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Twisting Through the Doorways. Top Story - June 2024.
A grand bronze-coloured staircase leads nowhere. It is adorned in dim and sensual lights, the golden glimmer of the chandelier adding elegance and richness to the room. This is the biggest room in the unknown home. A house made of multi-sized doors leading to multi-dimensional rooms. Some exist in daylight, some exist sideways against child-like postered walls.
By Oneg In The Arctic2 years ago in Horror
Tea set by a suffragette . Top Story - June 2024.
Pankhurst is a name well known to the history of women’s suffrage. Who hasn't heard the name Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women organisation campaigning for the right to vote? The group that helped to achieve the right to vote for women in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918. Some know of her daughter Christabel, both being honoured by the Pankhurst memorial in Victoria Palace Gardens, London, right next to the UK Parliament buildings. Sylvia Pankhurst is notably not included in the monument. Why? Because she split with the WSPU to campaign against Britain's entry into First World War.
By Raymond G Taylor2 months ago in Art
Stephen King Short Story Review. Top Story - June 2024.
Review of Stephen King's short story All That You Love Will Be Carried Away King spends time on character development and building suspense in this short story, which isn't horror, so I put it in the fiction community.
By Andrea Corwin 2 years ago in Fiction
Hannah's Challenge. Top Story - June 2024.
I joined Vocal two years ago, a prick of enthusiasm beseeching me to throw caution to the wind, pay the readies and have a stab at a long stagnated pleasure. It worked remarkably well. I dipped in my toe, finding the water a little cooler than I had hoped, but as I stood there up to my ankles, I realised it was rather invigorating, and by the time I was up to my knees, it was pleasingly tepid. I dove in and swam out to where others were tossing balls about and wrestling over lilos and proceeded to have a whale of a time splashing about, sometimes missing my footing or getting water in my eye, but sometimes turning elegant somersaults and graceful dives.
By Hannah Moore2 years ago in Writers
A letter to me as I turn 22 today. Top Story - June 2024.
A letter to me as I turn 22 today To all the 22-year-olds in the world, this one's for you. Go out there and conquer the world, it is your age to emerge victorious as you race across life's timelines, striding in the zeal of your highest vigour. It is an obligated way of living, a mere bane of existence, to become the worthiest and most appealing object of praise, a token of appreciation that glorifies the lineage of the family and has accomplished the major milestones that are deemed to be benchmarked and embraced as laid down by our society and the ones that surround us.
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Writers
Poemosaurus Rex Challenge Winners
Hard to conceive, now, how extraordinary it would have been to find the bones of those terrible lizards in the earth — in a time before humans had conceived of anything other than a Great Chain of Being, a static creation. Yet long after Darwin they still have a hold over us, these creatures which are the ancestors of sparrows and seagulls. All hail the dinosaur! They are at once real and mythic, objects of science and objects of wonder, exhibitions in museums and children’s toys. No wonder Vocal Creators responded with such a variety of work to our Poemosaurus prompt.
By Vocal Curation Team2 years ago in Resources
When You Must Adjust To Succeed. Top Story - June 2024.
Help Change The World With Your Vote! Read to the End to see How this Impacts The Planet! --- When you want to Attain Spectacular Results, you usually Create Plans to get there.
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM2 years ago in Journal
I Am a Prisoner who Dreams of Prisons. Top Story - June 2024. Content Warning.
The dream always starts the same: I feel the cold bite of wind gnawing through clothes entirely inadequate to protect from the weather and I realize I am standing in line. Ahead of me and behind me are other inmates, identified by the burgundy scrubs we were issued upon arrival. I don't know where we're going.
By Kyle Hulbert2 years ago in Fiction
Where the Sidewalk Ends (the story) - Part 2. Top Story - June 2024.
Note: This is part two, please click on the link below if you would like to read the first part. Thank you! Bowden leans back on the rickety stool he’s been sitting on for the past hour and stretches his cramped muscles. This part of his daily routine was his least favourite.
By Heather Zieffle 2 years ago in Chapters
The Art of Work: Valuing Time in the Age of AI. Top Story - June 2024.
Artificial intelligence isn't going away. You might be excited about that. You might be anxious. Whatever you're feeling, though, AI has become a permanent fixture in our society. As long as there's profit to be made, advancements in AI will shape the next wave of technology.
By Addison Horner2 years ago in 01
What Makes A Cook?. Top Story - June 2024.
Despite sipping on a retired pornstar, I felt absolutely drunk. Like two giddy school girls, my mother and I ate in silence. While, every so often, looking up from our spoons to exchange a smile and a light laugh. Underneath the golden chandeliers of Savoy Grill glistened a rich, dark caramel, poured atop the apple tart tatin. A truly euphoric experience, it was.
By Katerina Petrou2 years ago in Feast
