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November Was Crazy!

So many great stories on different topics surprised me. The Masterpiece writers are producing gems. I give my kudos to the writers who have been sharing their experiences, thoughts, ideas, and opinions on this platform.

A big THANK YOU to all the writers for writing quality content. It doesn’t matter whether your story is bringing tons of money or nothing at all, but it matters that you are improving day by day, writing exceptional posts.

I know it’s tough to write brilliant, thoughtful content and ignore the temptation of writing 5things/10things shits. But that’s what the better writers do. They take their time and produce masterpieces. Anyway, I am confident that The Masterpiece writers will continue to write more AWESOME content in the coming days as well.

With that being said, let’s see some incredible stories from the last month. Read and connect to the writer’s mind.

Let’s jump into it.

The Incredible Stories

Monster and my flirting got more serious, our messages more explicit and yet still poetic. There was something about the anonymity and distance that made us both bold.

We wrote all the time, and I started hiding the depth and quantity to Jen. And still, the covers were evolving nicely. Monster had sent a box of mini samples, possible directions for us to go through, and they were each wonderful.~ M. H. Rubin

The words on the books that she was reading never changed. What changed was the girl’s perspective. She was no longer trying to reassure her self-harming delusions about love.

She started to use those books to prove to herself that she was capable of love, and in doing so, she learned the real meaning of the word Love.~ Daniele Ihns

We often head out stargazing in New Zealand’s incredible nature that so unmistakably writes all the rules. Out there in its sublime creation where the external circumstances can no longer contact us. All there ever exists is the abode above — an endless ocean of shimmering, glittering ornaments.

In those moments that I wish to last forever for its peacefulness and his hand resting in mine, I forget the world around me and its mediocrity. ~ Kerstin Krause

“Please find a good man and get married again,” James uttered those words out of pure love, and I cannot imagine how hard it was for him to say them.

“You are so young, honey. You have to get married again.”

“How can you ask me to do something like that?” I asked half incredulous and half touched. ~ Cocoa Griot

The marvelous thing is, this collective intention seems to behave in an economically sound manner — almost as if it takes into account the probabilities of an idea propagating or coming to fruition from each source before planting it there.

In other words, very similar ideas emerging in multiple minds around the same time — maybe the universe’s way of hedging her bets. She will not leave an idea whose time has come to the whims of any single human being, will she? Would you? ~ Prajakta unKNown

My father had 11 siblings, and one of them was very similar to him. I see the resemblance until today. I think if my father were alive now, he would be exactly like my uncle Mario (I’ll use a fake name not to expose him).

Mario was involved in some deep shit and owed money to some dangerous people. It’s important to say that I came from a Christian family, and everyone was doing okay in life, especially my father. ~ Felipe Xavier

My mother had to move out of her previous home because her neighbor was throwing homemade bombs onto our garden. I can understand how maddening the noise can be but throwing Molotov cocktails onto your neighbor’s garden seems a bit over the top, even for Brazilian standards.

One of these bombs once landed in our swimming pool and it looked like a nuclear explosion. Luckily no one was hurt. But, it worked. My mother got scared and we ended up moving a bit further out into the countryside. ~ Daniele Ihns

Many jobs ago, in the office kitchen, there was a microwave. Nothing was special about this microwave, except when your food was ready, the screen flashed: ENJOY!

Not done or finished — instead, it displayed a warmer sentiment. It was a light touch, though every time I heated my food, it was a pleasant little surprise and often cheered me up. ~ Evan Wildstein

I believe our ‘storms’ are living test or crucible. Inactivity is the most dangerous position to allow yourself into during your ‘storm.’ And, so with this, I believe, at all cost, you must push yourself to move forward when you are in the thick of your ‘storm.’

I believe that our storms are largely in the emotional realm, which means that everything we choose to think and behave is up to us. We can still choose action or inaction in these circumstances. ~ Shayla D. Potter

Within three months, I went from weighing 245 pounds to 190 pounds. All it took was a traumatic event and tapping into my repressed childhood memories to hound on the weight-loss-journey every social media influencer tries to sell.

