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Stories in Humans that you’ll love, handpicked by our team.
Why Wicked: For Good is Undeservingly the ‘worse movie’
So… off the bat, we’re about to delve into something ridiculous. Just so we’re clear on that, ok? The first thing anyone that knows a thing about these dual movies… knows… is the original movie and sequel were shot together.
By Gabriel Shames10 days ago in Humans
Chronic Ache in the Soul of a Single Parent
There is a chronic ache in the soul of a single parent. It lingers, feeling endless. This ache feels so difficult, especially when you look at other families. They seem so… whole. They seem so joyful and complete. There is a husband and a wife and children in a stroller. Thinking about your single state, you realize how awkward you feel, how out of place at various functions and gatherings. They are all happily together and you’re miserably alone. Disappointment with the current life circumstances just settles in to stay, or so it feels. How could these layers of disappointment be broken up anyhow?
By Rowan Finley 16 days ago in Humans
You Should Stop Trying to Be a Better Person
A year ago, I spent two days in the Colombian mountains drinking ayahuasca as part of a spiritual ceremony. An experience that pulled apart every detail of my being and rearranged me in a new sequence. I wish that life became easier after the feat. It didn’t.
By Annaise Michelle14 days ago in Humans
We Will Bury You. Content Warning.
How do you deal with the vast disappointment and anger and rage and grief and rage and RAGE and RAGE and RAGE when a community icon, who did so much to help your gente, is found to be the type of monster that still makes me believe in capital punishment?
By Ariana GonBon17 days ago in Humans
Thief In The Night
To the thief in the night that took and replicated what once was mine: Honestly, I feel kind of bad for you. It’s funny, because we hardly know each other. I only know of you through the magazines you’ve written and the broadcasts you have televised in the past — as well as through the public mentions of you from your show business connections there.
By Snarky Lisaabout a month ago in Humans
Collections
Themed story collections curated by the Vocal moderators.
Dating: Do's & Don'ts
Dating is complicated. So we simplified it for you. What to do and what not to do - the Dating edition.
Online Dating
Match.com, Tinder, JDate, and beyond. Welcome to the world wide web of dating. Are you ready to sign up?
Second Chance at Love
From breaking up after 3 years to divorcing after 50; we're here to tell you that you can love again.
Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Humans.
The Body Keeps the Tab
Last month, I went to the hospital to have my knee checked. While waiting in the registration line, I saw an elderly gentleman standing in front of me. His back was as straight as a ramrod, and he looked to be in his early sixties. When it was his turn, he turned back, smiled at me, and said, "Go ahead, young man. I’m in no rush—just here for a routine check-up."
By Water&Well&Pageabout 2 hours ago in Humans
How Can Families Enjoy a Safe and Fun Catamaran Tour in Cancun?. AI-Generated.
The moment your family steps onto a catamaran in Cancun and feels that warm Caribbean breeze, you realize this is not just another tour but the kind of experience your kids will talk about for years.
By Amanda Glenabout 3 hours ago in Humans
This Question Really Hurts
I was not going to write about this because it is one of those subjects I find too painful to talk about. However, I've decided to take the courage to talk about it, because I feel my feelings on the topic need to be expressed.
By Carol Ann Townendabout 5 hours ago in Humans
The Vow
Why Our Second Wedding Was Better Than Our First THE VOW THAT SHATTERED 💔 On our wedding day in 2009 I stood across from my husband Thomas in a church filled with two hundred and fifty guests and spoke vows that I meant with every atom of my being: I promise to love you in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others until death do us part, and I believed with the absolute certainty of a twenty-six-year-old who had never been tested that these vows were not aspirational but descriptive, that they captured who I already was rather than who I would need to become, and that the love I felt standing in that church in that dress with that man looking at me like I was the center of his universe would sustain itself automatically through whatever challenges life presented because love in my twenty-six-year-old understanding was a feeling that once established was permanent and self-maintaining rather than a practice that required daily cultivation and that could wither from neglect as surely as a garden untended 💍
By The Curious Writerabout 5 hours ago in Humans
The Anniversary
How Missing the Date Revealed What Actually Matters THE MORNING AFTER THE FORGOTTEN DATE 🤦 I woke up on the morning of October fifteenth to a text from my mother that read "Happy anniversary to my favorite couple! 15 years!" accompanied by approximately seventeen heart emojis, and the bottom dropped out of my stomach because I had completely forgotten our fifteenth wedding anniversary and based on the absence of any card or gift or even a verbal acknowledgment from my wife Rachel, she had forgotten it too, and this mutual forgetting which should have been a minor embarrassment that we laughed about over coffee instead triggered a crisis of evaluation that consumed the following weeks as we both separately and then together confronted the question of what it meant that two people who had stood before friends and family and God and promised to love each other forever had become so consumed by the logistics of daily existence, by work and children and mortgage and the thousand routine demands that fill the space where intentional love used to live, that the anniversary of their commitment had passed without either of them noticing 💔
By The Curious Writerabout 5 hours ago in Humans
Secret Journal
The Private Words That Changed How I See the Man I Married THE DISCOVERY I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO MAKE 🔍 I found my husband Michael's journal by accident while looking for the spare car keys in his desk drawer, a leather-bound notebook that I initially mistook for an address book until I opened it and recognized his handwriting and realized with the immediate guilt of someone who has crossed a boundary they cannot uncross that I was looking at his private thoughts, pages and pages of them written in the specific cramped script he used when writing quickly as though the words were coming faster than his hand could capture them, and I should have closed the journal immediately and put it back and never mentioned it because privacy within marriage is not just courteous but essential, and the trust that allows two people to share a life requires the confidence that certain internal spaces remain inviolate, but I did not close it because the first sentence I read stopped me: "I don't think Jennifer knows how afraid I am most of the time" and the shock of seeing my name combined with an emotion my husband had never once expressed to me in eleven years of marriage produced a compulsion to read that overrode the ethical imperative to stop 📖😮
By The Curious Writerabout 5 hours ago in Humans
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