Write a romance where your character falls in love with the last person they expected to.

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“Darling James” by Alison Clink

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DARLING JAMES By Alison Clink Darling James. How I adored him. From the hem of his designer jeans to the tips of his chocolate brown curls. I loved James more than anything. Mo...

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“An Atom of Affection” by Gabriel N

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She sat in her brightly lit office, journals and books sprawled on the table. She was exhausted but dauntless to have at her enquiry once again. Through her window she saw the moon stamped onto the sky. She heard the cold wind wheezing through everyplace. She hadn't brought along her jacket because she'd not planned to stay out this long. She still sat in, lethargic, about to relish in the joys of true independence, of not being accountable to anyone, of being divorced from the incessant need to be anywhere else right now. Having done the ch...

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“Falling in love with the jerk next door.” by Diana Huckaby

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Most people believe that all stories end with the girl falling in love with the guy next door. Because they were either best friends or they'd grown up together or something. That wasn't the case for Alexia Daniels and Clay Johnson. They had lived next door to each other they're whole lives. Only they sure didn't have feelings for each other. Clay was the big guy on campus football star, basketball captain, head of the student leadership committee, and all around golden boy. Also it didn't hurt that he stood at six foot three with blonde ha...

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“I Love Me” by Ryan Symonds

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Content warning: body image issues Months passed since he packed his bags and left her, yet the walls of the house they once shared were still dull and lifeless, reflecting how Arya felt inside. Their relationship started in the ninth grade and ended at the age of twenty two. Arya only knew who she was within that relationship and now that it was over, her sense of who she was vanished. Her tears stopped falling long ago, but the ghost of their streams left permanent marks on her cheeks. Across from her bed, propped up against the wall...

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“Investment of a Lifetime” by Stephen McLean

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Craig Thompson slides out his office chair and sitting down, gets into his Investment form, booting up his multiple systems which display the numerous world stock markets on the multiple monitors which are strategically situated around his desk. Being a twenty eight year old Investment prodigy, Craig has made the firm of Hanson & Hanson Investments millions of dollars in the last several months with eerily accurately calculated trades. Today, arriving at work way before the usual employee crowd arrives, because this time using investors ...

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“I Remember: A Broken Soul” by J. G.

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“Hello my love” was how I greeted her every single time. Every single malt scotch placed before me. The fellow drinkers at my sides, whether they were my fellows or not, I could feel their glances, their gazes and stares as I said the words. As if I was crazy. I didn’t have many fellows left in my life, so perhaps I was crazy. Crazy for the drink I was. She was crazy for me, too. I found myself at bars alone, where I spent most of my hours during the days that passed. Days that always felt the same, because well, they were. If I drown my ...

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“Desert Romance” by Angela Morrissey

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David Ruff squatted in the sand and waited. He shouldered a machine gun, shivering from the cold night. Men similar to him wearing the same NATO uniform of khaki complete with army boots surrounded him. His green eyes widened as he took in the surrounds of the city of Ramzah the capital of al-Raman, a tiny kingdom sandwiched between Iran and Turkmenistan. It was the peacekeepers mission to keep the USSR out and stop them from invading this country where the people spoke a language that was a combination of Farsi and Arabic. Much of the city ...

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“ Straight from my Heart” by Jordyn Johnson

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This story comes straight from my heart. I find that God is the best author ever, so I hope I do this story justice in its retelling. I’ve adapted a portion of my novel, My Answered Prayer, for this short story. At seventeen, I was a straight-A student who was very serious about her faith and her education. I felt God was leading me somewhere great, and I still do. Unexpectedly, He led me to help someone I never would have imagined. As usual, I had my nose in a book on this boring afternoon. I got this feeling someone was staring at me. Pee...

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“Beginning Again” by John Meiners, Jr

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Beginning Again John Meiners, Jr. It's a week after Thanksgiving on a cold wet day in Community. The kind of day where the Avantans will not be going for a run but rather feeling sorry for those real deer enduring the weather. Samantha, Jesse, Pamela Lawton and Monroe are at Deer Run Lodge waiting for Bob Wallace. Pamela and Monroe have been borderline arguing about how much they can actually trust Bob. Monroe has spent his life dedicated to the protection of Commu...

