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Write about a time when a broken heart led to something you’d never have expected.

Posted in Nonfiction on Jul 7, 2021

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“The Most Beautiful Person” by Cheza Vidal

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"You're the most beautiful person I've ever met," they said. Not in unison, but in different timelines. The first person said this to me in high school. The teacher had arranged a seating plan for the whole class and we ended up seating next to each other. He sat on my left, and him being on my left put me in an advantage of drawing art over his notebooks and papers because I was a lefty and our armchairs accommodated right-handed people. The first one was a genius in class, a Salutatorian. I had to rely on him to pass a certain subject duri...

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“Puppy Love” by Corey Anderson

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Not too many people ever think seeing a stray animal outside of a parking lot will be the moment to usually change your life, nor your outlook on it. Normally, one would simply look for any proof of ownership. Maybe the stray could be taken home until a suitable owner is found.                Such a situation happened to me one year, on a warm summer day in 2011. I was simply a senior in high school, spending his evening at work, contemplating how to tackle the homewo...

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“And Life Goes On” by Goelnarendra Goel

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And Life Goes On Among many belief systems around which I try to weave my life, notable         ones are, belief in oneself, faith in The Supreme and the confluence of these two. in simpler words to  connote, Whatever happens to me ,it's always for my good and good I make out of of whatever happens to me.This dogma was not with me from beginning and the early years just went past juggling with thick and thin of life.Never had the sapience to know how to cope. As a part of growing up ,speaking experientially,on refl...

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“The Mercuriality of Daemon’s Heart” by Adriana Ferrell

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“What is love?” He spoke with such elocution, his olive-kissed hand slithering to his dirt smeared forehead.He remained silent for a keen juncture, only to wipe a descending tear from below his cerulean colored iris. For once in his life, the world wasnt as stagnant as an apparition. He closes his eyes, reflecting on his past life, swear rolled in like the waves of Venettra across his chest.And orchestra of bells rung obtrusively, echoing from his skull out. Time turned abruptIn those days... Nothing would ever happened as the...

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“Lost Baggage ” by Yasmine Mokhtar

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It was the voices that woke her. They were loud, and yet, she couldn’t understand a word. It took her some time to realize that the voices were coming from the middle of the room, more specifically, from the bed in the middle of the room; the bed where he laid.Looks like he was fighting with people that weren’t there again.She got up from the couch she was sleeping on and took tentative steps towards the bed. It’s been almost a week now since his accident, the one that landed him in the hospital pending surgery, and for some r...

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“Who Loves Me More?” by Erin Warren

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Seventy-two degrees, seven o’clock, the sun’s rays peak over the clouds to expose the creation of a pink fire setting over the farm. I watched the sky as its vibrant colors ran through my being, soothing my anxiety from my long day at work. Unable to capture this moment completely, I was suddenly startled by a touch on my shoulder. His plump lips start to speak under his beard, and I could hardly keep up with the dominance in his voice. Once I started to understand, I could not fathom the forbidden words he was using against my parents. He w...

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“Broken Heart, Who?” by M M

Submitted to Contest #28

Imagine this, walking into your home and seeing your boyfriend sleeping with another woman. I walked in my home after a weekend down the shore with my friends and I saw him sleeping with his “best friend” he told me not to worry about. I was completely devastated, it took me about a year to get over him and to realize my worth. I realized that I don't need him, I realized that I don't need anybody to make me happy besides me, myself, and I. After I came to that realization I got a Tinder, started to see other guys, went on a bunch of dates b...

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“Platonic Love and Heartbreak” by Amelia Betancourt

Submitted to Contest #28

I’ve never been in love. An odd way to preface a story about a broken heart, right? Maybe. But I also don’t think you need to have been in love to experience a broken heart. If you do need to have once been in love to understand what a broken heart feels like, then I must be severely misinterpreting the hollow, sunken feeling that comes at the realization of an ending relationship, or of the unfortunate truth that what you hoped would come from a relationship is not in fact, going to happen. I have felt that empty, world-shattering, pang of...

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“The Hug” by Amanda McNally

Submitted to Contest #28

Once again, I screwed up.At least, it felt that way at the time.My husband and I had gone out for dinner before I had to work the graveyard shift. A waitress flirted with him and he loved it, like always. I got upset about it because I didn’t trust him. I never did, not even once.After dinner, he dropped me off at home and then left. We were screaming at each other. I was in tears. But I had to go to work.I go to work pretending everything is fine. I didn’t want to let my sadness show. I knew my marriage was going downhill more and more ever...

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“Write about a time when a broke heart led to something unexpected” by Sreedurga S

Submitted to Contest #28

Now, as I stand and look back I feel as if the whole universe has rightfully been conquered me. I know it is a wee bit too ambitious on my part to state it this way but yes, I don’t think it could be put in better words. I can see myself being that devastated soul with a hapless face looking around as though every single soul that I ever knew cheated on me; that very me around five months back with a tired, gloomy, expressionless, distraught face and an equally weary, dead eyes sitting all alone in every single place as though the world...

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“Was it worth it?” by Lorelei Glassmann

Submitted to Contest #28

What is the end? What is the end price? What was it all worth? Was it worth it? These are all questions you might ask yourself. Only if she knew the sacrifices I made for her. Now here I sit with the kids by my side. “Tell us about mom,” my oldest son says.“Just one story,” I say, “then it is time for bed.”    Stephine was too young to remember but old enough to know the story, and Jamie was six when the accident took place. The days were longer than they were the previous month, the trees were full of leaves, and the air was ...

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“The Unexpected Beginning” by Kenzi Boyd

Submitted to Contest #28

The Unexpected Beginning I once was with this guy. We were together for almost three years. When everything ended, I was broken. I didn’t know how to be without him because we had been together for so long. I didn’t know life without him. One day, I “met” this guy. I put it in quotations because me and this guy had been friends for over 10 years. We started talking and getting to know each other again. The spark came alive between us. I didn’t know how to act or how to feel. I never thought that this would happen, because he and I were two t...

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“Unexpected Happiness” by Fenrir Elder

Submitted to Contest #28

All my life I thought I was straight. I've never been bothered by others dating the people they truly loved, but I suppose it never occurred to me that I could have that luxury as well. I've had crushes, lust, and desires for many different types of people and genders. But I always suppressed what I felt in fear of what society or my family would think of me. Maybe it's the fact that my parents divorced when I was very young. Maybe it was because my family was mostly conservative in that regard. I don't know and I don't believe I ever will t...

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“The one I deserved” by Christina Lyon

Submitted to Contest #28

The story that I am about to tell, is one of excitement, sorrow, and love. It was back in 2016 when I made the shocking discovery that my life was about to change forever. I was dating a guy that was younger than me by a couple of years and I knew him since middle school but, we did not talk to each other let alone look at each other. We hooked up because I was in a dating slump and my best friend at the time decided it was a good idea to set me up with him because she trusted him with her life. We hit it off pretty good and everything seeme...

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“Coming Back” by Anna Komora

Submitted to Contest #28

When I was still in High School a few years ago, I had a “typical” group of friends. You know, the outsider ones that seemed to come together and become close just because they didn’t want to fit into anywhere else. There were, in all, about five of us. This story is about one of these friends, whom I will call Jane for her privacy.By the time we got into our sophomore year, Jane had started dating this guy. Let’s call him Bob.See, everyone knew Bob. He was just one of those jerks everyone seems to have an encounter with. Everyone in our gra...

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