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Write a story about summer love — the quarantine edition.

Posted in Romance on Jul 10, 2021

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A Landscape of Consequences

Submitted to Contest #53

Laboratories will remain closed for now. Please let all your material in the respective incubators/refrigerators and we'll be contacting you soon with more information. Be strong. Kind regards, Doctor Anya Sánchez-Jones. The sign was stuck to the door of their lab. Ale heard whispers around her. Some of the undergraduates were cursing under their breath. Summer was essential for them to process their samples and graduates were much the same. Alejandra was one of these graduates. She had come from the other side of the world to finish hi...

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Sweet-Tart

Amy DeMatt

Submitted to Contest #53

"It's not everlasting. Nothing is everlasting," he said. "Fine, just Gobstopper then," I replied. "I was just calling it by its proper name, the Everlasting Gobstopper." "Mine's still at a tart stage. I haven't gotten to sweet yet. But let's compare anyway." We both pulled them out of our mouths and held them up. Mine was robin's egg blue, and slightly larger than his, which had morphed into a sunny yellow. We had grown up summers together, played freeze tag when we were small, and read books together on his grandfather's bed. That was befor...

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Tea For Two

Philip Clayberg

Submitted to Contest #53

Prior to the quarantine and lockdown, you could tell where the cafes were in the old part of town just by listening. They were usually crowded on Saturday afternoons and evenings. Plenty of people enjoying being outside together, drinking coffee or tea or wine, and talking about all sorts of things. But now the cafes were mostly empty, the waiters and waitresses looking hopefully along the sidewalk outside for possible customers. Even my favorite cafe near the waterfront looked more like a ghost town. It was hard to believe that it was the...

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Summer Love Quarantine Style

Sue Marsh

Submitted to Contest #53

Summer Love Quarantine Style Suzanne Marsh Summer 2020 'COVID 19 IS RUINING MY LIFE' I thought. I am so bored, my parents rented a house out here in Uncertain, Texas. I doubt even Texans know it exits, but my Mother being my Mother needled my Dad into leaving Dallas. COVID19 had planted it roots in Dallas in early May. Mother thought the country would be safer. She had a point but there was nothing here. I am talking nothing except a few cabins on the shore of Caddo Lake. I am nineteen years old, nerdy with black glasses and mousey brown hai...

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The Measles

Blane Britt

Submitted to Contest #53

It was supposed to be the summer of my first love. I was invited to attend Camp Anderson a Christian Retreat and Summer Camp that is centrally located in North Florida on the incredibly beautiful Suwannee River. The Programming and Facilities included a rustic yet modern, climate controlled accommodations, espically fun activities, exceptional food service and a staff that consists of skilled ministry professionals. What really made that camp unique is that team members have the heart of a missionary and are passionate about partnering with ...

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TIK-TOK AND STEVEN TYLER

Susan Newton

Submitted to Contest #53

Steven Tyler - of Aerosmith fame - texted me Sunday morning and fell in love with me before sunset. A talking dog reeled me into the Tik-Tok realm, a rock star held me captive, and some fried chicken put an end to it all. As a single businesswoman living in Dallas, Texas, with only Demo, my dachshund, the Grand Quarantine introduced me to an app called Tik-Tok. An endless stream of videos - 15 seconds long, hypnotized me. I guess someone invented it to distract us while sheltered in place during a pandemic or to force us ...

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Summer Love

Submitted to Contest #53

Nan was bored. It was summer for heaven’s sake! Where was the fun and excitement? Nan’s parents Chris and Doris had both decided to travel to Cambodia for a long awaited 50th wedding anniversary trip. They embarked as soon as the airports opened up for leisure travel. Big sister Barbs was taking up online summer college classes in Georgia; she hadn’t left town since the lockdown. Big brother Bernad was busy playing table tennis in the morning and swimming in the evening at the local tennis club. He had a new guerilla mask for every...

