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Write a story from the different perspectives of two people meeting for a blind date.

Posted in Romance on Jun 11, 2021

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Just a kiss 😘

Submitted to Contest #56

LAURA "A blind date?!" I shout. HUNTER "What?" I say after my friends tell me they set me up for a blind date. LAURA This is not happining. I know she cares about me, and want me to get a boyfriend, but I draw a line at blind dates. Usaully. I don't have anything aganist the boy, I just don't want to date someone I don't know. Sadly, my friend, Kit, already arranged everything. I'm meeting this guy at 9:00 at the Island Grill restaurant. I don't want to stand up some random guy, so I guess I'm going. HUNTER "Guys, there is no w...

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The tale of Louise and Dave

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A thick application of ruby red around the lips, eyes that sparkled and a killer dress too; Louise was ready to meet this stranger her friend Michelle had sworn was her perfect match. Even though she knew she looked amazing Louise still could not help but feel a touch anxious. The last time she had been to Tony’s Steakhouse she had been dumped by her long time fiancé David. “Madam may I take your coat?” asked the maître d’. Louise shrugged off the black shrug that hung about her shoulders. “As you wish,” she said, noncommittal. “Have you mad...

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Spies in Disguise-ish

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Author’s note: Hey, so this is kind of (?) a part two of my story ’I Spy With My Little Eye a... Spy?’. You don’t need to read that story to enjoy this one, but there is like one or two small spoilers/references. Enjoy! Agent Connors Time: 1:55 Location: Chad’s Coffee Shack So, my girlfriend broke up with me. Three weeks later and my omnisexual ass is already lonely. Hence the blind date at a coffee shop. Well, actually, I’m outside the coffee shop with a newspaper in front of my face, trying to see who my date is before I decide if I ...

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Thorns

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“Oh my gosh!” Your friend squeals ecstatically as a questionably brilliant idea blooms in her mind. Holding her hands out as if she was trying to capture the perfect picture, she beams and nods firmly. “This will be perfect!” she giggles, cheeks glowing with a rosy haze. You glance at your friend through the reflection of the mirror in front of you, hands clenching momentarily and loosening again.  The urge to question your friend’s intentions pull at every corner of your mind until you finally give in. “What?” your voice escapes in a ...

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Blind Date or Blind Fate?

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           “Have you ever questioned why life is so complicated?” Jessica asked her best friend, Patricia, (or Patty to her friends). “I mean, why can’t we just get up each day, do what we need to do to survive, and then come home to the perfect family with no concern over what issues may cause the other person to be in a bad mood that day? Do you know what I mean, Patty?”            Patty nodded in agreement with a simple, “Uh-huh,”...

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From His or Hers Blind Dating Perspectives

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I’m at the age (42) where most of my male and female friends are married. Its not like I’m not ready to involve myself in a committed relationship. Its just that we haven’t found one another yet. Once you read about all the supposedly romantic dates and blind dates I willingly and unwillingly attended you’ll see exactly why I’m still single. In truth I could use a tax break if you know what I mean. I met a woman a little younger than myself (28) online and we talked maybe ten or 13 times over the course of a couple of weeks. Then one night ...

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A story about Joseph and Mary meeting for a blind date.

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My story is entitled Joseph and Mary meeting for a blind date. A blind date is a social engagement between two people who have not previously met, usually arranged by a mutual acquaintance. A blind date is arranged by a mutual acquaintance of both Joseph and Mary .Also both the two people Joseph and Mary take part in the blind date and have never met or seen each other ,hence the phrase "blind date". It is the responsibilities of the person who arranges the date to ensure that they are a good match. Sometimes it is not...

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Someone's Happiness

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I can't say I've never met the ocean before. But this is the first time I've met it as its potential bride.And I can't say I'm not intrigued and terrified and constantly bewildered. But it's what's happened. I'm going to accept it.-The ocean on the other hand did not want a bride. It kept telling the humans so. They wouldn't listen. They brought girl after girl and presented them to It, but It was not happy with any of them. What can I do with a human bride? It thought. The humans did not understand. Humans think like humans, after all. They...

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A Blind Date

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Jorge: “I wish I had not agreed to this. But my parents think it is better than staying at home another night, reading one of my new books. There's a website that has been printing and selling some amazing books by new, up-and-coming authors. Oh, why do I have to go out instead?”Frances: “This is just dumb. He'll take one look at me and think I'm ugly, then turn around and walk away. This is so utterly pointless. Maybe I can just excuse myself after a few minutes and go home. I just hope it won't hurt his feelings.”Jorge: “I have showered, s...

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Mike meets Nan

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Nan was ready. She looked herself over one more time in the mirror. She was ‘hot’! Not ‘hot’ in the way her teenage male students at Rocket High School referred to the mini skirt, breast bulging female classmates, but rather to a mid-forties mature eye. She glossed her lips one more time smacking for good measure and then dabbing with a napkin after. She thought of her old television icons Jane Fonda, Doris Day and a few others. They were right in line with her. Nan adjusted her lengthy Maxi Brand skirt and fluffed her blouse at her waist. S...

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Two Sides To Every Story

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Derek approached the quaint café where he was set to meet his blind date. He felt nervous and excited at the same time. Nervous for the awkward interaction that would surely come about, but excited for the chance to meet someone new. He knew so few people and was very far from having a girlfriend, due both to his shyer nature and bookishness, but also because no one really enjoyed his company. Which made him wonder why he was now going on a blind date. His friend Edmund, a man quite Derek’s opposite, had arranged the date and had assured him...

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There's Nothing Wrong With Cake

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It is a Tuesday night smack dab in the middle of an unusually snowy winter in Denver. Because of this there is almost nobody at the pub when Chazz arrives, which allows him to take possession of the corner booth near the back, the one he and his friends call the Mafia Booth. The few patrons who have made the trek through the blizzard to be here are sitting at the bar, playing some kind of trivia game. He recognizes a few of them, and after dropping off his coat as a placeholder at the Mafia Booth, he wanders over to the bar to say hello and ...

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Silver lining

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Ava's naturally curly hair tumbled out of the wig as she yanked it off for what seemed to be the hundredth time. Next came off the chunky, dark glasses. Just as she was about to wipe off the shadow of a kohl moustache from her otherwise waxed upper lip, she changed her mind again. She wanted to follow through on what she thought was a genius plan, but a nagging voice in her head, which curiously sounded a lot like her friend Ashley's, kept telling her to not mess this up. "You're 33! For Chrissakes get yourself a decent guy," she mimicked to...

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A Red Lip Too Precious

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Alicia glanced at her watch for the umpteenth time. The gesture serving two purposes at its root; one to get away from the prying eyes of the arse responsible for waiting her table and the second… Well, the second was the fact that she was having the biggest deal of her life sanctioned while she waited for a man she had never seen before to give her the experience of what an amicable relationship felt like when she couldn’t even give him props for punctuality. It didn’t matter to her though, not in the least as she stood up muttering “good r...

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A Hundred and One Blind Dates

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I am looking at this young lad in front of me, who’s trying so hard not to look nervous on what seemed to be his first time to a blind date. He kept gulping tons of iced tea. I’m not sure if it’s because he ordered bottomless iced tea or he just wants to fill in the awkward silences with something else other than folding the table napkin, unfolding it and then folding it again. And then touching the backof his head with his left hand while the fingers of his right hand, played with the table as if it’s the grand piano.  This is my hun...

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