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Calling All Music Lovers!. Top Story - July 2024.
Time to try one of these unofficial challenges out, if you guys would have me! Here's the prompt: Choose your favorite or one of your favorite albums or songs of all time and write about why it's so important to you. You can take any approach; delve into the lyrics, the instrumentals, the production, or just the way it makes you feel and why. Easy, simple, and fun. Really sell it to me! It can be as long or short as you want, word count doesn't matter to me.
By angela hepworth2 years ago in Writers
Watson’s General Store. Top Story - July 2024.
“Oh, Ricky, I don’t know how you found this place, but it’s perfect. This is going to be the best vacation ever!” “It looks like one of those places you see on a postcard or TV travel ad. I only found out about it while sorting through my grandparents’ attic. They kept so much old junk; I’m surprised the ceiling didn’t cave in from the weight. Promise me we’ll never become hoarders like they were, Deb.”
By Mark Gagnon2 years ago in Fiction
It Lurks Behind The Shade (1 of 3). Top Story - July 2024.
"Alright, so this is the living room. This is the largest one-bedroom apartment we have available. It comes with a kitchen," the red-haired woman explains as she guides me through the space. Her voice is chipper, and she flashes me a warm smile. She is wearing a neatly pressed blouse, round glasses, and a badge around her neck that reads "Lena."
By Matthew Spinelli2 years ago in Fiction
Fake Strangers . Top Story - July 2024.
Polar Sun - Sook-Jo, a Korean celebrity who met Todd on the same game server online and eventually met and fell in love on a reality TV show. TheBestT - Todd, a British gym junkie who came from a wealthy family. Has not recovered from a messy break-up and painful divorce.
By Chloe Gilholy2 years ago in Fiction
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque . Top Story - July 2024.
Erich Maria Remarque is possibly best known for creating one of the most hard-hitting novels about the First World War ever written. Published on the 29th of January, 1929 - just over a decade after the ending of the war, the original title translated from the German is actually ‘In the West, nothing new’. A descriptor of extreme mental trauma on the Western Front, this book details how it creates a ripple effect leading to detachment with all life upon return.
By Annie Kapur2 years ago in Geeks
Sleeping Afraid. Top Story - July 2024.
I always wake to three hallowing knocks that reverberate from the back of my skull through my teeth. That’s how I know it’s coming. The bitter metallic taste of adrenaline coats my tongue. Hot panic has its claws in my chest and sweat dews my forehead. Suspense and dread course through my veins and it takes all my strength to choose survival over succumbing to the debilitating fear. My ears twitch like a dog toward every noise and my breath comes hot against the hand that I pressed to my mouth to keep myself quiet. I need to slow my breathing…one breath in, hold, one breath out. I remove my hand from my mouth so I can ease myself out of bed and carefully place my feet onto the floor so as not to make a sound. I half-crouch and feel my way to the bedroom door, and slowly turn the knob. I know when to stop opening it to avoid the creak and I start making my way down the foreboding hallway. The floorboards give in pain as my weight shifts from one foot to the other, not quite walking, just easing my way forward. I feel another rush of dread drop into the pit of my stomach when I reach the stairs – they’re the hardest part. The old wood of the house moans with the weight of my fear and no matter how hard I try they always creak. I’ve learned the hard way that I have to do these quickly – it wakes and finds me with the sound of these godforsaken stairs. I stay in a low crouch, my legs on fire with the effort, as I place one foot on each stair using the handrail to guide myself down and take, albeit minimal, weight off the unforgiving wood.
By Tattoos & Tarot2 years ago in Fiction
