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Aboulomania. Top Story - September 2024.
Aboulomania: great indecision and an inability to, or difficulty in, making any kind of choice in a person's daily life My Connection: While I do not have the clinical disorder of aboulomania, I am notorious among friends and family for my "decision exhaustion". This state typically sets in after a long day of teaching during which so many decisions were made from great to minimal importance and every level in between. Once the exhaustion sets in I am nearly incapable of making the smallest decisions. What to eat for dinner? What to watch on TV? Whether or not to walk the dog? Which Vocal story to read? I just can't.
By D.K. Shepard2 years ago in Poets
The Rich Man's Clothes. Top Story - September 2024.
An emperor who had no clothes was once gifted with a rich man's attire. Wearing them seemed like a breeze in the air covering his soul. His steps quickened and the marvellous seemed possible. Even his daydreams seemed remarkable but there was nowhere to put them so he stuffed his hands in his pockets. With no touch to his senses, the world became cloudy - no gift giving his new point of view. Through the mind of an apple, his thoughts grew...if only I can. The apple became a new world he could almost taste. Then he realized that the apple and the clothes were not his own, nor the windswept thoughts between the threads. So he made bare his mortality and walked naked in the sunlight.
By Canuck Scriber Lisa Lachapelle2 years ago in Fiction
Ollie Made a Huge Difference in My Dog’s Allergies. I Would Never Go Back to Anything Else. . Top Story - September 2024. Created with: Ollie.
Poppy is a 5-year-old red and white basset hound living in Brooklyn, NY. She came from a small town–having been born and lived her first two years in Mount Olive, a rural Illinois. I got her as a puppy when I was a senior in college, and my dad helped raise her while I was finishing up school.
By Audrey Palmer2 years ago in Petlife
Learn To Love The Grind. Top Story - September 2024.
The grind! This morning, as I picked myself up and started my morning routine, I would do anything to stay in bed. After Tuesday’s round of chemotherapy, I feel like I’ve just gone two rounds with Mike Tyson in his prime.
By Jason Morton2 years ago in Journal
To Catastrophize. Runner-up in Unreliable Challenge. Top Story - September 2024. Content Warning.
A cacophony of cicada songs slowly rises from the trees outside the window you slide open as if hostile to your presence. Their eerie buzzing floats on the breeze that suddenly picks up and sends leaves into flight against a backdrop of storm clouds. The wind ruffles your hair and you shiver. Slam the window closed again; you don't like rain these days.
By Bethany Larson2 years ago in Fiction
📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 09/19/2024
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted most alternating Thursdays at 12PM ET to offer creators more avenues to uncover exceptional stories on Vocal. As we are continuously searching for fresh creators and inspiring stories, this thread provides an opportunity to exchange and discuss the stories that have moved and motivated us on Vocal.
By Raise Your Voice by Vocal2 years ago in Resources
Fragile. Top Story - September 2024.
Fragile is the glass-craft heart. So easily shattered upon the ceaseless sands of broken dreams. In your hand you once did hold, a power most obscene. And yet you did, with knowing force, upon the ground it shatter. Did not you once think, in your wildest revery, that your own dear self might be cut?
By Alexander McEvoy2 years ago in Poets
The A-Z of Unusual Words (Part A). Top Story - September 2024.
UPDATE: The submission deadline for this contest is over. The contest that is currently open is the letter B. Winning entries (and why you should discover all of the challenge entrants) are posted here.
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Writers
Eavesdropping. Top Story - September 2024. Content Warning.
Eavesdropping had become a habit for Annabelle that summer. Something was going on and Annabelle was being deliberately excluded. Being outside a secret is hard and so, she was spying whenever she was able.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
