The Great Library of Alexandria
Organised by Category
This here is my regularly updated library of all stories and articles written here on Vocal, organised by category for your ease of perusal. Dive in. Leave comments and love rather than footprints please ❤️ 🕊️ 😇
Newest stories are at the top of each section, with the exception of my book excerpts which are listed in number order. If you enjoy these, comment and I will continue posting ✨
All of my poetry now has it’s own Great Library (link below 👇)
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Health Articles
Dairy Addiction, Breast Milk & Attachment Trauma
Reprogramming Adults; A How To Guide
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Music
In The Painted Room (Karen Gibson Roc)
This article introduces you to Roc’s music and has been combined with a fictional story about how I imagined it being created.
This was for one of the earliest Vocal challenges I ever took part in. Possibly even the very first?
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Fiction
(written for Vocal Challenges)
Charlie & the Chocolate Rocket
A cute retelling of the original with a space slant and life wisdom woven in. It would make a great bedtime story for your little one… and you can create the next chapters with them… how cute would that be?
This is the only dark story you will find here! It was for a challenge and the first line was the prompt. I couldn’t come up with anything that wasn’t dark… and to be honest… it was written at a very, very dark time for me. I used to work in mental health wards and this experience definitely provided powerful inspiration for the story.
Not that great a story. Was amusing while I lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka and I had just created the most amazing hibiscus medicine.
I need to reread this - because from memory it was one that I was really proud of and very sad it didn’t place in the competition. I remember the characters being powerful, the story being based on real people and current events that I researched heavily. Maybe it wasn’t as great as I thought or maybe it was and the competition was just stronger! I will update this note after I return to it!
This was one I really enjoyed writing. I’m still really happy with the unexpected twist I wrote into the end - which will change the way you saw the entire story! And it’s not dystopian in the slightest!!!!! The title is perhaps misleading in that way - there is a journey of adventure that risks death - but no one dies and it’s not scary!
I was watching a lot of Hallmark movies when I created these three. Which all have the same main character. Cute stories of escapism. If you are looking for something nice to read, try Naked Encounters!
This was my entry for that BIG Moleskine competition for $20,000 that had many of us dreaming!! We had to write a story that included a little black notebook. This was my emotive take on the prompt.
A story that took me a week of research before I even began writing. The main character is based on a real historical character and his reputation. Fiction was created around him and the founder of IBM. I even researched if they were ever in the same country at the same time and they indeed were. This fiction had to be conceivably possible - which is why it took so long to research.
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Misc. Writing
International World Literacy Day 2023
AI’s Ode to an Ordinary Object
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
“Love Will Make You Do Crazy Things” (Will Smith)
Sending LOVE Via Your Vocal Inbox
Why Space Travel is $100,000 Cheaper from Sri Lanka
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Critiques
(written for Vocal Challenges - highlighted in bold are my top recommendations)
The Joy of Painting - Bob Ross
“I Have A Dream” MLK
Every Breath You Take The Police
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
The Age of Anxiety - Alan Watts
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
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Lust For Words
Articles highlighting the best unseen poetry from other Vocal Creators
Edition 5 (in progress)
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***My Book Excerpts***
Feelings of Unreality
(My real life journal starting January 2020 - content warning on all of this)
Tea With The Devil
(an excerpt from the middle - content warning on all of this)
(More still to be posted)
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Above is a link to the place I love the most - my Poetry Library ! Please do check in - it’s completely free of charge 🥰
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A huge thank you to Matthew Fromm for his brilliant problem solving creativity via article My Magical Library (which inspired me to do this) 🥰 I sooo wanted to steal the name, but I reasoned it would be plagiarism! Apparently I thought stealing a historical name is not. 🥰🤔😂❤️✨
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More stories from Kayleigh Fraser ✨ and writers in Writers and other communities.
Doing it for the troops
The others dropped like flies around me. We fought and struggled to get to this point. I'm the only one left now. The objective is right there. A mere two hundred feet away. The last of my team got a bullet to the head right next to me, but I couldn't do anything. I was able to locate and neutralise the sniper as he shot my friend, so his death was at least not in vain.
By Mohammed Darasi6 days ago in Fiction
Comments (7)
I absolutely love this idea!!! I’m definitely going to go through with the time I have this week and read some more of your content! You’re a great writer!
Weldone
Not me reading your title and thinking, "Oh wow, Kayleigh's real name is Alexandria". Yeap, felt pretty foolish when I read your intro, lol! I'm pretty new to being your reader so I was shocked at how much stuff you've written! You're phenomenal! I'm eagerly waiting for Lust for Words 4! Also, you've written so many health articles, I need to come back for those. Thank you so much for putting this together!
Very nicely done!
Okay, I will admit it ❤️👌but shout me out - Click Bait My Latest Poem- https://vocal.media/poets/getting-over-romeo
Great title.
This is awesome! A virtual library. Lots of hard work to put this all together. Will be back to browse some more. I choose “Notes from hell” to check out first and it was brilliant!