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Problems at Work
Sunday, March 17th I know I have been extremely honest about having epilepsy and the types of things I face due to having it. However, something I've never truly dealt with in the workplace happened just a few days ago.
Rene PetersPublished about 24 hours ago in ConfessionsInherited Fear: Roots of My Anxiety
I feel fear in my chest. It runs through me like a cold current. I feel it in my throat. It chokes me, thins my voice, and strangles my spirit.
Gabriela Trofin-TatárPublished a day ago in ConfessionsHyperfixation Songs (and why they are a less expensive option than Pickleball)
First, let's get this out of the way! It's been a few months since I have published anything on Vocal. I've been lurking here reading and commenting but not writing anything and also not entering any of the challenges, not even the non Vocal+ one that I wouldn't have to pay to enter. Why not? Why wouldn't I bother coming up with something for such a cool challenge?
Donna ReneePublished 4 days ago in BeatThe Pastel Prairie
He came back to himself at the top of the rise. This hill, he knew, was the horizon he had seen his horse disappearing over. At first glance at what lay beyond, he drooped. The view was the same in front as behind, except the horizon was a whole lot farther away again. He had no idea how long it had taken him to get to this one; the journey had seemed plodding and endless.
Mark E. CutterPublished 3 days ago in FictionOn Being a Man
“You’re a pretty big wheel, ain’t you?” my grandfather asks. Words tossed my way from a green armchair in the dark corner of the front room
F Cade SwansonPublished 3 days ago in PoetsI Sing To Them
I sing to them, the dear little children. With my feet. There is something about the sound that twists around inside their adorable heads and pulls all the right switches. I sing into the mist curling through the forest, and I can feel, in my gut and blood and bones, how it reaches them in their dreams.
L.C. SchäferPublished 4 days ago in FictionExistential Evanescence
Favorite: Evanescence The eventual & inevitable fate of all At least this side of eternity. . Least: Existence
Randy Wayne Jellison-KnockPublished 3 months ago in PoetsPlaylist: Politics
Jen Dixon – The Sound Political is personal. The rumbling scandal around the Teesside freeport might seem arcane, but the whiff of dodgy deals seeps into people’s lives. And, when those people are gifted songwriters, it sparks the creative process. Jen Dixon’s work has tended to be a response to her own relationships and feelings, but the more she read about the freeport in the likes of Private Eye, the more she was inspired to write.
Andy PottsPublished 6 days ago in BeatI Promise
I wasn’t even going to go to the party that night. There had been some people yelling and waving signs on the corner by my apartment this past week, the usual bigotted nonsense, and I didn’t want to deal with them. The only reason I ended up leaving was because Gemma forced her way through my front door and refused to leave my living room until I put on “real people clothes” and came out with her.
Katie JohnsonPublished 3 years ago in FictionAnshumi
Before the sky exploded into light there was only chaos. An impenetrable void of misery and darkness. For countless millennia it swirled in a whirlpool of embryonic potential. From its suffering, Ellowyn emerged triumphant, the eternal foundation. Birthed from disorder, her power was infinite. Her soul the guardian of existence. Her delicate hands would mould the darkness.
Celia in UnderlandPublished 12 days ago in FictionFor A Moment
It's all happening so fast, but all in the best ways. Every morning I wake up to your texts wishing me a wonderful day, then some sort of compliment about me to follow.
Angel AdagioPublished 4 days ago in Poetsthe truth sits heavy
whatever didn't wake the monster, was most likely my afternoon food of choice. a silent snack, on silent feet, tiptoeing through the hall,
Heather HublerPublished 3 days ago in Poets23 Unfinished Stories and counting
My eyes glass over as I gaze upon another challenge from Vocal while at the same time watching my subscription notices pile in from other writers who have completed yet another story, article, or poem. While my screen light glows empty with unfinished projects of my own.
Sonder
Nervous whispers in a busy place. Before his eyes, a hundred lives have passed, a hundred people all going their different ways. The weight of it is crushing to the sleep-deprived mind. The weight of knowing, without being able to feel, that every weary traveller he sees is just as real and complete as him. That every over-tired passerby who skates past or slightly lingers near where he sits and writes is just the same. Hiding truths and potentials no one else will ever come to know.
Alexander McEvoyPublished 3 days ago in PoetsOne Moment, For Today
Stop for one minute. Listen to a bird singing its song, Watch the sunrise, Telling you the day has just begun. Cherish a hug from your children before
Carol TownendPublished 2 days ago in PoetsTwo Bus Tickets
Jeremy sat on a bench outside the bus station while the snow fell softly. Holding two tickets to the city in his hand, his heart was pounding. He used his savings to buy the tickets, and they would live off the rest. He looked at his watch, wondering where Colt was. They were supposed to meet at the bus stop fifteen minutes ago, and Colt wasn’t there yet.
J. Delaney-HowePublished about a month ago in FictionOne to See, One to Speak, One to Listen
Contains gore and horror some readers may find disturbing. Rated 14+ Author's Intro: This story is meant to revive the Gothic literature so famously crafted by one of my favourite writer's, Edgar Allen Poe, and as such, the language and style is deliberately antiquated. Thank you for reading my all time favourite work of horror - Les
Call Me LesPublished 2 years ago in HorrorMarlene Dietrich (1901 -1992)
In the introduction to her memoirs, Dietrich says: “I have no interest in talking about my life… Facts are unimportant.”
Rachel RobbinsPublished 11 days ago in GeeksThe Micro-Fiction Challenge
It feels like forever since I was hanging out with my Vocal family and I truly have have missed you! I ventured back here a few times but I felt completely out of practice reading your poems and stories and overwhelmed by the amount of them!
Kayleigh Fraser ✨Published 10 days ago in Writers‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’: 10 Things To Love About The Netflix’s Live-Action Adaptation
Great casting, brilliant production values and loads of mesmerizing water/earth/fire/air bending action, Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender was easily one of the streaming platform's best new dramas of 2024.
Marguerita TanPublished 6 days ago in Geeks