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Word of the Day: ホチキス

hochikisu - stapler

By Kayla McIntoshPublished 15 days ago 3 min read
Top Story - December 2025
Word of the Day: ホチキス
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I don't know the word for Staples. I remember I used to think that Hochikisu was an Onomatopoeia for a stapler rather than a brand name. I am pretty sure I already have this title as a theme, which is making me feel many sort of ways as Vocal is harassing me about payments currently.

I do have to cut back on subscriptions and while I waste my time worrying about the emails, actions will be done one way or another.

I have a lot of itchiness and need to go to the store for some sort of antihistamine. I was debating whether to continue with my Doordash subscription because, well, Uber is stealing from me every month. I have tried canceling with them and they still charge me every month. They supposably do not have my credit card information anymore but the charges keep coming.

I might need to sue Uber since this is a complete violation of personal information. If I decide to go through with this, I will need some help, so I am asking the Vocal community to help me with overcoming my current situation to enact justice at the greater evil at hand. I would have loved to continue my job of compiling my notes here and continuing my education successfully. But, I must now spend the rest of my break now figuring out how to recover my information from this particular company, as if I don't take any sort of action, I will be completely destitute.

I also ask for the patience from this company as well, as someone who intends to continue using this platform, for the payments to go through the card that was assigned to your company, to transfer what money I do have in this current quarter, towards your company.

I would like to end this story here, but as the minimum of stories is 600 words, I must continue.

On a more personal note, I do have to convey this information somehow to this school term's teachers. After I meet the requirements of this story, I will most likely forward this URL directly to them.

As I value, above anything else, my principles. I find my current set of tasks very daunting but, I do not want to be deterred from the physical and psychological burden caused by them. Also, the fact that, I am now also admitting that, being heard by one person on this platform, gives me only .0025 USD. I feel like, it is not proportionate to what I deserve.

I am having to code switch and compartmentalize at high frequencies, and feel a bit successful at this moment as I am utilizing at least 6 writing tasks and seem to be making lead way.

Anyone who likes to play MOBAs will understand this as maintaining lanes, focusing on turret destruction rather than farming or ganking junglers, the dismantling of the system rather than becoming a murderer.

Most people prefer when tanks play the martyr which, usually get's me criticism but, I was born in the year of the horse, I prefer to keep things fresh.

Some of the character's lines are:

Protect the fairy forest, protect my people.

Stay near me and and become stronger.

He's basically Chiron.

The battle I just finished currently.

This summarizes me pretty well, as I was born in the year of the Metal Horse. I am unaware of whether this makes me a desirable person or not, but if I work within my nature and accept myself as myself, this feels less a burden. Even if it is arbitrary, it gives language to what we are; a moment in time.

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About the Creator

Kayla McIntosh

Personal tell-all pieces: Word of the Day and Jail Journal. Secret poet on the side. ( I don't use Ai to write any posts, everything is done manually. )

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  • WILD WAYNE : The Dragon King14 days ago

    The year of the fire horse is coming up. Asians think women with fire are not good. The abortion rates go up for women of fire. Men do not want to marry any woman who is a fire horse. Hugs to you. Thank you. I grew up in Japan. Japanese women hate Japanese men and move to other countries because men think their job in more important than their wives or kids. BLESSINGS Natalie.

  • I love Japanese, and that is a new one for me. Buranko is one of my favorites.ブランコ. From the Portuguese- it is a swing.

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