Global Stories
Brighter Tomorrow Madhu Duniya is Creating a Buzz
It is early in the morning. The sky is purplish over the treetops. The forest is still asleep. Yet, she...
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Humanity The Inside Story of a Renegade — What’s It To Ya?
It all started in Wichita, the largest city in Kansas, bustling with the aircraft of Cessna, Learjet, and Boeing. Founded...
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Mental Health A Diagnosis
There was something off; I knew it. I couldn’t quite name it. But it was deeper, darker than what had...
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Humanity What a Difference! I Voted In India and the USA
I am a proud voter. I voted in India, and now I vote in the United States. A transition from...
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Work & Life Starting an Online Business: My Steps to Achieving Success
Have you ever sighed deeply after a mistake or mishap and said to yourself, “If only I knew,” or “I...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Sole Searching
I took a deep breath and gave away my dance shoes. It was a bittersweet moment. It felt like admitting...
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Humanity The World Is Voting: What Are You Waiting For?
Whew, 2024 is a whirlwind election year. With over 64 countries voting, few places are untouched by political discussion. Every...
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Brighter Tomorrow It’s Playtime! Bringing Fun and Joy to Displaced Children at the French Border
(Audio recording by Laura Rodríguez-Davis) When thinking about services for refugees and displaced people, we often...
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Work & Life Shifting Paths: Finding Balance After Burnout in a Global Pandemic
Ouled Teim with its fluttering palms, warm sunsets, and rustic charm is a three-hour drive south of Marrakesh. My story...
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Fiction Phantom Bonfires
Approaching the coast of the North Carolina Outer Banks, Ray slowed the sailboat to a stop, reeled in the sails...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Growing up Wasian in Australia
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) Sentinel Duet: Check out Eric Mabry’s story here for a complementary perspective and a...
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Mental Health Falling into Your Orbit
(Audio recording by Tanvi Sethi) I’ve thought about The way the wind would whip my hair Away from my...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Being a Depressed Mom
Sentinel Duet: Read a poem from the same writer here brimming with love for her kids that coexists with the...
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Humanity Encounter with a Hongkonger at a Hostel in Taiwan
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) On the rooftop terrace, we talked about traveling; things like finding stylish and affordable...
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Mental Health Get Well Soon
Author's note: Here is my poem that deals with mental illness and LGBTQIA+ factors. The echo of heels and dress...
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Brighter Tomorrow PawsUp and Hands Out For The ‘Untouchables’
"When 20 people showed up at our 0.3 acre property during the 2020 COVID lockdown, I thought it was the...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Ingredients for Love: The Unspoken Language of My Grandma’s Kitchen
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) As years go by, I spend more and more time making memories in my...
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Fiction Rings of Magic
It was a hot day in the Colorado oil fields. The hottest day of the year. Robert stood on the...
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Mental Health Unconventional Tuesday
The morning of the first Tuesday of December, I was staying at my uncle's house because, until the night before,...
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Work & Life Whore Sonnets
An autobiography (of sorts) in five sonnets See Me (Audio recording by Yosef Baskin) (Photo courtesy of Alice Shardan photography...
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Fiction Apocalypse New
Country of Origin: United States of America Trigger Warning: Themes of Violence and Sexual Violence Threat We walked quietly, my...
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Mental Health Two Secrets
When you discover a secret, you have two options. I say “discover” because a secret is not made to be...
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Lifestyle & Relationships My Virtual Interview in a Pakistani Ice Cream Parlor
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) I’ve been in the telecoms field for the last 20 years and writing for the...
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Work & Life I Am Just as Confused As You Are
You are not alone, I am just as confused as you are. My life hasn't always been the way I...
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Lifestyle & Relationships A Hāfu in Japan
(Audio recording by Eric Mabry) Two passports. Two last names. Two identities. From a very early age, my life has...
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Un-Breaking the News (UBN) A Premature Death on New Year’s Eve
I was at Primrose Hill, in Camden, London at the time of 16-year-old Harry Pittman’s murder on New Year’s Eve...
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Mental Health Movie Characters and Why I Wish I Was One
I wish that I was traumatized like people in movies are traumatized I wish that other people could escape into...
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Work & Life My Journey from Nopreneur to Entrepreneur
‘Life is full of ups and downs,’ we have all heard this. For me, this saying is completely justified. I...
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Fiction Sea Comedies
Seas. Escapades. Journeys. These are the things one lives for. These are the things that Melissa Jennings’s mother wanted her...
