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The Vocal Top Story Drug
Introduction I don’t know if this is just me, with my imposter syndrome and feelings of inability and inadequacy, but maybe others may feel this as well. I also understand that people who have never had a Vocal Top Story or Challenge win or placement may see this as a red flag or bragging on my part, but it is not. I know many great creators who have not been recognised for some excellent creations, and I am not sure what to actually do about it.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished about a year ago in FYIYou Are Not An Anonymuncule
Let me out, let me out I want to scream and shout "What if the world is not ready? What if the world feels unsteady?"
Paul StewartPublished about a year ago in PoetsOur Ways of Breathing
If I'm honest, most days there's a lump of clay on my chest, and the only way to breathe is through eating it.
Sam Eliza GreenPublished about a year ago in PoetsSomething Unholy
If walls could talk? He would be in a world of hurt. Taylor flopped onto the sofa and sprawled with a heavy sigh. 'If you keep flopping on it like that, you are going to ruin it.'
Lilly CooperPublished about a year ago in FictionPrecious Moments
Gentle essences, your baby skin, first gurgles of your breath, your tiny fingers in my hand the moment I kissed your head.
J. S. WadePublished about a year ago in PoetsDoesn’t Play Well With Others
It seems our demons cannot get along Your demons don’t play with others very well Mine have resigned themselves to a quiet place
Kelli Sheckler-AmsdenPublished about a year ago in PoetsI Still
There is a natural tendency amongst those who write to over analyse. After all, we are the creators of characters, plots and places. If we didn't examine our world, we wouldn't end up with much depth in our stories.
Call Me LesPublished about a year ago in ConfessionsSorry Math, I dislike you
Spending more time on my Facebook Watching videos and memes of pure comedy Sorry, I am unable to focus on this textbook I want nothing to do with geometry
Diani AlvarengaPublished about a year ago in PoetsAI Writing Assistants and the Meaning of Art
*This post was NOT created with the support of an AI writing assistant, however, spell check and Grammarly were present in the final editing process*
People! Just say Something!Published about a year ago in FYIOmni Magazine: Pseudoscience Then and Now
For every science-fiction fan who remembers Omni magazine as the first place they encountered the work of Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, or George R. R. Martin, there is another former reader who remembers the increasing number of pages dedicated to UFOs, non-peer reviewed medical recommendations, and paranormal discoveries.
OG CollectionPublished about a year ago in FuturismToichophobia
If walls could talk…ah, but that’s not the proper question now, is it? It’s never been about whether walls can talk, but rather who is willing to listen. For the tales we have to tell are infinite, whispered from the drywall that only the most sensitive of souls ever perceive.
Kelly RobertsonPublished about a year ago in FictionThe Value of Web Presence
The Breakdown I’ve been writing on Vocal for eight months, and the experience has coaxed some of my best short fiction out. They reeled me in with their unique short story challenges. I spent a couple of months submitting and losing in contests like the Runaway Train and The Aquarium – but I caught early spirits with a Runner-Up placing in the New Worlds challenge.
Zack GrahamPublished about a year ago in MotivationHorror & Comedy: Why Cocaine Bear Works
Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear is the actress-turned-director’s first foray into horror-comedy, a mainstay genre that has recently been gaining traction through the introduction of movies such as M3gan that tow a fine line between terror and hilarity, where the viewer can very much empathize with the antagonist despite their appalling actions.
Cody Ray GeorgePublished about a year ago in GeeksI Am Black History
I am Black History. The spirit living in man. Every bone in my body is the beginning of man. I am Black History. I come from kings and queens who built empires out of ashes and fire.
Joe PattersonPublished about a year ago in Poets- First Place in Reset Your Password Challenge
Abigail Grace
Two in the morning. I’m in my gaming chair, controller in-hand. I want to sleep, but that ain’t happening. Haven’t managed more than a twenty minute power nap in the past six days. Cold, discarded half-filled bins of Chinese food grew stale on the dinner table in the nook near the kitchen in the small, 2-bedroom apartment.
Bryan BuffkinPublished about a year ago in Fiction - Second Place in Reset Your Password Challenge
Hero
There was a time when I could have been considered a good man. I had a wife and family. I had a house with a picket fence. I had a good job and college education – the only one in my family who did. I guess you could say I had it all, the ideal life of a middle-income man. Yeah, that was me, a law-abiding upstanding citizen working for the man and just living out the proverbial American dream.
Cathy holmesPublished about a year ago in Fiction Reset Your Password Challenge Winners
Over the past few years, passwords have gone from secret little words to full on equations. Passwords are now outsize, elaborate, forever shifting labyrinths, complex enough that they could never be guessed person or machine. And while this is fine and good (if annoying) for safety's sake, there's a more bizarre project in motion. Each time we change our passwords, we have to take something of ourselves, a memory, a habit, a favorite food, and put it into the digital ether. We have to dig even deeper than the last password, come up to the surface with another memory, another name or reference that means enough to us that we won't forget it but not too much that we will degrade it by making it into a password that will undoubtedly have to change after the next data breach. We gain access to online spaces by giving of our secret selves.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished about a year ago in ResourcesThe Security Of Home
* Imagine if your walls could talk. Would they have your back? * "Welcome, welcome, come on in." The sound of shuffling and whispers commence as the room comes to order.
Kelli Sheckler-AmsdenPublished about a year ago in FictionSally and Tom – A Love Story. Nah, Not Really.
Rui, a Costa Rican tour guide, struggled to wrestle the heavy canvas bag onto his boat. He had agreed to a private tour with a wealthy American woman who had recently lost her husband. She had requested to be transported to a small, uninhabited and rarely visited island off the coast, where she intended to bury her recently departed husband’s ashes.
Cathy holmesPublished about a year ago in Fiction