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Featured Stories Issue #9

Selected stories from 8,600+ writers supporting 83,500+ readers on ILLUMINATION

Dear Readers,

Today, we compiled a small number of interesting stories covering a broad range of topics for your enjoyment.

Thank you for following our publication and reading the stories of our contributing writers. ILLUMINATION now has over 83,000 readers.

Please enjoy these engaging and inspiring stories.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Why Emotional Maturity Is Critical For Relationships
A lack of emotional maturity can destroy these wonderful feelingsmedium.comDo You Want To Read An Article Read Every Single Day For 18 Months?
If your answer is yes, I can introduce a special article hosted on ILLUMINATION.medium.com

Noorain Hassan, BMS

Paths Are Made by Writing, Not Waiting: One Lesson We Forget
Learn to write BETTER from these proven stories.medium.com

Crystal Jackson

The Next Time You Want to Warn Women to Be Safe, Do This Instead
Women don’t need to be reminded of dangermedium.com

Lady Foxx

Suicidal?
Speak up! Ask for help!medium.com

The Maverick Files

Offering To Buy a Drink Might Be the Worst Way To Strike a Conversation
Here’s a list of far better ways for a much higher success ratemedium.com

Chetna Jai

We Live in a World Where Privacy Is an Illusion
Even with the key in my hands, I’m an open book for all to readmedium.com

Clive Wilson MCIM

Why It’s Vital to Add FAQs to Your Website
or How to get pushed to the top of the search results for freemedium.com

Floyd Mori

Everyone Wants To Be Healthy
Being ill and sickly is no fun.medium.com

Njikwe

3 Critical Ways We Self- Sabotage and Kill Our Productivity
Acknowledging there is a problem is the first step to overcoming itmedium.com

Kira Dawn

Standing Still
Still Standingmedium.com

Ryan M. McLaren

Eight Ways to Learn About Your Past Lives
Regression Therapy isn’t the only waymedium.com

Shireen Sinclair

The Women you are forced to Trust
A day in the life of a nursemedium.com

Shea Hulse

I Need to Talk About This One Thing That Upsets Me on International Women’s Day.
I’m all about celebrating International Women’s Day but this drives me nuts.medium.com

Jessey Anthony

10 Minimalist Habits To Bolster Personal Growth
The most insignificant things that matter in life more than we know.medium.com

Kathy Brunner

Don’t Ask Me To Be Your Friend
Why connecting on social media can be frustratingmedium.com

Aigner Loren Wilson

✨How to Write Distinct Character Voices in 11 Ways✨
Actionable approaches to stop your characters’ voices from bleeding together.medium.com

Elvie Lins

The best way to a Man’s Heart is Through His Stomach?
Many wives surely can relate to the statementmedium.com

David Hope

The Power and The Glory
A haiku on the nature of manmedium.com

bakagaijin

A Kick in the Seat of the Pants
Sequence 3 of The Family Businessmedium.com

Isaiah R. Hicks

Warm Torrent
A lipogram and unorthodox sonnetmedium.com

Hailey Chantalle

I Tried 5 Different Hobbies So You Don’t Have To
Here’s what I learnedmedium.com

Annelise Lords

Hiding Beauty
When we hide the truth from ourselves, we are hiding the most beautiful part of us.medium.com

Maddie McGuire

Want More Emotional Clarity? View Yourself Like a Garbage Truck.
And make frequent stops to the landfill.medium.com

Harry Hogg

The Second Impulse
It’s past midnight and I’ve been drinking.medium.com

Camille Allard

6 Hot Sexy Steamy Paragraphs From Bestselling Erotic Novels
You’d want to read more of these naughty onesmedium.com

D J B

Proof! The World is Turning
Yes or No?medium.com

Bill Abbate

3 Basic States of Sufficiency and How They Can Impact Your Life
Can you actually grow your life from insufficiency to abundance?medium.com

