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Featured Stories Issue #64
Selected stories from 9,600 writers supporting 95,000 readers on ILLUMINATION

Dear Readers,
Happy Mother’s Day,
ILLUMINATION compiled some interesting stories for you today. These pieces from our collection can inform and entertain you. External readers can access them via blogs on Word Press.
Thank you for reading the engaging stories shared by our creative writers. Our previous digests are accessible from this collection.
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1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days
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Share your concerns and aspirations in a story
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Please enjoy our fresh stories.
They’re Just Leaves
Adelia Ritchie, PhD
For Many, The Worst Disaster We Have Experienced Is The One We Are Living Through — The Pandemic
James Goydos, MD
Facebook Upheld its Ban of Trump
K. Scarborough
Insomnia
Rosa Diaz
Fighting A Fire On Your Stomach
Terry L. Cooper
Wrong Reasons
Sakari Lacross
Can You Read the Power of Silence?
Ann Venkataraman
Healthy Body Healthy Mind
Andrew Brewerton
Kindness and Courage Are Interlinked
Ali Hall
5 Tips For a Successful Business Communication Plan
Marcel Badia
Do you love to travel the world?
Karen Madej
Here’s What My 30-Articles-in-Less-Than-30-Days Challenge Brought Up
Boateng Sekyere
The Invisible Enemy Returns
Anita Sud
Consent and Personal Empowerment
Joanne de Róiste
I Still Remember My First Paid Month On Medium
Noah Nelson
5 Ways To Stop Being A Perfectionist And Start Enjoying Life
Lucia Landini
Searching Snowy Peaks — Ax- Les-Thermes
Misbah Ul Haq Syed
$215M raised with Equity Crowd funding in 2020–105% growth from 2019
Nishant Modi
Waking up Every Day at Different Times to See What Works Best
Sushmita Singh
Remaining Hopeful
Berna Tural
How Etherium’s EIP-1559, will change the Face of Blockchain For good
munazhe
The Fear of Doing Nothing
Holly Amann
Knowledge Is NOT Power
Zach W.
We Have No Clocks In Our Home and It Changed Our Attitude to Time
Liangcai Chen
My Friendly Familiar
Rachel Ramkaran (she/her)
Love for our children commands our hearts and souls.
Karen Madej
I greased a palm and cut the tape.
Tree Langdon
Writing my first book Short Form
Adonis Richards
There’s Something In The Air
Groupe Intellex
South Africans speak eleven official languages, but how?
Pakang Senosha
My Shin-jury
Shawn Ingram
Cellphone Poops Killed Philosophy
Amy Culberg
How To Improve A Relationship With Someone Who Hurts You
Ilana Rabinowitz
The Killer Of Greenbay
Anthony Jackson
Do We All Have a Feeling of What Life Is Supposed to “Be” Like?
Maddie McGuire
Do We Need a World Happiness Report During a Pandemic?
Mukundarajan V N
Repeating a Pattern of Dysfunctional Lovers?
Michele Grieve
Where is the Myanmar banking system at the begining of 2021?
AyeKyaw Hlaing
The Amazing Promise About Change Continues to Astound Me
Richard Armstrong
Strength Is All I Know
Sydney Koel
Mother
Kyomi O'Connor
This is Why Other People Shouldn’t Dictate Your Success
Anisa Nasir
How To Know When You Are On The Wrong Path
Ilana Rabinowitz
When You Should Not Trust What You Hear
Floyd Mori
The Aching Heart
Ananya Misra
Do You Believe in the Possibility of Other Beings On Our Plane of Existence?
Elle How
Mystery Blooms
Melanie J.
A Selection of Classics Every Writer Should Read
Veronika Kaufmann
Here’s Something Bad in Hopes of Something Better
A.X. Bates
You Did a Good Job!
JJ Sum
Company Coming on Cinco De Mayo
Terry Trueman
Get To Know The Tribes and Roots of Why Filipina are Mostly Beautiful
Elvie L
The Life of ‘Pie’
Carol Price
Fences
Ulf Wolf
Languishing
Ruks Moreea
Welcome to My World
Sheryll James
Why Abortion is a Woman’s Right to Decide?
Gurpreet Dhariwal
What’s Up, Choc?
Courtenay S. Gray
The 3 Problems That Make Dogecoin Such a Poor Cryptocurrency
Louis Petrik
So Far, Yet So Near
Harry Hogg
This Crafty Canine Played the Ultimate Power Move
Alex Cooper
Of Monsters And Healers
Merlin troy
Not Everyone Dealing With Vaccine Hesitancy Is An Anti-Vaxxer
Keara Lou
The Power of Adaptability
Warren Brown
Closed Doors
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
Twenty-Five Years Since My Divorce and I still Remember My Ex’s Birthday
Linda Kowalchek
Day Tripping: May 6
Stuart Englander
Vocal Media Revised Their Platform So I Revised My Critique
Brenda Mahler
1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
The Last Person to be Shot by Ned Kelly
Fred: Almost Famous
In the next 2000 years, we will live as robots perhaps.
Agnes Laurens
Have you lived and worked in a country where your identity was disapproved?
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Writing Is Architecture, Not Interior Decoration
Nuno Fabiao
Clap Or Not Clap, That Is The Question
Neera Mahajan
My Latest Top 10 Stories on Medium
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Why You Should Start A Journal
Ian Vanderlinden
Thank you for reading our stories.
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