Write a short story about someone searching for the perfect gift for their partner.

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“The Christmas Dilemma” by Paige Kostyniuk

Submitted to Contest #19

Christmas is just around the corner and gift-giving is upon us once more. The great gift-giving dilemma has always been one of my terrible faults. I usually do the best match in someone’s character to tell what type of gift to give someone. If they loved animals or if they were a nature lover, or they loved to travel, then buying them something wasn’t going to be so hard. It usually helps if you know that person too. I know from the experience that I can’t buy a gift for a stranger. Unless I had some kind of background informa...

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“My Pied Piper” by Justine Burns

Submitted to Contest #19

My eyes were just starting to close when the familiar shop bell clanged. Reluctantly, I sat upright, rubbed the sleep from eyes, pushed my glasses up my nose, and tactfully shoved the paper I’d been drooling on underneath the growing pile on my desk. Behind the tall rows of books I could hear the customer step and pause, step and pause. I smiled to myself, knowing the person was definitely an adamant reader. Another couple steps and a pause. From the creak in the floor I could tell they were just at the end of the shelf. One more step and I’...

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“A Special Gift for A Special Someone” by Imani Stephens

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It is two weeks before Christmas and Mark ants to surprise his wife Naomi with the perfect Christmas gift. Mark was at work, while Naomi was at home with her babies. Mark and Naomi have been married for six years. Mark knows Naomi loves jewelry especially rings. She loves rings especially diamond, emerald, sapphire or ruby. He also knows she is a very hardworking mother and wife. Before she was pregnant, she worked from six in the morning and came home at ten at night. She was a nurse working so many hours day in and day out. Now, she is on ...

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“The Seeker” by Rozwin Liera

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The attractive object was lying on the shiny glass counter. It was the first item Jack’s hazel eyes lit on as he came into the antique store. He put its fine gossamer through his fingers. The 5 senses. That is what she was about. But no. Nice texture, but where would she wear a veil? He stepped back. Glanced at the other customers in the store. Did they know what they came in here to buy? Unlike him, for this was his fourth store today. There had to be something. He conjured up L...

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“A Splash of Color” by Rob Conway

Submitted to Contest #19

The door to the gallery opened to a friendly chime. Martin stepped in the little entrance and peered around from the safety of the doorway. The gallery was new; he had not been here before. It was always strange going to a new place like this. He always felt he would be asked questions he had no idea how to answer. He was comfortable in stadiums and gymnasiums; Cheryl was always the explorer of small downtown stores.“A new place?” She was always so excited. “ Martin! Let's go. Local artists always need support.” He would follow along, preten...

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“The Wait ” by Dezeray Smith

Submitted to Contest #19

Waiting in line at the super-Market I reach over to grab a KitKat bar and I suddenly felt a hand touch mine. Slowly turning around I noticed a man with blonde hair and blue eyes, a slight golden blonde beard that was freshly cut and trimed. He was just reaching back to grab the same candy bar but he wasn't paying attention. "Sorry," he says. I said your fine with a huge smile on ...

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“Left” by Sarah Wetherbee

Submitted to Contest #19

Natalie ran her fingers over the front of the expensive and neatly-folded cashmere sweater. She felt sentimental, to be sure, but the feel of the gray v-neck transported her back to one of her earliest dates with Germaine. It had been the first snowfall of that winter, unspoiled and picturesque in the street lights. The half-melt of the next morning would snatch it up in tire treads and slosh it about as dismal gray city sludge during the commute. But, they weren’t thinking about that at the time. She’d accidentally left her gloves at the re...

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“Perfection Immaterial” by Hadia Abbas

Submitted to Contest #19

There was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero.Nothing in the whole wide city that was perfect.‘Why?’ Risa wailed silently, letting her hands clench at her sides with a helplessness she seldom felt (and thus now felt a thousandfold). “May I help you, ma’am?” A heavy-set voice asked, and Risa looked up from the slowly blurring floor to see a slender bodied man with black hair raise his eyebrows at her. He was wearing the official uniform for the Udoku Inc. company outlet, and his hands were professionally folded at his back. The nam...

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“A Perfect Gift For You” by Michell Conroy

Submitted to Contest #19

The engine of her hand-me-down SUV went silent as she cranked the ignition to the off position and removed the key with a deep sigh. The holiday season had vomited all over the shopping mall parking lot so she knew the inside would be twice as bad. Elbowing the door open, she slid out into the chill, afternoon air, tugging her coat tight around her. She cursed the cold along with the squeaky car door she had to slam three times before it latched and scurried inside the building.Jingle Bell Rock and the smell ...

