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Six months of this absolute munchkin 🩷 we love you Baby Maeve

Baby Maeve in her pink hat and jacket, being cuddled by me in a garden

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Hannah Colbert @tanglepretty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's SFF story: The Somnambulist by @mckatie.bsky.social. “I knew you’d be here,” he says. Something troubled and uncertain distorts his schoolboy vowels. “I had a dream about it.” I love bogs and mysteries and main characters who are in way over their heads. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

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3LBE Magazine - The Somnambulist by Katie McIvor

It was supposed to be a simple job. I fly into Edinburgh and get the gun from a contact in the Grassmarket. All smooth. I check into my hotel near the mark's flat and spend a couple hours scoping out ...

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not a great outcome for Ben & Jerry's

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Didn't realise my baby had been studying for her diploma in Advanced Sleep Deprivation from the Institute of Professional Torturers, but she tried out some of her techniques on me last night and I believe she has a promising career ahead of her

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Excusez-moi, French wikipedia, but qu'est-ce que c'est is un 'wonny'? 😂

From French wikipedia: "Le kelpie ou <cheval ondin> est une créature... de type fabuleux (wonny en anglais)"

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Excusez-moi, French wikipedia, but qu'est-ce que c'est is un 'wonny'? 😂

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm worried i wont always remember all the weird and adorable things our 2yo says. Like how she calls washing up liquid "green", or if someone looks cross she'll say "there's a lot of stern on his face". I love her so much 😭

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My husband farted in the middle of the night so loudly the toddler who sleeps in the room next door woke up and screamed "What was that"

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

15 day R from big daddy The Dark, oh yeah we're so back

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

15 day R from big daddy The Dark, oh yeah we're so back

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Horror friends, what are some beginner-level horror films/series that won't mess with my head too much? Usually love scary films but postpartum anxiety has been harshing my vibe, and at this rate me and my poor husband will be watching Spookily the Square Pumpkin for halloween 😭

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sometimes having small kids is great. Sometimes it's improvising 50+ verses of A Hedgehog Is Very Prickly in the shower to keep the baby entertained, while your husband fights for his life putting the toddler to bed, and you feel like you are in an advert for contraceptives 🫠

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

*Interaction I had my first week at Cambridge* Posh English guy: My dad is a priest. My dumb Celtic ass, wide-eyed at the scandalous gossip: Omg a Catholic priest?! Him: *poshly scoffing* No, of course not. That would have made my existence rather problematic, don't you think?

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So lovely to see a review of my little gardening horror story 😎 thank you for the kind words Michael! The Allotment is available to read here: dl.bookfunnel.com/ei4nhw30dq

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It must suck being a second child. With my first baby, there's no way I'd have ever left her lying on a changing mat while I made lunch - the darling princess must have her baby gym or her bouncy chair! Second baby? Meh, as long as she's not crying it's probably fine 🙈

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just sent off my first short story submission since *checks notes* January 😭

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Suddenly remembered about the time I got on a plane and had to show the air hostess our tickets on my phone but she swiped the wrong way and got a photo of this My First Hitler Book i found in the library

Usborne children's picture book about Hitler

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Forever behind on this sort of thing, but I finally had a look at the 2025 Stoker Awards recommended list aaaaand... The Somnambulist was on it! I had so much fun with this story, it's really nice to see it getting some love 🥰

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Me trying to swap boobs while my baby screams at me

Gandalf telling Bilbo he's not trying to rob him he's trying to help him

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A postpartum poem for my Maeve 🩷

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A postpartum poem for my Maeve 🩷

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This happened to me 4hrs after giving birth, when they wanted to move me off labour ward & send husband home. Crying, shaking, midwife offering "reassurance". Got to pp ward, had a >1.5L haemorrhage, sent straight back to labour ward. At least they let husband stay after that 🙃

Twitter post about "impending sense of doom" before medical emergencies being dismissed as anxiety

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Reading a novel atm that's making me think a lot about chapter lengths. What would you say is the ideal length for a chapter? Does too short = annoying, too long = relentless? Or do you prefer if they vary in length? 📚

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We had a visitor in the kitchen yesterday! Not sure what kind of bird (song thrush maybe?) but she was fine and flew out again without even pooping anywhere

Small brown bird on a windowsill behind a very sad and neglected Aloe Vera plant

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Having the Breastfeeding Hungries when it is This Hot truly is a 0/10 experience 😭

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Our 2.5 year old believes that the dehumidifier collects water out of the air, we empty it into the sink, and it fills the sink up with water which we access by means of the taps. This is so sensible and clever I don't have the heart to tell her it's completely wrong 😂

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm so obsessed with getting gas out of my baby. I love knowing the exact way to fold her little legs up to help her fart, or exactly where to rub her back to get the burps out. Ridiculously satisfying 🥰

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

10 weeks postpartum, brain fried, crying over a Pampers advert 🙈 send help

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

An unanticipated perk of breastfeeding is actually having more time than usual to read! When someone else is watching the toddler that is 😂 I just finished Katabasis and have started A Stranger in Olondria 📚

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thrilled to have a story in the latest Three-Lobed Burning Eye anthology! If you like stories about insomniac hitmen, creepy deer, and Scottish bogs, 'The Somnambulist' is for you 🦌 Huge thanks to Andrew @3lobedmag.com for publishing my weird stuff!

The gorgeous cover of Three-Lobed Burning Eye Volume XI

3LBE artwork on stickers, bookmarks and postcards

First page of The Somnambulist with stunning artwork showing a bog and a tower

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Things that did not send me into labour: - kerb walking - climbing stairs sideways - exercise ball - eating dates - spicy food - baking a Hurry Up Baby cake Things that DID send me into labour: - my toddler wandering over with a huge spider crawling up the side of her neck 🕷 😶

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I kind of missed this at the time due to having just had a baby, but LOOK at this gorgeous cover and line-up of extremely awesome people!! So happy my story 'The Somnambulist' is included in the anthology 🥰 😍

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Baby Maeve is here and she is perfect 🩷

Baby Maeve asleep in her hospital cot with her toy moomin

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happy due date baby girl! Time to get your lil butt out of there now 😂

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The nesting urge is really wild. 38 weeks pregnant, exhausted, sore, in charge of a toddler, and my home has never been so clean and organised 🫠

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Today is a bit of a milestone - we are now as far along in this pregnancy as we were the day Marnie was born! So happy that everything seems to be going more smoothly this time round 🤞 and thankful as always for NHS Scotland and their excellent medical care ❤️

Tiny Marnie asleep in an incubator with her dada's hand on her back

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

2yo is learning grammar and it's so fascinating. At first she only referred to herself in 3rd person ("Marnie want some apple"), then had a long phase of weirdly using 2nd person ("Did you have fun at the playpark?"), and she's now using 1st person ("I just want some grapes")

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Weird side effects this pregnancy that I didn't get last time: - Low iron (feels like I'm dying unless I eat a steak) - One toe went randomly numb for weeks - Tiny but constant amounts of blood inside my nose - No appetite except for very bland food - Pelvic girdle pain arghhh 😫

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Hello friends, looking for recommendations - is there like a French version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series? Complicated female friendships, marriage / children, that kind of thing, but in French?

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Our daughter, who is 2 years and 1 month old, just hit me with "I'm not a baby any more" 😭 truly the sass begins early

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