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Breaking up with Cancer. Top Story - July 2025.
Dear Endometrial Adenocarcinoma, I hate you. With a passion. You have taken so much from me. I was worried that you were going to take my life. If I hadn't had previous surgery from the first time we were "together", I would have been in stage three cancer. I was ready to take you with me to the very end.
By Jessie Lynn Nelsonabout a year ago in Humans
Lights Over London . Runner-Up in The Summer That Wasn’t Challenge. Top Story - July 2025.
“Madam, you should come below.” Elizabeth took a long drag on the cigarette tucked neatly in the ornate silver holder. She ashed it in the ivory tray sitting beside an untouched glass of brandy. “You know Dickie, I still remember the fireworks at old Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Sat right in this spot. I was sixteen, fresh from New York. Archie and his father lined the streets that day, and god knows what they did once the fireworks started,” She watched the horizon alight with activity while the tendrils of discarded cigarette ash swirled into the night through the open sitting room window. It was odd to see her London street all alive yet silently empty at the same time.
By Matthew J. Frommabout a year ago in Fiction
Codependent Clauses. Honorable Mention in Somewhere Between Here and There Challenge. Top Story - July 2025.
From here to there, the subject and verb Seek to complete an action in thought Of object, direct, or nothing disturbed The commas will rule when festooning what's wrought
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Poets
Madame George. Top Story - July 2025.
When I first moved away from my hometown to the big city (many years ago) I was kind of lonely, but I had good company in a record album I took with me: Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. No one does melancholy and commiseration quite like Morrison, and so his first solo album was getting plenty of air time at my new digs.
By Marie Wilsonabout a year ago in Writers
You Were Warned. You Just Didn’t Care.. Top Story - July 2025.
Since at least 2015, some of us have been warning you. We told you this wasn’t just political noise. We told you this wasn’t about “both sides.” We told you this wasn’t about economic anxiety or free speech or edgy jokes on the internet. We told you it was about supremacy—white supremacy, Christian nationalism, the revival of fascist ideologies dressed up in American flags and social media memes.
By Sai Marie Johnsonabout a year ago in Humans
The Cave in Younger's Holler. Top Story - July 2025.
I told them we shouldn’t have come, that it’d be a mistake, but they never listen to me. I’m the friend in the group often overlooked, always interrupted as if I weren’t there. Normally, I wouldn’t mind sitting quietly, soaking in the camaraderie of my group. Tonight, it was different. I wish they had listened to me.
By Mother Combsabout a year ago in Horror
Who Do You Say . Top Story - July 2025.
“When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Matthew 16:13-16 NKJV
By Colleen Waltersabout a year ago in Poets
The Telepath. Top Story - July 2025.
Imagine a world of infinite possibilities. To finally grasp the things we cannot see. What was beyond this world? The understanding and knowledge that existed only scratched the surface. Imagine accessing knowledge one couldn’t even fathom accessing? Secrets. Dreams. The unreachable depths of the mind.
By Jasmine Aguilarabout a year ago in Chapters
