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Submitted to Contest #270
"So, that was... I mean... I have no words", he said in a coarse voice, gasping for air. "No words necessary...", she said softly and came in for an even softer kiss. They were sitting at a kitchen table in her small apartment, across from each other, with a window overlooking the park. It was an unusually warm night for early fall. But they were warm from having have made love just moments before. "Was I worth the wait?" she asked, biting her lip. "Oh, most definitely you were. It felt, well, magical...". "But you don't believe in magic! ...
Submitted to Contest #121
βThanks a lot for the ride!β I tell my taxi driver Gabriel. It was a lovely ride. We talked the entire way home as though we knew each other forever. At times, especially when he was laughing and I was getting glimpses of his beautiful smile and his mesmerizing brown eyes the colour of warm honey, I imagined us walking together, hand in hand, in the pale darkness of a summer night. The place is simple in my head: a path by a lake where sounds of gentle waves are almost tuned out by the noise of the people around us. There is an empty bench ...
Submitted to Contest #40
βBefore thinking that you have depression, check your surroundings and see if there are toxic people or situations in your life which drag you downβ***"Hey, can you look over my assignment please?"I have seen her around before, but we were never best friends up until very recently. We went out for coffee last week, which was entirely by chance, and instantly became pals. There was something entirely eccentric about her persona and I was magically drawn to her, the way a small piece of metal is drawn to a magnet.There is nothing unusual there...
Submitted to Contest #39
After months of lock-down, the virus-ravaged earth has finally re-opened and the people attempted to go back to normal. Unfortunately, the prolonged absence of human interaction has turned humans into maniacs. Those who have been going outside at least occasionally managed to escape these effects, but they did not escape the manic attacks of the rest of the zombies. For one hundred days people were slaughtering each other on the streets until no one was left except for one miserable soul: myself. I have no idea how I managed to escape but so...
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