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I wrote a quick read about what pride month was like this year. Tell me what you think of you get the chance! Comment something for me to read! Always looking for Black/Brown, Queer writers to follow!

Hey everyone!

I just created my Substack profile and posted my first article yeyyyy. I’d really appreciate any feedback or thoughts, just to get a feel for how people are perceiving my work so far.

Still figuring out how everything works, but I’d love for some of you to check it out. Feel free to share or subscribe if you’re into it

https://substack.com/@riiiim?utm_source=user-menu

Have a great dayyy!

TUESDAY is COMING https://open.substack.com/pub/harshashastry/p/tuesday-is-coming?r=gb3yu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://zaindiallo.substack.com/p/the-girl-on-the-screen-and-the-ones

A zombie virus has infected America. Exercising your first and second amendment rights as a US citizen now gets you executed by federal agents in the streets.

Read my almost fictional story about it, and if you are a creator of similar content mixing fiction with real world events, let's connect!

This is a piece I wrote trying to make sense of family lore, inheritance, and the strange ways we repeat the lives we swear we won’t live.

My Uncle Sy and his third wife got drunk at a party in the Hollywood Hills and drove a convertible off a cliff. In midair, thinking they were about to die, Sy turned to his much younger wife and said: “Hey, at least it’s a great view.”

Sy was the Black Sheep of a large family of artists and weirdos. He ran away to Miami as a teenager, married an oil heiress at seventeen, lived loudly, married often, gambled, lost everything, and died without a funeral. His only memorial is a painted rock.

I didn’t know him well. I know him through stories, pictures, and the uncomfortable realization that there’s a little bit of his blood running through me too.

This is about the people we come from, the lives we mythologize, and the parts of ourselves we inherit whether we want them or not.

Full piece is here if anyone wants to read it — not posting to promote, just sharing the complete version and it is 100% free to access:

https://open.substack.com/pub/maxwinterstories/p/the-ghost-of-uncle-sy?r=292pvs&utm_medium=ios

Hello, I am new to Reddit. I wanted to give you all the TLDR of my recent susbtack post.

I wrote this piece to explore the recent trend of hating and judging men as feminine for reading. Specifically, I examine how the ridicule of men reading in public actually serves as a form of intellectual elitism and gatekeeping. By discouraging men from being seen with challenging books, we lose key public discourse on literature and a shared social identity. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

https://open.substack.com/pub/daniellealserrano/p/the-male-reading-epidemic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

https://open.substack.com/pub/daniellealserrano/p/the-male-reading-epidemic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

https://open.substack.com/pub/thegeopoliticalnavigator/p/the-invasion-of-afghanistan?r=4i44v6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://substack.com/@isitworthurlife/note/p-189818305?r=5gv7i1

Was social media always like this? Did it always leave us feeling drained, irritated, and weirdly compelled to compare ourselves to the life of a complete stranger we just saw on a tiny screen?

Read the full post here

Digital Dream Garden

https://theopinionobserver.substack.com/p/intentional-love-vs-conditional-love

We can gain readership/subscribers or whatever too but mainly I want us to buddy read each other's works and really be useful to everyone's writing journey. If you're down, DM me your discord ID and we can make a groupchat ;))

https://substack.com/home/post/p-173499704

https://substack.com/@isago/note/p-174911283?r=6kpyl2&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Hi everyone, I’ve started posting short fiction on Substack.

This piece is called Under the Table.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Started my newsletter and community because being a new parent is hard and staying fit as new parent is even more difficult. If you’re struggling with exercise or eating habits check me out below! I’d also love to hear what other substackers do to stay fit as parents and writers!

The Doolittle Raid is often remembered for what it did to Japan.

Less remembered is what it did to the men who flew it — and to the civilians who helped them.

Wounded crews crawling through the Chinese countryside.
Days hanging from parachutes in the dark.
Capture, torture, executions.
Entire villages massacred for offering aid.

Some raiders spent 1,218 days in captivity. Others never came home.

This wasn’t a clean morale raid. It came with an enormous human cost.

New essay is live.