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Online Stories to Read for Pleasure, Advice, Information, Money Making Tips | Non-Fiction & Fiction
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items A collection of entertaining, helpful and informative long form stories and personal essays about: FAMILY | FRIENDSHIPS ROMANCE | MOTIVATION | HOW TO | MAKE MONEY ONLINE | SOCIETY | LIFE | FICTION to be read and enjoyed by avid readers.
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Family Situations & Personal Essay Stories
Friendships & Romantic Relationship Stories
Motivational Stories and How To Topics Includes: Tips About Making Money Online
Society, Life & Important Lessons Learned
Fiction: Fantasy, Romance, and a Slice of Life Stories
Family Situations & Personal Essay Stories
This collection of family related stories contain candid personal essays about the authors family life, and reflections on different events. It's a great list for people dealing with various stages of life and the complex relationships that develop a...
This story about family helps us to see the need for connecting and coming together during the trying times that the world is in. “If ever there was a time that families and loved ones should draw closer together, this is it!”
Should it Have to Take a Tragedy to Bring a Family Together?
This story addresses a question about elder care, that seems to be on the minds of lots of other adults with aging parents. “Many elderly readers had similar concerns …what they should do about future living arrangements, once they can no longer care...
Have You Thought About What Happens if Your Elderly Parents Outlive You?
The subheading of this heartfelt story tells a lot about what to expect when you read this personal essay I originally shared on the Medium platform, and later migrated to Vocal. “Have you ever wished for something bad and felt guilty when you got it...
A Child's Guilt: I Almost Made My Mother Die!
Mother and son relationships are discussed in this story about the occasional rifts that occur between me and my son, as we deal with the changing roles that come with age. This is a great source of inspiration for adult children and seniors who may ...
Mother and Son Relationships Are Sometimes Difficult to Navigate
An interesting story of love and sacrifice between three sisters, as they make room in their hearts to do something not every sister would do for their sibling, no matter how much they loved them.
What Does Surrogacy Require When You Keep it in the Family?
This story makes a point of helping readers understand and appreciate that family members can sometimes be toxic, to the point that we find it necessary to cut them out of our lives because of their poisonous ways. If you're dealing with a situation ...
Is it Finally Time to Cut Toxic People from Your Life?
Friendships & Romantic Relationship Stories
This entertaining series of stories focuses on relationships, both the romantic kind as well as platonic friendships. Most of the stories are pages ripped right from my own life, and I share candid details about past friendships and romantic relation...
This bittersweet romance story is one that still manages to make me tear up a bit when I think of what could have been. “Those of you skeptics who don't believe in love at first sight, I truly feel sorry for you. Things like that really do happen, an...
A Kindred Spirit Entered My Life But I Could Never Hold Onto Him
Enjoy this personal essay story about a romantic relationship gone bad. It also provides some helpful tips and advice to individuals who may be going through a breakup at this time.
What Happened After I Finally Got Over the Cheating Partner in My Life?
Anyone who's ever gone through a relationship breakup will appreciate this story and the topic it covers. Many readers who may be experiencing a romantic breakup, will discover that they have been guilty of what this story warns against: “Don't allow...
What Happens to Your Sex Life When You First Get Out of a Relationship?
This story provides a great lesson about life and relationships, especially when it comes to how long we decide to hold onto grudges against those we feel have wronged us. Although this story has reference to the friendships we form, the helpful info...
Before You Bury the Hatchet Do You Forget to Burn the Handle?
Motivational Stories and How To Topics Includes: Tips About Making Money Online
Enjoy looking through this list of motivational, how to stories, whether it's on the subject of making money online from writing or promoting online services, or you need an extra dose of motivation to help you self publish a book and launch an effec...
This story about how to live a “greener” life involves a once popular topic, that lately, no one seems to care as much about. Once upon a time, living green was a buzz phrase that you heard all the time, however now there appears to be less interest ...
How to Be a Responsible Citizen and Live a Greener Life
This story shares tips on how to protect your aging loved ones, by being aware of some common scams that have become popular with those seeking to perpetrate crimes on the elderly. Being armed with the facts is the first step in how to help and keep ...
6 Scams to Protect Your Elderly Loved Ones From
This helpful story tells you how to take steps to remove your information from Google Maps, due to the prevalence of crime related incidents. Research has found that more and more criminals today are using sophisticated digital resources to help them...
Has Making Your Home Visible on Google Maps Made You a Potential Target?
Here's a motivating story I shared about the author Piers Anthony, as he talks about a fan that actually inspired him to write one of his famous stories. The thought provoking story helps to show how we all can be touched and inspired to the point of...
