End your story with a kiss at midnight.

Posted in Romance on Dec 30, 2022

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“Maybe in Another Life” by Bella Helena A.

I've always believed in love; I'd always hoped I'd find it the way a Disney princess found her prince. Singing in window sills as the world rolled on by until that special knight in glistening armor climbed over a mountain and slayed a dragon for my hand. But life has proved to me, on more than one occasion, that such fairytales should stay in the books. Or maybe on the Hallmark channel where the city girl com...

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“Countdown to New Year's” by Greg Gillis

Carrie Thompson was meticulous in everything she did. When she woke in the morning, she let the buzzer on her alarm ring for exactly five seconds before shutting it off. She would then get out of the bed from the left side and have a shower that lasted precisely eight minutes. Carrie allowed her bread to toast for exactly two-minutes-thirty-five-seconds and po...

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“First Love in Waves & Dimensions” by Kenley Ellis

Don’t you remember? I see it every night in the shapes in my ceiling, flickering to technicolor when I hold a pillow close and imagine it’s your body. It was one of those warm summer evenings you could feel in your teeth. Everything that mattered was right there, biting; the fireflies blinking to life outside the window, the sky closing over your parked car. The lights on the dashboard played over your f...

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“Midnight and the Moon” by Leila F

A cool winter breeze hits my flushed skin. I sit on the front porch steps at the house of Derek Miller, a kid from my school I’ve talked to maybe a handful of times. Muffled music and laughter echoes through the door behind me. It’s New Year’s Eve, almost midnight. At least it should be, I haven’t checked the time since I weaved my way through bunches of sweaty teens and dancing bodies to break to the calm of outside. I...

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“A Kiss at Midnight” by Dan Hansen

Making the Vision BoardIs it a coincidence or not? You decide. Stardate December thirtieth, twenty-twenty two and another year has come and gone. I am no better off than the last several years since my divorce and taking care of my mother. Is it a strange and unusual coincidence that today of all days a writing prompt hits my inbox suggested writing about someone starting a vision board? Is it not also odd that on this very day I receive a text from my business group leader, Dr. Latrice, inviting ...

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“Are You Okay?” by Emma Potts

When we walked into the party, we were holding hands. I knew my palms were sweaty and the skin around my knuckles was dry and cracking as it always was in the winter months, but he held tightly to me anyway, rubbing a thumb along my fingers to comfort me. I didn’t know anyone here and I always get nervous in new places. “Aubrey! Kat!” Our names from the lips of someone I had never met. She must have known who I ...

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“‘Tis the Season ” by Michelle Oliver

Mirror mirror on the wall… Lisa swiped her hand over the steamed up glass and surveyed the reflection. This was not the face she saw in her own mind. The woman who looked back was old and tired and, was that a grey hair? She leaned in further, nose a scant few inches from the glass. Another side effect of the ageing process was an inability to perceive fine detail, perhaps it was a blessing. There they were, the fine wrinkles and silver wisps that were visible upon closer inspection. She stood back and stared at her body, grateful for the...

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“New Year, New Us” by Dahlia Bardot

Another year around the sun, and still single. I stare out at an amalgamation of my friends, their friends, and some of their friends’ friends sullenly sipping my whiskey sour. I realize that it’s not that I don’t socialize or put myself out there that renders me still single. I’ve made my way around this party to hug my friends I saw last week at our ritual weekly dinner, introducing myself to the friends they brought and those that those friends brought. Maybe they can smell the desperation of the introvert really putting themselves, or...

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“My secret love :)” by Megan Whitten

They were finally here, and her heart began to beat just a little bit faster. This was her first time seeing her friends in close to four months since they had all been away at college. She was particularly nervous to see one person, but before she had time to think about it, they all barged in. She gave them all hugs as they were screeching loudly, but of course not loud enough to wake up her parents. Then, they eagerly...

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“Santa Cruz” by Allison King

“It’s New Year’s Eve and none of us have dates to kiss.” “Hey, speak for yourselves,” Grim said, pulling Clary closer, reminding us all how desperately single we were. “I sense a tradition in the works,” Miles raised his glass. There were three minutes left until midnight. “Traditions are supposed to be fun,” I said, rolling my eyes, my glass had become empty in the process of self-pity. I didn’t k...

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“The Least Unremarkable Visitor” by Emma Pike

Grant is a middle child. That is to say, he was born after his brother and before his sister. Now at the age of 43 Grant supposed he wasn’t a child of any kind really. Except, he still felt like a child. Not in the ‘seeing the wonder in the snowy hills outside the dirty window’ kind of way, but in the out of his depth, barely understanding what the adults in his life were talking about, being utterly clu...

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“The $500 Kiss” by Brian Speer

It was late at night on my twentieth New Year’s Eve. I was wearing the gorgeous rainbow sequin dress that had all my friends in a hoot at my birthday party back in July, as well as my largest hoop earrings. Predictably, the reactions from the same people at this party were a wee bit less enthusiastic, but no one had looked at me like I was ugly. Especially the one friend whom I had invited first and foremost. As...

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“The Kiss of Death” by Amanda Doak

Content warning: Mental health, Substance abuse, Talk of suicide Get up. Nobody’s coming to save you. I laid on the couch thinking of ways to kill myself and reasons not to. Gun to the temple? No, gun to the chin. Razor to the wrist? That was the token ladylike way to go, but it took too much precision, not fast enough. If I thought I could stomach it, I’d swallow drain cleaner, but I a...

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“5 seconds before midnight” by Danielle Klisiewicz

I watched the way she swayed as she walked in the hallway. She was just so mesmerizing that you couldn’t look away from her. My gaze got interrupted when George, my boyfriend, came up to my locker. “Hey babe.” He says. “Hey.” I close my locker and start to walk away. He follows me. “Are you coming with me to Steven’s party tonight?” He asks. “I don’t.” “But you said you would come...

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“A Deadly Kiss” by Kat _

“It’s tradition Indra! I don’t get why you think it’s such a big deal” “Tradition? Nahlea it’s drowning people!” “We’ve been over this - none of them actually drown, well, most of the time” Indra let out a shocked screech at her friend, as they had their annual argument about a particular tradition that they had different opinions on. At the end of the year...

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End your story with a kiss at midnight.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 75 stories

“Maybe in Another Life” by Bella Helena A.

“Countdown to New Year's” by Greg Gillis

“First Love in Waves & Dimensions” by Kenley Ellis

“Midnight and the Moon” by Leila F

“A Kiss at Midnight” by Dan Hansen

“Are You Okay?” by Emma Potts

“‘Tis the Season ” by Michelle Oliver

“New Year, New Us” by Dahlia Bardot

“My secret love :)” by Megan Whitten

“Santa Cruz” by Allison King

“The Least Unremarkable Visitor” by Emma Pike

“The $500 Kiss” by Brian Speer

“The Kiss of Death” by Amanda Doak

“5 seconds before midnight” by Danielle Klisiewicz

“A Deadly Kiss” by Kat _

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with someone making a vision board.

Write a story in the form of a list of New Year's resolutions.

Your character always makes the same promise; to change. Will they finally make it happen this time?

Write a story about someone scrambling on New Year's Eve to fulfil their resolutions for the entire year before the clock strikes twelve.

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