November 22nd 2024 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Cecilia
Philemon and Apphia
Pragmatius of Autun
November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania
Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we?
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Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds.
When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
November 21st 2024 - Holidays and Observances
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Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh)
Christian feast days:
Amelberga of Susteren
Digain
Maurus of Parentium
Pope Gelasius I
Franciszka Siedliska
Please join myself and the Author Promotion Team in congratulating kbois as GA's newest Signature Author! @kbois has been a member for 7 years and in that time she's developed from a relatively new author through to one that's reached the level of Signature Author. Her recent short stories Hide and Seek and Depth Perception are of particular note and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
Congratulation, kbois!
In October, the British government announced plans to help people with mental health problems to get back into work.
This would see “employment advisers” visiting people in hospital, who have been admitted with mental health problems, and giving them CV and interview advice. It was piloted at hospitals in Leicester and at the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, London, with “dramatic results”, though the results haven’t been published yet.
This isn’t a hundred percent altruistic, it is al
Monday I featured CassieQ's story, Save Tonight, as this month's Signature Feature. Have you read it yet? It's one of my favorites, definitely an oldie but goodie. Please take the time to check it out, if you haven't yet. And maybe this excerpt will help convince you.
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November 20th 2024 - Holidays and Observances
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20-N (Spain)
Africa Industrialization Day (international)
Black Awareness Day (Brazil)
Children's Day
Christian feast day:
Agapius
Ambrose Traversari
Something a little different for this week's reading update. Genre Deep Dives restart next week. This week, we are going to give you the top read stories by Tag for the last 6 months. Find a tag for something you are interested in and check out the stories that are tagged that way.
Top 10 Most Read Age - child
Ralph: Breaking free by Robert Hugill In Process
A Child's Haven by CLJobe Complete
HMS Belvidera by Mark Arbour Complete
Family Struggles by
November 19th 2024 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)
Raphael Kalinowski
Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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