Cuyler
@cuylermeade.bsky.social
Husband and father of six (kids, not wives...one wife). Former journo. Now writing other things. Fiction in Elegant Literature, TL;DR, Intrepidus Ink, Trampset, and Eggplant Emoji. A 🦔 of Quill Hollow
I returned to reading books this year. It's everything it's cracked up to be and more.
Here are the best books I read this year...
Here are the best books I read this year...
December 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I returned to reading books this year. It's everything it's cracked up to be and more.
Here are the best books I read this year...
Here are the best books I read this year...
What are laws, really?
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
What are laws, really?
Don't remove the names of Confederates off off military bases because those names mean something and history is important. These names are, like, sacred, historic. They matter to people. Stop changing things. Also, the Donald Trump Kennedy Center, heck yeah, love that.
December 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Don't remove the names of Confederates off off military bases because those names mean something and history is important. These names are, like, sacred, historic. They matter to people. Stop changing things. Also, the Donald Trump Kennedy Center, heck yeah, love that.
Totally honest question: what are Congressional hearings for?
I feel like all I see every day are congresspeople grilling someone at a table from a big high dais. But I can't think of a time anything happened next. Does anything happen next? Has anything ever happened next?
I feel like all I see every day are congresspeople grilling someone at a table from a big high dais. But I can't think of a time anything happened next. Does anything happen next? Has anything ever happened next?
December 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Totally honest question: what are Congressional hearings for?
I feel like all I see every day are congresspeople grilling someone at a table from a big high dais. But I can't think of a time anything happened next. Does anything happen next? Has anything ever happened next?
I feel like all I see every day are congresspeople grilling someone at a table from a big high dais. But I can't think of a time anything happened next. Does anything happen next? Has anything ever happened next?
Wow, really meaningful to have my story included in this venerable list by Matt, who is as engaged a reader and writer and teacher in this funny little world of short fiction as anybody. Truly honored and grateful.
I've taken the reins for this month's #Mondettes - it's my end-of-year round-up of some of my favourites from 2025, also known as the MAFFIAS!!!
mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...
mondettes.substack.com/p/december-2...
December 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Wow, really meaningful to have my story included in this venerable list by Matt, who is as engaged a reader and writer and teacher in this funny little world of short fiction as anybody. Truly honored and grateful.
HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON.... HIS SISTER WAS A WITCH, RIGHT? AND WHAT WAS HIS SISTER? A PRINCESS, THE CROWN PRINCESS OF ALDERAAN, BRO. YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT ME TELL AND YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME THAT I'M WRONG? SHE WORE A HAIR CROWN AND HER DAD CAME DOWN ON SEBULBA, DOUG. GROW UP, BRO. GROW UP.
December 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON.... HIS SISTER WAS A WITCH, RIGHT? AND WHAT WAS HIS SISTER? A PRINCESS, THE CROWN PRINCESS OF ALDERAAN, BRO. YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT ME TELL AND YOU'RE GONNA TELL ME THAT I'M WRONG? SHE WORE A HAIR CROWN AND HER DAD CAME DOWN ON SEBULBA, DOUG. GROW UP, BRO. GROW UP.
There are stories that come along from time to time that, once you've read them, have given you not only the pleasure of being entertained and affected, but cause you to feel you know the world more than before you read it. I think of "The Wife of His Youth" often. This wonderful story is another.
Long time since I released a big beast into the wild but here is The Future Is Me, told from NHS waiting rooms during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The siblings are my most Northumbrian characters though a Colombian walked in from nowhere and kidnapped the story.
waccamawjournal.com/fiction/the-...
waccamawjournal.com/fiction/the-...
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
There are stories that come along from time to time that, once you've read them, have given you not only the pleasure of being entertained and affected, but cause you to feel you know the world more than before you read it. I think of "The Wife of His Youth" often. This wonderful story is another.
"The war has been *averted.*"
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh...
(Stunning gravity as always from Jaime, one of my absolute favorites. Few writers say so much when they say so little. Read this.)
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh...
(Stunning gravity as always from Jaime, one of my absolute favorites. Few writers say so much when they say so little. Read this.)
"The lights are dimming across Europe, the darkness seeping through the cracks of the British everyday."
SO thrilled my 1930s, very British, allegorical domestic drama - Appeasement - was a finalist for the New Flash Fiction Award by @nffr.bsky.social.
Read here: newflashfiction.com/appeasement/
SO thrilled my 1930s, very British, allegorical domestic drama - Appeasement - was a finalist for the New Flash Fiction Award by @nffr.bsky.social.
Read here: newflashfiction.com/appeasement/
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
"The war has been *averted.*"
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh...
(Stunning gravity as always from Jaime, one of my absolute favorites. Few writers say so much when they say so little. Read this.)
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh...
(Stunning gravity as always from Jaime, one of my absolute favorites. Few writers say so much when they say so little. Read this.)
"Infinite Wisdom" isn't only a story I really love, it's my 2000-word exploration of my own personal near-future prophecy: The advent of what I call "Brainchip." It's near and dear to my goofy little heart. Give it a read, if you like, and tell me what you think!
So excited to have my story "Infinite Wisdom" published in the pages of this month's @elegantliterature.bsky.social, titled "Charmed and Chained." Check it out along with LOTS of great stories this month, here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
Magazine
Amazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay.
www.elegantliterature.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"Infinite Wisdom" isn't only a story I really love, it's my 2000-word exploration of my own personal near-future prophecy: The advent of what I call "Brainchip." It's near and dear to my goofy little heart. Give it a read, if you like, and tell me what you think!
So excited to have my story "Infinite Wisdom" published in the pages of this month's @elegantliterature.bsky.social, titled "Charmed and Chained." Check it out along with LOTS of great stories this month, here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
Magazine
Amazing stories by upcoming talent. No query letters. Guaranteed acceptance/rejection timeline. Above-professional pay.
www.elegantliterature.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
So excited to have my story "Infinite Wisdom" published in the pages of this month's @elegantliterature.bsky.social, titled "Charmed and Chained." Check it out along with LOTS of great stories this month, here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/
We don't talk enough about what a jerk this guy is. I know we talk about it all the time I'm just saying we don't talk enough about it. Watch the last few seconds. What the heck man.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We don't talk enough about what a jerk this guy is. I know we talk about it all the time I'm just saying we don't talk enough about it. Watch the last few seconds. What the heck man.
Nobody does a tarmac scene like this guy
Lane Kiffin arrives for his plane at the Oxford, MS airport
📹 via @GohLes1 𝕏
📹 via @GohLes1 𝕏
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Nobody does a tarmac scene like this guy
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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splitlipthemag.com/flash/1125/c...
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.
splitlipthemag.com
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…
flashfictionmagazine.com
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.”
www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-...
“It is easy to assume things about air, a blank canvas for projects of human imagination and for refracted perceptions.”
www.nightshadesmag.com/a-refracted-...
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...
www.nightshadesmag.com
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
open.substack.com
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
trampset.org
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)