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“For Ryan. ” by Kelly Kicks

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Since you wanted to know what was bothering me. That night at the concert. I don’t know if i will ever send you this or what, but i just need to get it out somewhere since i can’t say it aloud.My biggest fear is not being good enough.Somehow not being good enough. Or being good enough, but never the best. “How can I be the best?” or “How can I be better?” or even “I’ll never be better so I may as well not even try.”These are things I think about. Exactly how much, I won’t say.This fear manifests itself the most in my romantic relationships. ...

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“How Not to Leave Him Behind” by Becca Gonzalez

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I never told him how much the Gulf of Mexico reminded me of his brilliant blue eyes. I would stand there on the edge of the white sand and stare out into the vast gulf wondering what he would say about my thoughts. Would he agree? The love that accumulated in my heart for that boy was more than enough to drown me when I realized I would never see him again. My insides were heavy every mile I drove away, only to completely fall apart the second I reached my destination in Clearw...

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“Loving Without Confession” by Emma Schroeder

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This story, like many other love stories, starts with a boy and a few words. Now, I'm not one known for falling in love very easily. Frankly, out of the fourteen years of my life, I've only fallen in love once. It's crazy, right? Well, I do it with good reason, and I'm about to tell you why. The boy I fell in love with actually just happened in late October 2019. I had gotten over my first love only a month before that, which was an accomplishment because I had liked him for over a year and a half, though he had no interest in me whatsoever....

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“In My Dream” by Victoria Alewel

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As I woke up from my nightmare, in a sweat, I was taken back by what I had experienced in the middle of the night; a dream left for only me to believe. This particular dream had happened more than once, each time becoming, less and less, scary, and more of a comfort, for me. Have you ever had a loved one visit you in a dream? I have.See, it all started in my quiet days of highschool; time when I was shy, without a lot of friends, but an ability to learn and understand what was being taught. This particular gentleman could carry a conversatio...

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“Forbidden” by Margo Harris

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How do I even begin to tell someone that they mean everything to me, when to them I mean nothing at all? It’s the cruelest reality to live in and sadly, it’s mine. Since the moment I laid eyes on him, I knew he was everything that I needed to have in my life. I knew I was in love. How crazy is it to know you’re in love when you’ve only known someone for a moment, but one that feels like an eternity? I’ve tried to tell him, I have, but I’m never able to get the right words out - strange for a writer, I know. What he doesn’t know i...

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“The baby no one knows I lost” by Chelsea Daroski

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Her name was going to be Alexandria May Daroski. She would have been beautiful. She would have been loved. But then tragedy struck a 16 year old girl. This girl was a junior in high school. She had a boyfriend. But her boyfriend wasn't the baby's father. She snuck out and went to a party one night. There she got drunk and passed out. She was raped that night. He was a senior and she couldn't fight him off. He drove her home afterwards and just left her in the yard for her parents to find. Six weeks later, she felt weird. She couldn't keep an...

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“Knight in Tarnished Armor” by Stephanie Ricketson

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I wasn’t looking for anyone new. I promise. I was trying, so hard, to be a good wife. Trying to do what I had never done… be faithful. Trying to live up to the promise I had made, not only to myself, but to my husband. I tried. I really did. After being separated for nearly ten years by circumstances, I came home. There my husband was, waiting for me, faithful and true. If he had strayed, I would not have ever blamed him. How could I? I wasn’t a saint. I wasn’t the good and faithful wife I had promised I would be. But he hadn’t, and I commen...

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“The Secret Left Unshared” by Rosaline Hope

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I was told that this week's prompt was about real life. My real life. I know that as a writer I shouldn't talk to the readers about writing this story, but I can't help it. After all, this weakness in my writing is part of the secret left unshared. I am, in a way, a prodigy. In a bad way, if that makes sense. But only to myself. This secret, it takes a million words to express. There is never a way to put it all in one sentence. What do I mean by all that? I'm a rare soul, as people may say. I ca...

