Write about a couple touring an empty apartment they might rent.

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“Why Doesn't Anyone Rent This Place?” by Bad CatZ

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The sky rips over us as we drive out of our old familiar, our parents’ neighborhood and their stuffy old ways and the beat-up old buildings that used to be something special and now lie as monuments to our society’s collective sense of neglect and waste. We make for the ocean, not to live there, but to make a day out of the experience like many others from more blue-collar zip codes. We packed few things; stood on the beach until we couldn’t take it anymore, as if we wanted to ‘get our monies worth’ out of the sun and sand; and then I chose...

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“Selling Features and Bullet Points” by Parker Tolar

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Marissa, is struggling with a major depressive episode and self harm. Marissa and Lexi Thompson-Harold held hands as they took a left onto Vance-Jackson Street, deep within the concrete jungle of Northwest San Antonio, Texas. Their forest green Nissan Altima’s low fuel light came on during the outro of Heart’s Magic Man. The gas prices really deterred Marissa, the couple’s budgetary expert and CPA. She winced each time they unhooked the gas cap and stuck a nozzle in. They didn’t have time to stop now, and even if they did. Marissa implore...

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“Tower Apartments” by Melinda Madrigal

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505 5th Street apartment 5A at the imposing, menacing Tower apartment building is where me and my husband Jake are taking a tour of the apartment.Me and Jake are looking for a bigger apartment for our expanding family and the Tower apartments have what we are looking for. We are in luck one apartment has become available.Today me and Jake are heading to the Tower apartment building to look at the place. Jake is excited to go but me not so much.I don't know what it is but the Tower apartment building gives me this uneasy feeling. I heard so m...

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“Empty Apartment and an Empty Promise.” by Laura Eliz

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I have lived in some crappy apartments. I lived above a Vietnamese restaurant with a roach problem that became my roach problem, because my landlord wasn’t actually preemptively spraying the bathroom and kitchen, like he lead me to think was happening. I lived in a building where the landlord refused to do anything about the drugs being sold out of it as well as the fighting of the couple that lived and sold out of their apartment and I rente...

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“The Final Complex” by Makayla Davis

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“So, how do you feel about this one?” Joanne and Kaine looked up at their broker exasperatedly, too engrossed in hushed conversation to notice that they were nearing their ninth showing of the day. They must have heard that question a hundred times now. Night had fallen on the group of three, and even the golf cart they were using to trek around the neighboring communities seemed to sputter in exhaustion. The broker held his phone up to their faces to show them yet another apartment complex. They didn't even bother to glance at it.“Oh, ...

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“The Time James and Hannah Visited Baldwin Hall Apartments” by Michelle Sholund

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Not having any luck in their apartment search, James and Hannah gave in to letting a mutual friend of theirs make arrangements to check out a newly renovated apartment building called Baldwin Hall Apartments. Agreeing to meet with the friends contact, an employee of the apartment building, Hannah and James arrived early the next day to scope out the building and then meet the employee. The two drove by the front of the brilliant brick building with stone accents before parking noticing how it looked old and modern at the same time. The a...

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“Two Cooks Looking for an Apartment” by Zach Martz

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Bryan Grossman was quick to greet the couple that had walked into the leasing office for their scheduled appointment. “Paul and Cady McFadden, it’s so nice to meet the two of you,” he said with his hand extended toward them. “Nice to meet you too,” Cady said as she shook his hand, with her beaming husband doing likewise. “I love this building already!” Paul exclaimed. “That lobby is so beautiful, what with the crystal chandelier and the black marble and everything. And that fountain right outside the main door! Classy!” “Well we do pri...

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“It Wasn't Meant To Be” by Latha Prakash

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The key fit snugly in the keyhole. Sean twisted the knob and opened the door. Holding Sierra's hand with his left hand he entered the house that he hoped would soon transform into their home. He had opted for a self-guided tour of the apartment hoping against hope that Sierra would like it and give her nod. It was a one-bedroom apartment surrounded by a canopy of trees. They entered the living room and freeing herself of his grasp, Sierra walked to the kitchen. She opened every cabinet making a mental note of the space available and trying t...

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“Haunted by Angels ” by Trinity Symington

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“Clarisse Hedgens” the familiar real estate agent smiles and extends her hand. The translucent forms of Edgar and Louisa hover near the three living ones. Only they see the strain in the agent’s perfect smile. “Oh, Louisa look how tired the poor woman looks.” “Shush Edgar.” The eager couple in front of them smiles back and takes turns shaking her hand. “I’m Amanda Baker and this is my husband Todd Baker.” Amanda has a nasally voice and lipstick on her teeth. “That voice,” Louisa says pointedly. “Now, Now, there are f...

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“The Second Room” by Maël Finck

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“And over here is the master bedroom,” the realtor beamed, gesturing dramatically with her left arm towards the bedroom’s alder door, “Isn’t the natural light marvelous?” she asked. Franky and I just nodded our heads while we admired the empty space. I could see his eyes traveling from one corner of the room to another with a steady concentration. He clenches his jaw and squints ever so slightly when he is focused, his eyelashes gently making contact with his glasses as he surveys. I knew that he was visualizing what our bedroom would...

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“Home ” by Michael McCarthy

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“I can’t stand moving! I’m sure it’s a ring Dante missed. Why can’t we just stay in the house?”“We talked about this. We’ve been empty nesters for a while now. We don’t need the big house anymore. We might as well rent.”“You talk like we’re moving into assisted living.”“You act like we need assisted living. We’re just down-sizing.”“Down-size this! Um…I meant that in general, not toward you…dear.”“Mm hm,” she said, looking at him askance. “Here it is, apartment 1066. The young lady said the key is ...

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“807” by Megan Shull

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Trigger Warning: Abuse, suicide, sexual violence, foul language Celia emerged from the metro escalator, not realizing how much she should have appreciated the final blast of cool air before suffocating in the swampy humidity of the downtown pavement. She turned enough to see Emile’s hand reaching out for hers as he stepped from the escalator, checking his GPS for the directions to their next appointment. Emile gently pulled Celia through the park that would lead them a few blocks from the third apartment they’d be touring that day. His ha...

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Write about a couple touring an empty apartment they might rent.

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✍️ 27 stories

“Why Doesn't Anyone Rent This Place?” by Bad CatZ

“Selling Features and Bullet Points” by Parker Tolar

“Tower Apartments” by Melinda Madrigal

“Empty Apartment and an Empty Promise.” by Laura Eliz

“The Final Complex” by Makayla Davis

“The Time James and Hannah Visited Baldwin Hall Apartments” by Michelle Sholund

“Two Cooks Looking for an Apartment” by Zach Martz

“It Wasn't Meant To Be” by Latha Prakash

“Haunted by Angels ” by Trinity Symington

“The Second Room” by Maël Finck

“Home ” by Michael McCarthy

“807” by Megan Shull

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about two neighbors who cannot stand each other.

Write a story involving a noise complaint.

Include a character in your story that is often in an apartment building, but doesn’t actually live there.

Write about an apartment building being demolished.

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