Illumination

19 hours ago | medium.com | Elizabeth Emerald

Synchronized chair dancing? During the predawn hours of Monday morning— whilst I vainly struggled to block out the cacophony— my weather-beaten upper deck was pounded anew as its pair of wind-tossed, plastic Adirondack chairs crashed against the rails and one another. By sunrise, the storm had passed. With trepidation, I opened the slider, bounded to the deck’s edge, and peered over the rail, expecting to see smashed chairs splayed on the lawn-level concrete pad.

22 hours ago | medium.com | Jill Eng

POETRYDiscoveryJust nowin a different temperamentcame windoutsidea forgetful plotthen escaped a trajectoryof distant emptinessto the sorrowbeamed down upondiscoverycoming out of something in timethe arena waswhat amazeda formtraveling contentmentcautioned againstelements beneatha systemdownslight retrievalsthat enteredacting placesforested withmighta possibilityactualizedto the degreeof seeingsomethingThis poem has been published in The Crooked Circle. Thank you Thomas James.

1 day ago | medium.com | Yitzi Weiner

Y itzi: Aaden Stern, it's a delight and an honor to meet you. Before we dive in deep, our readers would love to learn about your personal origin story. Can you share with us the story of your childhood and how you grew up? Aaden: Glad to be here. Wow. It's a long story. I'm 43 years old, so I won't go through every year, but I'm a New Yorker - born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens. I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home. A big part of my origin story is being second generation after the Holocaust.

1 day ago | medium.com | Vidya Sury

PHOTOGRAPHY | TRAVEL | SANDI’S APRIL PROMPTApril Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Rust”Have you seen my head somewhere? Continuing to be tickled by the artwork of the art college students, I came upon this body. Literally. Headless. It’s almost like it is trying to hide. Can’t blame it, can we? It is never easy when you lose your head. Will you help find it? Sooner the better. The rusty skeleton framework may not hold for too long. I think someone has been chipping away at the body.

1 day ago | medium.com | Brandon Ellrich

A hilarious humor publication for all levels of humor writers. Follow publicationIt’s definitely not a scamIt’s always awesome to receive a gift of money. You can use it to buy whatever you want. This gift was 100 times better!I received a reply to one of my articles the other day. I blocked out the name and email because I’m greedy. I don’t want anyone else to cut into my inheritance. I’ve wanted some new earrings for a while, so this couldn’t have come at a more perfect time.