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“Too Afraid” by Samantha Kensley

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I wish i had the nerves. I wish i was confident enough to tell him this. For years i have struggled to make conversations fun, interesting and intriguing, but it was a real struggle, for every single thing i had said was made up. I was afraid to open up to him. I wad afraid to show myself. Afraid that he would not like me for it. Afraid that he would judge me because i was vulnerable. I felt like i was the only one responsible for everthing that happened. This story goes all the way to 7th grade. There was this boy in class. I had kn...

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“spinning ” by ROSALYN BELFORD

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Dorian was the first guy I slept with. We had been dating for 4 months (and 12 days), we were watching a movie at his place and as the credits rolled on the screen I ask him if wanted to have sex. He said yes. Jonah was the first guy I kissed. We had been friends for 7 years, he had fallen over while we were racing down our street and I wanted to cheer him up, it lasted for half a second. We got up and raced again. Dorian and I have now been dating for a year, currently I am thirty minuets into a run, my lungs are thumping against my chest, ...

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“I'll Send You A Lot of Letters, But Not This One” by Sami Mrj

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I loved you from the first moment I saw you.I would never tell you this. There’s a power balance in relationships, and I’m already so much in your debt that more ammunition is quite unnecessary.Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t loved you every moment since then, and there were many moments, days even, when I gave up on us. There were moments where I doubted that I even loved you, or if you were simply the getaway car from the wreck of my last relationship (although it wasn’t so much a wreck as it was a barren desert where nothing ever happened a...

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“I wanted to marry my college girlfriend” by David Palumbo

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The title says it all. There was a point in my life when I wanted to marry my college girlfriend, and a point she probably wanted to marry me. My current girlfriend and hopefully soon to be fiance believes I didn't see a future with her; and it's a secret I'll take to my grave. It started my senior year. My girlfriend at the time, Christina and I had been dating for about 3 years. I met her my freshman year at a dorm party and after 6 months of occasional hook ups, I worked up the nerve to ask her out. In the beginning it was wonderful. She ...

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“Different” by Melissa Landers

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The day started out rainy -- and promptly got worse with the arrival of the sun. It was one of those do-nothing days that led to little grunts of dismay. First, there was the problem of the cloud cover -- and then of course the emergence of the sun. "We can't go do anything," she says, and stamps her foot impatiently before the window. Dreams of tennis and heading out to somewhere beyond the four walls are vanishing with every drop of rainfall. "We could sleep," the husband says, except it's not in those words. It's more -- snarfle, snarfle,...

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“Wishing for Me and You” by Madyson Wong

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Dear You, I don’t know why it happened. It shouldn’t have. I tried not to let it happen. I didn’t want for us to get this way. Before, when you tried, I told you… no. And why? I’ll never know. And it happened. I hate you for it. At the same time, I can’t hate you. It’s almost physically impossible for me to despise you, hold a grudge, and get you off my mind. I know I said I hate you, but I don’t mean it. Maybe you can tell by now. I think my friends can also tell. That’s the ridiculous part. I say that I hate you so ...

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“Another Day ” by Maria Nunez

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“Be ready in 10” he said. I liked him from the beginning. He was a loudmouth. You always knew where he was because he was the loudest, sometimes the most obnoxious, one in the room.He was also charming, in a weird, chaotic way but he was. My quietness went well with his loudness, my jokes made his over the top ones even funnier and through differences, we found compatibility and eventually love. It’s funny how a stranger becomes family. At this point, I know his scent just as well as I know my mothers. It is great to love someone, but it is ...

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Write about a secret that you’ve never told to the person you love.

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✍️ 41 stories

“For Ryan. ” by Kelly Kicks

“How Not to Leave Him Behind” by Becca Gonzalez

“Loving Without Confession” by Emma Schroeder

“In My Dream” by Victoria Alewel

“Forbidden” by Margo Harris

“The baby no one knows I lost” by Chelsea Daroski

“Knight in Tarnished Armor” by Stephanie Ricketson

“The Secret Left Unshared” by Rosaline Hope

“Too Afraid” by Samantha Kensley

“spinning ” by ROSALYN BELFORD

“I'll Send You A Lot of Letters, But Not This One” by Sami Mrj

“I wanted to marry my college girlfriend” by David Palumbo

“Different” by Melissa Landers

“Wishing for Me and You” by Madyson Wong

“Another Day ” by Maria Nunez

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