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“THE PERFECT GIFT FOR HIM!” by Eunice Ndoh

Submitted to Contest #19

For the umpteenth time, I scanned the rows of shelves of the men’s section in the city mall. I still had not found the perfect gift for him. I wanted something that would always remind him of me no matter where we both were and I also wanted something that would bring memories of our relationship. It was our first anniversary and I really wanted to give him something to tell him how amazing he had been for the past twelve months I had spent with him. I picked up a perfume and kept it back almost at the same time. Jack already had a lot ...

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“The Perfect Gift” by Deborah Barnes

Submitted to Contest #19

Carol of the Bells is my earworm of the day. I am good with that, especially when it gets to the E major scale of Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas with the heavy octaves on the left-hand keys. Ah, yes…great to be out shopping with my worm and warm thoughts of my beloved. Of course, what would shopping be without the ritual stop at Starbucks for the caffeine lift that’s going to keep me going while I mall-meander with the masses? “Hi, what can I get for you today,” the barista asks the person in front of me. I can see the deer in the head...

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“Straightaway to Homo sapiens selfmade obsolescence” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #19

After approximately two dozen plus years of marriage (yup to the same woman - lemme tell Ripley yea hard to believe), both myself and the missus accepted fair equitable contract before agreement to parting ways. We sought assistance drafting post nuptial document pro bono courtesy namely one Richard Marlin Perkins (March 28, 1905 – June 14, 1986), an American zoologist best known as a host of the television program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom from 1963 to 1985. Me thought what a wonderful world cue Louis Daniel Armstrong circa August ...

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“The Gold Bag of Stones” by Genevieve Kirton

Submitted to Contest #19

Rylee had been dating her boyfriend Evan, for four years. They loved celebrating holidays together and enjoyed each other’s company. It was that time of year again, where lights were glowing, carols were being sung, and mistletoe hung from the ceiling. After four years Rylee thought to herself, “Although Evan has grown as a person so much, I feel like I have given him everything he wants!” Evan mentioned that he wanted a new CD, he considered it “very important,” and that it contained beautiful melodies that he could learn to play on the gui...

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“Finding the Perfect Gift” by Estelle Bryce

Submitted to Contest #19

It was the Christmas season and Joe had to find just the right gift for his wife, Trista. “It shouldn’t be too hard, Trista is into everything, so she’ll like anything I get her!” he thought as he jumped into the car to go to the store. Joe strolled down the street to a store full of jewelry. The second he walked in, he was greeted by the friendly employees, as they showed him the sales that were going on and the store’s best-selling necklaces and rings. He spotted a gorgeous set of earrings that he thought Trista would love, so he asked an ...

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“A song for the season” by Bimbo Abioye

Submitted to Contest #19

Valerie ray carter stared blankly at the cream painted walls, restless. Her loving husband had left for work and her mother had taken off to africa a month prior with little to no notice. With two days left to Christmas, she had yet to get anything for her husband. Reed, who had excitedly told her on several occasions that his gift would make her fall in love with him all over again. She had asked for advice from her sister but she was just as hopeless as her when it came to picking out gifts. Her lips curled into a smile as she saw the man...

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Write a short story about someone searching for the perfect gift for their partner.

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✍️ 60 stories

“The Christmas Dilemma” by Paige Kostyniuk

“My Pied Piper” by Justine Burns

“A Special Gift for A Special Someone” by Imani Stephens

“The Seeker” by Rozwin Liera

“A Splash of Color” by Rob Conway

“The Wait ” by Dezeray Smith

“Left” by Sarah Wetherbee

“Perfection Immaterial” by Hadia Abbas

“A Perfect Gift For You” by Michell Conroy

“THE PERFECT GIFT FOR HIM!” by Eunice Ndoh

“The Perfect Gift” by Deborah Barnes

“Straightaway to Homo sapiens selfmade obsolescence” by Matthew Harris

“The Gold Bag of Stones” by Genevieve Kirton

“Finding the Perfect Gift” by Estelle Bryce

“A song for the season” by Bimbo Abioye

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Write a short story about someone in the middle of a very long and busy retail shift.

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