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Cuyler

@cuylermeade.bsky.social
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Husband and father of 6. Fiction in Elegant Literature, Intrepidus Ink, Trampset, Eggplant Emoji, Trash Cat Lit, Bullet Points, Rat Bag Lit, Temple in a City, Stanchion, Oyster River Pages. Best Small Fictions nominee x2. A 🦔 of Quill Hollow.

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 16h
On top of the tentacular weirdness, this story is also one of the best depictions of the twisted complexity of abusive dependent relationships I've ever read.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 19h
I'm going to be honest if you can get to the end of this it's a pretty impressive implementation of The Weave. But you gotta hang on to get there.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Super grateful to have my story, Something Beautiful, published in the latest @elegantliterature.bsky.social. I love this one. Longtime vampire companions find themselves at a crucial crossroads. Check it out! www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
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Amazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So supremely grateful and excited that @trashcatlit.bsky.social has nominated my story, La Perla de Gran Precio, for Best Small Fictions! Thank you to the team at this SUPER cool pub, and thank you for believing in my story. Go read it! trashcatlit.com/la-perla-de-...
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La Perla de Gran Precio
Cuyler Meade Listen to Cuyler read his story here At the massive, open-air pulga, a man could get his car windows tinted, save his eternal soul, and lose it again – all in one place – w…
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because we let him.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So pleased for this story to find a home in @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. One of my very favorites. www.oysterriverpages.com/infinity-for...
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"Infinity Forever and Ever," a short story by Cuyler Meade — Oyster River Pages
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Did I list 29 separate examples of what I believe it means to be human in a discussion board post for the unit in my Master's of Science of Organizational Leadership program that included lengthy (but in my opinion incomplete) ethical AI use analysis? Yes. Was that the question? No, but...well, no.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As Flannery O'Connor said (or maybe the ghost said it for her?) "A story is a way to say something that can't be said in any other way, although really if you break it down to the raw data of the story what's the difference?"
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Need a dedicated entertainment reporter to tell me how much money is being spent on getting every single person in the entire world to post about this Elizabeth Holmes movie.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sources, on second thought: psyche! www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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Sources: NBA has no evidence Ballmer funneled money to Leonard via sponsors
The NBA has found no evidence showing LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer funneled money through team sponsors to pay Kawhi Leonard, according to three people with knowledge of discussions between the two sides in recent days.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As a longtime avid NYTC fan and an increasing avid Emily fan, this feels like it was created specifically for me to enjoy. Good news: I did! She never misses.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My latest, in @stanchion.bsky.social "Today, 15, in her journal, I read that she hates me. I suppose she didn’t expect me to read it. The words sting half as much as my guilt. But she’s young. It’s how I protect her." www.stanchionzine.com/post/best-ne...
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Best New Fiction: Today, Every Day, Yesterday, Tomorrow by Cuyler Meade
Today, Every Day, Yesterday, Tomorrowby Cuyler Meade Today, 4, my daughter is humming along too loudly to her bedtime song. “Hush, sweety,” I say. “It's time for night-night. You need to sleep, baby.”...
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Grateful to @stanchion.bsky.social for publishing this deeply personal story. One of my personal favorites. I hope you enjoy.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Can't wait for this! Love this story and so excited to see my words among the incredible works at Stanchion. Hope you'll check it out!
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Now do, like, the earth. Can we get a weird mascot from a children's book to represent our atmosphere?
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I Came, I Saw, I Whimmed. @whimsyfiction.bsky.social
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
WHY? WHO DID THIS TO US? WHY DON'T YOU WANt US TO HAVE NICE THINGS???
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
How does @emilyrinkema.bsky.social exist on the same plane of reality as, like, mosquitos and exhaust fumes and billionaires? We don't deserve her.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This could qualify as breaking news in like 1975 I guess.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The great thing is that he's gleefully doubling down on the joke the obvious bad guy makes.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If there is a more 2026 Giants Season thing that has happened than this, I'm grateful not to remember it.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Lol ma'am you didn't come close enough for that to be controversial coming from you in particular.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Loved this course. Take it before it's gone!
