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Compassion To Self And Others. Top Story - September 2024.
Self-love is the road toward healing. These prompts are an invitation to step inside yourself. Rupi Kaur When looking inside myself it is not always where I want to be. Today is that day. I definitely have work to do with the following prompts. I have a ways to go with each of them.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Writers
The Beetle and the Butterfly. Top Story - September 2024.
There was once a beautiful butterfly. He flew above all the other insects with ease, his skirt-wings billowing in the breeze. He was a most brilliant red. The same red as the roses and tulips he would delicately sip from. The tips of his wings were adorned with complex circles of yellow and blue that shined in the sunlight - all accented with ink blots of darkest black.
By ThatWriterWoman2 years ago in Fiction
In September Autumn Comes: A Mikeydred September Dollar Prompt For All Vocal Creators. Top Story - September 2024.
Introduction Every so often I set prompts in the Vocal Social Society and offer a dollar tip to five random creators who take part in it and ask them to share their stories in the comments and on the thread in the group.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Writers
Moment of Silence Challenge Winners
Shhh! Just a pause when the world stops and we can listen. Silence, just seven letters, so not too much to play with for an acrostic poem but we had some lovely entries. Congratulations to our winner, Zivah Avraham, for Folly — a swift but searing perspective on those ‘cast out’. And, while it never influences our choice, unless it’s in the rubric — a terrific choice of illustration too.
By Vocal Curation Team2 years ago in Resources
Stranger. Top Story - September 2024.
The word hospital comes from the Latin word hospes meaning guest or stranger. Patient comes from pator, another Latin word meaning suffer. It makes sense that by placing the two words together the result describes a place where strangers that are suffering go for care. Logically, it was precisely where Remi belonged. He had been in town for less than an hour, so he qualified as a stranger, and he was suffering. It was a pain that started in the depths of his soul and radiated through every cell of his body. Maybe, possibly, hopefully, he could find relief in this place of healing.
By Mark Gagnon2 years ago in Fiction
Knights of Vocaldom. Top Story - September 2024.
They seemed an endless horde across that morning field. Soulless soldiers of metal, animated by greed, stood row by row as fog filled the narrow valley. The endless ranks of automatons had long assaulted their realm, and yet today they would be held. The enemy bore no banners, for there was no cause nor honor to them.
By Matthew J. Fromm2 years ago in Fiction
