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Taking a Stand Against Spam on Vocal
Vocal has always been more than just a publishing platform. It is a place where real people share real stories. We have built Vocal together, and we are incredibly proud of the creators who continue to shape this community.
By Justin @ Vocal8 months ago in Resources
Should I Try This Surprisingly Profitable Side Hustle?
Last night on my side hustle quest, I came across an article, “Six Realistic Side Hustles.” I skimmed through the options. I’ve read so many of these articles now and they’re all the same. Then I came across option number four: “Dog Poop Pickup: The Surprisingly Profitable Side Hustle.” I love that this wasn’t even at the end as an afterthought, it was smack bang in the middle of the article! That makes it a serious side hustle option.
By Sandy Gillman9 months ago in Humor
Submitted, Objectively
To those who’ve known and never heard of such ideas, “It’s a cult,” they yammer. Like blood spilling from their frothy lips, they speak of sacrifice and dying and suffering. They, however, never speak of joy, life, and excellence to be found on this Earth. They, still, call it a cult. The irony is overwhelming, their system of fate relates to tribalistic leanings and following mystical patterns that would herd all heads under a single yoke. After, they would be plucked one by one with the simplest assertion that their faith cannot be tested. One thing is to believe in something. Another is to say it’s real. If you believe in something, you don’t have to say it's real because it already exists.
By Skyler Saunders8 months ago in Journal
Divine Alignment
I have been on my own personal spiritual quest for true divine alignment for some time now, and while I have been walking my path, I have come to a profound realization. Gaining spiritual strength is not something that can simply be accomplished by taking in knowledge pertaining to spiritual concepts, or by listening to the experiences of other spiritual practitioners.
By Kaylon Forsyth8 months ago in Humans
Hollow Talks
I haven't come to terms with seeing you only for small talk. Our existence together was a dance, an easy sliding of tectonic plates over one another. No friction. No catches. Just smooth sailing, you and I. It was effortless, like breathing in the morning fog.
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Fiction
Battling Political Fatigue
Has the news sucked the very life out of you? Do you find yourself scrolling on social media, desperate for any signs of radiant hope for the current state of our country, here in the United States? You may suffer from political fatigue! Like many of you, I feel the same way.
By Iris Harris9 months ago in Psyche
My Spidey Sense
Some places just put a person’s internal alarm systems on active standby. Alma Latinas was just such a place. Sure, Mike had visited this cantina before with several friends, but never alone. Actually, Gringos never visited this part of Nuevo Laredo alone, and he knew this, so what the hell was he doing there? When you’re twenty and bulletproof, in your mind anyway, no place is off limits.
By Mark Gagnon9 months ago in Journal
Of Chaos and Consequence
Consequences, mapped, spread, and stretched across the chaos they so deftly served in their given time, are ordered by unseen forces. We grasp at straws to find reason and rhyme, some semblance of "the why" when the seemingly random shatters our steady ground.
By Paul Stewart9 months ago in Fiction
I lived in a White World until I was 25!
I was born in the predominantly white population of Northern Ireland in 1972. This will sound crazy to some people, but for the first 25 years of my life, the only connection I had to another culture was through an Indian boy in my high school.
By Simon Aylward9 months ago in Pride
