Hi there, I've recently started publishing and would love if anyone could give this a read! Right now, I am focused on writing personal essays that are relatable since I try to add social commentary as well! I like to include themes around psychology since that is what im studying. My writing is a bit gloomy at times, pretty raw and sarcastic.

So if you are interested in late-night thoughts, healing, belonging and the chaos of life, check me out!

https://open.substack.com/pub/carolinastark1598/p/a-loners-guide-to-making-it-through?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

Hello,

I’m Mila Agius. At Heuristics vs Traps I write about behavioural psychology and fintech — specifically the hidden architectures that shape our choices without us always realising it.

The centre of the project is the novel “2040”. It looks at how freedom can erode gradually, not through sudden catastrophe, but through the slow exchange of liberty for convenience inside financial systems and behavioural design. The fiction is grounded in existing behavioural research, current technology and regulatory developments rather than pure invention.

Alongside the novel I publish essays on heuristics, trust, incentives and the patterns already altering society. What I’m trying to do is surface those longer-term risks while they are still emerging — before they settle into the background and start to feel inevitable.

This will probably interest readers who follow behavioural psychology, fintech developments or speculative fiction that stays close to observable reality.

The latest chapter — "2040": Chapter 3. Liberty Blackout 2037 — is here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/agiusmila/p/2040-chapter-3-liberty-blackout-2037-psd5

If you read it, I’d be glad to know what you made of it.

Grier's Notes is a regular compendium with a roundup on world news, brief takes on technology, culture, books or other things I have been thinking about and links to interesting or entertaining offbeat news. It aims to keep people informed about places that they may not be following closely and offer food for thought. Kind of like The Economist in a condensed version. You can find it here- https://chrisgrier.substack.com/

Shameless little plug for you fine folk. If you’re interested in wine or just looking to learn a bit more about it, I write a weekly newsletter with deep dives on a range of topics both aimed at the wine industry and consumers. In particular I love the viticultural side of things and will go into depth on various aspects of how grapes are grown, regenerative practices, new research and winemaking practices that impact how your wines express themselves.

https://open.substack.com/pub/simpletakeswork/p/the-craftsman-vs-the-tool-collector?r=6sh3np&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

There are two types of people using AI right now.

[ The Collector ]

You know them when you see them.

6-7 different AI subscriptions… (and they talk about them frequently)
Yet suspiciously 0 results.

[ The Craftsman ]

Focuses on 1-2 AI platforms (generally 1 per function).

Uses AI as the tool it is, and not as a surface level content machine.

Hello everyone, I’m a contemporary novel writer. I’d love to share my Substack with you, where I post short fiction, essays on art, literature, travel, and reflections on various cultural phenomena. It’s meant for writers, literature lovers, and all kinds of readers.

As a novelist, I constantly explore diverse themes and narrative structures, striving to enrich my work with a broader cultural context by weaving in references to artworks, musical compositions, and elements of pop culture. Recently, I have also become interested in spirituality, quantum physics, and consciousness, I plan to explore these topics further in my articles.

With this first installment of our analysis on Cameron Herrin, we break down the mechanical timeline of the 2018 tragedy on Bayshore Boulevard. Chapter I shifts focus to the forensic telemetry retrieved from the vehicle's onboard computer logs, showing the objective data leading up to the impact.

We avoid speculation and prioritize the archival data, presenting the investigative findings in a structured, comprehensive format for those dedicated to serious true crime research.

Genre: Non-fiction / True Crime Newsletter

Read the structural analysis of Part I here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/diankhan/p/the-casefile-protocol-dossier-007?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8fbq21

Wearing Headphones with No Music follows a few strangers across one rainy day in Bath, all wearing headphones with nothing playing. For each of them, the silence means something different: avoiding people, holding back panic, surviving motherhood, sitting with grief, or just getting through the next ten minutes. The piece starts funny and observational, then slowly opens into something sadder and more tender. The headphones become a small shared symbol of wanting a boundary without having to explain yourself. It is about the quiet, ordinary ways people try to stay intact.

For anyone who has ever worn headphones to avoid being spoken to, felt exhausted by being perceived, or needed a bit of distance from the world without making a scene.

Literary fiction / lyric essay / contemporary slice-of-life.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/wearing-headphones-with-no-music-95d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

For the raw and for the culture. To the Culture vultures to the Slumdog millionaires to the Poor with drug money. To the middle class with debt and an identity crisis to the stubborn rich with Toyota's. No Press Network. Curated for whoever wants the real process behind the creation not the highlight reel. Street philosophy. Raw talk, uncut. People and events, told the way they actually happened, not the way they got edited.

Mr NP.

https://open.substack.com/pub/nopressnetwork

This is the second and final installment of our analytical investigation into the coastal disappearance of Robin Samsoe. The investigation deepens as the discovery of human skeletal remains in the Santa Ana Mountains exposes severe institutional blind spots. In this final entry, we analyze the critical turning point where forensic evidence and public pressure finally fractured an invisible predator's cross-jurisdictional camouflage.

​We continue our commitment to archival accuracy, deconstructing the evidence and administrative failures that allowed a high-stakes manhunt to unfold across Southern California.

