a Christmas bonus because nobody works harder

Rootie-toot-toots? Rummy-tum-tums? Does Santa need some Pepto or what

A competitive cooking show called Wok of Shame

When you take a nap, part of you stays asleep for the rest of the day. When you fall asleep that night, this part wakes up to become the monster under your bed.

First blurb came in! And from none other than the brilliant @benloory.bsky.social Preorder here www.stalkinghorsepress.com/product/take...

How many of my fellow 90s kids spent a school year in a trailer classroom

It’s disconcerting when toiletry products smell like food—now my pits smell like vanilla cupcakes, what do they want me to do

Big news! treefortmusicfest.com/storyfort-20...

A renowned topiarist. An estranged dermatologist. A delightfully mysterious piece by @clairehopple.bsky.social you should indulge... right now.

So honored to appear in the brand new Terrazzo Editions. You can read my story and our interview here www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...

This local tagger spray paints “boob” and “poop” on everything like the world is his TI-83 calculator

Thank you so much to SmokeLong for offering this and my 🪩 pals who nominated me—your friendship means everything 🫶

Taking preorders for the elegant weirdness that is TAKE IT PERSONALLY by @clairehopple.bsky.social publishing in February 2025! Great to see them coming in. www.stalkinghorsepress.com/product/take...

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨 Thank you to @stalkinghorse.bsky.social for publishing my novel, TAKE IT PERSONALLY. You can preorder it here: www.stalkinghorsepress.com/product/take...

42: I'm such a big @clairehopple.bsky.social fan, and have published her across sites a bunch'a times, but I think this might be the only one I accepted? It's great. This funny, slightly askew look at the world that I love in all her stories. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/emp...

Gonna shove all my unviewed tweets into a duffel bag and take them over here to display in a participation trophy case

“Not to be dramatic, but to most people I have vanished off the face of the earth. I made quite a name for myself in certain circles of society and then I left. Don’t ask me why.” www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/wast... Read Claire Hopple in @clereviewbooks

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"Right when the building is reduced to rubble, I’m tying my shoes. I miss the best part. What a waste of waste." fiction by Claire Hopple www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/wast...