Imad

The Words of A Great
A poem dedicated to Nina Simonemedium.com

Aldric Chen

Be THE One. For Yourself and No One Else.
For once, focus on ourselves.medium.com

Terry Mansfield

Which Wedding Style Is The Best Fit For A Couple?
Every wedding has its character and charm, regardless of the wedding style.medium.com

Michelle Middleton

6 Life-Saving YouTube Channels That Got Me Through The London School of Economics and Political…
The rundown of the best YouTube teachers out there in the realms of mathematics, statistics and economicsmedium.com

Patrick M. Ohana

Black Willow Tree
I mourn thee every nightmedium.com

Chris Wojcik

4 Lessons From A Viral Article Gone Wrong
My viral article punched me in the face.medium.com

Stuart Englander

Day Tripping: March 9
Bombing, Blasting, and Blondes?medium.com

Reylia Slaby

The Artist’s Way to Curate Your Own Life
The artist’s way to design the life that you want, and one you can lovemedium.com

Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)

Four Quotes From The Girl With All The Gifts That Chilled Me To the Bone
Not in a horror-fiction way, but in a too-close-to-reality waymedium.com

Alexa Baczak

Real Dinosaurs are Better Than the Movie
What I’ve learned living with dinosaursmedium.com

Heather Beatty

Bill and Melinda Gates Changed the World, but it Wasn’t Because of Their Wealth
Three things my parents taught me about making a differencemedium.com

Göktuğ Okumuş

The Summit
In the office of Mighty Zeusmedium.com

Helen Kean Redpath

Lockdown Project 2021.01: Start A Family Tree
Sharing some of my findings to inspire youmedium.com

Shaista Malik

5 Things I Learned From The World’s Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in her head for advocating for girl’s right to education.medium.com

Maria Rattray

‘Not The Dreaded Exercise’ You Say!
Fear not! One of these magic pills will do the trick!medium.com

Steven Anthony

The Yellow of Bolzano — Shocking Update
The crimes resolvedmedium.com

David R Gwyn

The Wrong Way to Take a Walk
What I learned by taking a miserable walkmedium.com

Louis Petrik

Why I Will Never Tell My Friends I Am Writing
I keep it a secret to keep my authenticity.medium.com

Giorgos Pantsios

Speech Recognition Software To Create More Engaging Content? Part 1.
Your words will echo harder this waymedium.com

Juliano Righetto

Snacks, Lace Panties, and an Incredible Pair of Legs
Or “The worst possible place for me to find something I missed”…medium.com

Adebayo Adeniran

The Royals Are About To Have a Long Overdue Reckoning on Race.
The fall out from yesterday’s interview is likely to have profound ramifications for the house of Windsor.medium.com

Terry L. Cooper

“What’s In Your Wallet?,” She Asks
Screw that. What’s on your agenda for today is what I want to know!medium.com

Ivette Cruz

A Masterpiece
Underneath a blue skymedium.com

Mr. Huseyin

How I became a bookworm?
Being a bookworm Step by stepmedium.com

Josie Elbiry

I Hit My Son with a Shoe-Horn
I’ve worked my whole motherhood to break the cycle of abusemedium.com

Sarah Seweryniak

What Writing Consistently for a Month on Medium Has Taught Me
Top writers share great tips, but don’t often discuss their early statsmedium.com

Caden Strause

Unique And Fun Side Hustles
New ideas for you to try and think aboutmedium.com

Dalibor Országh

How AI generates Sexi Faces
Although some celebrities are generally considered to look pretty, beauty is ultimately judged by the observer’s point…medium.com

Hammad Khalid

How to Start a Social Business — and What You’ll Learn
I share some of my personal experiences and life lessons as Co-Founder of Project Yemen, a social businessmedium.com

Christian B. Mbayabu

Who Am I ? #15
When we read the history of creation, we realize that the Creator only created species. For example, on the day He…medium.com

Jue F. Olbrich

When should I start my own business?
Most of the answers to that question are really amazing, every single time!medium.com

Ikram Al Mouaswas

Why We Need More Mixed Messages
And why ‘the other side of the story’ never works.medium.com

Melanie J.