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“BENEATH THE DIRT” by Benjamin King

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Her hair was midnight-black and it gracefully flowed over her shoulders. Her dazzling eyes stared blankly at the space in front of her. Her velvety eyelashes dropped with a dull thud. With a slow hand movement, her varnished fingernails rubbed her thick velvety eyelashes revealing a pair of rapture-blue eyes. A set of dazzling, angel-white teeth gleamed as she blew gently over her carmine-red fingernails. After a quick glance at her beautiful watch, Aaliyah sighed heavily as she adjusted her position, leaning backwards on the park bench. An ...

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“The Miracle Day” by Claude HATUNGIMANA

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The Miracle Day He was obsessed by a sensitive dilemma, impossibly struggling to unwrap and put out of his mind interminable fascinations chaining him to terrible and recurring nightmares. An advanced math equation. He was the first-born son in his middle-class family in the capital of the Republic. When he was four years old, he used to ask his mother who was his daddy. Her unique answer was that daddy will come back. She resolved to tell him the truth when he would be at least seven years old. For she was emotional, she remembered the ...

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“What is That?” by Brooke White

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“Remind me, what time is the Christmas party tonight?” I walk out of the bathroom, a towel wrapped around me, and Jim is still in bed, just like he was when I walked into the shower. “Seven, I think? Or maybe it was six. I don’t know, I thought we weren’t going?” his voice follows me as I walk into our closet, reaching for a dress. “Actually, we never agreed on that. Come on, Jim, we should go. You should go, I thought you wanted to be promoted? If you want to be considered for the job, we should go.” “What about a babysitter?” “...

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“Love Hides in Mysterious Places” by David Dicaire

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Love Hides in Mysterious Places Priscilla was simply a beautiful girl. However, she was modest. The college student just shook her head of gorgeous black curls and smiled that great smile the type you could hang on to forever. “I’m just average.” Perhaps, she might have believed so, but the healthy, red-blooded male population on campus thought otherwise. She was hardly able to walk ten feet without some guy hitting on the annoyed female. Tom Thomas, captain of the football team, had asked her out a thousand times.&nbsp...

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“Love of My Life” by Martha Sanipe

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Lucy was leaning over the counter whispering something into the bartender’s ear. Andy. He laughed and shook his head. Birt wished he could hear what she was saying, but he was sitting too far away. Anyhow, this was the time; he was sure of it. He’d been coming here every Friday and Saturday night for several weeks now, the nights Lucy was working. By now she knew him by name. He’d chatted her up a bit, but didn’t want to come on too strong. Didn’t want her to think he was a weirdo. Because the Lord had revealed to him the first time he’d l...

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“a lover, she is kind” by Maddy Faggioli

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The hardest part of grief was the way it demanded your attention and focus. Ruby had lost a lot of people, she was accustomed to the background noise that grief provided. Most recent to exit her life via the Grim Reaper was her dog, Honey. It happened suddenly. Hit by a truck. Total accident and wildly out of the blue. She didn't have time to prepare for the loss of her young beagle, she had only gotten the puppy a couple years ago. So when the poor teenage driver knocked on her door sobbing apologies, every loss that she had suffered hit he...

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Write a romance where your character falls in love with the last person they expected to.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 193 stories

“Darling James” by Alison Clink

“An Atom of Affection” by Gabriel N

“Falling in love with the jerk next door.” by Diana Huckaby

“I Love Me” by Ryan Symonds

“Investment of a Lifetime” by Stephen McLean

“I Remember: A Broken Soul” by J. G.

“Desert Romance” by Angela Morrissey

“ Straight from my Heart” by Jordyn Johnson

“Beginning Again” by John Meiners, Jr

“BENEATH THE DIRT” by Benjamin King

“The Miracle Day” by Claude HATUNGIMANA

“What is That?” by Brooke White

“Love Hides in Mysterious Places” by David Dicaire

“Love of My Life” by Martha Sanipe

“a lover, she is kind” by Maddy Faggioli

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Write a mystery where the detective realizes at the last moment that they have the wrong suspect.

Write about someone getting a job offer they never would have thought to apply for.

Write about someone who gets an inheritance from a relative they’ve never heard of, but they’ll need to do something completely outside their comfort zone in order to collect it.

Write a science fiction story where all human behavior can be predicted — until your character does something the algorithm did not expect.

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