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Dear you. Top Story - November 2024.
Dear you, You know who you are. You saw me in the most bare condition. My chest exposed, unzipped, so far past embarrassment that my skeletons were hanging out. Yet, you weren’t phased. You didn’t hand me the shovel with empty opinions such as “you need help” or “I’m worried about you” though those sentences were valid, they never once fell from your lips. Though, most would take that route, you offered a more positive initiative on the vulnerability I vomited upon you. Instead, you poured water into my barbaric garden. You said things that reassured a hopeful tomorrow in exchange for dead ended responses such as “wow, that sucks.”
By Natasha Collazo2 years ago in Humans
Fulwell Acoustic Mirror. Top Story - November 2024.
Remembrance Day feels like an appropriate time to look back at an unlikely piece of military history on Wearside. The Fulwell Acoustic Mirror might not look like much, but the stark concrete slab played a key role in air defence 15 years before Radar was implemented.
By Andy Potts2 years ago in History
I Never Met Her, But She Gave Me A Gift. Top Story - November 2024.
My grandmother passed away two weeks after I was born. She was only fifty-seven years old. Her name was Barbara. So, what's the story? My mother and her two sisters were born as illegitimate children — the scarlet letter that haunted my mom throughout her life. The sisters grew up in a stout Catholic neighborhood. Everyone went to Sunday mass and whispered behind the girls' backs.
By Ute Luppertz ✨ 2 years ago in Families
A splash of tea and drama . Top Story - November 2024.
This past year has been a real doozy. But, I try to keep on kicking, even when it’s hard to even pick myself up to start the day. My heart beats for my children: Ismael, David and Noah. My youngest son David, who was born on 2/21/2024 was diagnosed with Spina Bifida before he was born. We had to do a repair in utero (myelomeningocele) to prevent spinal cord damage and possible paralyzation, which was such an arduous, complicated process.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Motivation
The Vastness of the Sky. Top Story - November 2024.
My tortured bones long for fire, yearn for the consummation of smoke and ash scattered by the wind to a beckoning end. Once upon a time I was a massive, ancient tree but you broke me down and made a house of me.
By C. Rommial Butler2 years ago in Fiction
Autumn moment . Top Story - November 2024.
Autumn orange has arrived in the spreading tones and colours of all kinds from yellow red golden beige into the brown and green converted into the golden dust of the city morning light beautiful autumn time and I am feeling like I want to live and walk and travel dancing all the time with my heart and soul inside the city autumn warmth
By Antea Lumina Kala Matylda 2 years ago in Poets
Departure from Solitude. Top Story - November 2024.
Fourteen months have passed since humanity cast me adrift. My waking hours are divided between tending to the equipment that keeps me alive, roaming the lunar landscape, and staring into space. Living on a massive rock that lacks atmosphere offers me a vista that no other living human has experienced. Of course, I’m not alive according to those in control of the government that abandoned me. All of us living on Moon Base Alpha were reported killed by an asteroid strike to avoid the cost of returning the two remaining explorer’s home. It was a lie they told to everyone who would listen, but it was only one of hundreds of lies the population was fed.
By Mark Gagnon2 years ago in Fiction
The Last Level. Top Story - November 2024.
Sam and Alex had been best friends since they were kids, growing up in a small town where the only real escape was through a screen. They bonded over their love for video games, spending countless hours huddled together, controllers in hand, saving fictional worlds and leveling up characters that often felt more real than the lives they led outside.
By The Kind Quill2 years ago in Confessions
Back to the Source. Top Story - November 2024.
‘The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. Water returning to its source flooded fields and forests, villages and towns of the realm. Then the faraway ocean tumbled into the empty estuary. Its waves reached the lands ravaged by the river’s passage, and eradicated what life remained. When merciless sunrays dried the flood, only patches of salt shone among inhospitable sands. Survivors were conquered by drought and hunger, and cruelty took reign in the kingdom.’
By K.D. Popiel2 years ago in Fiction
The River Queen. Top Story - November 2024.
CHAPTER ONE The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. It wouldn't have been an easy feat to conjure up on any other normal, unassuming day—but today was different. Anyone who knew anything about magic should have known something was amiss. The town—fearful of this obvious omen—gathered around the castle in frenzied chaos as the heavy metal gates slammed into the tepid dirt and the Queen’s guards stood silent waiting for what would happen next. Skyward plumes of red dust hovered over the moat giving the appearance of glowing crimson flames. It wasn’t the story anyone wanted to tell, and it surely wasn’t the way things were supposed to have gone.
By K.H. Obergfoll2 years ago in Fiction
the beauty of the holidays. Runner-Up in Holiday Reflections in Verse Challenge. Top Story - November 2024.
the beauty of the holidays is growing up to realize the magic i felt as a child was created by the adults in my life it was my parents bundling us in the car,
By Portgas D. Sara (they/them)2 years ago in Poets
Looney Tunes and the Three Bears. Top Story - November 2024.
You know, for many decades, the Looney Tunes shorts have given us many memorable characters, and no, I'm not talking about the usual suspects--they go without saying. I'm talking about those rarely seen stars who appeared in a select few shorts; sparsely mentioned, yet very memorable, indeed. This story centers on one such set featuring some underrated stars: The Three Bears.
By Clyde E. Dawkins2 years ago in Geeks
The Colours of Bees. Top Story - November 2024.
The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. Neither came as a surprise to Moira. It had been a strong moon that month, and the powerful tidal surge that had backwashed the mighty Liriope River had swept over the valley like a hungry serpent, consuming without conscience the totality of lives in its path.
By Call Me Lesabout a year ago in Fiction