The fact is this — there are plenty of men in this world who are struggling to view their bodies with satisfaction and finding comfort in them. I know this because I’ve been that man my whole life. ~ Bryson Owens

Bastião, like most people in his region, survives from what he grows in his land in the Brazilian Sertão. What was once fertile land has now descended into extreme poverty as it turns into a desert because of the deforestation in the adjacent Amazon region. ~ Daniele Ihns

In nature, you will also not find anything like marinating, boiling, roasting, cooking, frying, and seasoning for days to somehow get down the corpses that you hardly want to touch and slaughter and that you certainly cannot catch and tear with your bare hands.

Ancient tribes that have lived in harmony with nature celebrate recurring rituals of gratitude for the meat that they hunt and kill in order to live. ~ Karmen Jurela

When I bought the property, the garden consisted of a coal shed and a tiny patch of land that probably once housed either a pig or a goat. I knocked down the coal shed, put up a tiny deck, and then crowded the rest of the space with plants and an olive tree.

A garden just isn’t a garden in southern France unless it has an olive tree to lend it some degree of credibility.

When I was satisfied with what I had achieved, I then put in the most important addition of all — the bird-feeder, which would become the operational headquarters of the garden. ~ Mike Alexander

Iceland’s forestry service, earlier this year, makes a miraculous finding. They encourage their citizens to hug trees for five minutes a day to help them during social isolation. It may seem like an unusual practice, but research suggests that it could help people feel better.

So, I would encourage you to think about the benefits of hugging an ordinary-looking tree in your neighborhood. Can you dare yourself to hug a tree?~ Rabia Akram

I knew with some degree of certainty that it could not have been my wife’s phone. Hers was undergoing treatment after its third plunge into the toilet bowl in less than a fortnight. She had managed to resurrect it after the first two swimming lessons, but this time the prognosis wasn’t looking good.

My wife is the one woman I know who spends more time blow-drying her mobile phone than she does blow-dry her hair.

By now, I had concluded that the noise beginning to haunt me could only have been made by some creature resident in the garden. ~Mike Alexander

But if we keep all the aesthetic things aside for a moment and think from a pure existential point of view — we must agree that our very existence depends on the natural world around us — birds, wildlife, trees, and more.

No one can survive only by eating money. We all need nature’s touch to function properly. We need to see birds flying towards the horizon, flowers nodding their heads when winds whisper, and a sky full of stars glowing in the dark. ~ S M Mamunur Rahman

As kids, we were entranced, and his status as a mysterious magician was greatly augmented. He gently dropped three worms into each of our outstretched palms as though we were little beggars taking alms.

As his wife read us the usual stories, we would engulf the worms between our two hands and then peer at the green glow they emitted through the gap between our thumbs.

It was delicate work for tiny hands, and I am not sure that all the worms survived the ordeal. ~ Mike Alexander

When you take the bus, you don’t know your destination. But you have no fear of being lost — because you want to get lost and immerse in places unexplored.

You want to see how everything is working and syncing with one another.

The bus starts its way forward, and your curiosities rock. You set your eyes outside to have some green. Soon you become overwhelmed as the bus leaves the concrete-city.

Maybe you have companions with you, or you are just alone wandering and experimenting with this joyous adventure. A gentle breeze touches your cheek, and you start to blush. Putting all your worldly-thoughts aside, you feel relaxed — being so close to yourself.

Time flies. ~ S M Mamunur Rahman

To Conclude

The Masterpiece only publishes quality content that inspires readers to see life differently.

The stories mentioned here will entertain you, make you laugh, attach you emotionally, advise you to become courageous, told you to save the environment, teach you to enjoy life and surroundings — and most of all, inspire you to become a thinker.

I believe the readers will enjoy the stories and rediscover themselves, connecting to the writers’ minds.

Life becomes beautiful when you read some incredible stories that connect and inspire. So, why waiting? Read and enrich your life!

Happy Reading!

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