Featured Stories
Outstanding Stories — Volume 85
Selected stories from top writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated

Dear Subscribers,
Happy New Year. We apologize for giving a break to our featured stories in 2021 due to the extreme workload of our seven publications giving voice to more than 16,000 writers on Medium.
We are determined to keep our valued readers informed in 2022. We are delighted to present a small selection of recent stories published on ILLUMINATION-Curated for your enjoyment in this volume.
We distributed 84 volumes of our outstanding stories in 2021. You can access previous volumes at this link.
Recent submissions to ILLUMINATION-Curated
Three Tips to Initiate Autophagy Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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Giving From Our Hearts Instead of Our Heads Rebecca Romanelli
Death, Grief, and Racism Rebecca Stevens A.
Why I’d Never Date an Anti-Feminist Edward Robson, PhD, MFA
More “Will” to Live Rosennab
Lessons From A Big-A$$ Ark, With Pictures Brian E. Wish, PhD
What Every Cougar Wants to Tell You Crystal Jackson
Bless you, Hataciku Britni Pepper
Some NewsBreak vs Medium Articles Missing the Points Technology Hits
5 Brutal Truths That Can Cause You To Waste Your Life Erin King
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A Lasting Gift for You in 2021 Dr Michael Heng
The Trio of Deal Breakers for Physician Practices Survival Dr. Adam Tabriz
Signs That Someone No Longer Cares About You Dr. Deborah M. Vereen-Family Engagement Influencer
Want a Bigger List? Create More Content Jeff Herring
An Update on the Legendary Chicago Mothman Jennifer Geer
Stretching Out of My Comfort Zone Jill Ebstein
Christmas Doesn’t Exist Anymore — Amazon Bought It and Put It In Storage Joe Luca
Who Wants to Read AI Stories? John Cunningham
Work as Part of the Human Experience — Remember you were born for this Jonathan Isbill MS, RD, LD
How to Untangle Your Tongue and Swiftly Expand Your Community of Genuine Friends Julia E Hubbel
Why You Should Avoid Spontaneous Road Trips AJ Krow
Joe Biden’s Presidency Is Already ‘Transformational’ Alexander Ziperovich
Dressed Left: Flash Fiction by Alle C. Hall. Alle C. Hall
You Know America Zed⚡
Raining with Flowers Amy Christie
WHAT’S SOMETHING ONCE GIVEN, CANNOT BE RENEWED ? Anastasia Soul Gypsy
Why Elon Musk Admires Edison More Than Tesla? Ankit Das
5 Unexpected Factors That Increased My Productivity As A Solopreneur Anshul Kumar
Discovering the Destiny of the Self: Anthony Signorelli
Medium 2021 — Auld Lang Syne: success & failures and tips on how to better distribute your content Arlo Hennings
Cotton or Crystal? Arthur Keith
My Personal Experience With the Moderna Booster B.R. Shenoy
Even if Homeopathy is a Hoax, How Does it Matter? Bhavna Narula
I Always Tread Lightly When Guessing a Woman’s Age Bill Myers
A Boy and His Dog Blaine Coleman
Epiphany Anyone? Brian Dickens Barrabee
How to Improve Your Speaking, Writing, and Everything with the Rule of 3 Christian Soschner
7 Killer Hacks to Make Readers Devour Your Tech Release Courtney Simms
The One Writing Goal I Won’t Focus on Next Year Daniella Mini
Dogs Are More Expensive Than You Think David Fraser
“I Prefer to Keep My Medical History Private” is a Cowardly Way of Saying You are Unvaccinated David Mokotoff
Truth and Kindness in the Unsanctioned Zone David Pahor
Too Little Time to Explore the Beautiful Country of Andorra Debbie’s Reflection
What Spirituals Want to Know about the Future of Modern Technology Desiree Driesenaar
I Can’t Love Myself Destiny S. Harris
Black Young Kids are Being Handcuffed and Traumatized by Police Officers EP McKnight, MEd
Confessions of a Failed Entrepreneur Fatima Martinez
Keep An Eye On People Like Jeff Bezos — Be And Act As People Like Shaq O’ Neal Fatunla Samuel
My Brother-In-Law Loved Funerals Floyd Mori
Housing the Poetry of Our Souls Francine Fallara
Black Pain ‘Is’ A Laughing Matter G Correia
Are You Working To Live or Living To Work? Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers
