Write a story about high school sweethearts coming across one another after many, many years apart.

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“The mysterious girl” by Laiba Noor

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Abhishek oh he was The cool dude super handsome boy of the college he was the Prince Charming of every girls and yes he knew about it therefore was proud of it. Ahana is simple but the most intelligent fresher of college she has too many friends , all of them were books in the library as she doesn't like talking much. One night Abhi was wandering in the street and there came a dog and abhi was much afraid of dogs that's why after seeing it he become a statue not moving a bit and trying to push away dog by strange voices then he hear the la...

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“Regrets, Yep I have one big one.” by John Steckley

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Regrets: Yep, I have one big one. A bunch of the guys decided this Saturday to go to the local bar for karaoke night. We all of us are old men, living in the same retirement home. Against the usual pattern of such a place, we are all of us single, all of us but me were widowed. A couple of us, not me, still had decent singing voices, so this seemed like a good idea. After two people in a row, fortunately not of our crowd, sang “My Way” really badly, we started talking, after we stopped laughing, about whether we had any regret...

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“Lovers' Reunion” by Chris Buono

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I strutted up to the bar and ran my fingers through my hair. The strands were still oily with pomade and residue stuck to my hands as they pushed through my pompadour. Taking a seat set away from the crowd of barflies I ordered my usual- Irish whiskey with ginger beer. “Here you go, hun,” the not unattractive female bartender said kind enough as she set the drink in front of me. “That’ll be six dollars please.” “Here, keep the change,” I told her handing her ...

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“The Seven O’clock Train ” by Arianna Noelle

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~ I wasn't expecting to see you again, but there you were, staring at me as if time was never a measure of how long two people could love each other. ~Running into you in an old, dusty train station wasn't quite how I pictured fate bringing us back together. But sure enough, as I waited for my train to arrive, I found myself staring at a painfully familiar figure in the distance. The figure came closer and closer until I could clearly make out the slender face of a boy I used to love. You're taller now, and your features have matured as well...

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“Killer Love” by D. Alfonso

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Honestly, in all my years of working for the New York Police Department, I had arrested quite a few baddies. Yep, at least one person was serving a life sentence because I had caught them. This one, though, was going to be my crowning glory. I, Detective Alexander, was going to bring in the greatest serial killer of the decade. No, the century. The killer, who everyone nicknamed Thanatos, was responsible for more than a dozen murders in New York alone. There were a few from all over the United States that people thought he’d done as ...

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“Othering Alan” by Ethan Moses Kelly

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The sky had decided there was nothing left to say. I was making tea alone in my kitchen when I began to feel very sad and my neck started to tingle, and I knew the experiment was over. I flipped the kettle off and skipped over the pots and ephemera cluttering the floor, swinging out the door towards the little curls of smoke rising from the forest. Forgetful as always, I made it to the treeline before remembering the bucket of water I needed to put the fire out. It took me quite a while stumbling through the undergrowth to reach the imp...

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“Letter to a Phantom Lover” by Diane Martin

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Letter to a Phantom Lover Dear Karl, Thank you for visiting my sleep last night. A long-awaited, enchanted gift. For being young, shy, fresh, and untainted. Alive. In spite of the sick, sad condition of this ill-treated world we share, or I assume we share, I would like to imagine you are alive somewhere, under the same sun and moon as I, if not the same leafy shade and blood-stained sunset. So many decades since we exchanged a word or glance—it was never much more than that. Still, there was such enormous longing. The kind of tormente...

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“The Runaway.” by Patricia Green

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Graduation Day was coming up fast. Mary had been looking for the perfect outfit to wear under her robe. David would be there she knew, somewhere up the back, so she wanted to look perfect. Mary and David were High School sweethearts and were quite sure they would always be together. The big day arrived and Mary dressed in her new outfit and ran downstairs for breakfast, so happy she couldn’t wipe the smile from her face. Mary was sitting at the table enjoying her scrambled eggs on toast when her Father burst into the kitchen. Mary’s Fath...

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“The Ride Back” by Silver Fish

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I live far away from home now. It's been decades since I've seen Jenny. I have a big corporate job now. Time to think is a rarity, something I cherish amidst the chaos of my life. The work often feels like too much, like it’s stacking up against my chest and threatening to strangle me. My days are often filled with people yelling, misunderstandings and missed opportunities. Sometimes I wonder if the corporate life, with its gray interiors and fluorescent lights, is meant me for me at all. When the work gets to be too much and I feel myself u...