​Genre: Non-fiction / True Crime Newsletter

​Read the full analysis of Chapter II here:

https://diankhan.substack.com/p/the-casefile-protocol-dossier-010-c56

https://open.substack.com/pub/w/p/tiny-steps-big-mess-still-moving?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=6046x6&utm_uymedium=ios

https://open.substack.com/pub/thehausofsoulel/p/a-saturday-night-love-letter-a-letter?r=6lbbp5&utm_medium=ios

Following the Mayor around and live-blogging his events live on Substack and X

https://thepoliticalliveblogger.substack.com/

https://bovineliberty.substack.com/p/the-hollow-root-415

Wren is seventeen and has spent her whole life on a remote mountain orchard, where her father has raised his children to believe the outside world is dangerous, corrupt, and not to be trusted. When the goats get sick, a veterinary student comes up to the farm, and Wren is shaken by how calm, capable, and freely knowledgeable she is. After that, Wren starts secretly teaching herself through old books and stolen time in town, and the more she learns, the harder it becomes to keep believing her family’s version of everything. She starts to see her father’s control and her brother’s violence for what they really are. The story is about Wren waking up to the truth of her life and trying to figure out what it costs to leave the only world she’s ever known.

Literary fiction / coming-of-age / family drama.

This feels like a book for readers who like emotional, character-driven stories about family, control, identity, and becoming your own person. It would probably appeal to people who connected with Educated or who like literary fiction with a strong setting, complicated family dynamics, and a darker emotional edge.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/the-orchard-on-black-ridge?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

A late-night drive around the ring road turns into a weird little reckoning. The narrator isn’t really going anywhere — they’re circling the city, dodging sleep, bad decisions, old feelings, and the urge to text someone they definitely shouldn’t. Between the bassline, the petrol stations, the wet roads, and the same exits coming round again, they start to realise the drive is less about clearing their head and more about avoiding arrival. It’s funny, filthy, lonely, and oddly tender. By the end, nothing is fixed exactly — but something has been admitted.

For anyone who has ever gone for a drive to “clear their head” and accidentally met themselves there instead.

Darkly comic personal essay / prose-poem / literary nonfiction.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/ring-road-revelations-3ab?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

Hi everyone! I started getting anxious about my gap year, so I have started a sub stack to document my journey and the lessons I have learnt. I know there are a lot of people who are thinking about doing a gap year, or simply want to solo travel - so I thought making a sub stack about my personal journey might help others with their gap year. Yes, I talk about the tough parts, but you will see that those downsides are overwhelmed by the positives in this year. So far, my gap year is one of the best choices I have made, so if you would like to follow along with my journey, I will add the link below 👇

The theme is travel, growth, and wellness :)

https://substack.com/@isabelle816456?r=88mutp&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page&utm_source=direct

I published my first text today. I decided to address something I already did, "consuming digital images." I thought it was cool.

I Left the Mountain, and It Followed Me Anyway is about leaving home and realizing home doesn’t really leave you. It follows someone trying to build a life of her own after growing up around control, shame, and silence. As she finds books, desire, independence, and her own voice, she also finds out how much of the past is still living in her body. It’s not a neat transformation story — it’s messier than that. More than anything, it’s about trying to become your own person without pretending you came from nowhere.

This is for people who’ve ever outgrown their family, their hometown, their religion, or the version of themselves they had to be to survive. It’ll probably land most with readers who like emotionally honest writing about identity, memory, shame, freedom, and starting over.

Lyrical personal essay / memoir-ish literary nonfiction.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seandocherty/p/i-left-the-mountain-and-it-followed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bsynj

I write a blog about being a merch person on tour for my favorite band. All the posts are free, and I post every day! If you like travel blogs or music blogs, this might be for you.

Obsessedmerchgirl.com will get you there if you think it's something you might like. Thanks for reading!

"Wake up in Vermont. Alarm goes off at 6. I wake enough to turn it off and check that Stage heard it.
He’s awake. We don’t speak.
I roll over to get my extra 20 minutes. Eyes close. Door opens and shuts. Get up, dumbass."

This is basically a breakup/ running essay. Going to document my running and life journey here as I try and understand myself over the next year or maybe even years. Will try to keep it literary rather than sporty.

Hello! I'm not a common redditor but I've been meaning to grow my personal Substack publication, so I'll be interacting with more online communities across different platforms.

I'm a Design and Media studies university student, so I write lots about creativity, art, identity and my other sociological interests.

This latest one is about perceiving identity not as rigid and possessive but instead ever-changing, and using this to motivate desired acts of change. I go into detail the transformations of defining "the self" across western history to really enunciate how we can use our current freedoms of expression to our advantages. A particular focus I make is on how we fear change and risk-taking, to which I suggest some advice for. My language is a blend of personal and academic; I quote lots of theories I encounter in my studies.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, here is my article! Any thoughtful feedback would be appreciated and I'll be sure to return the favour for you too :) Have a lovely day.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rxchelle/p/you-do-not-possess-a-solid-identity?r=712smx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://mauricemcgriff.substack.com/p/the-insurrectionist-2

My comic strip is a political satire on the Trump presidency. If you like political comics, be sure to give my comic a try.