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📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 07/03/2025
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted most alternating Thursdays at 12PM ET to offer creators more avenues to uncover exceptional stories on Vocal. As we are continuously searching for fresh creators and inspiring stories, this thread provides an opportunity to exchange and discuss the stories that have moved and motivated us on Vocal.
By Raise Your Voice by Vocal7 months ago in Resources
The 6:17 to Somewhere New. Winner in The Second First Time Challenge.
Marc hadn’t taken the 6:17 PM train in nearly two years. Not since he left the job he thought he’d die in, not since Elise had walked out with the last of their shared plants and all the warmth from the apartment. Not since he stopped believing in rhythms - that predictable cadence of departure and return that used to structure his weeks like a heartbeat.
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in Fiction
SCOTUS vs LGBTQ
What is the purpose of schools? To educate the next generation of citizens for our country. To prepare them to become a functional member of society. When you live in a country created from a diverse set of cultures, then schools need to prepare the next generation to collaborate with a diverse workforce. Most educators would agree with this ideology of education and design classrooms to accommodate a diverse range of students from any background and culture. On June 27, 2025 the Supreme Court ruled against diversity, excluding LGBTQ+ representation in public schools.
By Iris Harris7 months ago in The Swamp
Tick Tock. Content Warning.
This is part of Step into Echoes Beyond the Veil with Pookie & Vicki After we connected with our ancestors, my dad, and her mom I thought how thin the veil is and how the earth is spinning faster, this had to be written. It is other, time zones, tick tock clocks of time & space, birth, death, and closed & open doors. This is truth, fiction, and science fiction written in words regarding living, and the fantasy of time.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 7 months ago in Poets
Mere~Words
'Dictionary' Words can't Hurt you:*BritBudBook Reviews, Rachel & Annie, and Cj Thanks for the 'Word.' Whatever happened to the expression "Sticks & Stones will break your bones, but mere words will never hurt you?" At what stage do you 'Go over the Line' or do folks look for any 'interpretation' they just choose to select at the time? There are those that make a living ranting-randomly by putting their targets under a microscope. But, of course, you know that!
By Jay Kantor7 months ago in Humor
90s Hidden Gems: The Soft Bulletin-The Flaming Lips
The Soft Bulletin- (1999) The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips are an interesting band with quite the expansive history of weird things, such as dancing aliens in Christmas costumes at their concerts, to a shower of balloons coming down on the audiences, to an album that was meant entirely for each track to be played synchronized with each other on many different stereos at once. (Zaireeka)
By Slgtlyscatt3red7 months ago in Beat
But Ralf I need more on Character Creation, well then let’s get our role on! Part 1
Your probably all like … Get our role on!?!? Yes get our role on. For you see adventurers in my journey to be a better writer I happened upon … dun dun dun … D&D and Vampire The Masquerade
By WrittenWritRalf7 months ago in Writers
Be a Gracist, Not a Racist!
What is gracism? Dr. David Anderson is the author of the book "Gracism: The Art of Inclusion". He introduces the concept of gracism. Gracism is the opposite of racism as it focuses on extending grace and love to people of every shade of pigmentation, background, and culture!
By Rowan Finley 7 months ago in Humans
Book Review: "High Crime Area" by Joyce Carol Oates
Yes, it's another JCO book and yes, it's another short story anthology. Why? Well, I've been to a new library and the only one I haven't read in terms of JCO novels from this place is called High Crime Area. I hope I get some more because I honestly do not have the money to buy all of her books. Perhaps one or two, but she hasn't written one or two has she? She's still writing more as we speak and well - I'm never going to have enough money at this rate. Let's take a look at High Crime Area, a short story anthology by Joyce Carol Oates.
By Annie Kapur7 months ago in Geeks
The Room for Eliza. Runner-Up in You Were Never Really Here Challenge. Content Warning.
At the end of the hall, there’s a room we don’t talk about. Mother calls it the “Sewing Room”. She says it in the same tone she uses when talking about frozen casseroles or tax deadlines; blunt, flat, leaving no room for a second opinion. The “Sewing Room” hasn’t seen a spool of thread in, at least, thirteen years; a blatant lie, so we don’t talk about it long.
By Luna Jordan7 months ago in Fiction