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As the great Tracy Jordan once sang: Werewolf bar mitzvah, spooky, scary. Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves. In other words, Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 16th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/scary
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Scary Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Scary Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create scary short stories based on assigned prompts in 48 hours.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thank you, Johnny Gilbert.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What kinda maps are they using at the NYT? Norway's been on all my maps for a long time.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Oprah was right. This one is a rocking good time. Call me a simp but this deserves the hype.
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026
you know the old movies/tv shows where there was a shapeshifter and you'd have the protag having to decide which version of a loved one to trust? AI has taught us that there's a large chunk of people who would just pick whichever one complimented them the blandest
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Obsessed with this absolutely unhinged masterpiece at @ratbaglit.bsky.social ratbaglit.substack.com/p/i-dont-thi...
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I don’t think the author thought out the logistics of this
By Caden Crane
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Democratic Socialists win a bunch of primaries and offices, all on a platform of taxing the rich and providing safety and life-promoting policies for all, NYTOpinion: WHAT IS HAPPENING PEOPLE WANT SOCIALISM?? One of them turns out to be a scumbag NYTO: What do they... WANT, though? They don't know!
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you’re a writer who uses generative AI, you can stop. You can just stop. You can quit scraping together excuses for why it’s fine actually and start creating work in a way that requires no excusing. You can just stop. You should stop
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hates Blue Jays Fans Ken is my very favorite Ken.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Oh hey. I did it. @whimsyfiction.bsky.social you don't know what's coming for you with this one.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Heck yeah NYT way to stay on topic
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Absolute psychopath stuff here. Storing a hagen daazs bar in the freezer already unwrapped? Maybe Hakeem Jeffries is right.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Extreme lol, obviously and for all the obvious reasons, but also what is a "designated location"?
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dude is on fire lately!
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Oh my gosh you're so close!
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We're in the group chat lamenting our jealousy over how good this joke is. Standing O, ma'am.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ok fine I'll take a lunch break and learn some craft. Join me? I'm excited for this. Matt knows his stuff.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm definitely cringing at this headline! Is that good?
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you love writing and want to write better, I can't recommend enough taking a course from @mattkendrick.bsky.social. Simply one of the best guys in this sphere, and fabulous teacher of craft. Here's a course I took last year that I loved, running this August: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-gloriou...
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Glorious Words | MattKendrick.co.uk
How do we choose the right words to sharpen up our prose? This flash fiction course explores language in all its guts and glory, focussing on unique images, concision versus specificity and how to cre...
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"You have more of a comment than a question." (They sniped me in the very first one, just my naps are on Sunday) @mcsweeneys.net stays seeing us. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...
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What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You
The War on Drugs You make your own paella and take super long naps on Saturday. Like over two hours, consistently. You prefer the smallest possible hardware ...
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My name is kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiids BOP
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Why not celebrate the return of the wonderful Trampset by reading my story which they published a year and a half ago? (or, really, any story over there. They're all so good). www.trampset.org/post/margare...
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Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces
by Cuyler MeadeI met a man last night. He had one of those faces you think you’ve seen before, but you just can’t place. We laughed and talked all evening. Oh, heavens, he was lovely. He asked many qu...
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Keke Palmer's first name is Lauren. Her three sibling's first names are Loreal, Lawrence, and Lawrencia. Love it.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
When the group chat gets to the bottom of the expanding brain meme:
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social Hey, top of the seventh in KC, I think Yordan just got a fourth strike? There's no way the 0-2 pitch he swung at was a foul tip. Announcers aren't paying attention it seems. (also one of the strangest ump timeouts I've ever seen before the 0-1).
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
BAD NEWS LIBS, JAMES TALARICO IS APPARENTLY DATING WOMEN HE MEETS AT WORK. MORE THAN ONE, THOUGH NOT AT THE SAME TIME. THEY HAVE NOTHING BAD TO SAY ABOUT HIM AND ALSO NOBODY IS HIDING ANYTHING: PRETTY SUSPICIOUS?? THEY LOOK VERY CUTE TOGETHER. CHECKMATE, LEFTY SCUM.
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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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