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A Conspiracy of Ravens.. Top Story - August 2025.
Dr. Don Griffin stood in front of the science class, strangely speaking of ravens. His students tilted their heads in question marks, wondering where he was heading with this line of reasoning. He had gone completely off topic.
By Antoni De'Leonabout a year ago in Fiction
The Princess of Tisul: The Woman Who Slept Beneath the Earth. Top Story - August 2025.
The Princess of Tisul The incident I am about to share with you… you will probably never find in any official record. Why? Because the Russian government never acknowledged that it ever took place.
By Leah Brookeabout a year ago in Humans
Honor. Top Story - August 2025.
All he had in his life was honor. In the corner of his small bedchamber, a smoldering ancestral votive with notes of incense, jasmine, and wildflower fought the stench of the world beyond. It was a futile effort. Moonlight reflected off his sword reverently held between two wooden pedestals. It was his father’s blade, cooled with honor by blood of the Emperor’s enemies.
By Matthew J. Frommabout a year ago in Fiction
Chasing Dreams in the Chaos of Everyday Life. Top Story - August 2025.
I never know how much time I’ll get, so I’ll be honest and plunge right in: I’m a mom writing during quiet moments — lunch breaks, nap times, late evenings — whenever the fires are out and the world calms.
By Ashley Orellanaabout a year ago in Writers
Book Review: "The Things We Keep" by Sally Hepworth . Top Story - August 2025.
“When you get to my age,' he says, his face softening, 'you don't waste time with regrets. In the end, you just remember the moments of joy. When all is said and done, those are the things we keep.”- The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
By Annie Kapurabout a year ago in Geeks
Echo of a Nightmare. Top Story - August 2025.
Gabrielle found herself in a dimly lit hallway, where the floorboards screeched underneath her feet and the people in the pictures that hung on the wall glared at her maliciously. She had a vague recollection of why she was here and how she got here, but her end goal was fuzzy to her. Gabrielle gulped as she kept on walking down the hallway, towards an end she could not see. The lights above her flickered dangerously as she hunched towards herself in an attempt to make herself smaller.
By Rebecca Pattonabout a year ago in Fiction
Returning. Top Story - August 2025.
He had decided today would be the last day of summer, in every sense. Literally, as July twenty-nineth was as good as any other day to declare the season over, but also figuratively summer was over for his life, being sixty, his birthday only two months before, if he calculated the calendar correctly twenty years ago. Life comes in seasons, he’s heard, and fate is insistent that autumn should arrive; a season of change, of harvesting, of preparation, of accepting the winter soon to come.
By Conor Matthewsabout a year ago in Fiction
Feeling Pain? Here's a Hardy Hibiscus Hug. Top Story - August 2025.
Good morning and welcome to the August 18 edition of my Monday Morning Huddle! Today, it's all about the Hibiscus flower and its lending a hand energy in alleviating pain. Whether physically or emotionally, if you are suffering from pain of any sort, then this post might help a little- at least, that is my hope.
By Marilyn Gloverabout a year ago in Longevity
