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Featured Stories Issue #52
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All writers are invited to join a writing challenge as proposed by Dr Mehmet Yildiz. These stories provide an opportunity for writers and readers to cross-pollinate.
How to grow and become a top writer on Medium in three months: 100 Day Challenge For New Writers
Please enjoy our fresh stories.
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Dear Writer From New York City
Keri Mangis
Standing Still, a Bat on My Shoulder
Michael Patanella
Memoirs of a Sober Birthday
Samantha Lazar
You’ve Become All That’s Earth
Shawn Ingram
Shame
Ann Venkataraman
America For Beginners — An Unexpected Ending
Philip Mann
Real Growth Through Fiction
Veronika Kaufmann
French Glamour: Anouk Aimée
Brian Lamacraft
What We All Can Learn About George Floyd
Shell St. James
Maggie’s Tree
Randy Shingler
Meditations On Gratitude
Patricia Rosa
What’s Really With Those Baby Steps?
Faron Sage
Social Media Vs. Collective Consciousness
Liv Pasquarelli
I Leave the Evidence Around Because I Want You to Know
Ulf Wolf
Holy Words
S M Mamunur Rahman
Interview With A Rickshaw Puller
Alberto Lanata
How Information Asymmetry May Be Hurting Your Business? — Part 1: The Basics
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Are You a Victim of Stress Eating?
Teresa Kuhl
3 Solid Loving Tips To Become a Loving LGBTQ Ally
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
Unvisited
George Lamptey
Your colours
Jeff Herring
3 Deadly Content Creation Mistakes
Zahra Ali
Sorry, You Don’t Hold The Keys
Philip Mann
Crushed Under a Flawed Metaphor
Terry Trueman
Harold
Gary Buzzard
How To Enter the Flow State When Meditating (5 Easy To Follow Stages)
Lanu Pitan
Why You Need These Ten Superfoods To Avoid Becoming Another Cancer Victim
Skye Brooks
My Cat’s Abortion Made Me Pro-Choice
Tavian Jean-Pierre
How a Children’s Book Changed My Life
Sophie F.
Be One of the 20% of People Who Vividly Describe Their Goals
Angela Phan
What Happened When I “Quit” Social Media For 1 Month
Siyan Li
Supercharge Your Morning: How to Wake Up Refreshed Again When Coffee Stopped Working — a 30-Day…
America Zed
Let Me Count
Paul Douglas
That Wondrous Day
Chandrani Anantharaman
Terry Mansfield
Linda Kowalchek
My Third Month Writing on Medium
Bill Abbate
How to effectively stand out from the crowd
Stuart Englander
Day Tripping: April 22
Anthony Jackson
The Flower Who Held My Life
Danell teNyenhuis Black
My Dead Husband Mooned Me
Kemp MacKay
Dear Christians
Steve B Howard
Fly Fishing in Eastern Washington
Saad Ali Faizi
10 pm
Nuno Fabiao
Booksellers Live in a Special Place, a Unique Address, an Exceptional Scene.
Patrick M. Ohana
Léo Ferré
Madeleine Ann Lawson
Learning to Enjoy Hard-Earned Fatigue
Riri Rites
Justice, Punishment, and Accountability
Frank Larkin
When a Former President Becomes a Painter
Jade M.
I’m Trying Kindle Vella
Simon Spichak
What Do Hallucinating Mice Tell Us About Depression?
Mike Goldberg
Help me Name my Next Company
Dr Sachin pandit
How I Used to Deal With the Depression
How I Used to Deal With the Depression
Depression is a Severe Disorder, But not Permanent
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Courtenay S. Gray
Bartender
Yaqoob ahmad
Want to Make $100 On Medium? Kick That Idea Out The Window.
Xin Xin
Me vs. My Air Fryer — Let’s See Who Finishes First!
Ryan Justin
Don’t get stuck in a rut with your writing
Kieran Ahearne
Dragons Of Society
Deepthi Indurthi
Five things to learn from Toddlers
Fareeha Arshad
Things That We Do for Love
Doug Foo
Tales from the Trading Floor
Sarah Seweryniak
Become a Likable Person in 5 Easy Steps
Mr. Huseyin
10 Interesting Facts About the Human Brain
Marcus
You have that power Mark and you exercised it well writing this story, which I will cite in my…
Misbah Ul Haq Syed
A Tale Of The Pick City — Toulouse
Noah Nelson
My First 2 Months on Medium
Trapper Sherwood
Becoming Compassionate in the Workplace Leads to Positive Results
Geetika Sethi
The Perils of Wrong Prayers versus The Power of Praying.
Tim Sussmann
The Hidden Key
Michael Horner
The Biggest Deterrent to You Crushing Your Day is Your Snooze Button
Eric Sutherland
Changing Marketplaces
Several new authors joined ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. You can enjoy chapters from their published books. Check them!

Thank you for reading our stories.
Many thanks to our editors who reviewed and published these stories for you. Our editors work hard to help our writers submit their best stories. They invest their precious time volunteering for the smooth publishing of stories every day. ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, 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, Terry L. Cooper, George Blue Kelly, Scott Hughey (TheWriteScott), Claire Kelly, Tree Langdon
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Please check Book Chapters from our accomplished authors on ILLUMINATION Book Chapters.