List: Reading list | Curated by Maggie McCombs

Feb 12, 2025

72 stories

Reading list
In
Rooted
by
Charlie Brown
As a Former Wine Store Owner, I Want People to Expand The Types of Wine They Drink. This Is HowFor those who always pick up the same bottle
Feb 11
26
Feb 11
26
Ani Eldritch
Rooted in MediumWhy I’m staying put as others drift away
Jan 21
9
Jan 21
9
In
Alethiology
by
Catrina Prager
DaylightLoverHe thinks of her. Still.
Feb 2
1
Feb 2
1
In
The Interstitial
by
Chelsea Nelthropp
PressureI feel the pressure building.
Sep 17, 2024
20
Sep 17, 2024
20
In
The Generator
by
Linda Caroll
I Don’t Know How To Make You Care What ChatGPT Is Quietly DoingOver half of the internet is now AI generated text
Jan 1
634
Jan 1
634
In
Long. Sweet. Valuable.
by
Sergio Esquivias
How Has Writing by Hand Saved My Craft?The reasons you should migrate your writing to a simple notebook
Dec 9, 2024
72
Dec 9, 2024
72
In
About Me Stories
by
Albert Le
Start Here: Introduce Yourself to Everyone on Medium!New writers to About Me Stories start here.
Sep 27, 2024
288
Sep 27, 2024
288
Devon Price
Do Not Trust Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)They’re no replacement for a union. In fact, they’re often created to distract from collective bargaining efforts.
Mar 1, 2023
16
Mar 1, 2023
16
In
TRIBE
by
Matthew
Modern Poetry is SO BADMy brain hurts
Nov 24, 2024
437
Nov 24, 2024
437
In
The Interstitial
by
Maggie McCombs
RootedThey’ve laid our way in lessons, multifarious, in being hated.
Standing in the rubble of one nation, playing god,
roots creeping in at us…
Nov 28, 2024
2
Nov 28, 2024
2
In
Lit Life
by
Janice Harayda
Were These History’s Worst Rejections Of Great Writers?Why some editors thought Flaubert, Melville, James Baldwin, and Agatha Christie were turkeys
Nov 27, 2024
35
Nov 27, 2024
35
In
The Political Prism
by
Jeffrey Harvey
America is Dying the Death it DeservesR.I.P. United States, July 4, 1776 — July 1, 2024
Jul 4, 2024
273
Jul 4, 2024
273
In
Session Notes
by
Ally Sprague
Fake Vulnerability is Keeping You StuckHow to stop bastardizing Brené Brown’s teaching and move forward
Sep 13, 2024
255
Sep 13, 2024
255
Maggie McCombs
Seeing a city as though it’s a car commercial for my inner childA poem to find you where you’re five again.
Oct 7, 2024
5
Oct 7, 2024
5
In
Age of Empathy
by
Jeffrey Harvey
We All Know a DiddyCelebrity, rape culture, and our collective complicity
Sep 30, 2024
50
Sep 30, 2024
50
Zulie @ Medium
How does story distribution work on Medium?Every writer on Medium has wondered at some point: what happens to my story when I publish it?
Sep 5, 2024
127
Sep 5, 2024
127
In
Psychology of Workplaces
by
Debra G. Harman
My Staff Meetings Were Like Bad Reality TVOn-the-job training for middle managers was woefully inadequate in the ‘90s
Sep 19, 2024
51
Sep 19, 2024
51
In
An Injustice!
by
Annika Hotta
My Childhood Bullies Knew I Was Autistic Before I DidHow undiagnosed neurodivergent children are targeted
Sep 13, 2024
10
Sep 13, 2024
10
In
The Lark
by
moin udb
Life in Four Shards poem
Sep 2, 2024
11
Sep 2, 2024
11
Anna Holmes
Means Tested: The Reality of Disability and the Myth of BootstrapsEvery time I talk about disability benefits in the United States, someone hurries out of the woodwork to insist that it’s actually good to…
Aug 30, 2024
24
Aug 30, 2024
24

Reading list

As a Former Wine Store Owner, I Want People to Expand The Types of Wine They Drink. This Is How

For those who always pick up the same bottle

Rooted in Medium

Why I’m staying put as others drift away

DaylightLover

He thinks of her. Still.

Pressure

I feel the pressure building.

I Don’t Know How To Make You Care What ChatGPT Is Quietly Doing

Over half of the internet is now AI generated text

How Has Writing by Hand Saved My Craft?

The reasons you should migrate your writing to a simple notebook

Start Here: Introduce Yourself to Everyone on Medium!

New writers to About Me Stories start here.

Do Not Trust Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

They’re no replacement for a union. In fact, they’re often created to distract from collective bargaining efforts.

Modern Poetry is SO BAD

My brain hurts

Rooted

They’ve laid our way in lessons, multifarious, in being hated. Standing in the rubble of one nation, playing god, roots creeping in at us…

Were These History’s Worst Rejections Of Great Writers?

Why some editors thought Flaubert, Melville, James Baldwin, and Agatha Christie were turkeys

America is Dying the Death it Deserves

R.I.P. United States, July 4, 1776 — July 1, 2024

Fake Vulnerability is Keeping You Stuck

How to stop bastardizing Brené Brown’s teaching and move forward

Seeing a city as though it’s a car commercial for my inner child

A poem to find you where you’re five again.

We All Know a Diddy

Celebrity, rape culture, and our collective complicity

How does story distribution work on Medium?

Every writer on Medium has wondered at some point: what happens to my story when I publish it?

My Staff Meetings Were Like Bad Reality TV

On-the-job training for middle managers was woefully inadequate in the ‘90s

My Childhood Bullies Knew I Was Autistic Before I Did

How undiagnosed neurodivergent children are targeted

Life in Four Shards

poem

Means Tested: The Reality of Disability and the Myth of Bootstraps

Every time I talk about disability benefits in the United States, someone hurries out of the woodwork to insist that it’s actually good to…

Maggie McCombs