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While Alma Santos sits in a breakout room, her neighbor texts that ICE is on her parents' street. She has student loans and a job that tracks her bathroom breaks. Her watch buzzes with messages she can't read. HR put a 4:30 on her calendar. (6,200 words, free to read)
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Working As Designed — maexmaya
Alma scrolls LinkedIn posts in the parking structure so that she doesn’t badge in 'too early' and confuse the system into paying her for extra time. The green OPEN TO WORK banners multiply every week.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM
While Alma Santos sits in a breakout room, her neighbor texts that ICE is on her parents' street. She has student loans and a job that tracks her bathroom breaks. Her watch buzzes with messages she can't read. HR put a 4:30 on her calendar. (6,200 words, free to read)
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Immigrant Rights Groups by State. List by @jayapal.house.gov - docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Immigrant Rights Groups
Immigrant Rights & Mutual Aid Groups by State This list was compiled from Fair Immigration Reform Movement membership, Win Without War immigration and mutual aid resources, National Network for Immigr...
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January 25, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Immigrant Rights Groups by State. List by @jayapal.house.gov - docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Mark your calendars: the We've Always Been Here kickstarter will launch on March 3, 2026! 🥳
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January 23, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Mark your calendars: the We've Always Been Here kickstarter will launch on March 3, 2026! 🥳
If you want to be the first to hear future announcements, get the first look at our official cover, and more, join our email list: taplingzines.aweb.page/p/038bb7b1-7...
Art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social
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NEW STORY: Marissa Ramirez can have health insurance or privacy. Not both. (Visual storytelling, free to read.)
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The wristband arrived in a white box with watercolor leaves printed on the sides. Inside: one black band, one glossy brochure, one QR code on cardstock. Computer-generated cursive designed to look per...
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January 20, 2026 at 12:57 AM
NEW STORY: Marissa Ramirez can have health insurance or privacy. Not both. (Visual storytelling, free to read.)
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Sofía paints her face like the dead and tells ghost stories for tips. The tourists want Mexican Halloween—spooky but safe. Meanwhile, ICE raids happen ten minutes away, and her cousin's daughters are asking when mom is coming home. (7,200 words, free to read)
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Mexican Halloween — maexmaya
'I never would have bought something from Shein,' one of the Frida Kahlos is saying to her friend. She’s holding a painter’s palette and brush. 'But they have a Frida Kahlo license and it’s so importa...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Sofía paints her face like the dead and tells ghost stories for tips. The tourists want Mexican Halloween—spooky but safe. Meanwhile, ICE raids happen ten minutes away, and her cousin's daughters are asking when mom is coming home. (7,200 words, free to read)
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Can I tell you a story? I've missed making things for the sake of making them, and sharing them for the sake of sharing them. So I built maexmaya.com to share my short stories, experimental fiction, and thoughts.
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Once upon a time, before the platforms ate everything, the internet was different.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Can I tell you a story? I've missed making things for the sake of making them, and sharing them for the sake of sharing them. So I built maexmaya.com to share my short stories, experimental fiction, and thoughts.
How to make a great first impression: realize immediately after submitting a piece of writing to a journal that you uploaded the draft instead of the final version.
May 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
How to make a great first impression: realize immediately after submitting a piece of writing to a journal that you uploaded the draft instead of the final version.