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What If...Instead Of A Bear... It Was Coyotes?. Top Story - August 2024.
I have waited for the train to slow down on the philosophical debate of Would You Rather A Man Or Bear In The Woods I waited mostly because I was busy being entertained by reading the comment arguments, and seeing men flail, gnash their teeth angrily, and thrash against what is society's view of their gender as a whole. I have seen men agree with the women, saying that there are men out there who are worse than bears (usually those guys are the cool ones, yah?). I have seen women, who by the profile pictures and their lifestyle photos tell me they wouldn't survive just walking in the forest, talk about how they wouldn't be scared of the bear and be able to make friends with it before a man was able to control himself.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Viva
Starving Artist Stops Abusing Food. Top Story - August 2024.
I often see those success stories of people with humble and/or difficult beginnings finally breaking into the entertainment industry as a writer or actor. He was living out of his car before he made it. Wow, my car looks like someone lives in it, but that's it. Her parents abandoned her and she bounced from foster home to foster home before achieving success. Wow, I have great and supportive parents. Bummer. He worked at a grocery store during the day and pulled overnight shifts as a janitor for years before he was discovered. Wow! I deal with shit at work, but not literal shit! I’ve looked at my own life. My parents didn’t abandon me, I hadn’t gone through financial hardships that cost me a home… I don’t have this incredible story of rags to riches. I’m just over here… living. So, am I going to be able to make it as a writer without the story? It’s as if I need the tough beginnings in order to make it, and I didn’t have those. However, I may finally have someone to thank. My job. My job may have given me just what I needed.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Humor
Treasured. Runner-up in L*pogram Challenge. Top Story - August 2024.
A sharp shout echoed off the canyon walls. “Relax, honey. Just a bug.” John brushed the creature off Andrea’s neck. “Must have dropped down from the trees.” He laughed, and she punched the arm nearest to her. “Ow!” He rubbed the arm, but couldn’t help another chuckle.
By Alison McBain2 years ago in Fiction
The Adronaut. Top Story - August 2024.
“I REPEAT, WE ARE ABOUT TO BE BOARDED. ALL GUARDS TO THEIR STATIONS. OVER AND OUT.” The mechanical tone to the man's voice, accentuated by the tannoy system he was talking through, blared through the ship. Not one person on board would have, or could have missed that warning.
By Liam Storm2 years ago in Fiction
All Our Yesterdays. Runner-up in L*pogram Challenge. Top Story - August 2024.
Count them out, the absent, the departed. Hear the smooth sound waves where once laughter laced the undulate larynxes of lovers, where gentle tones of care were heard before. Count them out. The numbers mount to those we do not comprehend, cannot comprehend, hope not to comprehend. We hope we understand a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand, as poorly as we understand the past. Count them out. The men and women who do not return, lost to a hunger for power, a struggle for a concept, a need for resource. Count them out, for they no longer take up the scythe, the spanner or the pen. They no longer take a seat at your table, hold your sadness or your joy between the muscles of fleshed arms, no longer touch you, palm to palm, or guard your heart as you rest. No longer breathe beneath the heavens. Count them out.
By Hannah Moore2 years ago in Fiction
Long Lost Brother. Top Story - August 2024.
When I was told my brother was still alive, I didn't believe it. It had taken me twenty years to get over him being gone; I had very mixed feelings about seeing him again. Excitement? Yes. Anticipation? Yes. But something new that I had never felt before: fear.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
The Fabric Of America. Top Story - August 2024.
She saw it briefly when they took her away; that beautiful Statue of Liberty, torch held high lighting the way for her kind. What had she done wrong? Exist? Why invite the huddled masses yearning to breathe free to the golden door if they don’t want to let them in? What a cruel joke.
By S.J. Frederick2 years ago in Fiction
