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Lee Ann Kostempski, author & librarian
@leeannkwrites.bsky.social
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She/her. Anarcho-commie, cat mom, spoonie, Kpoppie (SHINee, BB Girls, AKMU, Red Velvet). Debut horror fantasy novella, THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD BE, available now in print and Kindle format from Mocha Memoirs Press: https://a.co/d/0izUXNd
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Baby's first Library of Congress call number. 🤭
Photo of some books on a bookshelf. Smushed between a 2025 collection of Pushcart Prize small press nominees, and a book called Joan Is OK, is my humble indie horror-fantasy book, The World As It Should Be by Lee Ann Kostempski.
October 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Like are we seeing this? Most contagious sunshine smile ever.
Photo of Korean pop band SHINee member Onew / Lee Jinki, smiling widely and waving at the camera.
September 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Me every time SHINee's Onew smiles tbh
A meme reaction image of a small white child with short brown hair, maybe about 3 or 4 years old, with his hands folded beside his cheek and his face scrunched up as though he has just seen something adorable.
September 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Everyone pls wish my widdle spud Eloise aka Ellie Belly aka Ellie B. a happy Gotcha Day! 3 years ago today we brought her home. She was so tiny. 😭
Photo of an orange, brown, and white tabico cat sprawled on her side on a pink, square cat bed. She kinda looks like she's rolling her green eyes as she looks at something off-camera to the right. Photo of the same tabico cat when she was a kitten, splooting and giving a BIIIIIIIIIG yawn
September 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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look at my creature
Photo of a lanky, short-haired ginger and white tabby cat named Nemo. The photo is taken from a bird's eye view as Nemo claws his way along a fabric bed frame. He is lying on his side with all 4 paws gripping the bed frame so that it gives the illusion that the bed frame is the floor. His claws are all exposed and his eyes are huge with bigggg dilated pupils. He has his back arched like a Halloween scaredy cat. If you look up "chaos goblin" in the dictionary, this photo would be next to it.
September 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Pls enjoy this photo of my cat Eloise trying to steal one of the ziplock baggies I store my cross stitch stuff in.

She has 4 teeth left in her mouth b/c stomatitis. Yet trying to take the bag away from her was like playing tug o war with a Rottweiler. And the whole time she looked at me like this:
A photo of a tabico cat biting a plastic ziplock bag and side-eyeing the human off-camera as if to say "bitch, excuse you" for trying to take said ziplock away from her. If you zoom in you can see her blurry tongue sticking out a little under the baggie heeehee.
August 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Any bug experts know what kinda caterpillar this is? It was on my tire yesterday and I wasn't sure if it's the rash-causing kind so I ran back inside to grab gloves before moving it with a paper towel 😅 I'm up in NYS and haven't seen one like this before!
A fuzzy white caterpillar with a reddish orange face rests on a car tire. On its butt it has 2 longer white bristles, and behind its head are 2 longer orange bristles.
August 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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😼👹🎯🤫🤭 #cats #catsofbluesky #nemo #eloise
An orange and white tabby cat stands in the foreground, seen from about the chest up, looking off to his right. The camera is focused on the coffee table just behind him, under which there is a second tabico cat, hiding and spying on the first cat like she is ready to lunge out and attack him. The tabby is oblivious to the danger lurking behind him.
June 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Yall I saw Onew in Detroit this weekend and now I am having THE worst concert withdrawal of my life.