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“Under the Iridescent Umbrella” by Wake Lloire

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The stone wall was covered in moss. The entire backyard had an abandoned farm house look about it. In the middle of the yard there were two white wooden chairs, or rather they would have been white had it not been for a giant iridescent umbrella catching sun rays and painting the chairs pink and gold and teal depending on which way Celestine looked at them. Celestine hadn’t been home since they’d left twenty years, three months and fours days ago. Then they’d gone by another name, a gender assigned to them by their parents and a pronoun th...

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“Cherry Popsicle Day, sequel, A Second Chance” by Ali Anthony Bell

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Ashley put away her phone, wiping her tears off the screen. Johnny’s last letter and the poem he had wrote for her was bringing on a flood of memories and emotion. Johnny had asked her to remember only the good times and she was there now…at 15 years in the past…Wednesday, August 26, 2000, the day they met.It was a hot Florida afternoon, and she was working behind the sales counter of a 7-eleven, listening to the radio. The song “I Think I'm in Love With You” by Jessica Simpson was playing when he strolled in, plain white t-shirt, red surfer...

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“Ten Years Later” by Katelynn Laird

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I hadn’t seen Jesse in about ten years. We met back in ninth grade and immediately had a lot in common. We could have been good friends. Instead, he professed his love and I dumped him, only to realize that was the dumbest mistake in my life. Not only had I hurt him and ruined everything between us, but I chose that moment to discover my strong feelings for him. Oh yeah, and somewhere in there, he started dating my former best friend, Rebecca. When we graduated high school and went off to different colleges, com...

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“The Things We Do For the Ones We Love” by Kaye Salangsang

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It was one of those days when everything had to go wrong. I woke up with a really bad hangover from celebrating my best friend’s engagement the night prior. I was trying to remember what time I had gone home when I realized something horribly wrong.This is not my bedroom. I looked around and saw my clothes strewn about the room. I pulled up the blanket closer to my chest, just in case my partner last night decided to wake up.I don’t usually do this, going home with a man. In fact, I have been single for the better part of five years. I went ...

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“Now or Never” by Sun Rik

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Jack “Would you come after me, if I walk away?“ This was the last thing she asked me before she disappeared in my life. I don't know why I didn't answer. She was the best thing that has ever happened to me. I made a mistake. And I let her go. Jill He just shook his head after hearing my unique break-up line. I’m thankful for what he did though, in that way he won’t see how pathetic my face when I cry. I held it in for too long, I can’t hide this pain anymore. He was my first and probably my last I don’t want to make this ...

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“Small Acts of Faith” by Vanessa Kilmer

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Bridget lit a candle in the church alcove, her 90-year-old knees aching in protest at kneeling before the Madonna. She ignored the unpleasantness, her lifelong response to things she couldn't control—no sense dwelling on spilled milk. She couldn't ignore the wrinkled hand with little liver spots dotted across the wrist that reached in front of her vision to light a candle of its own. The body landed on the hassock next to her and expelled a grunt and woof of air. The person came within inches of bumping into Bridget. She held up her right...

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Write a story about high school sweethearts coming across one another after many, many years apart.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 283 stories

“The mysterious girl” by Laiba Noor

“Regrets, Yep I have one big one.” by John Steckley

“Lovers' Reunion” by Chris Buono

“The Seven O’clock Train ” by Arianna Noelle

“Killer Love” by D. Alfonso

“Othering Alan” by Ethan Moses Kelly

“Letter to a Phantom Lover” by Diane Martin

“The Runaway.” by Patricia Green

“The Ride Back” by Silver Fish

“Under the Iridescent Umbrella” by Wake Lloire

“Cherry Popsicle Day, sequel, A Second Chance” by Ali Anthony Bell

“Ten Years Later” by Katelynn Laird

“The Things We Do For the Ones We Love” by Kaye Salangsang

“Now or Never” by Sun Rik

“Small Acts of Faith” by Vanessa Kilmer

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Write a story about someone going back to school as a mature student.

Write a story about someone looking to make amends for a mistake.

Write a story about someone struggling to learn a skill that in no way comes naturally to them.

Write a story about a TV show called "Second Chances."

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