Cuyler
@cuylermeade.bsky.social
Husband and father of six (kids, not wives...one wife). Former journo. Now writing other things. Big-city California kid now living in rural Northwest Colorado. Fiction in Elegant Literature, TL;DR, Intrepidus Ink, and Trampset. A 🦔 of Quill Hollow
The special prosecutor being questionably removed from the case and then the guy who took over not being able to find anybody to take the case and then just deciding to drop it feels like a different thing than "a judge dismissed the last Trump election interference case" but who am I to say?
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The special prosecutor being questionably removed from the case and then the guy who took over not being able to find anybody to take the case and then just deciding to drop it feels like a different thing than "a judge dismissed the last Trump election interference case" but who am I to say?
This feels like a spiritual successor (or predecessor, in terms of age of the characters) to Hempel's In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried. Beautiful storytelling here. Heart-stretching and full of guilt and sorrow and love. @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
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Renaissance — Split Lip Magazine
Today we see the statue of David. His cock is unimpressive but his hands stop my breath. My best friend Amy wants me to sweet talk a museum attendant into letting us touch them.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
This feels like a spiritual successor (or predecessor, in terms of age of the characters) to Hempel's In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried. Beautiful storytelling here. Heart-stretching and full of guilt and sorrow and love. @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/flash/1125/c...
splitlipthemag.com/flash/1125/c...
Read my friend's perfect story. You will regret it but you also won't.
“You name each shape in sing-song, asking me to play along, but it’s the summer before seventh grade and I’m too old for make-believe.”
Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:
Read my contest-winning story, “Lee Aeronautics,” here:
Lee Aeronautics
On a lazy mayfly day, we sit on Grandpa Lee’s wrap-around porch, purple-tongued and sticky-fingered from the grape soda and teriyaki jerky he keeps in the pantry because they’re your favorites.&nbs…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Read my friend's perfect story. You will regret it but you also won't.
Listening to @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social drink wine on CPR and I'm just so happy for him. Dude is just living the absolute peak. I don't drink wine but I just love listening to him and this other nerd love their lives so fully.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Listening to @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social drink wine on CPR and I'm just so happy for him. Dude is just living the absolute peak. I don't drink wine but I just love listening to him and this other nerd love their lives so fully.
This is amazing.
🛸🛸 new today from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
“It is easy to assume things about air, a blank canvas for projects of human imagination and for refracted perceptions.”
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“It is easy to assume things about air, a blank canvas for projects of human imagination and for refracted perceptions.”
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A Refracted Truth
by Mizuki Yamamoto
You strike a match.
It is neither to see better in the dark or for warmth. You are beyond such basic desires. You strike a match with glee. For pleasure. For no reason but the sen...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is amazing.
I'd like to read some joyful short stories. Any recommendations? Link appreciated if published online.
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I'd like to read some joyful short stories. Any recommendations? Link appreciated if published online.
This is one of my favorites stories I've written. Come for my Winnie the Pooh modern update, stay for whatever other hilarity is in here.
open.substack.com/pub/eggplant...
open.substack.com/pub/eggplant...
Eggplant Emoji Volume 5 is available now!
A brand new anthology of 13 hilarious stories
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October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is one of my favorites stories I've written. Come for my Winnie the Pooh modern update, stay for whatever other hilarity is in here.
open.substack.com/pub/eggplant...
open.substack.com/pub/eggplant...
I think the word thrum is only used by creative writers. I've never seen it in any other context.
October 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I think the word thrum is only used by creative writers. I've never seen it in any other context.
I'm finally gonna say it. Ned Stark deserved to lose his head just for the way he said "they have no ships, Robert" at their fancy King picnic. There. I said it. I'm glad he's dead.
October 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I'm finally gonna say it. Ned Stark deserved to lose his head just for the way he said "they have no ships, Robert" at their fancy King picnic. There. I said it. I'm glad he's dead.
Hi! Why not read this story of mine? If you feel like it, you know.
Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February.
Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces trampset.org/margaret-mul...
Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February.
Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces trampset.org/margaret-mul...
Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces
by Cuyler Meade
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October 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hi! Why not read this story of mine? If you feel like it, you know.
Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February.
Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces trampset.org/margaret-mul...
Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February.
Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces trampset.org/margaret-mul...
No freaking way. Octavia E Butler forecasting 2032 in 1998. Check the second to last line. This is nuts. Utterly eerie stuff.
October 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
No freaking way. Octavia E Butler forecasting 2032 in 1998. Check the second to last line. This is nuts. Utterly eerie stuff.
Good news, fans of art, the apocalypse is almost here, and you can be a part of it! (Apparently real job that LinkedIn recommended to me)
October 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good news, fans of art, the apocalypse is almost here, and you can be a part of it! (Apparently real job that LinkedIn recommended to me)
The contest that started it all (for me) is back! Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 20th annual Short Story Challenge on January 23rd. Learn more at NYCmidnight.com/ssc
The Short Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Short Story Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The contest that started it all (for me) is back! Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 20th annual Short Story Challenge on January 23rd. Learn more at NYCmidnight.com/ssc
The calendar invite just says "not the second to last step in a Bond villain plot, we swear!"
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Hegseth orders hundreds of senior military officers to Virginia for highly unusual meeting | CNN Politics
Hundreds of US generals and admirals around the globe have been called to Virginia for a meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, several US officials told CNN, though the reason for th...
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September 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The calendar invite just says "not the second to last step in a Bond villain plot, we swear!"
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...
My seventh grader today was relating that in his ELA argumentative writing unit they aren't supposed to be writing about "facts that can't be debated."
I tried not to shatter his worldview. It's very sweet that he still thinks those exist. What a good, stable existence that must be.
I tried not to shatter his worldview. It's very sweet that he still thinks those exist. What a good, stable existence that must be.
September 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My seventh grader today was relating that in his ELA argumentative writing unit they aren't supposed to be writing about "facts that can't be debated."
I tried not to shatter his worldview. It's very sweet that he still thinks those exist. What a good, stable existence that must be.
I tried not to shatter his worldview. It's very sweet that he still thinks those exist. What a good, stable existence that must be.
This is all I've got for you today. I'm trying, Jennifer.
September 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is all I've got for you today. I'm trying, Jennifer.
@pablo.show can you find out about this hat?
September 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
@pablo.show can you find out about this hat?
I haven't watched Downton Abbey since the beginning of the second or maybe third season, but did the massive jumps in time just slow way down? Because they should be in like the 90s by now otherwise right? Does lady Mary listen to Garbage? Probably, right?
September 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I haven't watched Downton Abbey since the beginning of the second or maybe third season, but did the massive jumps in time just slow way down? Because they should be in like the 90s by now otherwise right? Does lady Mary listen to Garbage? Probably, right?
It's interesting to watch brands lean so hard into AI as a selling point despite 1. The overwhelming disgust most people I know have for AI and 2. The usually meaningless (and often useless) distinction between what we used to just call an algorithm or programming but now insist on calling AI.
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's interesting to watch brands lean so hard into AI as a selling point despite 1. The overwhelming disgust most people I know have for AI and 2. The usually meaningless (and often useless) distinction between what we used to just call an algorithm or programming but now insist on calling AI.
The truest thing I've ever read.
"My kids used to think I was a halfway decent parent until you two came along with your delightful Australian accents and seemingly endless stores of free time and patience."
An Open Letter to Bluey’s Parents: Please Stop
Mum. Dad. Let me begin by saying I’m a fan. You are truly two of the finest method actors of your dog generation. Your commitment to playing Ground...
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September 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The truest thing I've ever read.
Got my mom to listen to Omnibus. after one episode her takes are: "i wish @kenjennings.bsky.social talked more" and "they are right this episode is long"
August 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Got my mom to listen to Omnibus. after one episode her takes are: "i wish @kenjennings.bsky.social talked more" and "they are right this episode is long"
Libs of TikTok put on a whole dress and did her hair to party on the white house lawn with an empty binder and now the speaker of the house is threatening to shut down the Congress over what they were all crowing about was in the binders.
July 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Libs of TikTok put on a whole dress and did her hair to party on the white house lawn with an empty binder and now the speaker of the house is threatening to shut down the Congress over what they were all crowing about was in the binders.