📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 04/25/2024

@Vocal Team, can you add a feature where members can choose payment from monthly, half a year or yearly on the creator settings (for creator + members)instead of always submitting a request for them.

DK Shepard posted an absolutely pulse pounding story yesterday - Horsepower - that's not getting the love it so richly deserves. Check it out, you don't know what you're missing! https://vocal.media/fiction/horsepower

deserved! 😇💯🙏🧘‍♂️

Hi I'm Exclusively Speaking with Love'Nia Renee I'm a mother of four amazing individual's I'm a abstract artist, writer, poet, storyteller, and entrepreneur! I love working with people of all ethnicity, it gives me a broader approach to our inner light our special space I call it !! Don't forget Meditation everyday and in every way!!!! This is my story that I felt was overpowering to life today!! Well deserved that https://vocal.media/poets/tweets-the-turaco

Hi, I'm Rachel and I write mainly about movies, especially old movies. But I am frustrated fiction writer. I enjoyed this piece this week. https://vocal.media/writers/how-to-keep-writing-your-novel-even-when-you-ve-grown-bored-of-it

Thank you Shirley & VillageBucket your kind gestures (below) have gone a long Way~IOU~One – Backatcha soon with vigor. Jay Kantor, Vocal Author

I’m Austin. I write a variety of different types of fiction and non-fiction content. I really liked this post about sovereign citizens: https://vocal.media/criminal/sovereign-citizens-on-the-road

Both of these poems by Angela Hepworth merit more attention in my humble estimation (one has already been granted Top Story laurels, with good reason!) because they contain evidence of wit, sensitivity and the capacity to generate dynamic tension: https://vocal.media/poets/sharp-white; https://vocal.media/poets/ask-me-in-december-pi4f0p6t.

Me again. I know. I'm being greedy. I can't help myself but I accidentally came across Nanette M. Day today who hasn't posted on here for 8 months but her writing is great. I am raising my voice for her with this piece below: https://vocal.media/writers/filling-the-blank-page

I was always raised to respect money and how it's earned. Sadly, not everybody's taught this lesson. Even on the cloudiest of days, in the dingiest of rubble, I'll still pick up a penny that I find, cause it deserves better. I'm not rich, so I'll take all the help I can get. Pennies aren't chump change, but they sure can help a chump to change. So, check out this story by Brin J.. https://vocal.media/fiction/find-a-penny-eqmc015r

I’m Angela! I mostly delve into poetry and fiction as well as a couple of reviews on here. My favorite story right now is “fate” by creator R.C. Taylor, it’s an amazing piece. https://vocal.media/poets/fate-d1f60qrr

first time on this, I like to create, stories that represents human qualities in the quiet corners of our mind and the way we see our world . Shoutout to an inspiring creator: Fiction story- First love- https://vocal.media/fiction/first-love-wpgq06kj beautifully captures the essence of humanity. Our capacity for emotion and our ability to find meaning beyond reason.

I already posted my Top 5 but I’m breaking my self imposed rule to add one more that just got published that is absolutely phenomenal! “Mary in the Moonlight” by John Cox - https://vocal.media/poets/mary-in-the-moonlight

good work, keep it up

My five for this run, which I believe should be Top Stories Some fun from KJ Aartila https://vocal.media/poets/cheeky-igw40fw4 A great Eclipse piece from Kenneth cruz https://vocal.media/poets/webs-under-the-eclipse An excellent horror from Christy Munson https://vocal.media/horror/old-fear An intense piece from Stephanie Hoogstad https://vocal.media/poets/wendy-darling-s-grown-up And an Earthday poem from Andrea Corwin https://vocal.media/poets/earthday-everyday

First time on this. I mostly write about music and running, with a side order of beer. Trying to branch out into some fiction, and too scared to attempt poetry. A couple of pieces stand out for me: https://vocal.media/fiction/ice-cream-gothic-542f0yf2 - goth and funny, complete with ice cream. Not an easy combo to pull off, but Mike Singleton nails it. https://vocal.media/fiction/the-reluctant-reporter - I'm possibly late with this one, but Rachel Deeming's story brought back some memories of my early career (good and bad, definitely better as anecdotes of 'when I were a lad').

Rachel again. Marie's was wrong too! I am a muppet. https://vocal.media/petlife/for-the-love-of-cats-nrls0r7c

Rachel again. I put the wrong link for Reiley! https://vocal.media/poets/abuela-lavinia

I'm Alisha...I like to write about personal experiences that have shaped me into who I am and who I'm going to be. I also enjoy writing fiction and being arts and crafty. My picks for this challenge are: Lindsey Altom https://vocal.media/authors/lindsey-altom Paul Steward https://vocal.media/authors/paul-stewart-st7fb60zmp Mackenzie Davis https://vocal.media/authors/mackenzie-davis-rom8150t6m

I'm Rachel and I do a lot of writing, currently doing a microfiction challenge where I am writing a story every day. Tiring but rewarding, like all the best things. These are my picks of the week: This poem by Victor Eaves is a corker: https://vocal.media/poets/a-sail-off-the-coast-of-time This lovely tribute to her grandma by Reiley moved me: https://vocal.media/poets/a-sail-off-the-coast-of-time This poem by angela hepworth which has echoes of a Richard Curtis film: https://vocal.media/poets/ask-me-in-december-pi4f0p6t This poem evoking the author's childhood transported me too: https://vocal.media/poets/island-4m4803q8 Marie Wilson's writing is always a delight to read and this one is no exception: https://vocal.media/poets/island-4m4803q8 And finally, if you have not checked out Suze Kay's Women Who Stay, well, I don't know what to say to you. Here's a link to chapter one. Great writing. It's already got Top Story but it needs to be read from start to finish. https://vocal.media/chapters/women-who-stay-1 Thanks, Vocal for providing this. I love finding these nuggets and bringing other readers to them.

Another Author who has a way with words. You need really read what is being said. Especially with this seemingly simple piece it is deeper than it first appears From Mark Gagnon https://vocal.media/fiction/no-respect-x81tu0zkt

Hello everyone, This is a two part series (for now) from one of my hew favourite creators. John Cox https://vocal.media/chapters/the-confession-1

Misty Rae's got it going with this one: https://vocal.media/journal/are-you-a-writer-or-a-bully Giulia Viti's one talented writer!!! https://vocal.media/fiction/hall-of-mirrors-8t3h0yjp Love this one by Krishan Mubashar https://vocal.media/wander/path-of-hope

I'm D.K. Shepard. I write poetry and fiction. Top 5 Suggestions to Spotlight "The Consolation Prize" by Rachel Deeming - https://vocal.media/fiction/the-consolation-prize "Life on a Bench" by Celia in Underland - https://vocal.media/fiction/a-life-on-a-bench "The Bubble" by JBaz - https://vocal.media/fiction/the-bubble-isku0ocf "Stealing" by Heather Hubler - https://vocal.media/poets/stealing "Absentminded! Who Me?" by Angie the Archivist - https://vocal.media/poets/absentminded-who-me

https://vocal.media/poets/try-these