Tag: Story

The Story of FLRBRG

This is the remarkable story of the FLooR cheeseBuRGer, or just $FLRBRG, for short. The correct disemvowelment for Floor Burger should have been FLRBRGR but the last R is missing. The cheese also went missing. Everything seemingly began in 2019 @beeple, or Beeple, or Mike Winkelman, an Am...

Charle’s story part-1

After the bus accident, it's been more than five months. They had to cut his left hand because the bones were trampled. I saw him during the football practice entering the ground. He was on the school football team with us. He went straight to the coach and said, “Coach I want to pla...

4 Rules Every Great Story Lives By

Everyone loves being able to tell a great story. Whether you’re an acclaimed novelist, an amateur poet, or just the jokester of your friend group, you probably thrive off of being able to articulate a series of events in a captivating way. In high school, my best friend and I comp...

How Do You Turn a Memory Into a Story People Want to Read?

A memory, a subject, a thought can stay in our minds, and we just know it needs to be a story. However, it takes more than an unforgettable or traumatic event, an idea, or a thought to create an essay. Often the story doesn’t resonate with readers because the meaning was lost in translation...

That Inspirational Story You Love? Think Again

The brief feel-good story at the close of the nightly news broadcast, or reels on Instagram meant to inspire viewers to feel hopeful about the state of the world, instead reveal the toxicity of American society. Take this story out of Texas last February about a custodian that went back...

I Love This Story of My Dad

Once a heavy smoker, my dad’s addiction to cigarettes had taken over his life. He smoked countless cigarettes each day and felt like he couldn’t function without them. His lips were dark and the smell of smoke had permeated his skin. He had tried to quit many times, but the addiction alw...

I read every X-Men story ever. Here’s some tips if you’re interested!

To preface everything to follow, this is a love letter. There are very few things in my life that have remained constant, but my unabiding love for the X-Men is one of them. The uniquely X-Men blend of superheroics, soap opera, science fiction, and social justice is one of the most addicting ongo...

Junk Yard — the untold story

Junk Yard, released by Williams in January 1997, has held a special place in my heart since it was new. I have always been a bit of an inventor myself so I guess the idea of collecting stuff and build inventions attached to me. The playfield with all its toys, the little scene under the glass, was a...

‘lore’ is a trap and will kill your story if you let it. so what can we do about it?

This is not an essay about lore. I mean, it is, sure. We discuss lore, what it is, how to best use it, and how it can trap you into writing worse stories… but that’s not really what this essay is about. Instead of telling you exactly what it is, though — since you really...

Windows 11 made me write this story

Since Windows 11 was launched two years ago, I wanted to give the operating system a try as anything new drops into the market. Until the past week from writing this story, I finally managed to install it on my laptop and check it out. Before Windows 11, I used Windows 10 for almost seven years and ...

Short story: Wrap up of an international event #TheThingsConference2023

- Women in IoT lunch. We are very thankful to Liliane Paradise for accepting our invitation to moderating this side event. I was thrilled to see the guest list, half women half men. It seems to me that we are enhancing more conversations around this topic. - Api-k demo rescue was run by...

“Transistor’s Love Story” (Teeraphan, Bangkok, 2022) A Theatrical Review

“Transistor’s love story” is a book written by Wat Wallayanggoon. Penake Rattanaruang made it a film in 2001. I remembered indulging in watching it as a young boy. For a while, I have heard that someone will make it into a theatre. And that while is about two years now. I believe t...

Chadchart — This Inspiring Story Will Change the Way You Think About a Politician

The better capital In 2019, he resigned from a political party to make an all-out effort in the Bangkok election as an independent candidate. Without the constraints of a party, he believes he can work with many more creative and limitless colleagues. He then calls a campaign to make Ba...

A story everyone can relate with.

He woke up the same as usual, with a half-forgotten chimera of his dreams still stuck in his mind like a blurred picture. It was a crisp morning, and he could hear the birds chirping outside. He looked out the window; the dew was shining on the grass. He yawned, bored right from the start of the day...

