Top Stories
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Kicks. Top Story - November 2024. Content Warning.
Silent words descended on the minds of the racers. “Do this for speed and agility.” Benson Mitt sat in his car and just looked around the front interior. He noticed the knobs, gauges, and gears. He felt as if this car had flowed from his bones to form a specific way of melding metal with flesh.
By Skyler Saunders2 years ago in Fiction
Arctic Roll*. Top Story - November 2024.
Today, I was inspired. How delightful it felt! It was warm, huggable, and sprinkled with delicious fuzzy feels. I realised that, as a sensation, inspiration is right up there in the aspirational emotionally sumptuous rankings, nestled alongside nostalgia and dreams.
By Caroline Jane2 years ago in Feast
Still Crawling And On Top. Top Story - November 2024.
Introduction I covered this about two weeks back but I am surprised that without any Top Stories on Vocal, the reads of my Vocal stories are still rising significantly. Not only that my subscribers are rising too.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Writers
In Sickness And Health . Top Story - November 2024.
I stood in front of his safe. Tyler always bought in bulk: a crate of a hundred beers, a hundred condoms, probably would have bought a hundred tires for his hundred thousand dollar truck he bought when we barely had a hundred dollars in Cam’s college fund.
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Fiction
The Green Fields Rot. Top Story - November 2024.
It started with the bees, falling like rain as their tiny bodies spasmed, and a few loud voices, but it ended in silence. Isn't that always the way? The tiny things that go unseen mounting like water behind a dam until one crack lets hell loose upon those who weren't looking hard enough. It started with the bees, yes, but the path between the bees and the silence was so long that no-one could really draw a map of where it all went wrong.
By S. A. Crawford2 years ago in Fiction
An Invitation. Top Story - November 2024.
Luke I haven't slept. I'm going over and over and over in my mind what happened yesterday. I don't know what to do. Funny. I've lived with the knowledge of what happened to Laney all these years and it's been awful. I've not handled it well. I'm still a young man but you can tell something's ravaged me. It's in the bags under my eyes and the worry of my lines. I see it every day in the mirror, the cost of keeping this secret.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Alistair Discovers a Minor Structural Issue. Top Story - November 2024. Content Warning.
Act 1 Valentine’s Day We have reached the snowless part of winter in the humble American town of Kingsley, when a curtain of overcast is drawn over the sky, and the air hurts with deep sadness. The elementary school is done up in pink, pretty hearts in the windows, made by kids too young to have no idea what love is. People don’t go outside if they can help it. You can see a housewife or two carrying groceries back home from the store, or a runner from the local college taking a less-popular route through the downtown on the break between her classes. Otherwise, it’s empty. Nearly everyone’s inside, completing whatever tasks they’ve ascribed their lives to.
By Steven Christopher McKnight2 years ago in Fiction
Dilettante. Top Story - November 2024.
Dilettante: a person who cultivates an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge, a dabbler in the fine arts My Connection: I enjoy a visit to an art museum as well as the occasional spectating of performance arts, but I’m definitely not a dedicated student of the finer things in life. I feel like I can appreciate them but I’ll definitely never experience them in the way a committed expert does. Even as a writer I’m definitely more of a simple storyteller than a creator of literature.
By D.K. Shepard2 years ago in Poets
Pumpkinus. Top Story - November 2024.
Pumpkinus D. A. Ratliff Professor Rath gathered his students before the schoolhouse, his excitement as palpable as the apprehension he witnessed in their young eyes. His favorite event of the year was the night the children met the wizard of Halloween.
By D. A. Ratliff2 years ago in Fiction
What's Its Name?. Top Story - November 2024.
Names have power. We answer to them, sign them, give nicknames, and when all else fails to ring true we change them. The idea that knowing the name of a thing or a person gives power is ancient and crosses many cultures, religions, and beliefs. bestowing a name grants honor and even power to the name-r over the name-d.
By Judey Kalchik 2 years ago in Writers
