The Contents Page
What's in the library
Inspired by those who have gone before me (and helped a little, on the technical front!), I have created a contents page for my work on vocal, thus enabling the thousands who flock to my profile daily (or you six or seven, thank you so much for keeping my chin up!) to gain easy access to both the gems and the wormy potatoes. Some of these pieces look like somewhat peculiar choices without the context of the challenge they were written for (why the fuck has a box shown up on the doorstep? What's with the random chapter that goes nowhere? And where do these ideas for Haiku come from?) I have learnt a lesson there and more recently started using subtitles to remind me if I was writing the piece to a particular challenge.
I contemplated placing a little marker next to the pieces I felt good about, usually because I enjoyed writing them, and an alternative marker for the duds - avoid these, not good. But where's the threshold (about 16 minutes, much of the time)? So I left that be. Instead I have gone from chronological order, newest first, within each category. I also haven't put stories which placed in a community challenge under achievements, because I cant remember which ones did and which ones didn't! I may move them in time, if I can figure it out.
Top Stories and Achievements
I Try to Sink - poetry - Second Place in the Short and Sweet Challenge
Her Name is Star - Runner up in the Dragon Beside Me Challenge, Top Story
The Price of Everything and the Value of All - Runner up in the Love Unravelled Challenge
Why, Why, Why Runner up in the Snow Micro Challenge
Synergy - Runner up in the Misplaced Challenge and Top Story
Broken - Runner-Up in the Villanelle Challenge
Gastrolith - Runner- Up in the Smooth Challenge
The Witches of Little Writtham - Runner-Up in the Under a Spell Challenge
Making Time - Poetry - Top Story
Invitation to Renga with Me - Top Story
My Cat Died on Friday - none fiction - Top Story
The Keep - Fiction - winner in Randy Baker's March Challenge
Among those Dark Satanic Mills - Poetry - Winner of Sleepy Drafts' Eavesdropping Sleepy Mission
Ascending - fiction, Top Story, joint winner in Mackenzie Davies' Ekphrasitc Challenge
Questions with Rick Henry Christopher - Top Story
In the Bleak Mid-Winter - non fiction, Top Story
The Sum of My Parts - non fiction, Top Story
The course of true love - Poetry, Top Story
Purgatory - Fiction, Top Story
Forgotten: The Story of a Story - Fiction, Top Story
Vicissitudes - Poetry, Short list in Mackenzie Davis' "Grocery List" challenge
Little Witch - fiction? Non fiction? - Top Story
Roulette - horror fiction - Tops Story and winner of Paul Stewart's "Unnerve, Unsettle, and Scare Me" Challenge
A Letter To Heather - letter - Top Story and honorable mention in Heather Hubler's 'Write me a letter' Challenge
Autumn Days - fiction (sad) - Top Story
Dead Leaves - non-fiction - Top Story
Ripples - First place in Jazzy's Filthy Haiky Challenge
Eating with my Fingers - Third Place in Vocal Social Society's Haiku Honey Challenge
Turn away please, while I get naked - non-fiction - Top Story
The Writing Circle - non-fiction- Top Story
Help a book lover out - non-fiction - Top Story
Cabin Pressure - fiction - Top Story
Non-Fiction
I have of late lost all my mirth
And Now, for my One Hundered and Fifty First Story...
Love Unravelled? Love's Unravelling me!
Why I would like to do a murder and other stories
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
He's (probably) not the Messiah
Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things
Fiction
The Paradox of the Unicorn and the Rainbow
"You must let what happens happen"
The Dance of the Queens of Heaven
Micro Fiction
Hansel and Gretel Find a Snack
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
General Poetry
Battenberg, and other sugary joys.
Smile and the world smiles with you. Cry and you cry alone.
Meeting full face on dark mornings
Scream if you want to go faster!
The First Wonder of this World
The Name of the Devil is Greed
A (delayed) Visit from St Nicholas
Limericks
Insert relevant proper noun here
Haiku/Senryu
From a single flame, a conflagration grows
The isolation of the grieving soul
And if anyone is still with me here, you will see that I needed thirty more words to meet the minimum word count at the time of publication. Et Voila.
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The Writing Circle
It seems we are called, of late, to self-reflection. The Vocal challenges on offer at present have created, for me, a kind of momentum. A natural progression perhaps, from reflecting on the work of others, through the impact of others’ work on our own lives, into consideration of what drives us to create our own work, and how that evolves. We each have our own reasons for being here, sharing pieces of ourselves. And I think mine become clear as I reflect on my writing journey.
By Hannah Moore9 months ago in Writers
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ELLEN MARIE
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ELLEN MARIE *** just had to know *** ++++++++++++ As Mike drove through the town he hadn’t seen in about twenty years, he wondered about those he’d left behind when he left for what he thought would be “greener pastures.” He wanted to make his mark on the world. Determination drove him and the little town of Meadowville wasn’t where he wanted to be.
By Margaret Brennan4 days ago in Fiction
Comments (21)
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I totally missed this, especially with the Barter Books Rail Feature. Excellent idea
Wow. Great idea this. Considering I have a mountain of stories (most of them sub-par, as Vocal terms it. (Some really are cringy) Maybe my good 100 ones could join your idea. Just for my peace of mind I have thought of finding a way to get the good ones together. Your idea is great. Maybe i will do something non-Vocal. This was great. Now to try to read them all.
Well, this is a very good idea! Love that you punctuated it with humour. Congrats on Top Story
Congrats on TS. I need Moore time so I can get thoroughly through your back catalogue, dammit!
Your clever use of subtitles not only guides readers through the rich tapestry of your creations but also reflects a thoughtful consideration of context, making the reading experience both enjoyable and accessible.
Lmaoooo at the ending🤣. Love this though 🥰🥰
At first I was like, ‘Why TF are they making a virtual table of contents page a Top Story… and why am I tempted to take a peek?’ Then I read the intro and saw you’re extremely witty. I shall be making my way through more of your work.
I love that more and more people are doing this! It's such a great way to keep some of your older pieces relevant and out of the forgotten abyss that Vocal can sometimes be! I am so excited to use this to sneak through your page and read work that I have either missed or that you would like more eyes to see!! Great work Hannah and congratulations on Top Story!! P.s. I laughed at the ending authors note, I think we have all been there at some point!! 💙
love your writing
Great idea. Congratulations on the top story!!
Lol...meant to read this when you first published it! Love how you injected your own brand of self-depracating humour into a dry contents page! Love love it haha! Also, it makes it much easier for me to bingeread your stuff! Well done on this getting Top Story - hope it gets you more than the 6 or 7 visitors!
That's a lot of achievements lady -Well done! Great idea and perfect way to meet the word count 🤍
So much that I've not read. Nicely done though. I made it to the end so chuckled heartily.
Yayyyy so glad you put this together! I'll have to circle back here when I'm free because I've not read so many of these! Also, the Writers community doesn't have a minimum word count but I loved what you added! 🥰
Excellent! A lot of hard work you put in to make it easier for us to explore. 💖
Yes. A few thousand views would be nice wouldn’t it Hannah! ;0) Hopefully this compilation might help. Good one! Have a nice day. 😊
Love this, Hannah! What a wonderful collection of work to be very proud of!!! I'm inspired to do this with my pieces.
I like how you broke this down :). I wish we had more control over how we display things on our profile page. I recognize a number of the titles it so many more I’ve yet to explore!
I love this Hannah. I made one for Medium ages ago but never got round to it on here when I joined. I just need some time now to curl up and enjoy 🤗
Lol that ending! So happy you got all the kinks worked out! This is so great. I have more reading to do. 😆👏💜