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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 25/09/2026

📜🖋️ This piece started with a real historical footnote—an 85-year-old message in a ginger beer bottle—and turned into an exploration of what war steals from love. Read it at brief + incorrect lit: Collection: westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBluesky #AmWriting

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A Soldier Slipped Two Messages into a Ginger Beer Bottle

By Kate LaDew

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 22/09/2026

🖼️✨ "...her smile a little tremulous... when you're young and happy and all filled up with life and someone asks you to stand still..." 📷🤍 originally from my poetry collection: westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... today on 'brief + incorrect lit': #WritersOfBluesky #Poetry #FlashFiction

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A Soldier Slipped Two Messages into a Ginger Beer Bottle

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 21/09/2026

📜⚓ "85 years later, a fisherman, off the coast of Essex, dredged up the ginger beer bottle, pulled the rubber stopper out, and retrieved the two messages..." 🌊🍾 Thrilled to share my story featured today in brief + incorrect lit: #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction

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A Soldier Slipped Two Messages into a Ginger Beer Bottle

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 21/09/2026

Thrilled that 4 of my poems are featured on Midnight Mind's Instagram! ✨ They are included in my poetry collection 📚 "what it feels like to be run over(mm/dd/yyyy)". westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... #PoetryCommunity #BookSky #WritingCommunity

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 15/09/2026

#vss365 #Poetry #Fall #BookSky #autumnal windblown eddies crinkling, cracking, crunching the susurration lulls us into dreaming

North Carolina in the Autumn, a long planked wooden bridge stretching into forever, surrounded by red and green grass, trees in yellow and orange and red with splashes of green and an electric blue sky

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

With Kate's permission, I read this poem today on the Story of Writing podcast. The piece just hit me on my first reading of it, here, on BlueSky. Heartfelt thanks to Kate for allowing me to include it in the podcast. If you'd like to hear my reading of the poem, it's at: storyofwriting.com

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 07/09/2026

In 1900, a silent short film called "How It Feels to Be Run Over" shocked audiences by driving a motor car directly into the camera lens. My debut collection takes its title from that chaotic moment. westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... #BookSky #Poetry #WritingCommunity #History

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Hepworth Manufacturing - How It Feels To Be Run Over (1900)

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 07/09/2026

#vss365 #History #Poetry children's handprints from hundreds of thousands of years ago so many, a #palimpsest background of layered color forms, red, black, brown, white, they hover over the rock as if waiting to be held, you are so small, little one, I can fit you in the palm of my hand

cave painting of dozens of stenciled hands, in red and brown and white, many small, possibly children's hands

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 05/09/2026

#Saturday #Octopus #Cats James Cagney and Cephalo. Let's all get along and have a great #Caturday.

James Cagney, a gray and white cat with an aqua colored stuffed octopus toy, Cephalo, wrapped around his neck. Cagney seems a bit dazed.

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He's the imprinted wonder Of morning mist, The gimmer that Stopped the knife Delivering the final twist To a barely beating heart, A silent #Empathetic well Of undiscovered Compassion Guarding the space The world beyond Didn't tear apart. #VSS365 #GingerCatAppreciationDay #Cats #Poetry

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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

From Westbrae Literary Group, a new #Poetry collection by recent Five-Two contributor @kateladew.com, what it feels like to be run over: westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i...

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What It Feels Like to Be Run Over by Kate LaDew

Poetry as purpose, timestamped, referenceable, a cosmic almanac of history, erasure, and the sudden collisions of being alive.

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 29/08/2026

Janis Joplin is feeling just okay today #Caturday #Cats #Morning

Close up of a sedate black and brown cat with green eyes

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 23/08/2026

If you like poetry about real historical events, you can order my debut collection, 'what it feels like to be run over (mm/dd/yyyy),' here: westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... (James Cagney, post-dinner photobomb, below) #BookSky #Poetry #History #WritingCommunity

A close-up photo of the book 'what it feels like to be run over (mm/dd/yyyy)' by Kate LaDew on a desk with a gray cat next to it. The cat is looking at the camera and licking her lips.

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 23/08/2026

Persnickety Books, Burlington #NC #BannedBooks #BookSky All the banned books are against hate and for #love

Persnickety Bookshop in Burlington, North Carolina bookcase with examples of Banned Books, Maus, Of Mice and Men, This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson, The Kite Runner, etc.

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 23/08/2026

#vss365 #poetry #history they found loaded #dice in an egyptian pyramid, nobody's ever been honest and if it's better to be lucky than good, which gods do you pray to?

Four square white ivory loaded dice from 79 AD

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 22/08/2026

A debut collection centered on history, ordinary lives, and the passing of time. Pick up your copy of Kate LaDew's 'what it feels like to be run over (mm/dd/yyyy),' out now from Westbrae Literary Group westbraeliterarygroup.com/books/what-i... #BookSky #Poetry #WritingCommunity

A text excerpt of a poem from Kate LaDew's debut collection, what it feels like to be run over (mm/dd/yyyy):

you life your finger carefully as if heavy with paint
slide it down my cheekbone and under my chin, pausing, as if to
consider
once, da vinci, after days of absence,
wandered into the dining hall of the monastery of santa maria
dell grazie,
crossed his arms and looked up at jesus looking down,
in the evening light he lifted his brush, slid an arc of tempera
over a slice of lemon
stepped back and walked away
your eyes move in an arc over my face as I touch my fingertips
to my cheek,
raising them to the light, striations of yellow shimmer

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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 22/08/2026

“Poetry as an unsparing act of witness.” Out now from Westbrae Literary Group: what it feels like to be run over (mm/dd/yyyy) by Kate LaDew. A collection mapping history, ordinary lives, and the weight of the past. Order directly via the link below: #BookSky #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Cover of 'what it feels like to be run over (mm/dd/yyyy)' written by Kate LaDew, black yellow and beige to resemble a roadway.

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