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The Eleventh Day of the Eighth Month. Top Story - August 2024.
August 11, 2014. Around 3:30PM Pacific Standard Time. I was on Twitter, just looking around. Then I read it. I wish I could forget it. "Robin Williams has died." My first thought: "Please let this be some sick hoax." Dead serious, those were the words that entered my mind.
By Clyde E. Dawkins2 years ago in Geeks
All About Friendship. Top Story - August 2024.
I remember a night, many years ago, when I stepped out of the home of a casual friend, slipped on black ice, and landed flat on my ass on a concrete step. As I sat there, in pain, convinced I had broken my tailbone, I heard my best friend ask if I was okay, then looked up and saw her doubled over in pain from laughing.
By Cathy holmes2 years ago in Humans
The Thing About Shoes. Top Story - August 2024.
Twenty years ago, along with people from several departments, I won a Core Values Award. There was a very nice paragraph read aloud with such nice things written by my co-workers. I got my picture taken with my boss and the CEO. I also got a clock engraved with my name and the year.
By Judey Kalchik 2 years ago in Viva
The Seeker and The Sorceress. Top Story - August 2024.
To search for truth has always meant to offer up one's own soul as payment, for how else can one expect to reach the sacred stone at the dead center of the hallowed valley. When one refuses to lose themselves, one can never hope to unearth the part of themselves that has always been lost.
By Insinq Datum2 years ago in Fiction
Saying Goodbye To The Other Woman. Top Story - August 2024.
In the beginning, she was merely a symbol, a wrecking ball that invaded our family and smashed it apart. I didn’t ask what her name was at first. If I knew her name, that would make her a real person who slept with my husband without a thought for his wife or his two young sons. In my grief was a speck of doubt that this was really happening and that my husband was walking out of our front door after sixteen years to be with her.
By Glenna Gill2 years ago in Families
Riot!. Top Story - August 2024. Content Warning.
"You coming today?" Darren looked at Billy, menacingly. Billy felt his heart lurch. He was 16 and scared of Darren, his brother, who was the most violent person he knew. Billy was careful, with what he did and what he said.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Closing Announcement. Top Story - August 2024.
TL/DR at the bottom, following this symbol "-0-" Again comes the sound of ringing bells. Again heads turned or poked out of windows at the crier’s approach. His passage is slow, allowing all residents of Vocalia to know of his coming, and rush their stories, all crafted with such care, to the collection box upon the village green.
By Alexander McEvoy2 years ago in Writers
