Global Stories
Humanity On Paper, I Should Have Voted for Trump
Yuvoice Duet: Read another inspiring story about identity and voting here. I have agonized over how to write this, and...
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Humanity The Trump Election and Its Impact on People of Color: A Personal Reflection
Yuvoice Duet: Read another inspiring story about identity and voting here. The continuation of Donald Trump's presidency through 2028 stirs...
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Humanity Once I Came Across a Faisalabad Slum
Writer’s Note: This poem is about my visit to a slum in Faisalabad where people mostly live in a dirty...
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Work & Life Quit This Job to Keep That Dream
This poem takes a broad sweep over humanity’s history to remind us that we all live and have lived under...
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Fiction Whispers of Ancestry
This poem takes a broad sweep over humanity’s history to remind us that we all live and have lived under...
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Work & Life Educated Through Chaos
My name is Tiessouma Pare and this is my education through chaos. It all started that October of 2009. I...
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Fiction Don’t Stop Me
Don’t stop me, Man, for I want to fly… Let me be myself, for I want sky My aim is...
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Work & Life Gobsmacked By Environmental Consciousness: How COVID Recycled My Values & Priorities
We learn valuable life lessons the hard way. In 2018, as I proudly stepped out of my final year of...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Covered Mirrors and the Souls of the Dead
It may be strange, but my grandfather died between the 1st and 2nd of November 2000. He, who had always...
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Humanity Denise and More, Still Nel Cuore!
Three-year-old Denise Pipitone was abducted from Mazara del Vallo, Italy on September 1, 2004, and has never been found. At...
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Mental Health Unwritten Dreams
I forgot to have a big dream Now that I think about it I never even found my passion The...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Lessons in Korean
Six letters, six minutes. C-L-O-S-E-D at 8:00pm. It’s now 8:06pm. I stare at the bold black letters in front of...
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Work & Life Career Twizzled: 123 … ABC … SEO
Back in high school, if someone said I'd end up as an SEO content writer, I'd have hesitated. Search engine...
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Mental Health Stitches and Thorns
I once wrote that I was held together by duct tape… staples… and thorns of roses I also said that...
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Work & Life I Can Fly, Even with Clipped Wings
I was born into a middle-class family, and studying at the university is not considered good for a girl. In...
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Brighter Tomorrow The Social Foundry: Teaching Life Skills to Youth With Community Support
In Brighter Tomorrow, we like to share stories of changemakers from all over the world. Here is one from the...
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Mental Health Shiny Eyes
The beauty, the beauty of heaven, Your red, blushy cheeks. The grace of every person's heart, Your comforting smile. ...
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Lifestyle & Relationships The 11th Commandment – Don’t Rush Childhood
What is that one thing you wanted as a child? I bet you eagerly wanted to be an adult. Being...
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Mental Health You and Me Against Sanity
When none of the fireflies stayed alive for long enough in the jar, I stuffed it with Christmas lights and...
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Humanity Sorry, Have I Upset You?
I was a first-year medical student when a stage 3 cancer patient gave me insight into the patient perspective. She...
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Mental Health The Price of Addiction
Alcohol abuse runs in my family. It seems like a curse passed down the generations. That said, I also struggled...
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Fiction Voices From The Valley Are Rising
Writer’s note: This story is a cocktail of my own lived experience, of observations that spanned my community outreach work...
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Mental Health Whispers To My Starry-Eyed Crush
Yuvoice Duet: Read another inspiring story about the hypnotic allure of daydreaming for a South American writer I ain't...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Dubai is Perfection for Princes
I have always dreamed of visiting Dubai, the city of skyscrapers, luxury, and opportunity. I heard stories of how people...
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Work & Life From Fishing Village to SEO Wiz
I believe in the power of education and self-education. Buckle up, for this journey isn't just about SEO; it's about...
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Lifestyle & Relationships The Color Of Far, Far Away That I Found In Peru
Yuvoice Duet: Read another inspiring story...
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Work & Life From Greasy Shop Floor To Cushy Office
Careers in the rough terrain of the automobile industry frequently scale amazing heights. In this dynamic industry, my journey encapsulates...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Losing My Hero-in-Law
It all started in October 2022. Our peaceful lives were disrupted by a devastating diagnosis, like a riptide at the...
