K.C. Mead-Brewer
@kcmeadbrewer.com
writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18; rep'd by @ericshowers.bsky.social ⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
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Anybody got recs for an ocean scented candle with a bit of “that rotting ocean floor smell?”
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Anybody got recs for an ocean scented candle with a bit of “that rotting ocean floor smell?”
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speed dating but it’s just a scholastic book fair for adults
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
speed dating but it’s just a scholastic book fair for adults
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wanna make sure you never miss a letter from your odd, deep-sea penpal? I got you, babe:
Hark! — K.C. Mead-Brewer
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
wanna make sure you never miss a letter from your odd, deep-sea penpal? I got you, babe:
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So terrible www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 44, with 279 reported missing
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...
www.npr.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So terrible www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
hot dang, I really super enjoyed WAYWARD; even had a winding, vivid dream about it
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
hot dang, I really super enjoyed WAYWARD; even had a winding, vivid dream about it
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Help us keep the people reading in 2026!!! We can't do it without your help!
Keep People Reading in 2026 - Electric Literature
Help EL remain a home for human stories in a country increasingly inhospitable to art
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November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Help us keep the people reading in 2026!!! We can't do it without your help!
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fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
a feast, a star, a howl, a wound
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
working on a freaky eyeball/chair sculpture while my husband cooks for tomorrow 💕
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
working on a freaky eyeball/chair sculpture while my husband cooks for tomorrow 💕
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Wednesdays that are actually Fridays feel funny.
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wednesdays that are actually Fridays feel funny.
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Complete with approximate word counts for each story—if, you know, that was important to you, for award season or whatever! 🙂
Wondering which 48 stories and 28 poems Kaleidotrope published in 2025?
Well, friends, wonder no more!
Well, friends, wonder no more!
Kaleidotrope 2025
kaleidotrope.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Complete with approximate word counts for each story—if, you know, that was important to you, for award season or whatever! 🙂
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The parrots give up now.
"The humans... desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.
But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?"
electricliterature.com/the-great-si...
"The humans... desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.
But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?"
electricliterature.com/the-great-si...
The Great Silence - Electric Literature
“The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across...
electricliterature.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The parrots give up now.
"The humans... desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.
But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?"
electricliterature.com/the-great-si...
"The humans... desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.
But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?"
electricliterature.com/the-great-si...
fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
a feast, a star, a howl, a wound
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
www.kcmeadbrewer.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @lmanusos.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, Mizuki Yamagen, & Malena Salazar Maciá 🦇⚡
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
prefer not to subscribe to my weird tiny letter? c'est la vie. but you should still read these stories! so here's the link:
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lmao might help if I included the link
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
lmao might help if I included the link
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this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
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IT'S LIVE YOU CAN BUY IT :D
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
The Butcher of the Forest Audiobook on Libro.fm
A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed.At the northern edge of a ...
libro.fm
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
IT'S LIVE YOU CAN BUY IT :D
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
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Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
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"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole."
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
-𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
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Just a gentle reminder to save PDFs of the work you published this year especially in digital publications because you could look up one day and find that that pub doesn’t exist anymore and isn’t archived anywhere and is just gone
Ask me how I know!
Ask me how I know!
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just a gentle reminder to save PDFs of the work you published this year especially in digital publications because you could look up one day and find that that pub doesn’t exist anymore and isn’t archived anywhere and is just gone
Ask me how I know!
Ask me how I know!
lmao might help if I included the link
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
lmao might help if I included the link
another cool matching gift opportunity with @electricliterature.com! I donated to support them bc I truly am grateful for all that EL brings to the world, showcasing fantastic art and supporting a healthy, exciting literary community
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
another cool matching gift opportunity with @electricliterature.com! I donated to support them bc I truly am grateful for all that EL brings to the world, showcasing fantastic art and supporting a healthy, exciting literary community
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Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage — in the face or rising premiums.
@reuters.com $XLV
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November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage — in the face or rising premiums.
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www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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