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

Posted in Romance on Feb 23, 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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“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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“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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“Red and burning” by Igor Tishalovich

Our camp shift is slowly coming to end. Sometimes it was tough, sometimes — relaxing. Too many things to conclude. Too many actions to realize. For the first time in my life, I showed my talents to public. I felt the challenging fire, burning within my heart. However, I think my cooperation with rest of the shift was the most important part. Finally, I was a member of group and I felt it. Everyone is slowly packing up his luggage. Nobody really wants...

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“Oddworld: Exodus of Paradise” by James Taylor

                               Odd Love:  Exodus of Paradise

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“Falling in Love After Falling Apart” by Samantha Curry

 How could things be so out of my control? My entire life is turning upside down. Things aren't ever going to be the same. I sat in my eighth grade math class glaring at the test facing me from my desk. I was rereading question number one so much that I began seeing double and triple letters all morphing together and then spreading out onto the page. A tear welled up in my eye and I almost let it fall until I heard a deep voice behind me say, "Do you have an extra pencil?" My thoughts were so deep that I didn't know how to answer his...

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“My love story” by Vrunda Sagathia

Experiencing love for the first timeWhat is Love-‘ a good feeling ‘for some people; ‘an emotion’ for some people; ‘a timepass’ for some people; or ‘a dream’ for someone like me. It was a dream for me to be in love, experiencing the pure feeling and having that true emotions for someone (ahighly introvert like me) which would turn myboring life to some excitement .In my school days I was a shy, under confident girl having oily hair every day and doing homework every da...

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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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“One Good Monday” by Aulora Moore

Gloomy is the only word I can use to describe the beginning of this story. Dim lit, early morning sky filled with clouds and tears propelling down, making their way into every crevice the city holds. Deep inside the gutters below was only darkness. The cobble stones once filled with happy people, now empty, as the bricks destroy the movement of the rain, ceasing the life within the little suicidal lifeforms. As if a skirt riding up at a burlesque show the clouds separate, teasing the sun only to get even darker than they once were. Not a...

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“You walked into that room and entered my heart” by Steve Kaye

Love is a funny thing. Every Friday when I was five years old my mother would drive me to my grandmother’s house. My brother and sister were in school and my mother’s beauty parlor was around the corner from Nanny.She dropped me off at ten o’clock and would re-appear after lunch with her hair coiffed majestically and a trunk filled with groceries.It was a fun day. Nanny, dressed in her suit, hat, and white gloves and I drove around the corner to the deli where the man behind the counter handed me a piece of lox on a bagel, b...

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“A Stranger in the Woods” by Tori Routsong

        Adelphie played with her food, pushing bits of potato around her plate with her fork. “I know his mother is the best Healer in the palace. That doesn’t mean I should marry him.” A particularly fat pigeon alighted on her wrist and rubbed his head on her thumb in support.               Her mother sighed. “Del, I told you to keep that thing off the table.”        &nbs...

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“Fate Only Knows” by Jennifer Jorgenson

Every time 16 year old Alex Ventras burst onto the scene all the girls swooned at his skater boy good looks. Yet the one girl Alex wants never sees him as anything more than just a best friend. Marishka, Alex’s best friend of 10 years and also his long time dream girl. Alex had always been hypnotized by her looks but then again what guy wouldn’t be considering she stands 6’0” with long black hair that stops at her waist, crimson colored eyes, a beautiful well endowed body of perfection, and a voice like an angel. Suddenly Alex snapped out...

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“Am I into girls?” by Kenzie Linn

There was a warm breeze in the air that pulled my hair from my shoulders gently. It was finally summer and I had just graduated high school. Finally ready to be on my own at college, no parents, and nothing tying me down. I was going to be attending college at UHV and living on campus. I was nervous to be without my parents for the first time. I’d actually be alone. I walked down the beach and let the warm, salty water brush against my feet, and the sand squish between my toes. There were sever...

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“Learning to Play the Game” by Grace Allen

The rich and handsome gentleman held the stem of the wine glass and swirled the exquisite wine gently with disinterest. The look on his face suggested that he had no intention to be there. But if it wasn't for his sister who was one of the debutantes, he wouldn't be there at all.It is universally acknowledged that a man of his wealth and status is in want of a wife. His mother, the re...

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“Slave of love” by Amanda Frost

Her name is Sevasna. She’s 28 years old. She lived with her parents and three sisters. She got lots of friends, from different circles. From each of them, she believed she gained a nemesis. Nemesis, not because she can’t win over them, but because the animosity couldn’t be settled. Each of them has a silent war waged since Sevasna corrected a grammar, called out their bluff, or simply annoyed with her spirits. But then, they’re still friends. Sevasna pretends she doesn’t see their hatred, but she sees it, as clear as the blue sky. She snu...

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