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Write a story that involves love at first sight.

Posted in Romance on Dec 4, 2019

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“katherine” by Pareesa K

rain pours down on us as fiercely as my feelings for her. wet and cold, alone and vulnerable. we are all the things we tried so hard not to be. there she stands, this tall, pronounced, beautiful woman. her red curls dampened to a light brown, her pink, accentuated nose pointing upward, her full lips protruding outward, the freckles scattered across her face barely visible. I know who she is, I have heard of her spirit, h...

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“Seeing Blind” by Jayden Foster

Seeing Blind She gripped the basket in her left hand and held her coat closed with the other. The wind always picked up on her way home, she could hear it rustling through the trees. The path beneath her feet was overgrown, created only by her feet. No one traveled through the forest, especially these days. Rumors of angry beasts and cruel men who lived in the ...

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“Morris Cupcake the Sandwich Boy” by Rhondalise Mitza

Sandwiches, I have decided, are the best thing to ever grace the planet. People have come to me from all over the world to tell me otherwise, but at the end of things, I will always win.  They (the sandwiches) are such a piece of beautiful soul mate that I have no desire to see other people. Unless, of course, they are the sandwich boy name...

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“Happily Ever After” by Kaitlynn Flint

Happily Ever After 11/21/19 Once upon a time, in a magical land called New York City, there was a teenage girl who had to bail her best friend out of jail for 'vandalizing a building'. It's not the best fairytale, but what do you expect? Castles and knights? Or maybe you were hoping for ...

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“Warm embrace” by Abigail Airuedomwinya

It was a very cold night. Earlier in the day, Mr. Lance had wrapped himself in a frail-looking shawl and a poor piece suit as he made his way to the dock. The people at the dock were all busy, handling the day's activities, loading, and offloading goods. Too busy in fact that they had not noticed the man standing close to the edge of the river bank. They should have noticed he wasn't smiling as he watched the seagulls sway; chuckle as a little girl push past angry busy men. But the morning was unusually busy and the men were flowing with ...

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“How I Met My Wife” by Derek Williams

Love at first sight does exist. I know, because it happened to me. This is the true story of how I met my wife. It was late June of 1987. I was enjoying the summer between my junior and senior years of high school. The day started out normally enough. I went to my job at the golf course, where I worked as a landscaper. I worked from 5 am until about noon, cutting grass. I then went home, ate lunch, and then went to the gym. I trained for about an hour or so, then went to get something t...

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“Fille ” by Huda Mujeeb

Fille......He has to grasp his own hand to keep it from quaking. It is odd, the sudden intensity of emotions that plagued his mind. Perhaps it is his anxiety, the lonesome persona he has donned over decades. Or perhaps it is not that fancy, just the fact that he is an anomaly, situated there in a plastic chair; his hulk of a figure towering over the frills and flowers. There is something about his appearance that causes a buzz aroun...

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“Lean on me” by Renée Chatelain

I couldn’t take it anymore. It was too much for me. Why did things like this happen?What did I do to deserve this? Out of pure anger and exasperation, I picked up a nearby vase and hurled it at the wall. It shattered into a mill...

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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 an...

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“The Feeling Never Felt Before” by Sydney Mari

“Hey Holden, what’s up?” I ask my old guitar friend. Holden looks up at from where he crouches beneath a set of drums. His eyes squint at me, before a grin flashes across his face. “Brandon? It’s been such a long time!” he says, getting up from his crouch to walk over and hug me.He then pushes me back a bit and l...

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