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The Days are Numbered

Submitted to Contest #53

Day-1 The phone call that followed was a short one. For the first time, I really struggled with the words to say to her. I assured her it was alright, but I knew it wasn’t. I told her not to cry while holding back my own tears. And yes, I told her I was with her, and we’ll see through it together. But no, right!? I wasn’t with her, was I? I was a 1000 miles away from her and with all long distance transportation taken down, even if I could give a try. And for the worst part, say I could be with her, would they let me be near her, stay w...

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Seven seconds

Rita Janela

Submitted to Contest #53

It was a beautiful sunny summer morning, the fiery yellow star spreading its bright and warm rays across the blue sky, like fingers stretching; From my kitchen window I spotted my neighbors, Louise and Dean, walking Chili, their five-year-old Golden Retriever, who was way too fond of rocks and enjoyed taking them back home as offerings or souvenirs; Margaret, the oldest person living in the neighborhood, was feeding Blackie, our beloved stray cat. Many of us, myself included, tried to domesticate her, but she wanted to live in streets. So, w...

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Quarantine Style

Harken Void

Submitted to Contest #53

The lights were out. The window was open, an evening cool breeze blowing in. The room air was stuffy with the day’s heat lingering inside. A dog barked somewhere outside, sounding happy to see the hellish sun finally set. A man and a woman embraced each other, pulling close despite the heat, trembling with passion. It was something they both wanted from the day they met, which was earlier today, at the beach. A true heatwave, summer love. “I want you,” he sighed. “I want you too,” she sighed back. “Are you ready?” “Yes.” He leaned in to kiss...

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Summer at 2AM

Josh C

Submitted to Contest #53

I realised my playlist had finished and I had yet to start a new one. Had I been quicker, I might have missed the ring of a bell, indicating a new message. I frowned, it wasn’t from social media. Cycling tabs on my computer showed me it had come from the company instant messaging system...but who was working at 2AM? Aside from me that is, but I’m strange. Listening to music and talking to friends on Instant Messaging programs in the early morning was the story of my teenage years. As school turned into sixth form, and then university, it b...

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Daisy

Sophia Sanikidze

Submitted to Contest #53

You know, this wasn't exactly how I expected to develop a high school crush. I, despite having some semblance common sense, kind of expected to have one of those crushes that developed in the movies, or at least something a long those lines. Y'know, notice a cute girl from the back of Trig, wind up not studying at all. Using my charm to, well, charm her. That kind of stuff. And when the whole mess of Coronavirus and virtual everything started, I kind of locked up my heart. Not because I was heartbroken or anything, but because how is one...

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Love in the midst of contagion

Daniel Brown

Submitted to Contest #53

Day 1 In the din of the apricot sun, my skin is melting into my couch. I’m sprawled across it like chocolate on a scalding leather car seat. A burst of central air whips around my face, short and sweet like my girlfriend Tahira who emerges from our room dripping sweat. Her mouth contorts to form words but nothing leaves except a wispy “My God, this virus” before slapping my hairy thighs to vacate a space. She releases a heavy sigh against the base of my stomach and this is the first day of life beneath the shadow of an airborne virus.&nbsp...

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It Started on a Summer Day

D. Alfonso

Submitted to Contest #53

I always thought it was funny how one flap of a butterfly’s wings can send the whole world spiraling. Well, not literally a butterfly but a simple action, something that seems inconsequential. For example, a melting popsicle on a summer day or a skater’s decision not to wear knee pads. Or perhaps that fact that I had overslept and therefore was walking outside later than usual.  It was just another week stuck in quarantine, and I had made it my mission to spend fifteen minutes outside every day. Unfortunately, I had overslept, so the ...

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Forever Yours

Cyndy Reads

Submitted to Contest #53

               Dearest Joanna,                I resolved not to write to you too hastily- I would like that you are settled within the house and getting into a sort of routine first, but alas! I could not stay my pen a moment longer. It has only been five days since we parted, and I miss you all so terribly. Were it not for the shop, I would join you posthaste, but until Mr. Adams and I can get...

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