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Humanity Not Playing the Game: The Bitter Cost of My Youthful Resistance
In my 20 plus years of existence, I have learned two important lessons: (1) if you want to succeed, you...
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Work & Life Millennial Customers Are Prickly, But I’ve Adapted!
I have spent 38 years in the business of owning and running operations. Since 1987, I have seen people of...
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Work & Life Procrastinate Enough? Let Me Help—Tomorrow
Recent events have made me think about my whole life again. People born under the influence of the number 2...
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Mental Health Moving Away From the Cliff’s Edge: A Mum’s Story of Her Child’s Mental Health
It is no understatement that the last few years have been difficult for various reasons. It's almost too obvious to...
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Fiction Shifting Fortunes, Shifting Fates
(Audio recording by Aysha Haruna narrates this fictional story) I still remember the night my father died. The years before...
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Mental Health A Connecticut Snowflake Comes Out to Play
As far as I can remember, I have not liked cold weather. And I have my own reasons for it. ...
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Work & Life The Magic Of Never Giving Up
I didn't plan to write this article. But the young man I am today is a reflection of all my...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Almost Lost Forever: True Love and Survival
When the extraordinary Swedish documentary “Nelly & Nadine,” directed by Magnus Gertten, was released in 2022, it was featured in...
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Fiction Counterfeit World 3.0
Roscoe has defiled Doyle's living room, again. So, Doyle was siphoning resources—not much, about a tenth of one percent—from RAMPART's...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Sunset on the Mountain, Sunrise in My Head
At times when I am faced with life’s inevitable challenges, my initial and persistent thought is "I’ll never get through...
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Work & Life Me. Writer. I Don’t Exactly Have a Point I Want to Achieve
I have always wanted to be a writer.To tell my story to the world.This raw feeling to be understoodTo be...
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Fiction Ye Olde Plastic Knight
I awoke at the crack of noon. My first order of business was to determine my whereabouts. I appeared to...
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Lifestyle & Relationships ‘This Is Us’ — The Drama of Body Shaming, Diversity, and Conflict on My TV
Being a voracious reader since forever, I have always been a sucker for a good story. Unwittingly, I tend to...
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Fiction The Lone Walk
The sand beneath my feet whirls away, sweeping me off in a sway. On the floor, I lay, as my...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Toxic Words
Every language has thousands of words, and the ones we choose, I believe, almost always reflect who we are, what...
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Mental Health Wandering, Wondering
Yuvoice Duet: Read another inspiring story about rediscovering life with Autism here. Imagine being lost in a large bookstore when...
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Fiction No Room For Veal
I was only six months in, working as an apprentice chef at Rocco’s, a family-run catering outfit based in the...
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Work & Life Who Knew I’d follow My Family of Teachers Into the Profession I Hated!
Some people would say teaching is in my blood and that I am destined for the job. I strongly disagree...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Finding Community in Identity: Discovering My Autism in Adulthood
Yuvoice Duet: Read another inspiring story about rediscovering life with Autism here My mother always told me that I was...
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Fiction Heaven Simple
the wind did not howl but the door frame is loose vibrated and swayed like the unhinged rusting tin roof...
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Work & Life From Academia to a Gompa and Back: How Retreats Brought Me Full Circle
Enmeshed in a busy year working at my academic office at my university, I thought about attending a retreat. I...
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Mental Health I Have Killed a Dozen Butterflies
(Audio recording by Tanvi Sethi) I have killed a dozen butterflies… Had their powder dust my fingers As...
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Lifestyle & Relationships In Experience: Reflections of a Settler
It's all in the reflections. This account is one of my fondly revisited ones, a space for self-discovery and conscience....
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Work & Life Which Students Does University Life Really Cater To?
When I received my offer to study at a prestigious institution, The University of Edinburgh, I was overjoyed. Still am....
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Mental Health Misery Loves Company
“People who are hurting tend to hurt other people,” my mom says while holding me close and listening to me...
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Work & Life Swimming Out and Changing Careers
Let me set a scene for you. I’m at gorgeous Coogee Beach in Sydney, on the Pacific — just had...
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Humanity Donkey Voting Down Under
Donkey voting with a ‘democracy sausage’ Voting is a fundamental democratic right, allowing citizens to have a say in how...
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Fiction 9 AM Discovery
Open the album to see your roots. Hover your petite fingers across the beige page with the woman’s face you inherited. From...
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