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Write a story about someone falling in love for the first time.

Posted in Romance on Mar 25, 2020

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“Circus Maravellous” by Zilla Babbitt

 1. The Circus Maravellous was nervous. Not in the anxious, I-hope-I-get-a-pass-on-this-test sort of nervous, but in the terrified if-I-don’t-do-well-I’ll-lose-my-job sort of nervous. The clowns had lost their jokes, scattered over the floor like chaff. The trapeze couple were no longer flexible, and couldn’t even do the splits. The juggling girl dropped her oranges and her knives with abandon, once almost chopping the elephant’s toes off. The elephant master could no longer control his animal, the el...

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“Star Lovers” by Daniel Moore

A long time ago, there were two stars beyond a distant sky. They lived far away in the pocket of a dark nebula that drifted through the universe. One star was bright and burned forever blue, the other was just as bright and burned forever red. They were relatively opposite but still fundamentally the same. For centuries they circled one another, perpetually caught in the others gravitational pull, dancing for all eternity. In many ways they loved each other. The way one shined so bright and beautiful against the end...

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“Small and Big” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

You grew up asking questions that no one actually answered. It started with your mother when you were six. You asked her about father and how he never showed up for any of your birthdays except buying expensive gifts and your mother shrugged and told you, later, that your father was a good man who loved you. As though you needed some reassurance.Then at ten, you came home with bruises and tears in your eyes. She was painting her nails to a fine shade of pink when you walked in and you knelt by her feet and told her to tell you who ...

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“One Week For You to Love Me” by Jennifer Stone

Rachel and Melody are doing a double date with Ryland and Jordan. They ask me if I wanted to come. Is it wrong to go?“Sure, let me ask my mom,” the final answer that came out of my mouth says.“Just leave the house Vick,” my mom calls out before I can ask.Okayyy. I was kind of hoping she would say no. It was very awkward hanging out with two couples that will (possibly) hold hands, leaving me with none. Plus, on my Instagram, #SingleSis4Ever (which Melody insists is childish), the most things I post are trash an...

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“Vicious Love” by G Laspina

     I hate Valentine's Day, usually. There's no one who wants to give me anything, so I sit back and sadly watch my friends get gifts, year after year. Well, not this year. I finally think I may get a Valentine just yet, and I may get to give one as well.     There's a boy. He's not new or anything, I've known him since middle school. Let's call...

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“The Final Stop” by Kaylin Rivera

The Final StopBy Jynxaa1. If someone were to ask you what day was worse than Monday, Tuesday shou...

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“Development of a Healing Heart ” by Yemima Kebede

I don’t want to feel this way. I don’t want to feel this way.I don’t want to feel this way, but I can’t help it. I love him.I love everything about him. I love his smile, his eyes, his pers...

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“Lilah” by Maria Windsor

Some things you just can’t explain. Feelings surging up inside because of a certain scent or image or face. Knowing things and not knowing how you knew them. Lilah was like that. Nobody else seemed to notice her, but I did. I saw her walking by at the subway, her copper-gold hair flowing behind her, the weighty fold...

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“Touch me, I'm sick” by Sarah Seado

Sweat. A sign of a pulse pounding and body heat rising. Typically, a symptom of a fever. Which is exactly what I feel like I have right now. I feel delirious— awake yet somehow lost in a dream. How could this possibly be fun? How could falling in love be perceived as anything short of mania? I will never understand how people let love just happen. It’s a terrifying thing. It thunders through you and takes over your mind. The feeling, the urge, the obsession. The lingering thoughts about him. Ah, yes, h...

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“The one that got away” by Sam Kirk

As I sign the final decree of divorce, I cannot help but think back to the time when I fell in love with Penelope. We were 13 or 14, attending the same junior high, but never had any classes together.There was this walking club that met every Saturday and Sunday morning for a few months every year. Its goal was to educate the youth about the city’s architecture and history. My friend and I signed up because we were genuinely interested in learning more about the city we lived in, but I imagine that the promise of a better grade in ...

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“Our table ” by Artemis H

I sat alone as I watched the rain come down outside. An older couple and I were the only ones in the shop. I sipped my coffee as a tear rolled down my cheek... I was alone. The chair next to me sat empty as though it was mocking and taunting me. I was starting to overthink everything. My chest started to swell with the feeling of hopelessness... I wanted to scream at the world and run away from everything. But no one would hear me or care to come looking. I looked at the ch...

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“How I Fell In Love With A Serial Killer” by Amanda Newson

Myles and I had been getting on well those last couple of months, no new girls had been brought into the corridor, and I could tell our relationship was blooming into something more than what it had been. This was probably due to my soft flirting. Warmer smiles when he came to talk, louder laughs when he tried to joke, and trailing touches when he gave me gifts. My cell had looked quite different from its original bare stone prison, blankets covered the small bed, a chair sat in the corner, and an old bookcase was slowly filling with seco...

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“Elegy of Springtime” by Maddie Logemann

It was a funny thing, the way love bloomed under the early buds of a cherry blossom, then died away when the blooms started to fall. Spring had been full of pastel things unfolding, be it flowers or feelings of the same rosy ilk. After, summer was hot, withering, and it chased off the tail a love never meant to be. He still couldn’t help but miss her, though, when he watched the cherry trees fill in with green canopy overhead. 

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“Stronger By The Day” by Amelia F

Day 1: I have never believed in love. The concept is just hard to grasp. Having someone be “yours” and in the end, you will always get hurt. Even in all the so-called good romance movies someone always gets hurt even if they end up together. It will never work out. It’s simply just a word.

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“Rebirth of First Love” by Carrie Van hoose

It’s been 25 years since I closed that door. A choice I made alone. I walked away from a love so pure. I didn’t want to hide in the shadows anymore. You married that girl. The one you started dating after you broke my heart. You married her, even after her friend nearly killed you in that accident.I’ll never forget that day. Your aunt burst into the Sunday school classroom and said sh...

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