Maria Thomas

WINNER @oxfordflash,2nd Propelling Pencil 22; flash finalist @LIStoryPrize 22; winner RW April 22 micro & FFF13 . Member @retreatwest and @writershq communities

[Maria Thomas @AppleWriter]

A NYE appropriate picture too!

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Today, in The Pride Roars, "Mothers" - part 5, how do we feel about an empty nest?

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[Hoe-Anna @HoeAnnaMiami]

It's crazy in the back of mind I've ALWAYS thought the structure of the song was so odd but interesting but I've never really questioned it but now that we're saying it out loud.. This is GENIUS.

[Constance Grady @constancegrady]

Today I'm starting The Trick, a newsletter going through every single Agatha Christie novel to analyze how she did it. Volume 1: Death on the Nile

[tay ⋆.𝜗ৎ @uhohfenty]

THEY WON HALLOWEEN

[Mariam • @unfmariam]

شاعرية الزجاج الملوّن.

[Jude Macasinag @judeisjude]

I hate fashion girl Halloween because wdym you’re Marchesa Casati if she was still out and about in 2026

[RWNutjob @Stickelliott]

Best costume award.

[Zentreya⚡🐲⚔️ SVA @zentreya]

Just saw a whole squad of T-Rex inflatable run through the streets making noises chasing a guy in a card board jeep

Fucking cinema

[jasmine @jasminecoded_]

I hate sf halloween, what do you mean you’re going as survivorship bias

[Zendra020 @zendra020]

Too cute! ❤️🎃

[Syzygy @SamH112358]

@lamps_apple I always remember the stat that it's Sweden's worst disaster in modern history. yes, Sweden

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

I still struggle to wrap my head around the fact that the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami killed 250,000 people.

250,000

[saint @s0nofzion]

The legendary "Spaghetti Dress" by Valentino Garavani. Pure structural poetry

[Odon @IAMOdon]

she can hear. her grandparents are deaf. so she babbles with her hands.

babies around sign language babble with their hands, with the same rhythm as spoken babble.

[Wilson Koewing @jadedwriter_]

To my fellow sadists who might be interested, The New Yorker has reopened for fiction today and are now accepting work through submittable.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

I can’t believe we’re two months away from 2027 and the easiest way to save something as a PDF is still to lie to your computer and tell it you’re about to print it.

[James Glen @james__glen]

These two gents seem to have upset all the right people by... [checks notes] winning a TV game show and donating to charity.
#TheTraitors

[I. Noah Guy @Decentguyusedto]

I'm still pushing for a Nobel Prize for the Voyager team. Outlasted its mission by 45 years and counting. Incredible.

[chisu 🥖 @tamaescence]

what do you mean you're sailor moon mid-transformation for halloween???? this wins.