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10 Things I Love About Me (and No, This Isn't a Rom-Com). Top Story - May 2025.
There are people who blush at the idea of loving themselves out loud. Not me. Not anymore. After years of shrinking, apologizing, and making myself small enough to fit inside the fragile egos of others, I’ve learned that self-love isn’t arrogance — it’s survival. So here’s my list of ten things I absolutely adore about myself. Prepare for some sass and a lot of heart.
By Ellie Hoovsabout a year ago in Humans
I Got DOGEd. Then I Was Nudged to Write. . Top Story - May 2025.
After eight years with the Federal government, I was DOGEd. Then I was nudged to write. The DOGE-ing I looked at the tenth shitty little email from DOGE, under the guise of our acting administrator, and felt despair.
By S.J. Frederickabout a year ago in Journal
Mayday Mayday: A Community Garden Mural Beckons Your Spiritual Consideration. Top Story - May 2025.
Good morning, Vocal Media and spiritual seekers, this is your Monday Morning Huddle for May 5, 2025! Today's inspiration comes from a mural in my local community garden. I was out early this morning walking toward a different location I had set in mind when the mural photographed above jumped out at me, beckoning my immediate attention. It was an odd experience because I see this mural nearly every day; I've seen it for years, but today, it was as if the picture came to life, radioing, "Mayday, Mayday."
By Marilyn Gloverabout a year ago in Humans
Very Vocal Fables Volume One. Top Story - May 2025.
Well, here it is folks, the inevitable has happened - I have published a book! Very Vocal Fables Volume One is the first in a collection of three books that will feature 30 of my Vocal fables - with 10 fables per book.
By ThatWriterWomanabout a year ago in Writers
Of Another Kind Altogether—Part 2. Top Story - May 2025.
Dr. Tilden was puzzled by Marilyn’s ultrasound. The uterus was a size compatible with a 12-week gestation, but it looked empty. Normally, this would be termed a failed pregnancy, a “blighted ovum,” or an “empty sac,” doomed as an inevitable miscarriage. Yet Marilyn’s serial blood tests demonstrated rising hCG hormones, indicating a healthy pregnancy.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
Scottie. Top Story - May 2025.
Scott Monroe Baker was made of sunlight and stardust. And he was my best friend. We spent much of our youth together, tripping in and out of each other’s lives, living together, travelling separately, sending letters, meeting up again with open arms.
By Marie Wilsonabout a year ago in Pride
An Unlikely Friendship. Top Story - May 2025.
A high school jock comes to the aid of a classmate being bullied. When Alex Bigton walked into the school restroom between classes, he walked right into Boomer Watts, the class bully. Boomer had a kid named Jarrid pinned up against the wall. He was tormenting the kid and threatening to “kick his ass”.
By Scott A. Geseabout a year ago in Fiction
Favorite City. Top Story - May 2025.
Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Deck prompts — Tell me about your favorite city. Duluth, Minnesota, is probably my favorite larger city. It is not as large as Minneapolis or St. Paul, but just large enough without being too large. It is on Lake Superior. The start of the North Shore will take you to Grand Portage and the Canadian Border.
By Denise E Lindquistabout a year ago in Writers
Clear Water: The Town. Top Story - May 2025.
The Town Clear Water was one of those old, drive-through towns tucked away in the mountains of Southern California—a wrong turn at a small fork left travelers alone in a long, curious, and abandoned country hours from gas, with no cell towers. A once upon a time place in a mountain-land dressed in old, quiet wood where shadows walked and roots whispered. There’d been a revival once. Big tents, fiery preaching. The damned were made new, but the hour came and went as fast as the Gold Rush. Like the eldest things, it was forgotten to the world. And so it was lost amidst one of the thousand pocket valleys of Cahuilla’s slumbering mountain. The place was now entirely unworthy of note. So when Mrs. Cortez and Father Henderson were found the day after Hallow’s Eve in his parish—mangled, dismembered, and arranged in what appeared to be some grisly, primeval rite—a sudden, fear slithered into the heart of those quiet mountain folk.
By R. B. Boothabout a year ago in Horror
I am Woman | Little Women (2019). Top Story - May 2025.
The inspiration, thanks to Angela Hepworth: *** The March sisters have been a part of my life since I was about six years old, maybe older, maybe younger. For the longest time, I thought I was Jo March - an independent, outspoken tomboy devoted to family and writing. As I got older though, I started seeing myself in the others.
By Alexandria Stanwyckabout a year ago in Writers