Algifarih’s Football Story: A Vegetable Selling Father, Living with Grandma

Chasing the dream of becoming a professional football player is a dream of many children in Indonesia, one of them is Algifarih. Before playing football as he does now, Algifarih’s daily activities were herding cattle and finding food for livestock in the forest. In between herding cattle, ...

Dublin, Jim Gaffigan and Weird Story Ideas

I knew we’d be in the Dublin area for several days, so I started looking at events, concerts, famous people who might be in Ireland the same time as we were. I just happened to luck out that Jim Gaffigan was going to be in Dublin on Saturday, November 5. Jim is so funny and I’d been w...

The Secret to Writing a Good Story

No, it’s not a good mug of coffee, though it feels like that way sometimes. Nor is it a writing sojourn in an enchanting land, though that can help. Bonus points for combining the two, but still not there! In fact, one of the most successful authors of our time, J K Rowling, wrote much of t...

The story of Istanbulites: Living in a cursed city

Just look at the top floor of any building in Beyoğlu or Şişli, and you see a horrific added storey its swallows the beautiful architecture like a cancer cell. For other parts of the city, the view is such vulgar no one even tries to imagine that was a job of an architect. Noise too… It...

GENTRIFICATION THROUGH URBANISM STORY OF ISTANBUL

Gentrification is creating new living space in the suburb areas of the city but we can’t explain gentrification only one definition. Gentrification has some conditions; the first condition is as mentioned definition, suburb areas. Suburb mean living of people who lowerclassman, having a small ...

The story of my immigration!

The story of my immigration from Iran to Portugal is not just about my personal journey, but about the lessons I learned along the way. It’s a story that can teach people about the importance of adaptability, resilience, and open-mindedness. As a software engineer in Iran, I was living a co...

The Scented Journey: A Candle Maker’s Story

Nothing can compare to the soft glow and the sweet aroma that candles can bring to a room. Which is why Frosa’s soy candles are much sought after for their beautiful and natural quality. What started as simply making an addition to an aromatherapy range has overhauled Frosa’s entire care...

Lessons From a Cantina: A Day from a Larger Mexican Story

Mexico is not only my home but is one of my favorite countries and one that does not get talked about for the reasons that it should. If you have watched the news or read the newspapers in the last twenty years you have likely read about violence, drugs, or students on spring break. These things are...

How Do You Tell a Travel Story Without Photos?

All of us who write travel stories are writing from memory. We have already experienced some exciting, wonderful, new and unique place for us, making us want to tell the story to others. We tell those stories and add the accompanying photos we took (or someone else on the trip took) to demonstrat...

The Revenue-Generating Power of the Miami Heat’s Inspirational Story

While the Miami Heat’s inspirational story has garnered widespread admiration and support, it’s important to recognize that the story itself may not directly generate financial income. However, the success and popularity of the Miami Heat can contribute to revenue generation for the fran...

The ARKHAUS Story

Nathalie Paiva (Co-Founder and Chief Xperience Officer) and I started working together in 2018, on a business that would soon evolve into CSTM HAUS — a beautiful multi-faceted hospitality business in NYC’s Meatpacking District. From a loft in the famed ‘Little Flatiron Building&rsq...

Caroline, 49: A Tractarian Ghost Story

MY WORK STUDY JOB in college was at the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library — a sweatier, dirtier job than one might imagine, with boxes and shelves heavier than their literary contents might suggest. There were the still-embargoed manuscript of Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mo...

A Look Back at Chanel’s Glittering Success Story

Founded in 1910, Chanel SAS is a French company manufacturing haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, perfumes and other luxury goods. Its origins lie in the couture house founded by Gabrielle Chasnel, better known by her nickname Coco Chanel, in 1910. In 1954, Chanel Couture was acquired by Les ...

The Pulsating Story of Louis Vuitton

Launched in Paris in 1854, the House of Louis Vuitton perpetuates the bold vision of its founder. As a master trunk-maker, the young Louis Vuitton made boxes to pack his customers’ personal belongings and bulky wardrobes. Over the years, the House’s innovations have included the flat tru...