He came down into the audience and stood like two feet from me but the best I got is like a cryptid sighting shot. 😭💔 My phone is almost a decade old and I wasn't fast enough. 😅
A very blurry photo of Onew from SHINee at The Fillmore in Detroit, walking past the photographer's seat. He is wearing a black concert shirt and khaki colored pants. Please forgive the quality of the photo, for the photographer was too stunned by Onew's presence to get her camera opened in time. Photo of Lee Ann, a white woman with brown hair, wearing a SHINee necklace, smiling and posing with her SHINee lightstick pressed against her cheek. The lightstick is decked out in Onew gear, with a Jjingu King rabbit cape, and a Weird Kid plush keychain.
April 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Look at dis baby 👶 #cats #eloise
A tabico cat (tabby and calico mix) lays on top of a soft, white blanket with gold spots. The cat is curled up in a ball with her head upside-down, and she peeks up at the camera with a playful glint in her one visible green eye.
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Someone help me out. What is this oddly shaped creature that has crawled into my lap?? 🤨 #cats #Eloise
Photo of a tabico cat with brown, white, and orange striped fur. She is sitting half on top of the photographer's lap, with her back legs on the mattress and her front legs folded under her. It looks vaguely as if she is leaning against a bar (or melting over it?? because cats are liquid obviously) waiting for a bartender to notice her. Her colorful face is lifted towards the ceiling slightly and her eyes are partly closed. She looks like she's smiling softly.
January 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Winding down my 32nd birthday night with a little THC candy, Le Guin, and Nemo snuggle time. 🥰 #cats #books
Photo of a ginger and white tabby cat loafing atop a red and black plaid Oodie brand jumbo-hoodie, looking at the camera with his big yellow-green eyes. In the photo's foreground is a partial shot of a copy of The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin open to a page of the first book in the series, A Wizard of Earthsea.
December 27, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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Meowry Hissmas 😈 After I took this, Eloise flicked her tail in Nemo's face and he attacked her. 😑 #cats
A photo of 2 cats sitting awkwardly together like siblings being forced to take a family photo together. On the left is Eloise, a cabico with white, brown, and orange striped fur, and on the right is Nemo, a white and ginger tabby. Neither of them are looking at the camera and they look uncomfortable, like they are unsure how to pose for a camera. They are laying on top of a big black and red plaid flannel Comfy brand hoodie.
December 25, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Kitty cafe day! #cats
Photo of a brown and white tabby cat laying curled up inside a cat bed shaped like a pumpkin, his eyes starting to close even though he still has his head lifted. Top down view of two kittens playing on a floor. One, light gray and white, is playing with the other's tail (an all-black cat), while the second cat plays with a rainbow cloth string toy. Photo of a gray, white, and brown striped tabby cat. His eyes are yellow and locked in on a toy above his head, off-screen. Photo of a fluffy black cat curled up on a white cat pillow. The photographer's hand is in the photo, scratching the cat's head.
December 15, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD BE is (hyperspecifically) a great gift for witchy horse girlies (see the cover) or more generally anyone who likes Salem history. Dark fantasy w/sprinkles of horror & antifascism. Available from the publisher site below or Amazon:

mochamemoirspress.com/product/the-...
Cover art for Lee Ann Kostempski's fantasy horror novella, The World As It Should Be, depicting a young woman with dark hair in a braid, wearing a red leather jacket over a light blue nightgown. Behind her is a frightening horse-like creature with glowing eyes, sharp teeth, skin rotting off its face to show the bone beneath, and a glowing esca on its forehead like an anglerfish. They are walking together through the ruins of a neighborhood overtaken by nature. At the top is the author's name, and at the bottom is the book's title in yellow text that matches the glow of the monster's esca. Art by Maya Priesler.
December 12, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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Wow, climate change is no joke, huh. 😳
Photo of the bottom right corner of a Windows computer screen, where the weather widget reads that it is currently 21680 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy.
December 4, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Tongue: Out ✅
Eyes: ...Open? 😟✅ and yet...
Status: Passed tf out

#cats #nemo
A ginger and white tabby cat sleeps curled up on his side, with his mouth slightly open, tongue poking out between his teeth. His eyes are half-open but the photographer can assure you he is completely zonked out.
December 2, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Nemo says, "NO diamond art, mama. 🙅 Only pets. 😤" #cats
A photo of a ginger and white tabby with big yellow-green eyes. He is flopping around on top of the plastic-covered canvas of a half-finished work of Diamond Art, demanding skritchies. His human's hand is in the photo, obeying his command and skritching his head.
December 1, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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Peasants, behold your Queen:
Photo of a tabico cat, with pretty brown and white and orange fur and green eyes, looms over the camera with a judgy glare.
November 24, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Came home from work a couple days ago to find that our neighbors were, uhhh, cleaning out their Halloween mannequin collection 😅
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Nemo is actually a little Victorian ghost child.
Photo of a scrawny ginger and white tabby with big, dilated, watery pupils staring forlornly at the camera through a sheer grey curtain, like a sad little ghost come to haunt you.
November 13, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Please keep your fingers crossed for Nemo today as he undergoes a tooth extraction surgery. 🤞🤞 He's gonna get so many Churus when he gets home this afternoon! #cats
A ginger and white tabby with green eyes loads on a pink cat bed, with his little front paws crossed politely in front of him.
October 30, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Today would've been 13 years with this bubba-boo 🧡 Miss my soulmate kitty every single day. We said goodbye to him back in April '23 and I still think about him all the time. #cats #Butterscotch
A black and white photo of Lee Ann smooching the cheek of her late cat Butterscotch, who was a ginger and white tabby. In the photo he is looking straight at the camera with a lil smirk, loving all the affection.
October 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Asked the vet to do some bloodwork for Eloise because I keep catching her licking walls and eating plastic, and thought maybe there was an underlying health issue.

Nope. Everything came back perfect. Turns out she's just a lil plastic-lovin', wall-lickin' freak.
A photo of a calico-tabby mix cat with patchwork orange, white, and brown/black fur and mixed toe beans. She is partially covered by a pink pet blanket that says things like, "I heart cat naps" and "Sleep is purrrrfect." She looks at the camera with big, yellow-green eyes. One ear is cocked back, and the other faces forward.
October 2, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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(spoiler alert: 90% of it is kpop)
September 27, 2024 at 9:55 PM