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Humanity Contours of Language
Sifting through multitudes of strangers, Longing for a familiar face, a smiling acceptance, An existence away from home, Calls for...
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Lifestyle & Relationships The Magic of Writing Christmas Greeting Cards
The world moves on, times change, and technology continues to invade our lives. Yet every year, as Christmas approaches, I...
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Mental Health Tidal Waves
some days are tidal waves knocking me breathless i gasp for air that won't fill my lungs drowning in the...
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Brighter Tomorrow One Woman’s Mission to Let Migrant Women Shine Front and Center
(Audio recording by Laura Rodríguez-Davis) “...as a journalist, when I migrated, I started to face a lot of issues to...
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Fiction Reclamation
Emile scowled theatrically at the mirror. His imagination ran wild with unearned pride. That’s how I’ll look, he thought. That’s...
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Lifestyle & Relationships To My Only Friend Who is Gone on a Voyage of Death
(Image courtesy of Enoch) Many, at times, think we see a ray of hope to comfort our emotions and whittle...
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Work & Life Why Fueling Work with my Intense Passion is My Disruptive Secret
(Photo courtesy of Andrik Langfield via Unsplash) Society doesn’t like people like me, like you. Do you ever find yourself...
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Mental Health Circles and Repetitions
Image courtesy of Thainá*in the picture is written "can't stand the unbearable" my mind always thinks it's a competition, between...
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Brighter Tomorrow The Voice Of Our Ancestors
(Audio recording by Ricardo Santillan) (Image courtesy of Maka Forest Villa) He hears them. They speak to him...
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Mental Health Ripping Off The Words
What's a good picture for you? mine is the one in which I’m the happiest. it’s fascinating how the parts...
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Lifestyle & Relationships The Beauty of Daydreaming
Yuvoice Duet: Read another inspiring story about the hypnotic allure of daydreaming for a South American writer Have you...
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Fiction Grandpa’s Dying Gift
By the time she was nine, Chloe was well on her way to becoming a really, really spoiled brat. As...
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Lifestyle & Relationships From Azerbaijan to Poland: How I Created A Home Away From Home
I am Nargiz Mammadzada, a young woman who moved from Azerbaijan to Poland at the age of 23 during the...
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Mental Health Resilience
The epilogue To the one who has arrived Bringing lucidity to an interrupted- And wandering life That was once tribulated, ...
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Fiction Mapping Hell
hell is a dank, dark basement apartment once a home for two but now only housing one who perpetually breathes...
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Fiction Old Photographs
A ghost of a smile Graced my lips, Gazing at old faded photos of us I missed, Younger days have...
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Lifestyle & Relationships I Told my Mother About Gurdjieff
(Audio recording by Yosef Baskin) This subtle jewel of a story, a confession almost, was dictated rather than written. Liba...
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Mental Health Pocrescophobia
A number is just a number, Which is a popular belief. Simple as that - Yet when you saw...
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Work & Life Silence in the Pub Trade: Do Pub Companies Enable Alcoholism in Their Staff?
Working in a pub encourages drinking. For some, this is a dream. For others, a nightmare. After work, drinks, generous...
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Mental Health Trust Your Gut
I was accepted into the doctoral program and was offered a full scholarship. Most people would have immediately accepted. But...
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Lifestyle & Relationships I Feel Closer to My Great Grandma Since She Forgot Who I Am
“Are you sure you want to go visit Grandma T? It might be difficult for you to see her this...
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Work & Life Reminiscing on My First Day of Teaching
(Audio Recording by Jordan Luz) My first day of teaching still haunts me to this day. Not because it was...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Sitting at the Table With the Dead on November 2
On the Italian island of Sardinia, where I was born and still live, there has always been a deep-rooted belief...
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Fiction Without Censorship
(Audio recording by Yosef Baskin) There is so much within her, she deems unspeakable. A restlessness, long muted, vibrating undercurrents...
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Fiction Hawaiʻi – School Bus Snapshots
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) Ho brah, your breath is haunas, dawg. Ever heard of one tooth brush? Da ting...
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Fiction Photocrowd
Two things: 2 iron nails run insmoke. Frosty morning sunshine Overexposed B&W: at Loe BarRed: Red Alley Sunset Silhouettes of...
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Lifestyle & Relationships Your Body, Your Choice
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) Men questioning women today is the norm. Why? Because less freedom means less opportunities to...
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