The Fascinating Story Behind Everyday Items Of Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome has left major ruins that display their architectural excellence as well as impeccable engineering. This includes the stunning Roman colosseum. Archeologists have discovered numerous small archeological artifacts such as everyday items including sandals, engraved scarabs and carefull...

The Story of Taipei

The statement may sound like some banal utterance headlining a paid tourism advert or the first sentence in the fiftieth edition of some travel guide; however, I mean it when I say that of the places I have visited around the world, there is no other place with a similar feeling. The ci...

How “Tokyo Story” Challenged the Rules of Hollywood

Celebrated film critic Andrew Sarris, though not the first to conceptualise auteur theory, was certainly a prominent figure in its development. He argued that a director must exhibit technical competence, a distinguishable style and create films with interior meanings to be defined as an auteur. How...

THE REAL DRAKE STORY

In the heart of Toronto, on an ordinary October day in 1986, Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham was born. Little did anyone anticipate that this seemingly normal birth would mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey. Raised in the working-class neighborhood of Weston Road, Toronto, Drake faced e...

A Queen Street Story

Meanwhile, on the east side of town, things were far less wonderful. It was dirty and darker, with consecutive rows of stores selling items for the third or fourth time. There were stained greasy spoons, semi-industrial walk-ups with garbage and printing presses, machines and auto body shops. Thi...

A Christmas Tree Carbon Story

My partner LOVES Christmas time. The lights, the markets, finding the biggest tree (then carrying that son-of-a-gun home), the city, the jumpers, the mugs, the themed socks… Actually, to put it into perspective, when moving to the Netherlands, 2 of our 10 boxes were solely for Christmas decor...

How (not) to tell a sustainability story

Let us take an example of what Microsoft chooses to do in their official blog. In this post, a senior executive takes stock of progress made in relation to the company’s commitment to address climate crisis. The post highlights a number of measures taken during the year interspersed with ...

Story

Kate Winslet loved airplanes ever since she was a little girl. She would watch them soar in the sky and imagine herself flying with them. She dreamed of traveling to different places and seeing new things. She also loved going to church with her parents every Sunday. She felt a connection with God a...

Story

She loved airplanes ever since she was a little girl. She would watch them soar in the sky and imagine herself flying with them. She dreamed of traveling to different places and seeing new things. She also loved going to church with her parents every Sunday. She felt a connection with God and pray...

101 Zen Stories: Story # 11: The Story of Shunkai- Judging the Flower, Not the Fragrance

Shunkai was a woman of exquisite beauty who was forced to marry young, though she wished otherwise. After her marriage ended, Shunkai pursued philosophy and Zen, attracting admirers wherever she went. At a Kyoto temple, Shunkai finally became a sincere Zen student. However, the head priest’...

A ‘new’ Bible fragment shocks the Christian story

Rather, a discovery is usually the beginning of a long saga full of intrigue and weirdness. That the biblical evidence survives to emerge into public seems really a miracle. That was the case with ‘P.Oxy. 87.5575’. It sat in a box at Oxford University for a century, to be looked at ev...

A Redemption Story: My Path to Forgiveness and Change

Torn apart by fear and guilt, I found myself drowning in a sea of tears, consumed by thoughts of ending my own life. The house I resided in faced a mosque, and although initially indifferent to the call to prayer (Azaan), I began to perceive it as a divine beckoning. With each echo of the Azaan, I g...

Origins of the Messiah Story

When we hear the word messiah most of us instantly think of Christ or possibly various cult leaders throughout the years that have claimed to be the returned messiah. Christians Christians, of course, believe that Christ was the messiah that had been promised. They believe that he died on the ...

Always Be Silent in Five Situation — Powerful Zen Story

Once upon a time, in a small village, nestled amidst lush green mountains, there lived a young man named Ryu. Ryu was a curious and intelligent soul, always seeking wisdom and searching for the deeper meaning of life. He had heard stories of Zen masters and their profound te...

