The Attendance Clerk The fluorescent lights of the attendance office at Northside Middle hummed with a low, mechanical buzz that used to comfort me.

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The Divorce Party In 1982, I was waiting for my divorce to be finalized.

The Divorce Party
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From Borscht to Woodstock - Part 1 Grossinger’s Girls

From Borscht to Woodstock - Part 1
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The Waiting Room The Ficus in the corner was dying.

The Waiting Room
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A Tapestry of Selves Have you ever noticed something very strange about life?

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THE SIGN By late June, the heat in the San Fernando Valley had settled in for good.

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FOUR HOURS TO THE GATE FOUR HOURS TO THE GATE The rain had turned the tarmac into a greasy mirror. At LAX, the line for security stretched past the terminal’s gl...

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NO KINGS!

You're traveling through another dimension...

It's finally here! "Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone," the third single from ChromoSphere's album Seen Again on Trigon Records is available for streaming. A jazz-tinged instrumental cover of The Manhattan Transfer's 1979 hit. Be there or be rhomboid! 🎵

Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone

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Made our signs! We’re ready! 💪🏽💪🏻🏳️‍🌈💪💪🏿🚫🇺🇸

"The Picture of Donald J. Trump", inspired by Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was an evolving street art piece that, over the course of a month, revealed the 'sick and noxious soul' of Donald J. Trump corrupting influence on the American body politic.
Artist: @zoueh_skotnes

An AI example of how Trump would look after his first year in jail.

Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s office found that Donald Trump held on to documents so secret that only six people could legally review them — and the team believed his reason for doing so was financial gain.

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Stephen Colbert to write next ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie after leaving late night | CNN Stephen Colbert already has a new job lined up for when he ends his 11-year run as host of “The Late Show” in May – the comedian and well-known J.R.R. Tolkien superfan announced he will co-write and d...

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My First Lover As A Divorcée Alan’s apartment was the cheapest kind of freedom Southern California could offer: a second-story box near the beach in Venice, the kind of place where the rent was paid in charm and chronic dampness.

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Writing My Way Home Most nights, it starts the same way.

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Trump’s Next Tacky White House Renovation Project Revealed The president continues his quest to make the White House unrecognizable.

The White House colonnade is over 120 years old in their current form, dating back to a major renovation by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.

We’ll… is was nice while it lasted…120 years…then a big ugly orange dog sprays his territory. Again disgusting.

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Only in Florida YouTube video by Marc Mylar

This AI visualization is based on a true story posted by WXYZ 7 News on 3/17/26:

"A Florida woman has been accused of entering the penguin enclosure to teach them to tap dance, using a live alligator as her partner. Jacksonville FL PD stated she was also dressed as a pineapple."

Only in Florida.

Maria Scott Writes | Substack Stories and reflections on what it means to endure, to imagine, and to begin again.

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