Write a story about summer love — the quarantine edition.

Posted in Romance on Jul 10, 2021

Submissions are closed

Sorry, we are not accepting submissions for this prompt as it is not part of an active contest. Make sure you don't miss our next contest by creating your free Reedsy Prompts account.

Or create a new Reedsy account:

Why not check out our active contest?

✍️ 131 stories

“Love on lockdown” by Adam Hughes

Submitted to Contest #53

“Great. Bloody great”. Anthony exhaled with his cheeks puffed and lips ever so slightly open, so that the air came out slowly with an audible huff, while pressing his index finger against his left eye and his thumb against his right eye, slowly sliding from the outside of each eye until both fingers connected at the bridge of his nose. He glanced towards the television, hoping for some miraculous change to the news. But it was still the same. He placed his hands on his hips as he watched, once again, the presenter reporting that his town wa...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Romeo and Juliet for Adults” by Valerie Kaufman

Submitted to Contest #53

“My high school students love Romeo and Juliet,” she told the library check-out person a week before the library closed. “What do they love about it?” asked a stranger standing next to her. She noticed the liveliness in his eyes, did a quick survey of his handsome face, then paused briefly at his lips. His eyes made the same trip, from her eyes, across her face, to her lips. She felt surprised, delighted, nervous — all at the same time. “What do my students like about the play?” she asked, thinking out loud. “They like that Romeo and Juliet ...

1 comment 1

Read story

“Beneath His Mask” by Paige W.

Submitted to Contest #53

He had the sexiest mask. It was the first thing I noticed, standing there in my creep corner, six feet away from the rest of the world. Impossible to ignore, it stood out, the stark, solitary red element in a black and white photo. I thought I’d seen them all in these past six months. The surgical masks and N95s, typically donned by healthcare professionals and vigilant germophobes, had sold out two months in, back when we’d still classified 2020 as an actual year. It’d become a trend, later – a chance to play pandemic dress-up. The fash...

2 comments 2

Read story

“Puppy Love” by Vivian Liu

Submitted to Contest #53

Soft fingers caressed my ears gently, awakening me from my sluggish state. I gazed up slowly at the blurry outline of a boy sitting up in front of me, a soft smile resting on his lips and affection pouring from his eyes. Blinking a few times, I licked his hand and then returned to my former position, my head resting on his leg and closed my eyes. He chuckled softly and reclined back onto his pillow. After a few moments, he sniffled and pulled his leg out from under me and the sheets, trying to be as smooth as p...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Out of Office Romance” by Alisia Hassler

Submitted to Contest #53

Out of Office Romance Swipe, swipe, swipe. “To the left, to the left, everything you own in a box to the left,” I sing aloud as I shuffle through boneheads on Tinder. The Queen B’s “Irreplaceable” seems to be my 2020 summer soundtrack in more ways than one. Finding out that your boyfriend is cheating on you always sucks. Sure, it’s upsetting to find out by going through his phone or hearing about it from a friend. But it really blows when you suddenly get sent home from the office to start working from home and are greeted by your boyfri...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Trapped Together” by Tasia Mayfield

Submitted to Contest #53

Meana closed the door behind her with a gentle tug. She desperately wanted solace she thought as it snapped shut. Meana knew that despite the isolation she wasn’t really ever alone. She knew that better than anyone. Some call it family Meana called it hell. Beyond paper-thin walls was chaos. A disharmony that crawled up her spine spewing hatred in shiverled whispers in her ears. To a 20 year old like Meana, she was trapped, it didn’t matter if it was a quarantine or not. She was stuck either way in this summer heat and like quicksand the mor...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Fourteen days” by Ally Dash

Submitted to Contest #53

Jo Jo is lying on the sofa in a two-day Netflix stupor, lazily scrolling through endless options on her aunt’s larger-than-life TV (seen that, looks crap, could watch that if there’s nothing else, seen that etc. etc.). A fan is directed right at her but, even with all the windows open as wide as they can go, it’s essentially just blowing more hot air at her. Ugh. She looks down at the street four storeys down. With lockdown easing, there are a few more people out and making the most of the heatwave. She longs to join then. It has been two...

0 comments 0

Read story

“VIRUS OF THE AGES” by Brett Ray

Submitted to Contest #53

Kai was still up. It was late. Probably past midnight but he didn’t know for certain since his cell phone had died and he couldn’t find his charger. He had no clock in his bedroom so until he could find it and charge the phone, he would not know exactly how late it was. It didn’t matter though. Over the last few weeks, Kai’s body had required less and less sleep. Actually, he couldn’t remember the last time that he had slept. And he felt fine. Not fine, per se, but a lack of sleep was certainly not the issue.Kai took out his drawing pad from...