Teacher’s Story: Navigating LGBTQ+ Identity in a Cambodian Classroom

My journey of self-disclosure as a gay man in an international school in Cambodia began with a deep breath and a step into the management’s office. After months of sidestepping questions about LGBTQ+ matters from my fifth-grade students, I decided it was time to seek permission to be open abou...

The Untold Story of Eastern European Slaves in Nazi Germany

Most of us have heard of the Holocaust and the untold millions of lives lost to the Nazi’s horrific mass extermination of the Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and disabled in concentration camps. How many of you have heard about the 12 million forced laborers, a majority coming from Slavic Eastern Eur...

The Story of Probably the Only Man Who Had Stalin’s Envy And Trust

A young boy had snuck onto a train en route to Berlin. Upon seeing the ticket checker, he slipped under the seat. He couldn’t evade the scanning eyes of the man who bent down and asked in a stern voice, “Show me your ticket, lad.” With no hope in sight, the boy tore a newspaper ...

The Heartbreaking Story Of A Man Who Wanted To Go Jail So Badly That He Robbed A Bank For $1

It doesn’t matter how comfortable a prison facility is no one in their right sense would be willing to spend a day in there, they might serve good foods, allow sporting activities among inmates, or any other good stuff it has to offer but the restriction of freedom is just too unbearable. How ...

The Most Horrific Story You Will Ever Read

Hollywood super-producer Bob Evans said “Luck is when timing meets preparation.” If we follow Bob’s logic, then what is the recipe for profound misfortune? Is it still about timing, or is it about chaos? Is it that last moment when set plans change? What do we even call it?&nb...

The Law & I — The Origin Story

mr. S. Soekotjo Dihardjo. For as long as I can remember, that’s how my father used to write his name on every administration document I ever laid eyes on. The title ‘mr.’ here is not short for Mister which is written Mr with a capital M, but for Meester in de rechten. Mee...

Tell a Story Instead of Just Showing the Data

If you are not from Baltimore, you might wonder what is going on and why the number and rate of homicides jumps in 2015. You might not know of the daily shootings and almost daily homicides that happen in Baltimore. And you might not know that crime in Baltimore is concentrated in the most disadvant...

The KargoLogic Story

When my business partner, Surjeet first shared the idea of how the trucking industry in Australia had not evolved in a long time since he was an owner operator himself, I remember thinking to myself, here’s another genius marketplace business idea. At the time, it felt like it was just going t...

An Empty Story

The master narrative of civilization in the Americas claims that brave European explorers “discovered” continents sparsely populated by stone age hunter-gatherers who had no use for land titles. When the hunting played out or the harvest season for fruits and vegetables ended, the Native...

The ending to my borderline narcissist twin flame story

In many ways, this is the hardest type of relationship to get over. You see the good in them, yet you don’t recognize all the ways they were being toxic, until you do and by then it’s too late. You get left wondering if there was something you could have done better, precisely because yo...

Whose Story? Reimagining a Cultural Center

What happens when a group of people lose interest in a place meant to serve them? In the heart of Atuona, the primary village of Hiva Oa, a string of interconnected Polynesian-style buildings nestle among beds of tropical flowers. Known as the Paul Gauguin Cultural Center, this space was established...

Unapologetically Sorry: A New Canadian’s Story

The authorities are coming. The gig is up. I buried a body, forgot about it and am about to get caught. I’m in deep fucking trouble. I stand in my front yard. The location sometimes changes, but here and now, the bones are buried in the boulevard — on city land. I’m like, oh man &m...

Honoring Her Story: Authors to read this Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

We are Asian American women and social justice advocates. During the work week, we are organizing and mobilizing for the human rights of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and girls; on nights and weekends, we are reading the work of AAPI authors whose stories illustrate the daily and ...

What was it like when life first became possible?

The cosmic story that unfolded following the Big Bang is ubiquitous no matter where you are. The formation of atomic nuclei, atoms, stars, galaxies, planets, complex molecules, and eventually life is a part of the shared history of everyone and everything in the Universe. Even though all of these th...

