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Batman Forever at 30: A Cover Band Version of Tim Burton’s Dark Knight. Top Story - June 2025.
Batman Forever (1995) Directed by Joel Schumacher Written by Akiva Goldsman, Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler Starring Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Tommy Lee Jones
By Sean Patrickabout a year ago in Geeks
📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 06/19/2025
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted most alternating Thursdays at 12PM ET to offer creators more avenues to uncover exceptional stories on Vocal. As we are continuously searching for fresh creators and inspiring stories, this thread provides an opportunity to exchange and discuss the stories that have moved and motivated us on Vocal.
By Raise Your Voice by Vocalabout a year ago in Resources
Geronimo Stilton. Top Story - June 2025.
So, a few weeks ago, while visiting a farm, I checked a little free library (LFL). I chose a book, fascinated by it's unique illustrations, and brought it home. It was titled 'The Search for Treasure', by author Geronimo Stilton’. It was about the adventures of a mouse, a fantasy book. My kid loved it as I read it to her.
By Seema Patelabout a year ago in BookClub
Dating for Normies. Top Story - June 2025.
Mikaela, my incredibly beautiful boss, is staring at me. Mikaela is part Swedish and part English Rose, think Kate Beckinsale, but with Scandinavian blue eyes. She’s smiling in that way only she does. It’s disarming and entrancing, almost hypnotic. I’m drifting back into my daydream of the two of us together, kissing on a picnic blanket on top of the Ta’ Ċenċ Cliffs of Gozo Island, Malta. I saw an influencer couple share the same image on their Travelgram, and I’ve been dreaming of my own romantic sunset ever since. Whenever I’m around Mikaela, she makes me feel like it’s meant to be. We have a connection. I’m sure of it. I feel it in my bones. Even the way she’s smiling at me now feels personal like we’re sharing a secret that nobody else is in on. I know it’s a weird thing to say about your boss, but we’re the same age, and she’s not actually my boss. She’s just more senior than I am and is in charge of certain projects that I work on, so it’s not weird. Okay, it’s a little weird, but—Mikaela tilts her head like she’s waiting for me to respond to a question. I look around the room, and everyone is staring at me as if to confirm it.
By Simon Georgeabout a year ago in Chapters
Winner Announcement: New Contest For May, Featuring Your Very Own Deranged Lighthouse Keeper!. Top Story - June 2025.
It took me a while to judge all of the lovely entries into the New Contest For May, Featuring Your Very Own Deranged Lighthouse Keeper! contest, but I've finally done it! Here's a link to that contest, for the uninitiated:
By Laura Pruettabout a year ago in Writers
All Hobbits Share A Love Of Things That Grow. Top Story - June 2025.
“Ride for ruin! Ride now!” And forth charged the riders of Rohan! Spear and horse clashed into the line of cowering orcs, stretching out all across the horizon. Glorious sunlight streamed through the breaks in the clouds; breaks ushered forth by the might and honor of men.
By Matthew J. Frommabout a year ago in Writers
What If I Were to Tell You About a Place I'd Been Published?. Top Story - June 2025.
What if I were to say to you that I’ve been published in The Cincinnati Review? Or what if I told you that I had been published in The Yale Review? Sounds incredible, right?
By Stephen Kramer Avitabileabout a year ago in Writers
Great Old Ones. Top Story - June 2025. Content Warning.
Dear reader, this is a content advisory for cosmic horror and death of animals. Reader discretion is advised. -0- You are the one they preserve. The one who remains yet does not remain unchanged. Suited more to a world shaped by them then you might have been a hundred years before.
By Alexander McEvoyabout a year ago in Fiction
How to Start Listening to Jazz Without Feeling Lost. Top Story - June 2025.
You sit on the couch after a long day, press play on a friend’s suggested album, and wait for calm. A soft trumpet line begins, but then a piano darts in, drums slip under the horn, and the whole thing feels like a private talk in a language you do not speak. You shift in your seat. After a few minutes you are more confused than relaxed. You wonder if something is wrong with your ears.
By Carla Patonabout a year ago in Beat
