“Each fellow will work with us in our newsroom on one of our investigation to transfer it into a graphic novel. After the end of the fellowship we will publish the novel as a book as part of our publishing activities – and we will publish it on our website, so that everybody can have access to the work.”

via Sunday Submissions: Calls for Arab and Arabophone Graphic Novelists — Arabic Literature (in English)

Wednesday, August 17th, 8am EDT ~ The Better Feeling of An Attitude of Gratitude. Team Gratitude is here to share insights and inspirations to enhance your life. If you can feel better, you can do better! It’s all about knowing what and how to get yourself to the other side of whatever the issue might be. […]

via The Better Feeling of an Attitude of Gratitude — Annette Rochelle Aben

Good. Now here’s what poetry can do. Imagine yourself a caterpillar. There’s an awful shrug and, suddenly, You’re beautiful for as long as you live. ~ Stephen Dunn, from Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry (1966) Notes: Post inspired by: “Butterflies are not insects,’ Captain John Sterling said soberly. ‘They […]

via Good. Now here’s what poetry can do. — Live & Learn

Lost Words By Scott Bailey © 2013 Screams, shouts, whispers, words Uttered, none heeded at all. Lost like leaves that fall. http://www.scottandrewbailey.uk

via Poem a Day Challenge #46 (Lost Words) — thehouseofbailey

“For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.“ (Romans 6:14) A lot of people look at Christianity as a way out. Some, even preachers, would take a verse like this and say, “See, you don’t have to worry about anything. Do what you want and […]

via One Master. — ronovanwrites

For the first time, the number of millennials eligible to vote (69.2 million) in the presidential election will be nearly equal to the number of Baby Boomers (69.7 million), according to a Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data. Yet, despite media predictions that the millennial vote will rise this election year, some…

via If millennials truly want to start a political revolution, they’ll need to vote — Quartz

Here’s the knock-on effect of the Brexit vote: airfares to the UK from the US are at their cheapest in at least three years. An average round-trip fare from US airports into London’s was $687.36 by July 3, according to airfare-tracker Hopper. That’s a 14% drop since the UK’s vote to leave the European Union,…

via Chart: It hasn’t been this cheap to fly from the US to London in years — Quartz

This short story is inspired by Sue Vincent’s Thursday photo prompt. And after thirty thousand years of enchanted sleep, when the giants had finished their battles and their feuds, Balor opened his one eye and his lips parted. Daylight shone between his jagged stone teeth waking the warriors who had lain sleeping, forgotten, on the […]

via Microfiction #writephoto: Stone laughter — Jane Dougherty Writes