South Asian Genetics: A Punjabi Story

I’ve received some questions regarding Punjabi genetics, so thought I’d share some of the data on this topic. As per usual, charts are constructed with Harappa Gedmatch scores. Above is a PCA chart with selected Punjabi groups highlighted. I didn’t include every tribe as it ...

Melissa’s story: Genetic testing solved the mystery of her cardiomyopathy

When Melissa was 2.5 years old, her pediatrician tested and diagnosed her with a heart condition called cardiomyopathy. There are many different forms of cardiomyopathy, but in general, it’s a type of cardiovascular disease that makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood throughout th...

Juju’s story: Uncovering answers

Juju started seeing a neurologist, but Cristina watched as his condition declined. Over the next year and a half, they went to the emergency room over 80 times — still without answers. Finally, in April 2021, Juju’s neurologist offered him genetic testing. His results showed two varia...

Bethany’s story: Is it better not to know?

“I heard there is something called the neuropathy score,” I said to my neurologist. “It’s supposed to grade how severe your disease is.” “That’s correct,” she said. “It’s on a scale from 0 to 36. Zero being unaffected.” “D...

The Adam And Eve Story

"The Adam And Eve Story: The History Of Cataclysms Uncensored Digital Version — Magnetic Pole Shift" by Chan Thomas is an extraordinary and thought-provoking book that takes readers on a captivating journey through Earth's magnetic pole shift. In this comprehensive book revi...

the beauty in living just enough

Few days ago I watched a short movie by Wes Anderson called The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. In this short movie, Henry (a rich and greedy man) wanting to learn the skill how to see without using his eyes so that he could win millions at the poker table. After years of training himself ...

The Crazy Story of How I Manifested $10,000 in a Month

Manifesting wealth and opportunities had always seemed like an elusive concept to me. I watched others effortlessly attract abundance into their lives, while I struggled to grasp the secret behind it. One morning, as I doom scrolled on Facebook, I found myself targeted by an ad for Mind Valley ad...

Millennials and The Opioid Epidemic: An Overlooked Story of Suffering

Generational debates often fall into broad-stroke stereotypes about behavior, ambition, or resilience. What’s routinely overlooked, however, is the myriad of societal challenges each generation faces. Among these, the opioid epidemic stands out as a defining crisis for millennials, with its ti...

Why I “sold out” to big Pharma — a patient story

The more I looked into the research pipeline for my condition, the more hope I had for the next generation, but the worse the news seemed for me personally. Despite over 90 DMD clinical trials active or recruiting worldwide today, almost none of the trials for new substances are open to over 21-year...

The Intriguing Story of Human Origins: A Somewhat Critical Review of “Sapiens”

This thought-provoking work, published in 2015, continues to attract attention and spark discussions on the origins of our species. As a fellow atheist and historian, Harari presents a compelling narrative that seeks to explain the evolution of humanity in purely scientific and materialist...

Her Story of Poetry

The morning after the blue moon My muse woke me and said: The first known poet was a woman of colour The first known poet is a woman of colour Listen — A man cancelled her A man put a stop to her words To her power And she called on her god And her god failed her Read More

Short Blog 6 — Myseum: Telling “Toronno’s” Story

Last week, I had the opportunity to visit 401 Richmond, an arts and culture hub inside a re-purposed tin factory in the center of Toronto. There were plenty of super interesting galleries, organizations, and non-profits to discover, including an exhibition by Myseum. A play on the words My...

What is the Best Method to Learn German? A Personal Story

When I first set my sights on learning German, I imagined myself smoothly conversing with locals in no time. However, I quickly discovered that the road to fluency was more akin to a winding path through the Black Forest than a straight Autobahn. Through a blend of trial and error, research, a...

How to Anglicise a Country: The Strange Story of Hawaii

In 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant hosted the first ever state visit to the United States by a foreign head of state. King David Kalakaua was a chubby, jovial man (he also legalised hula dancing) who spoke fluent English, but this set him apart from the majority of his subjects. At the time, relati...