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New Maggie B. story up today.

On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).

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The Way It Was Placed
On what’s moved, what’s meant, and the quiet honesty of things left slightly askew.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
In Lower Tissington, scandal travels faster than tea cools.
One dropped page, three unsigned notes, and a biscuit tin full of plausible deniability.

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Redacted for Biscuits
On lost pages, polite rebellions, and the mercies that smudge.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Love’s paradox: heavy as breath, light as grace.
A poem for those who carry, and those who lift.

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Love, Heavy as Light
How moments of freedom can change the weight of everything.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Peace never arrives — it returns.
In fragments, in breath, in the small permissions to stop holding everything together.

This week’s After the Noise reflection follows that rhythm back to stillness.

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The Quiet Work of Returning
How peace finds its rhythm again (Oct 20–25, 2025)
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October 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Calm That Never Was — an essay on what happens when false calm gives way to real peace.|
Stillness stops being performance and becomes presence.

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The Calm That Never Was
For a long time, I mistook calm for peace —
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October 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
When the noise fades, what’s left isn’t emptiness — it’s rhythm.

I explore how stillness shifts from recovery to daily practice, and how peace stops being escape and becomes attention that stays.

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The Practice of Presence
I’ve been circling this idea of presence for a while now—how quiet changes when it stops being recovery and becomes practice.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Silence used to feel like absence.
Now it feels like authorship.

The Quiet I Choose continues my series on presence and renewal—what happens when stillness becomes not what you escape to, but what finds you.

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The Quiet I Choose
Some people find energy in company; others find renewal in the quiet company of their own thoughts.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Friendship moves through us — in gestures, laughter, and the stillness that asks for nothing.

The Light Between Us is about love as continuation — what we carry forward, and what carries us.

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The Light Between Us
When I wrote The Light That Stays, I was thinking about the friendships that hold — the ones that steady us through change and silence.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Even in Lower Tissington, the records don’t tell the whole story.
Counted, Not Named — a new Maggie B. Casefile about what gets tallied, and what’s left unsaid.

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Counted, Not Named
A clipping, a crease, and the kind of record that forgets what matters most.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A short delay on the next Holding On chapter — it’ll be here tomorrow. For today, I’m sharing a piece from my misspent youth: exuberance, recklessness, and bread rolls in flight.

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All The Way In
We scrubbed in silence, four teenagers bent over pie-shaped halos that refused to blend in.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Mavis Holt brought lemon curd, but left with something else—an outline shaped by silence.

The newest Maggie B. Casefile: Just Enough.

Come for the curd. Stay for the withheld stories.

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Just Enough
A Maggie B. Casefile
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September 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A single gunshot became a narrative war overnight.
I wrote about Charlie Kirk’s assassination—not to justify or condemn him, but to ask what happens to us when grief is sharpened into a blade.

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The Weaponization of Grief
The Weaponization of Grief
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September 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Every Friday I re-enter an earlier piece of writing. Not repeats, but reimaginings. This one began with a 2021 poem called No More Talk and became a story of release and resilience.

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What I Choose to Keep
Every Friday, I return to an earlier piece of writing in a series I call Flashback Fridays. Not reprints, but re-entries — the past offers a fragment, and I follow it to see what else it might hold.
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September 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This last trip home to the UK felt different. Someone asked why — and the only word I could offer was presence.

A new poem: Presence.

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Presence
When I got back to the US last week, after almost a month back home in the UK, someone asked why this trip felt different.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Flags as warnings, letters finally sent, Maggie’s notebook in hand, and a novel chapter that aches in silence. Two weeks of travel, memory, and soft rebellions.

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Not Loud, But Lasting
Two weeks of witness and small rebellions — August 18–31, 2025.
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August 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I meant to do a recap last week. But I was off chasing ghosts and jam conspiracies.

Here’s a double-dose: essays, fiction, satire, grief, and the poem that sparked it all.

If something here stirs something—pass it on.

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That Was Never Two Weeks Just Now
Cognac, Coupons, and Cultural Collapse
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July 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If you like your fiction dry, observant, and laced with quietly escalating absurdity, give it a read. And if it feels like your kind of strange, feel free to share or subscribe.

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July 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
She only went for the sponge cake. She uncovered a scandal.
Plum compote masquerading as homemade raspberry jam.
A showdown with the Women’s Institute.
Another Maggie B. casefile, filed under “bittersweet.”

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Jamgate
A Maggie B. Casefile
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July 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The loudest voices in the masculinity debate are angry.
But what about the quiet ones? The ones who just want room to feel, to care, to be.

New from me: (He Showed Me) Another Way

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(He Showed Me) Another Way
For the boys who felt too much, and the men who learned to mute it.
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July 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A 50% tariff—just to shield Bolsonaro from trial.
This isn’t trade policy. It’s a warning.
And it should shake every one of us.

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This Isn’t Foreign Policy. It’s a Warning.
The authoritarian pipeline just went global.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A 50% tariff—just to shield Bolsonaro from trial.
This isn’t trade policy. It’s a warning.
And it should shake every one of us.

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This Isn’t Foreign Policy. It’s a Warning.
The authoritarian pipeline just went global.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A 50% tariff—just to shield Bolsonaro from trial.
This isn’t trade policy. It’s a warning.
And it should shake every one of us.

👉 shorturl.at/ULejX

#Defiance #Trump2025 #Brazil #BrittleViews
This Isn’t Foreign Policy. It’s a Warning.
The authoritarian pipeline just went global.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A 50% tariff—just to shield Bolsonaro from trial.
This isn’t trade policy. It’s a warning.
And it should shake every one of us.

👉 shorturl.at/ULejX

#Defiance #Trump2025 #Brazil #BrittleViews
This Isn’t Foreign Policy. It’s a Warning.
The authoritarian pipeline just went global.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A 50% tariff—just to shield Bolsonaro from trial.
This isn’t trade policy. It’s a warning.
And it should shake every one of us.

👉 shorturl.at/ULejX

#Defiance #Trump2025 #Brazil #BrittleViews
This Isn’t Foreign Policy. It’s a Warning.
The authoritarian pipeline just went global.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A 50% tariff—just to shield Bolsonaro from trial.
This isn’t trade policy. It’s a warning.
And it should shake every one of us.

👉 shorturl.at/ULejX

#Defiance #Trump2025 #Brazil #BrittleViews
This Isn’t Foreign Policy. It’s a Warning.
The authoritarian pipeline just went global.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM