Top Stories
New stories you'll love, handpicked for you by our team and updated daily.
Dancing Queen. Top Story - July 2025. Content Warning.
Your sister died the day before you were born. It wasn't a tragic accident, or an unexpected event. The cancer had been eating away at her for months, transforming her from a lively and excitable girl to a shell, a mere shadow of who she once was. 'Dancing Queen' had been her nickname, earned from years of pantomines and performances showing off her skills on stage. She always told your parents her dream job was to be a ballerina, and so they encouraged it vigourously. Thousands were spent every year on dance lessons, costumes, ballet shoes - everything a girl needs to fulfill her dreams.
By Maddy Haywoodabout a year ago in Fiction
Welcome to Forest Park. Top Story - July 2025.
Ticker tape Synesthesia The Synesthesia Tree https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/ticker-tape.html"Ticker taping" consists of automatically visualising written words in the form of subtitles when hearing other people speak.
By Paul Stewartabout a year ago in Fiction
Mars Rover Finds...Itself. Top Story - July 2025.
From the Associated Press (July 2025): Recent reports from NASA have shown that one of the rovers used to navigate and study the terrain of the Red Planet has suddenly discovered its own inner balance and peace of mind.
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Humor
Businesswoman Chapter 188. Top Story - July 2025.
Those moments where she could see her daughter gave her great satisfaction. Loreen Breen neé Brampton and her mother Lucy sat at the Mercier Hotel. Miss Brampton had lived her seventy six years of life in relative comfort. She possessed high cheekbones that looked taut and knocked off years. Through dying her hair, even more years fell away. She wore a navy blue blouse and a white skirt. Loreen donned a raspberry pant suit and a matching pill hat that looked like a dollop of white cream.
By Skyler Saundersabout a year ago in Chapters
I Lost My Writing Mojo - the Story. Top Story - July 2025.
I wrote a poem last month, indicating that I had lost my writing mojo. I Think I've Lost My Mojo!: I am pleased to report that it is back, at least partially. It was quite confronting for me for a week or so. I sat down, looked at my list of a hundred or more potential titles, and failed to get past "Go" with any of them.
By Calvin Londonabout a year ago in Writers
Burning the Pages of the Book of Life. Honorable Mention in You Were Never Really Here Challenge. Top Story - July 2025. Content Warning.
Shortly after dark, early November, 2023. Al-Nasr Children's hospital, Northern Gaza. Explosions sound off in the distance. But the family in the delivery room is used to this sound. They are not comfortable with the sound, but sometimes they forget it is there. This sound has already killed five thousand of their people, over the last month. But this sound— this constant sound, this lethal sound— can slip into the peripheries despite its severity.
By Sam Spinelliabout a year ago in Fiction
Lila and The Talisman of Ultimate Authority . Top Story - July 2025.
When I was little, I thought that the past was in black and white. The world depicted in old movies seemed no less lively than the one I lived in, but was devoid of the vibrancy which I took for granted. Whenever the TV was tuned to some classic film or historical news footage, I’d wonder what it was like for people living in that drab place, and pity the incompleteness of their existence.
By J. Otis Haasabout a year ago in Fiction
