Elsa McClaren

Elsa McClaren is a flash fiction and short story writer whose work speaks to people who carry things they can’t explain. Her stories explore the space between truth, memory, and the fragile artifacts of forgotten history—the things we sometimes set on fire just to see what survives.
Forgotten history.

She writes under the pen name Elsa McClaren—not to hide, but to give the work room to breathe. Sometimes it’s easier to tell the truth when wearing someone else’s shoes. A name can be a vessel, a container for the stories the real world isn’t ready to hold.

Her literary short stories and flash fiction have been passed between friends, scribbled in Notes apps, and whispered aloud at kitchen tables. Now, she’s sharing them with the world, one piece at a time—an intimate collection of fiction meant to be carried and shared.

Elsa believes that short fiction can hold big truths—and that a single sentence, carefully placed, can linger longer than a novel

She lives somewhere quiet, writes in bursts, and doesn’t always remember what’s fact and what’s fiction. That blur between reality and imagination is part of the charm—and at the heart of her stories.

Why Sunday Stories?
Sundays are the space between—where memory rises and words have room to land. It’s the rhythm behind her weekly release of flash fiction and short stories.