brandon brown

bald black kid | MFA in strange stories | essays on culture and worldbuilding | tinkering with short stories and tabletop games | he/they

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

You can read more about the prize, and my fellow writers, here: https://t.co/ODX6yqGpEW

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

I was awarded the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, alongside eleven other writers! What a delightful and humbling surprise!

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

We are thrilled to share that @cedarchromatic has been awarded the PEN/Robert J. Day Short Story Prize for "Faultline," a story we published last year! Congratulations, brandon! We love your story and are so proud of you! Check out the story here: https://t.co/gqkmlsHBIn

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

We are thrilled to share that @cedarchromatic has been awarded the PEN/Robert J. Day Short Story Prize for "Faultline," a story we published last year! Congratulations, brandon! We love your story and are so proud of you! Check out the story here: https://t.co/gqkmlsHBIn

[Em 🕸️🧵 & 💄 @em_being]

A new Abnormal Mapping! We played 1000xRESIST and talk at length about what we liked and the one really big fumble at the end we both didn’t. Much discussion about the friction between intimate trauma metaphor and sci fi allegory! Six to one, sisters! https://t.co/HFule0WFam

[Friends at the Table @Friends_Table]

Our new patreon-exclusive season will be releasing tomorrow!! Please join us for a debut stream at 7 PM ET at https://t.co/5fKEbkOdRC !!!

More details for the upcoming season are laid out over on our patreon!

https://t.co/cNTvv05qUJ

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

My little flash "Faultline" was nominated by Split Lip for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology ! 😭🙏🏾🤯 And I'm in great company—check out everyone's stories on https://t.co/SE76TsWs4P 👏🏾

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

✨ We are delighted to announce our 2025 Best Small Fictions nominations! ✨ Congratulations to these talented authors. We are crossing all fingers and toes for you! https://t.co/WFCe7td3B1

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

@MaureenLangloss Thank you!! 😭🙏🏾

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

Really pleased to be reading flash for Split Lip Magazine, after the great editorial experience I had as a contributor—send your stuff our way!!!

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

We are thrilled to welcome SLM contributor brandon brown (@cedarchromatic) to our flash fiction reading team! Check out their incredible flash, FAULTLINE, in our archives: https://t.co/PnK2XuKK82

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

@PaulTassi The mage has a passive that restores MP when you defeat enemies on the field/surprise them—a very easy, kind of boring way to make progress in dungeons without spending too many in-game days on it

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

"If Sam has always seemed lost to her. If the years have slipped by since she last saw Sam. If she’s spent years circling a question she can’t voice."

Read @cedarchromatic's brilliant flash in our October issue: https://t.co/PnK2XuKK82

[Travis Flatt @WriterLeeFlatt]

Here's another #flashfiction I read this week that knocked me out over at @splitlipthemag by @cedarchromatic .

https://t.co/yUxSuYe1Li

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

This year, I’m going ghost, not a category I’ve ever gone for. I guess I want to be intimate with, like, an entity that is also a community or a structure or a community—might be a wild way to work out how I feel about something, y’know? And the sex would just be great, probably!

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

And check out Tournament Arc on itch: https://t.co/tOMAmZLOdK!

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

I wrote a tiny blog about the TTRPG Tournament Arc by Alyssa Ridley for the Almanac. This game really snuck up on me - you know, when I read it, I was excited by the idea but uncertain about it. Play has been so, so, so much fun, though.

[brandon brown @cedarchromatic]

Check out the blog: https://t.co/N7WkKunPH6

[Cathy Ulrich @loki_writes]

"If she is a golem. If she is a cloud. If she is the soil clinging to their sneakers."
@cedarchromatic in @splitlipthemag:
https://t.co/CtuIPGbKzG

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

Séamus Isaac Fey’s poem “Tove's Cento: Youth” muses on the intensity of emotion, the distance between a parent and a child, desire for an undefined future. Here they share just one thing about the piece:
https://t.co/t0pTPgiwNP