One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#14)
A phrase about one simple pleasure in lifemedium.com

Josh Balerite Acol

Homesickness
My journey into the slumber worldmedium.com

Liane White

You Deserve The World
Poetrymedium.com

Floyd Mori

Many Things Are Done With A Hope And A Prayer
Wishing for the best is normalmedium.com

Charlie Lukas

Social Media is a Bad Place to Leave Your Memories
Smartphones, polaroid cameras, and our relationship with technology.medium.com

Eugene Albano

Jordan Peterson Has a Great Piece of Advice for Conservatives
It also applies to non-political issuesmedium.com

Mary Beth Hazeldine

3 Lessons I Learned From My Dogs
The masters at communicating without words.medium.com

Camille Allard

10 Tips to Improve Your Orgasms — With Sexologist Amy Cooper Ph.D.
The Everything Orgasm Book is your all-you-need to know guide for the most satisfying sex you’ll ever havemedium.com

A Medic’s Musings

Dear Abena, Abena, Abena…
An honest letter to the ‘lonely’ girl on Val’s Daymedium.com

Bob Jasper

In the Beginning…
How a story begins mattersmedium.com

Nah’Shon Alexander

How To Help Yourself While Bipolar (Part 1)
Because Hypomania/Mania is Terrible.medium.com

Tonya S. Ware

To Enjoy Writing Again, Stop Criticizing Yourself
Tips for writers who feel blue, don’t get the respect they expect, and have started to question their passion.medium.com

Adam Hendrix

What If The Pandemic Makes Us Stronger?
The hope of post-traumatic growth.medium.com

Rosa Diaz

How Many Words is a Picture Worth?
Because humans are mostly visual, I agree that it’s easier to show something in a picture than to describe it with…medium.com

Midori by the Sea

Our Laziness can Motivate Us!
How lazy people can declutter to enjoy the fruit of minimalismmedium.com

GranPa-Festus

Sports Talk-Radio Actually Saved My Life, &c.
Serendipity comes from the strangest angles, sometimes.medium.com

Anggun Bawi

Reasons Why Life Gets Better When You Get Older
The truths about aging that most people don’t know.medium.com

Thank you for reading our stories.

We are grateful to our editors who reviewed and published these stories for you. Our editors work hard to help our writers succeed. They invest their precious time volunteering for smooth publishing of your stories. ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, Tree Langdon, Brian E. Wish, PhD,Dr Ron Pol, Dr Michael Heng, Paul Myers MBA, Karen Madej, Joe Luca, Dipti Pande, Kevin Buddaeus, Kate Maxwell, Arthur G. Hernandez, Bill Abbate,Michael Patanella, Aurora Eliam, CMP, René Junge,Geetika Sethi, Ahmed Jamal, Britni Pepper, Selma, Earnest Painter, Dew Langrial, B. A. Cumberlidge. Lanu Pitan, Agnes Laurens, EP McKnight, MEd, CR Mandler MAT, The Maverick Files, Sumera Rizwan, Liam Ireland, Tony Young, Jr., Neha Sandhir S, Desiree Driesenaar, Stuart Englander, Ntathu Allen, Thewriteyard, Haimish Mead, Maria Rattray, Cristo Lopez, PhD,Dr. Preeti Singh, Holly Kellums,Kristina Segarra, Yohanan Gregorius, Audrey Malone,janny’s heart,Sabana Grande, Jennifer Friebely, Zen Chan, Aamir Kamal 🚀🚀🚀, John Cunningham, [arlie] PEYTON, Georgia Dimitrious, Kim Petersen, Josh Balerite Acol, Noorain Hassan, BMS, Mallika Vasak, Ikram Al Mouaswas, Linda Kowalchek, Terry L. Cooper, George Blue Kelly, Scott Hughey (TheWriteScott)

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