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Tiny Lies That Keep the World From Exploding
Today’s topic is small lies. Not the kind that break up marriages, topple empires, or end celebrity careers. I’m talking about those little, everyday “truth adjustments” we use to avoid awkwardness, misunderstandings, or simply because… it’s easier.
By Tina's Blossom Life6 months ago in Humor
Queer Vocal Voices 2.0
Hello! If you can believe it, Queer Vocal Voices on Facebook is a year and a half old! We figured with the changing landscape on Vocal, which has caused low interaction across the board, we would make some changes to the group. Yeah, a glow up! Lets take a walk down memory lane to why we started this group, and what we hoped to accomplish. You coming?
By J. Delaney-Howe6 months ago in Pride
K-Drama Review: Six Flying Dragons ~ Captivating, Epic, Binge-Worthy Classic
“Six Flying Dragons” (aka “Roots of the Throne”) is a 2015 Korean drama series, with 50 episodes, categorized as Historical, Political Drama, Action, Sageuk (Korean historical drama), and Romance.
By Treathyl Fox (aka cmoneyspinner)6 months ago in Geeks
When True North Fails. Honorable Mention in Everything Looks Better From Far Away Challenge.
1101 North Highland Street. A nice place, briefly. It was only a month before everything went wacky and began breaking. The AC failed. Pipes burst behind walls. The basement flooded. Our Internet went offline. HomeShield Insurance Company dropped us. It was as if some cosmic anomaly of evil plasma had settled onto the realty, altering the reality—of rules and commonsense observation—down to the atoms.
By Gerard DiLeo6 months ago in Fiction
Doughnuts & Feelings
***Character name change. Selena is now Mikaela, and is of both English and Swedish decent.*** It’s now Wednesday, and I’ve finally stopped having dreams about the weekend. For the last few nights, Sheila the camel has been incepting my dreams like Freddy Krueger, giving me nightmares. And yet, somehow, I still wake up with a boner. It’s confusing. It would be gross if I didn’t remember the real star of my dreams before they became a nightmare, Aisling, who, like Beatrice, has officially ghosted me. So I’m back to dreaming of Mikaela. It’s probably safer that way.
By Simon George6 months ago in Chapters
Villainess Review: Dawn St. Claire (B.L. Stryker)
The heartbreaking hits keep on coming this year. On Sunday, August 3, 2025, we lost an iconic name in TV and in cinema, as Loni Anderson passed away at the age of 79. Anderson did so much in TV and film, with her greatest claim to fame being the hit sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati, where she shined as bombshell Jennifer Marlowe--a role she briefly reprised years later in The New WKRP in Cincinnati. Anderson appeared on several different TV series such as Police Woman, Barnaby Jones, Three's Company, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (as one of Sabrina's country witch cousins), and V.I.P. (as the mother of Pamela Anderson's central character).
By Clyde E. Dawkins6 months ago in Geeks
Viola's Purple Veil. Content Warning.
This was created by Vicki, me. I am no longer producing a paranormal channel with my friend. It is all about Trusselli Art, music, art, film, and progressive politics. I like to create art reflecting truth, fantasy, metaphors, innuendos and manifestations of art and dreams. I bring my dreams to life through my art. I want to share, be cool, creative, paranormal, and be in a paint bucket of life.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Poets
Where is Daisy?
The colour of the leaves turned to burnt sienna around the edges. Some were green and strong, sporting no change. Some were sheltered and yellow. But others flew to the ground in despair as they waited for our feet to crush them, their parts caught in the crevices underneath our shoes. Turning to grains falling away as we walked. The odd ones stuck to the bottom, refusing to let go.
By Caitlin Charlton6 months ago in Fiction
Festina lente: make haste slowly
My hunger to decipher messages intrinsic in the English language is driven by a mysterious force. An increase in physical hunger is driven by the hormone ghrelin. Leptin causes hunger suppression. My drive to understand the letters that make up words is less understood. Letters make up words that are symbols that can evoke positive and negative implications. Words feed my need to use imagination to interpret meanings of facts and myths that resonate on multiscale levels.
By Katherine D. Graham6 months ago in Writers
i don’t know who i am; i just know who i’m not
One time, in kindergarten, my teacher was fed up with how talkative my class was being—aside from me, because with my anxiety and people-pleasing tendencies combined, I was always on my best behavior. That day, I was the only one allowed to participate in our daily “rest” period, where we would relax and snack on whatever our parents packed for us and chat with each other. I was usually always silent during these, not really having many friends at the time. But that day, at the teacher’s command, the entire room was silent. The rest of my classmates sat there, heads in their arms in the dark, staring at me as I crunched on my goldfish and drank my little water bottle, feeling every bit as awkward as I was oddly proud of being the only one who had followed the rules.
By angela hepworth6 months ago in Writers
The Lavender Hour
The hillside was bathed in lavender light, the kind that only appeared at the edge of summer evenings. The grass swayed gently, touched by a breeze that smelled faintly of salt and honeysuckle. In the distance, the ocean shimmered like glass, and the sky was so clear it felt painted.
By Liz Burton6 months ago in Fiction
Confessions of a Former Alcoholic Part 1
In the country I live in, absurd events occur almost daily, and people live in a state of lawlessness. People are almost always drunk and driving. I don't like this situation in my country, and I stay away from almost everyone.
By TheNaeth6 months ago in Confessions
