Life
My Hawks
For most of my life, I’ve envisioned two hawks perched on my shoulders. I don’t remember precisely when they appeared; certainly when I was a child navigating my tension-filled home. Much of that history is lost to blockage still, my father’s volatility and my mother’s survival skills visible to me only as peaks of experience emerging through a cloud cover, seen from a great height. I have realized recently it’s been the hawks who have kept me lifted above all those traumatic memories, and it’s only recently that I’ve begun to really make their acquaintance and honor their role in my life.
By David Muñoz2 months ago in Writers
Things Are Back On Track On Vocal
Introduction This week, we have had issues with Vocal rejecting lots of stories because they were deemed to be in a foreign language. I have also been under a strange Facebook anti-spam ban, which meant I was unable to share my Vocal stories in any group that I was a member of.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 months ago in Writers
Confidence
In every mirror, I sought a phantom, pursuing an illusion that had been escaping me for what felt like an eternity. I had mistakenly labeled this part of myself as 'dull', 'untalented', and 'delusional', yet I yearned for this missing piece to return and make me whole.
By "Ann Garza"2 months ago in Writers
I Am An Author
Hey wassup. Stop what you’re doing and lend me your eyes for a few minutes so I can tell you the story a little boy who grew up to be an author. Now this kid’s name is Joe and he’s from North Carolina. Growing up like he did, education was very important to both of his parents. His parents didn’t play about school and trust me, he learned that the hard way.
By Joe Patterson2 months ago in Writers
Global Web Disruption: Understanding the Cloudflare Outage That Took Down Canva and More
Today, November 18, 2025, the digital world experienced a significant slowdown today as a widespread service disruption at Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure provider, rendered numerous popular websites and online tools inaccessible for users globally. The issue, which caused services like Canva (as seen in the image provided), X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, and many others to fail, highlights the fragility of our highly centralized online ecosystem.
By Teacher Ami - Amizur Nachshoni2 months ago in Writers
Check in French .
A book that remained present in my mind and even left its mark in a strange place in my body that cannot be determined, just as it is not possible to determine the location of the soul or its type, and even if the heart tells us that he knows a lot about it, the heart, in turn, hides many things from us about himself, we do not know,
By mohamed tabouche2 months ago in Writers
When We Were Small
When we were small, the world felt enormous—not because it truly was, but because we had not yet learned to measure it with fear. Back then, distances were crossed with bare feet, not hesitation. Walls were climbed, not avoided. People were trusted before we learned the price of doing so.
By Jhon smith2 months ago in Writers
The Hour That Belongs to Her
The house always woke before she did. It creaked in polite warning as the sky shifted from black to the first thin scrape of grey. She pushed back the light covers and set her feet on the cold floor, that small shock reminding her she was, in fact, alive and not just drifting through another half-dream with yesterday’s thoughts stuck to her like burrs.
By Diane Foster2 months ago in Writers
My 2025 Vocal Community Stories
Following Rachel Deeming's suggestion at the beginning of the year, I challenged myself to write at least one story for each of the Vocal Communities throughout 2025. There are 48 Communities now, and I have written for 30 of them in over four years on Vocal, before 2025. In this earlier story, I made an inventory of my best stories (often earning a Top Story badge) in these communities, but I cannot edit it anymore so I'm creating this one.
By Lana V Lynx2 months ago in Writers
Bad mother?
As a mother we are always on mom mode 24/7. It never stops unless you actually put time aside during the day for yourself. Whether that be going to the gym which is what I do, or going out to eat with a friend, going for a hike. Just doing something that doesn’t involve taking your kids with you. Now what I learned is that it’s absolutely essential to make some time for yourself even if it’s for an hour or 2. That does not make you a bad mother! Creating this time for yourself helps keep you sane especially if you’re a stay at home mom and are inside all day. Don’t feel ashamed or feel bad for wanting some time for you. It’s okay to turn off mom mode for an hour or two and recollect yourself. Don’t let people’s opinions cloud your mind into thinking you’re a bad mother. You do what you have to do for yourself too. You have to make yourself happy too. I use to feel bad for asking my family to watch my baby so I can at least go to the gym. I felt bad to the point where I was so hesistant to ask, and didn’t go for a while. But in doing so I was becoming more irritated at home. Meaning I seemed like I was mad which was not the case. I didn’t have that time for myself to recollect and destress. It got to the point where my aunt asked me if I was okay, and I told her “ I’m just so bored being home”. So she suggested I go to the gym and she would watch my baby. What I learned from this is not to feel bad for putting yourself first sometimes. We all need some time for ourselves, it’s how we can recharge our battery. Make that time for you even if it is just a short amount of time. You will always be a mother first but before you became a mother you were just you. Still continue to do what make you happy, and what makes YOU.
By Merjaunie Lena2 months ago in Writers