Author Piers Anthony: The Inspirational Story Behind Letters to Jenny
This story provides step-by-step instructions for readers who want to learn what exactly is involved in setting up a Fiverr gig, and preparing to offer a service that they can get paid for. If you're new and interested in making money by becoming a g...
You Can Start Earning Money Online with Just Your Writing Skills!
This story is for writers and content creators who need a nudge in thinking outside the box and stretching their imagination. The story provides the different ways and types of writing that can help generate an online income quicker and easier.
20 Different Types of Writing You Can Get Paid to Do Online
This story shares some of the ways that consumers can save on their energy bill and make better choices in the way they do things in the home, as part of their conservation efforts. Read and see if there is important information on your utility bill ...
Do You Know about Utility Assistance Programs that Help Save Money on Your Bills?
Here's a story about the growing popularity of the online business of dropshipping. In it, I share how many entrepreneurs and online workers are turning to this activity as a feasible side hustle. If the idea of making money working at home is appealing to you, this story is one you won't want to overlook.
Dropshipping Made Me Realize that I've Been Selling All My Life!
Read this story and see what it is, besides the appeal of big bucks, is driving more and more women into the tech field, and what specific areas they're going into, within the technology niche.
Are More Young Women Turning to Tech these Days, than Men in the Same Age Group?
This story is for new authors and those with books that could stand some additional exposure, but they're not sure what to do about it. The story shares some motivational tips and advice about creating a blog as a way to promote your book. The points...
The Best Way for New Authors to Tell Readers about their Book
Society, Life & Important Lessons Learned
Work, guilt, tragedy, loneliness, social injustice and other issues that we deal with in life are all discussed in these stories that are based on personal incidents and experiences straight from my formerly chaotic life straight to early adulthood a...
This story is a discussion about the value of having good work ethics and how unlike some people might think, possessing good work ethics doesn't just magically happen. This is especially important when we think about the young people in our lives th...
Everything I Never Learned about Being a Good Employee
This story about life and human nature is a thought provoking one, as it addresses that familiar feeling of not being worthy and describes it like this: “No matter how grateful you are, or how much you do to show it; somehow, it's just never enough t...
Do You Ever Feel Guilty for Having a Good Life?
If you're the kind of reader who enjoys a walk down Memory Lane, you'll love this story that focuses on the days of the past, as it recalls the fun childhood games we used to love to stay outdoors playing as kids.
A Walk Down Memory Lane and Visiting My Childhood
The subject of this story centers on a social ill that all too often, society has a tendency to ignore or be oblivious to. The issue of loneliness, is a serious one, whether around the holidays or anytime of year. This is especially the case with sen...
Loneliness Is A Serious Problem and Not Just Around the Holidays
This interesting topic about human nature discusses the common character flaw in many humans, which is the nature instinct to lie, regardless of the situation. Read and see what is believed to be behind this compulsion that some people are known to h...
Why Are Some People Just Natural Born Liars?
This story speaks about the discriminatory practices against women, versus men, when it comes to the sex crime of street walking and solicitation out in public. Readers who like stories about social justice will appreciate the arguments being made he...
When Will Men be Accountable for Buying Sex on the Streets?
This story was one of two detailed stories that focused on the topic of sex in plain sight, and the issue of women and young girls being trafficked in California. Read and see what steps are currently being taken and why it still isn't enough to comb...
Failing at Putting an End to Sex for Sale on the Street
This story targets the topic of climate change and those who erroneously make false claims about it. The information point out that denying the existence of this problem doesn't make it not real, and denial won't make the problem go away.
Global Warming is Real and We Can't Keep Pretending!
Fiction: Fantasy, Romance, and a Slice of Life Stories
Fantasy, romance, and terror are all categories included in this short list of stories that will capture the reader and drop them into a world of mermaids, broken hearts, and terror on a dark and foggy night.
This chapter in what amounted to my first published novel several years ago, starts the beginning of the mermaid fantasy story that ended up taking on a life of its' own (resulting in a number of standalone short stories). Fantasy lovers will enjoy t...
Mermaid Island: Experimenting With Murder (Chapter 1)
This love story is a work of fiction, and inspired by a song from the 60's, during a time when interracial relationships would automatically receive stares, double takes and dirty looks, but this couple endured it all.
The True Color of Love
Enjoy a short fictional romance story about a couple having a dispute that puts them at odds with one another, until a sudden memory of a tragic event they shared in the past, is enough to remind them of their current love for one another.
The Chair the Remote and You: A Love Story
This story is for anyone who has ever found themselves in a difficult situation that forces them to make a decision against their better judgment, and instead, act out of fear. The incident that occurred late one night, was actually a real life situa...
Don't Let Sleeping Dogs Lie!