The Mindshift Game Geetika Sethi
Losing My Religion, Finding My Faith GFC: Grown Folk Conversations
Blogging for beginners: A Guide for 2022 Hannah Young
Coronavirus vs Democracy Igor Chykalov
The Great Santa Claus Bank Robbery James Jordan
How do you recover from losing a loved one janny’s heart
How to Build a Habit in 21 Days Javeria Pervaiz
Mutating Beyond our Ego or Dying Jean Carfantan
My Mother Passed Away A Year Ago in November Julius Evans
Why British Government Is Spending 50000 Pounds To Keep A Bunch Of Papers Secret Karthick Nambi
What Does a Child Feel When Their Mother is Narcissistic? Keira Fulton-Lees
Racism as We Know it Will Become a Nonstarter Kevin Farran
The Comfort of Darkness After Encountering a Piercing Spiritual Light. Lady Jhershierra
Things You Should Say No to if You Want a Fulfilling 2022 Leah Njoki
Oh So Alone on an Island in a Sea of Humanity Marcus
Get To Grips With The Power Of Doubling! Now Watch Your Financials Scale To New Heights Maria Rattray
My Own Private West Side Story: What I Learned from Puerto Rican Outlaw Artist Miguel Pinero Martin D. Hirsch
Into This Land of Golden Light Martine Weber
My Holiday Gift: A Reason to Smile Melinda Blau
How a Great Dungeon Master Can Be Even Greater John Teehan
Don’t Praise YOURSELF For Your Success Mofrad Muntasir
Paternal absence: A wound that lasts forever Mpdoc
How Our Brains Change When We Form Relationships Nadiyah Dho
When Infertility Looks You in the Face! Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
Life is Hard OrlaK
Envelope, Please: Startup to Liftoff; Accelerator to Unicorn Hopeful Paul Moniz
What Everyone Gets Wrong about the Garden of Eden Paul Thomas Zenki
Deep Cuts and the Quest for Mastery Peter Ling
Some Tips on How to Select Your College Internship Poornachandra Sarang
Don’t Speak the Local Tongue? Make Your Own PseuPending (call me Seu)
Coming home for Christmas Radhika Iyer
Footsteps of My Father Ralph M Davis
What Is The Post-Pandemic Super Skill? Randy Wolken
Forgotten People — The Legacy of Insane Asylums Regina Clarke
The Feathers Flew! Remington Write
Upland Opens New City — as a Newcomer I Am Standing in a Lost Position René Junge
To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate? Rich Sobel
Forgiving My Dad Was a Very Big Fight — But I Finally Won the Fight Roger Himes Esquire
How to End the Christmas Wars Ronald Franklin
I Was Not Practicing What I Preached Sarah Lyall-Neal
The World’s 13 Biggest Problems, Ranked Schalk Cloete
Lying Has Become the Norm Shadowgnosis
Illusory objectives Shawn Jr
A Dream of Lifelong Learning in Higher Education Shirley Willett
Abusive Relationships Can Happen in Different Forms: Understand the Signs, Acknowledge if It… Suntonu Bhadra
Nature is Cold-ass Neutral Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.
Get Your Hands Off My Jungle Box Tim Ebl
Almost 50 Years After His Death, Bruce Lee’s Legacy Continues Tom Handy
Leaders Are Often the Target of Those with Something to Hide Toni Crowe
How to explain job satisfaction to your boss Tree Langdon
Why I Switched to Writing on Substack Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
One Truth Versus Many Ulf Wolf
Remove Fear to Take Responsibility Utpal Kumar
Embrace the Life in Death Vedaant R Lathi
How Microdosing on Psychedelics Could Help With Anxiety & Depression (A Study) Viktor Marchev
Impact of COVID 19 Global Pandemic on India’s Learning Process. Vishnuaravi
How I Made over $1000 on Articles From November 2021 Walter Rhein
It Still Feels Good To Be Chosen for Further Distribution Xin Xin
Thank you for reading stories of outstanding writers compiled by senior editors ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION and Editor of Technology Hits.
Acknowledgement
Special thanks to our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz who keeps us informed with global events such as this “Historical Moment in AI Ethics: First-Ever Global Agreement in United Nations”
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