Featured Stories Issue #48
Selected stories from 9,400 writers supporting 93,500+ readers on ILLUMINATION
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Introducing New Writers
Introducing New Writers
We are onboarding new contributors joining ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, ILLUMINATION Book…medium.com
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Introducing an engaging book by prolific author Maria Rattray
In The Name Of My Father
Introducing an engaging book by prolific author Maria Rattraymedium.com
Larry G. Maguire
Machiavelli on How To Play The Power Game
Machiavelli on How To Play The Power Game
In 500 years of human development and technological advancement, has anything really changed in how we do business?medium.com
Megan Holstein
How to Look Beautiful Without Wearing Makeup
How to Look Beautiful Without Wearing Makeup
If you put on makeup because you think you look terrible without it, you’re wrongmedium.com
Elvie
About Me
About Me
Born Filipina and a resident of Singapore. I grew up hopping from one home to the other when my mother died. I was 6…medium.com
Fareeha Arshad
How White Are White Lies
How White Are White Lies
One bitter truth behind white lies.medium.com
Anna
What I Learned After I Almost Died in Hawaii and How It Changed Me
What I Learned After I Almost Died in Hawaii and How It Changed Me
This scary wake-up call taught me important life lessons.medium.com
Veronika Kaufmann
A Girl from Vienna
A Girl from Vienna
an anecdote from my mom’s life who died 10 years ago this monthmedium.com
Michael Hollifield
I Can’t See the Yard for the Weeds
I Can’t See the Yard for the Weeds
When some people can’t see the forest for the trees.medium.com
Darryl Brooks
Kids Today Will Never Comprehend the Hardships We Suffered
Kids Today Will Never Comprehend the Hardships We Suffered
It’s a Completely Different World Todaymedium.com
Neha Sandhir S
Inner Light
Feel it radiating from inside outmedium.com
Abdullah Nadeem
How To Balance Enthusiasm With Discipline
How To Balance Enthusiasm With Discipline
Avoid burning out whilst maintaining high levels of workmedium.com
Bill Abbate
How Long Will Your Words Last and Will They Matter to Anyone Else?
How Long Will Your Words Last and Will They Matter to Anyone Else?
Why writing with future generations in mind is importantmedium.com
Asmita Karanje
Winners Don’t Quit Is A Big Lie — They Do.
Winners Don’t Quit Is A Big Lie — They Do.
They just know the right time to quitmedium.com
Ben Ho
Rain to Renew Our Soul
Rain to Renew Our Soul
Morning relaxation thoughtsmedium.com
Anthony Jackson
It Only Takes You 10 Minutes
It Only Takes You 10 Minutes
A poem about time.medium.com
Laurie Perez
Alchemy of the Emperor
Alchemy of the Emperor
This central truth — the coal-dark mystery of your timeless qualitymedium.com
Lucienne
One Step of the Dark
One Step of the Dark
A poem of a soul who wanted to jump because she just used to think that she could never really learn to flymedium.com
Jacquelyn Lynn
My Medium Weekly Roundup
My Medium Weekly Roundup
Here’s what I published this week and a few stories by others that I enjoyedmedium.com
Matthew Prince
The Lesson From the Prisoner’s Dilemma Is Cooperation and Truthfulness
The Lesson From the Prisoner’s Dilemma Is Cooperation and Truthfulness
In the real world cooperation is not a terrible choicemedium.com
Nora
Create An Effective Content Marketing Strategy To Grow Your Brand
A Strategic Step By Step Approach To Reaching Your Customersmedium.com
Joseph Lieungh
A Life of One’s Own Design
A Life of One’s Own Design
self, family or greater wholemedium.com
Jennifer Dunne
5 Tips to Have a More Self-Confident Attitude
5 Tips to Have a More Self-Confident Attitude
Doubting yourself is a habit. So is believing in yourself.medium.com
Lawson Wallace
What Bothers me as a Writer
What Bothers me as a Writer
Creative Ideas From Lawson Wallacemedium.com
Stuart Englander
Day Tripping: April 18
Day Tripping: April 18
Funerals, Fires, and Farewellsmedium.com
Alfonso Guerrero
Building a Business, Part 1: Why I Decided To Leave Finance and Start a Coffee Business
Building a Business, Part 1: Why I Decided To Leave Finance and Start a Coffee Business
A love storymedium.com
Tammy Richards
Embracing Willingness and Letting Go of the Why
How I Gave Up Control and Got Out of My Own Waymedium.com
Patrick M. Ohana
Françoise Hardy
“Tant de Belles choses”medium.com
Ada LLoyd
Top 3 Mindful Choices for Self Improvement Now
Top 3 Mindful Choices for Self Improvement Now
Be in the 1% Who Consistently Achieve Their Goalsmedium.com
Shawn Ingram
Treehouse
Treehouse
FLASH Fiction Challenge 100 — Day 15medium.com
Enne Baker
Twitch
Nishith Goyal
A Dialogue That Drew Me Close to the Journaling Habit
A Dialogue That Drew Me Close to the Journaling Habit
If you open the channel, your journal will have a conversationmedium.com
Paola Perez
Why Have We Stopped Caring For Other Fellow Humans?