1 comment 1

Read story

“Love in Quarantine” by Melissa Steele

Submitted to Contest #53

Ashley felt as though she was losing her mind. The WhatsApp messages and the emails were flooding her phone. She also had to move out of her apartment that very day! ‘Oh Gosh,’ she despaired getting everything done by that evening. ‘It's going to be alright’, she whispered to herself, ‘you will be fine’. Her phoned pinged. Exasperated, she picked up her phone. A new message “Hi, All the best with the move,” Ashley rolled her eyes but responded politely, “Thank you, much appreciated” The response came almost instantly, “If there’...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Love on “My Love”” by Sathiya Appusamy

Submitted to Contest #53

I was collapsed when I heard the Nationwide Lock down news on March 21, 2020 because of the pandemic disease called Corona (Covid- 19). The world was getting into the danger, everyone was worrying about their lives and economy of the world, some people rushing to the supermarket to buy groceries which was more than they want, on the other side shop owners used this chance to sale the things in high price and few was getting ready to leave to the hometown, but me !! thinking about “My Love” to meet on May 31, 2020. I thought this time, this m...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Helplessly Hopeless ” by EmmaLia C

Submitted to Contest #53

I saw him for the first time at the weekly pizza night my farm in New York holds every Saturday. Just standing there, talking to his brother and my cousin. He said something and when they all laughed, I smiled along with them. That’s when he saw me. Don’t go mushy on me right now, there was no sparkle in my eye when he saw me. I had my smile still plastered on my face, but my mouth was full of pizza, and I had sauce on my face. He ducked his head away, probably embarrassed for me, but I couldn’t tell because of his mask. As I worked for the ...

1 comment 1

Read story

“Dad's Shoes” by Elston Taylor

Submitted to Contest #53

Can shoes sound shiny? I ask this to Miss Singh in the middle of my English lesson. It’s the start of year 4 and we’re writing about our morning routines today. Miss Singh is the best; she sits with me during all my English lessons because I sometimes jumble the words around when I read and write. They say that’s why I am noisy in class, although I don’t really believe it. The results do not lie though, Miss Jahns doesn’t shout at me as much and I’m learning a lot more with Miss Singh’s help. She looks at me a little bit confused at my ques...

2 comments 2

Read story

“Social Dis-aster” by Kristie Nicole Diana

Submitted to Contest #53

I had always had a plan for myself, turn 25 and everything would just magically fall into place. I’d have the dream job, physique, car, apartment and of course the dream guy to share everything with. Unfortunately, at 28 I can say that my reality is much different from when I first imagined it years ago. Although I might’ve just gotten an assistant job at XIV atelier, I am far from the dream life that I created so long ago, so much so that the person I am today wouldn’t even recognize the person I wished to be. This summer howev...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Letters From Vee” by Jen M

Submitted to Contest #53

There are a number of rough parts about this pandemic but I won’t bother going into any because I find it all rather boring. Yes, it’s terrible, but I got things to do and there is only so much mental trauma I can endure before I lose interest and focus my attention elsewhere. The abyss will eventually stare back but I wouldn’t know because I was too busy checking my phone. I should also mention that I have the attention span of a gnat, which also has problems that I will go into but not too deep since this is also boring.The biggest pr...

0 comments 0

Read story

“Confessions Of A 'Made For TV' Writer” by Justice Semolina

Submitted to Contest #53

Stan Ghelding walked down the hall and into the large board room where his development team was waiting for him. “Okay writing team, listen up. This is going to sound crazy. I realize it is now summer and we’ve already started shooting most our films but, we’ve been tasked from corporate to alter stories that fit into a COVID world. That means you have to alter your current storyboards for this holiday season’s movies so we can be a bit more relevant. We don’t, however, want it to be overwhelming so keep it light and a...

0 comments 0

Read story

Load more stories

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a few people spending a long-overdue weekend away at a cottage.

Summer – 124 stories

Write a story that begins with someone's popsicle melting.

Summer – 259 stories

Write a story about a teenager spending their final days at home before going away to college.

High School – 118 stories

Write a story about another day in a heatwave.

Summer – 178 stories

Contest #53

Enter our weekly contest!

This week's theme: Dog Days of Summer

$50

Prize money

810

Contest entries

0

Stories

Ended on 23:59 - Aug 07, 2020 EST

A winner will be announced soon.

View details

Win $250 in our short story competition 🏆

We'll send you 5 prompts each week. Respond with your short story and you could win $250!

Menu

CONNECT

BLOG

APPS

TOOLS

ABOUT

Write a story about summer love — the quarantine edition.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 131 stories

“Love on lockdown” by Adam Hughes

“Romeo and Juliet for Adults” by Valerie Kaufman

“Beneath His Mask” by Paige W.

“Puppy Love” by Vivian Liu

“Out of Office Romance” by Alisia Hassler

“Trapped Together” by Tasia Mayfield

“Fourteen days” by Ally Dash

“VIRUS OF THE AGES” by Brett Ray

“Love in Quarantine” by Melissa Steele

“Love on “My Love”” by Sathiya Appusamy

“Helplessly Hopeless ” by EmmaLia C

“Dad's Shoes” by Elston Taylor

“Social Dis-aster” by Kristie Nicole Diana

“Letters From Vee” by Jen M

“Confessions Of A 'Made For TV' Writer” by Justice Semolina

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a few people spending a long-overdue weekend away at a cottage.

Write a story that begins with someone's popsicle melting.

Write a story about a teenager spending their final days at home before going away to college.

Write a story about another day in a heatwave.

Contest #53

Enter our weekly contest!

$50

Prize money

810

Contest entries

0

Stories

Win $250 in our short story competition 🏆

Explore more writing prompt ideas: