Write about a relationship or friendship that was unexpected or so outside your usual type that you kept it a secret from your loved ones. (Bonus points if it didn’t stay secret for long!)

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“Javon and Kimberly” by James Barrett

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My name is Javon Jackson. I’m a twenty-nine-year-old black cop in a black high-crime precinct in Newark, New Jersey. Besides my service revolver, I carry a blackjack. Often, the blackjack comes in handy when I need to show some perp that I mean business without threatening or, God forbid, using deadly force. Like most cops, I keep a backup piece at home: a Glock 22 semi-auto. It's under lock and key in a gun safe. The combination is my daughter's birthday.New Jersey is heavily blue and controlled by Democrats. As is their wont, they spend ot...

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“The older light guy” by Janelle Garrison

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The older light guy. Older , short, and light skin. Oh no. He was so not my type. We use to work together in a store, a grocery store at that. We had two different positions in the store. I was a security officer, and he was a cashier. We would always laugh, and joke every time we seen each other at work. We had fun at work. Time went by fast when we worked together. This man has always been a funny guy, comedian is what he should've been in life. He knew how to make me laugh and smile. I loved that about him. I would ask him for gum almos...

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“The Math Teacher” by S.d. Schwarz

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“What should I write about? You know all my deepest, darkest secrets.” I sent the text to Alisha along with a screenshot of writing prompts. Prompt four, to be exact.Her response came instantly. “What about Valentine’s day three years ago? That random you hooked up with?”Oof. Did I want to relive the worst sexual experience of my life?“Or that one coworker of yours that was cute and flirty. The skater boy.”Oh, Mike. A scrawny guy two years younger than me whose immaturity somehow made him the most likable person I worked with until I quit.I ...

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“I Know” by Zacharias Boer

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“Will you go on a date with me, Zach?” That’s what he asked me. Outside, on the lunch hour at a robotics competition sometime in October. We two sat on a concrete quarter-wall in the high school courtyard, each in our team shirts. It was chilly outside that day so I knew my face was flushed, incriminating me. I forget the context in which he asked me that. It was meant as a joke, a witty response to some dry comment I’d made about girlfriends or boyfriends or sex or something. The point is that he asked me, and I had already convin...

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“The Eskimo Sister” by Jillian Rex

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Trigger Warning: Themes of a painful breakup and aggression. The Eskimo Sister: An Unlikely Encounter Marie was a good girl. A low drama pragmatist who was a staunch supporter of her female friends and valued justice, fairness and integrity above all else. She was always on her friends' side; Listening, offering advice, encouraging them to find their worth so they could hopefully stop dating Losers. But Marie was also a dreamer. She dreamt of a life full of travel, adventure, new experiences and of finding a relationship that made her feel a...

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“Silent connection ” by Esther R.

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Hi, my dear,I miss you so much. Some days, I don’t know how to explain the heaviness that sits in my chest, or the quiet ache that grows with each passing moment. The world around me continues on, moving forward as if everything is normal, and yet inside, there’s this hollow space where you once were. I wonder, if people could look beyond my outer shell, if they would see the quiet sorrow I carry every day—the grief that no one knows, because no one knew about you.It’s strange, isn’t it? To love someone so completely and deeply and yet have ...

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“Moving on Over” by Dave Stanley

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“There’s a wait so long, so long. You’ll never wait so long.” ~Here Comes Your Man, The Pixies A startling amount of life’s adventures start out in a spirit of dispassionate inquiry. At least for me they do. It is Summer, 2005, and I’m in the mood to run it up the flagpole and see. Check the flypaper, see what’s sticking. Insert any number of cheeky colloquialisms here. “There, whaddya think?” I asked Willa, my roommate. I had just shown him my tongue-in-cheek word salad—no, word vomit—that I wrote for a MySpace b...

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“Lovely Happenstance” by Marc Graziadei

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In my way of thinking, what were the chances of me ever getting married? Since I was only focused on being a rebel and deliberately going against the grain as it were; I just didn’t want one of those people who were socially pressured to tie the knot by family friends. The best advice that I had received from my father was to ‘ fully live out your celibacy, find out who you are and decide whether or not to make a decision then if the occasion would ever arise ‘. Human haste towards the marital bandwagon is only made because most don’t want...

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Write about a relationship or friendship that was unexpected or so outside your usual type that you kept it a secret from your loved ones. (Bonus points if it didn’t stay secret for long!)

Submissions are closed

✍️ 23 stories

“Javon and Kimberly” by James Barrett

“The older light guy” by Janelle Garrison

“The Math Teacher” by S.d. Schwarz

“I Know” by Zacharias Boer

“The Eskimo Sister” by Jillian Rex

“Silent connection ” by Esther R.

“Moving on Over” by Dave Stanley

“Lovely Happenstance” by Marc Graziadei

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Write about an encounter with someone new to you who changed your life forever.

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Write about something you do now that has become routine, but that the old you — or friends and family from your past — would never believe if they couldn’t witness it today with their own eyes.

Write about a time you approached a situation with one strong feeling or belief, only to have your perspective shift completely by the end.

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