Why Have We Stopped Caring For Other Fellow Humans?
Has society turned evil?medium.com
Mia Verita
Water Lily
Water Lily
A tale of two twittlesmedium.com
Rose Blog
What makes you think and feel better?
What makes you think and feel better?
Living life to the next level of this journeymedium.com
Ms Fischer
The Chris Hogan Controversy
The Chris Hogan Controversy
How my most popular story earned me basically nothingmedium.com
Andrew Lalchan
Ingenuity Is Ready To Take Off On Mars
Ingenuity Is Ready To Take Off On Mars
The Mars helicopter will have its maiden flight after the 18th of April. Find out more about the helicopter and what…medium.com
Charles Amemiya
Frikis: The Desperate Cubans Who Purposely Injected Themselves with HIV
Frikis: The Desperate Cubans Who Purposely Injected Themselves with HIV
A tragic tale of the extreme things people will do for freedom.medium.com
Marcus
We are only as sick as our secrets.
We are only as sick as our secrets.
That’s the kicker found at the end of the 7-minute decoder ring for my latest tanka:medium.com
Aldric Chen
YouTube Ads Are Getting Seriously Boring.
YouTube Ads Are Getting Seriously Boring.
When boring becomes more boring.medium.com
Calvin Lassiter
The Twittle Express
The Twittle Express
All Aboard!!!!!!!medium.com
Aparna Das Sadhukhan
Don’t Stop To Smell The Roses
Don’t Stop To Smell The Roses
Have you noticed how roses have lost their evocative scent?medium.com
Rufat Mammadov
Are You Living Your Own “Renaissance”?
Are You Living Your Own “Renaissance”?
There might be something common between our journeys towards embracing change.medium.com
Thewriteyard
Your Ultimate Guide to No Touch Society
Your Ultimate Guide to No Touch Society
Answers to all those awkward questionsmedium.com
Keara Lou
I Gave Up Alcohol For Lent And Didn’t Know It.
I Gave Up Alcohol For Lent And Didn’t Know It.
That was the last time I had a drink for the next five weeks. By the end of the fifth week, I realized what I did, and…medium.com
Katie Jgln
5 Lessons Learned from Writing for 10+ Publications Last Month
5 Lessons Learned from Writing for 10+ Publications Last Month
How to get your work published in Medium’s publicationsmedium.com
Jade M.
How Building Relationships Almost Ended My Writing Career
How Building Relationships Almost Ended My Writing Career
and Caused Me to be Bullied Relentlesslymedium.com
Fahim Chughtai
How Humans Face The loss-5 Stages Of Grief Theory
How Humans Face The loss-5 Stages Of Grief Theory
Learning about emotions after a loss can help us healmedium.com
Ash K
“Thank You For What You Do”
“Thank You For What You Do”
A short storymedium.com
Deepak Sethi
Life Lessons learned by a Movie Star.
Life Lessons learned by a Movie Star.
All the days don’t remain the same.medium.com
Brian Dickens Barrabee
That’s Not My Wife, Is It
That’s Not My Wife, Is It
When my friend, whose an artist, said that he had a wedding present for me, I was suitably grateful. I should have seen…medium.com
Karen Madej
The Proust Questionnaire Answered by Karen Madej
The Proust Questionnaire Answered by Karen Madej
I loathe talking about my deepest darkest thoughts and I react with hostility when pushed too far. My sister told me I…medium.com
Ilham Esse
How to Make the Law of Attraction Work for You
How to Make the Law of Attraction Work for You
The universe checked out. It’s all on you.medium.com
Emily Ann
The Grooming of Young Girls Often Goes Unnoticed
The Grooming of Young Girls Often Goes Unnoticed
How A Million Little Things told Sophie’s story exactly rightmedium.com
Chevanne Scordinsky
King Me
King Me
A short short storymedium.com
Sapna M
After 7 months of writing on Medium: Here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
After 7 months of writing on Medium: Here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Medium is a level playing field for all writers, just don’t quit your day job.medium.com
Shawn Ingram
Someone is Living in My Mirror
Someone is Living in My Mirror
Flash Fiction Challenge 100 — Day 31medium.com
Monolith
Monolith
FLASH Fiction Challenge 100 — Day 23medium.com
Ann Venkataraman
Do You Suffer from Writer’s Tsundoku?
Do You Suffer from Writer’s Tsundoku?
