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

Posted in Romance on Jun 8, 2021

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The King and The Queen...Much More than a Dream.

Submitted to Contest #72

Jacob Peters. Jacob Peters is a man. He is tall. He is blonde. He is beautiful. But I never saw it coming. I never saw myself falling for him. This is how it happened. I felt the urge. I felt the divine, otherworldly calling to take on a task much bigger than myself. I had no way of doing it in my own human strength or power, but I believe in a Higher Power, and I believe sometimes this God will send humans, that seem more like angels, along our path to help us do what we cannot on our own. This is that story. The mission was much larger t...

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Emerald Eyes on the Battlefield

Submitted to Contest #72

          The battle stopped for just a moment. The world stood still. It could have been half a second or a lifetime, I couldn’t tell the difference. She was beautiful.        Another soldier tackles me into a ditch right as an explosion fills the air with orange light and harsh sound. Sand cakes us. He’s yelling at me about something, but I don’t hear anything more than a hum. I want to gaze at her again.        Rifle hel...

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The Gilded Pearl

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Idil waited for the approaching fleet. She closed her eyes, feeling the sea breeze."Arr!" She grinned.Rajeev winced at the sound."I can smell it! Fresh Astulan ships!""No, you can't." Rajeev deadpanned. "We all see them."Under the sunset, waves roiled gently. Massive carracks sailed towards the growing silhouette of land.It was the coming of age of Princess Mutiara. Nations flocked towards the Iron Archipelago to compete for her hand in marriage.The fleet began to traverse the Emblic Strait, breaking formation as the ships carefully navigate...

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So Well Beloved of Caesar

Submitted to Contest #72

I don't know what it meant, that summer with Evan. I don't know what it says about who I was or who I am now. That summer was the first time I'd felt that strongly about another person since getting my heart broken. The first time in months I'd opened myself up, allowed myself to be vulnerable. That summer with Evan was as intense as it was perplexing. As raw as it was confusing. I need to process these feelings, tell someone about my last relationship, before I embark any further into my new one.My last relationship, like so many experience...

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The Heart Wants What It Wants

Submitted to Contest #72

May 29, 1988, was the day that my husband & I got married.We've only known each other for 6 months before we decided to get married.All it took was one conversation & we immediately fell in love.Straight after the wedding, we went to Hawaii for our honeymoon & the more we spent time with each other the more we fell in love or so I thought.I always ask myself what makes a marriage great? & what makes it worst?I know that marriage isn't meant to be perfect but why does it fall apart? Could it be that the two people who are in t...

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The Difference Between Us

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I woke up to the sound of my ear-splitting alarm clock. beep, beep, beep. "Is it Monday already?" I said sleepily. I got dressed and headed downstairs. "Good morning Honey!" My Mom said Flipping a pancake. "I made pancakes want any?" I sat down at the island. "Sure" She turned around and I saw the time "It's 8 O'clock!?!?" I said surprised. "Yes..." My mom said, confused. I shoved a piece of bacon in my mouth and ran out of the door. I was late for my first day of school. ~O~O~O~O I stood nervously in front of the school. "Hi! I'm Ella y...

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My Devine Encounter

Submitted to Contest #72

It was the last Friday of November when Lucy was released from prison after her ten years murder sentence. The police officers dropped her off in the middle of nowhere a few kilometers from the Prison. 'Madam, we have to drop you off here. If you are lucky, someone will give you a lift home.’ 'But Sir, you can’t leave me alone, please rather take me back to the Prison and I’ll get a lift from there.’ The other Officer flung the door open and ordered Lucy to step out. Puzzled, she stood by the side of the road and watched as the pol...

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How to Visit an Inmate at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility

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When traffic is light, the drive to the Coxsackie Correctional Facility takes two hours and eighteen minutes. In the early spring, the view north as you pull onto the Henry Hudson Bridge can be disorienting. The grey of the city with its still-melting mounds of snow piled high in the corners of municipal parking lots and along street curbs replaced, suddenly, with a seemingly endless landscape of first-bud forests. It will look like the greenest green you have ever seen. You will follow Route 9A to the Saw Mill Parkway, which takes you past ...

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Thursday

Submitted to Contest #72

This wasn't a part of her five point plan.  She had known him since junior high. Let him take her to all the dances, let him carry her books, let him be the first to see her in her underwear. She'd gone so far as to go to the lingerie store in the mall, lying to her mother that she was going to buy a Christmas present and that she'd meet her at the food court. Which technically wasn't a lie, as it was his Christmas present. To look, not touch. Had to keep room for the Holy Spirit. Pablo wasn't much for the Holy Spirit. Or God, really, b...

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Only You

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Kevin and I met two years ago working at a youth center summer camp. All the camp counselors worked in groups of two with a group of eight to ten campers. Were paired up for the entire summer with the same group of kids and that’s how our friendship started. Kevin and Sarah had the same English class their first semester and Sarah had a crush on Kevin. She knew we had worked together therefore, I set them up on a blind date and that was the start of them getting together. What I didn’t expect was, for me to be in the middle of their relation...

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Love Finds A Home

Submitted to Contest #72

February 3rdDear diary,         No. I believe I am a bit past the age where I should be saying “dear diary,” Perhaps instead, I should say, umm, Dear Silent Confidant. Yes, that is much better, though still not the best greeting. Still, that does not matter. My name is Hailey. Funny, I am a twenty-two-year-old woman and writing in a diary. I suppose it is not so weird, but it still feels a bit childish. No matter; the reason I got this diary, journal—yes journal sounds much more mature—is because ...

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Man on my mind

Submitted to Contest #72

The doors pinched her skirt as she stepped into the coach. The wrong one, of course. She pulled the frills out one by one, checking over her shoulder that nobody was watching - nobody was. Who would, anyway? One day, she would onboard the right coach, on time, like a responsible woman in her thirties. But for now, she needed a coffee. Juggling her tote bag, suitcase, coffee cup and laptop, her teeth holding tight onto her ticket, she progressed through the line of coaches. To her right, four free seats and a plug. Why bother longer...

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My fated soul

Submitted to Contest #72

I’m Ekanshi, When I was in 5-year-old, My parents died in a car accident and also I lost my vision. My uncle helped me to recover my eyes with surgery. But, aunty doesn’t like that. She thought like I had a beautiful face than her daughter so, She ordered me to wear the glasses so, I can’t take off that. Every day, Uncle was the one who save me from the torture of my aunty so, I had come out of the house after finished my school for uncle shake. Then I was working in the coffee shop as a full-time worker. That was a nighttime, a young boy en...

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My George Clooney

Submitted to Contest #72

“So, George Clooney tells me, ‘Cooking is very easy. I can do it. You can certainly learn it before you marry me.’”Siddharth smiled from across the table, “You must have mastered culinary skills, then?”Maitri threw a dirty glare towards him and let out a long breath.“You let such sexy husband material slip through your fingers?”“He wasn’t that great a catch”, Maitri chewed and spit out every word through gritted teeth.Pulling back from the table, she straightened, inhaled sharply and declared, “And more importantly, I hate, hate, hate, absol...

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The Perfect Mark

Submitted to Contest #72

I hoist my bag and head for the café across the street. My plan is to score hot coffee and a clean bathroom before the Laughlin-bound Greyhound lurches back on the interstate. But halfway across the street, there’s a streak of brown. Then I’m flat on my back, something gross and wet abusing my cheek. “What the…?” The sound of my voice drives the mutt mad with delight. I struggle to my feet. “Shoo, dog, shoo!” But he just grabs my bag strap and tugs, his eyes shiny with glee. Behind me, a bell jingles. “Dorothy?” The guy leaving t...

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