Reasons and Solutions…medium.com
Alexandra Raphael
Like a Good Canadian, I Rolled Up My Sleeve and Didn’t Ask Questions
Like a Good Canadian, I Rolled Up My Sleeve and Didn’t Ask Questions
…. I tried to shake off the feeling that I was about to be injected with a vaccine which had a spotty track record and…medium.com
Shell St. James
Eutierria, Death, and the Red Kayak
Eutierria, Death, and the Red Kayak
What was this place? A dream? A delusion? A miracle? He didn’t know, but he was filled with absolute certainty of what…medium.com
Cat Stravino
Meeting Bears in the Boundary Waters
Meeting Bears in the Boundary Waters
Facing fear to overcome itmedium.com
ABINAS JAGERNAUTH
How I Became Fanatical About Golf
How I Became Fanatical About Golf
But I am not on the PGA Tour — yetmedium.com
Riri Rites
Ask These 12 Questions to Learn About a Person
Ask These 12 Questions to Learn About a Person
See someone from all angles, not just the public onesmedium.com
Shiraz Zafar Hussain
Don’t waste Time watching Ted Talks
Don’t waste Time watching Ted Talks
Without Doing Thismedium.com
Angelina Der Arakelian
How I Reduced My Overthinking
How I Reduced My Overthinking
5 ways to help you quiet your mindmedium.com
JGS
Questions to My Soul
Questions to My Soul
Are you there?medium.com
Nia Simone McLeod
The Ingredients of Good Hair
The Ingredients of Good Hair
In Black hair, there’s poetry. You just have to look.medium.com
Brooke Ramey Nelson
In Re: Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, et al.
In Re: Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, et al.
A Poemmedium.com
Nora
Grant Faulkner’s Method for Writing 50,000 words Per Month
Grant Faulkner’s Method for Writing 50,000 words Per Month
The Nanowrimo Method To Better Longer Writingmedium.com
ProfManagement
The Perfect Harmony Between Ears: Podcasts in Higher Education
The Perfect Harmony Between Ears: Podcasts in Higher Education
Introducing the Classical Management Murder Podcast Seriesmedium.com
Alexander M. Combstrong
Readers of Medium, Thank You for Being Incredible
To me, you’re the best readers on the internet.medium.com
The Maverick Files
My Alcohol Problem During My 21-Day Quarantine
My Alcohol Problem During My 21-Day Quarantine
Our hotel had a “virtual” happy hour every day!medium.com
Melanie J.
My Love Song
Fahri Karakas
Review of “Love and Monsters” on Netflix
Review of “Love and Monsters” on Netflix
I have just finished watching “Love and Monsters” on Netflix. Netflix has been rigorously promoting this movie and it…medium.com
Ananya Misra
Waiting For Love
Waiting For Love
In the phantasmagorical imaginings of my feverish mind,
I struggle to keep up the illusion of a happy life.
Buried in…medium.com
M.X. Christopher
Have You Heard of RapChat?
Have You Heard of RapChat?
A Creative Way to Express Yourselfmedium.com
Humaira Iqbal
Nostalgia
Nostalgia
Oh, to be a child again.medium.com
Veronika Kaufmann
Movie Love: Measuring the World
Movie Love: Measuring the World
A Day in the Life of an 18th Century Scientistmedium.com
Noah Nelson
I’m Grateful For Medium Every Day
I’m Grateful For Medium Every Day
And I couldn’t be happier.medium.com
Bill Abbate
How to View Your Close Relationships to Better Understand Yourself
How to View Your Close Relationships to Better Understand Yourself
Are we really like those we are around most in our lives?medium.com
Gippolito Ndp
Why words really do matter if you’re a king or wannabe king
Why words really do matter if you’re a king or wannabe king
By G.O. Ippolitomedium.com
Trapper Sherwood
Expert Advice: Keeping Pets Safe While Away on Vacation
Expert Advice: Keeping Pets Safe While Away on Vacation
Please don’t let this happen to you and your furry best friend.medium.com
Prosite benjamin
WHAT MAKES A MAN REALLY STRONG THAT WOMEN DON’T KNOW.
WHAT MAKES A MAN REALLY STRONG THAT WOMEN DON’T KNOW.
Don’t say you are strong when you don’t have this in yourself .medium.com
Mark Campbell
Why Medium Wants To Ban Your Story From Google
Why Medium Wants To Ban Your Story From Google
Medium’s changes might target affiliates but affect everyonemedium.com
Shawn Jr
The Paradox of self
The Paradox of self
Reveals the true nature of selfmedium.com
Prasanniya
Can you become the President of the United States?
A dream is not something you see in your sleep-A true story.medium.com
Ben Kageyama
What Is a Man Without His Cock?
What Is a Man Without His Cock?
Delusions of grandeur and cockfightingmedium.com
gae polisner
Villanelle 3*
Villanelle 3*
How Nostalgia Fooled Usmedium.com
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
Introvert Travels
Introvert Travels
a poemmedium.com
Paul Douglas
Struggle On — A Poem
Struggle On – A Poem
Hiking In The Snowmedium.com
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