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Write about a couple who have just moved to a place that one person loves, and the other hates.

Posted in Romance on Oct 26, 2022

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Love Is Sacrifice

Submitted to Contest #59

They had been house hunting for a few months. Though they both agreed that they needed to move out of their apartment into a real house, they could not agree on what they wanted their house to be like.          Joline wanted an old-fashion house with wooden furniture and lacy dollies on the tables. Handmade curtains and grand staircases. When their realtor asked what she wanted for their house, she had replied by saying she wanted a ‘house with history.’ Daniel was quite the opposite. He did not w...

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Reconsidering The Merits Of Incontinence From The Front Row Of The Shit Show

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I can hear Valentina in the other room, laughing hysterically. I shudder to think what sort of depravity might be exciting her humors. Since the first day that we arrived in this shady, meth-infested trailer park, she has found constant amusement in the misbehavior of the community's most excessive characters.Yesterday I found her doubled over in hysterics, and when I looked out the window, the couple from across the street were engaged in physical battle on the hood of our car. I ran out screaming at the emaciated warriors, who only had a f...

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Happily Ever After

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When I was a little girl, my favorite story was Cinderella. My daddy used to tell it to me when I went to bed, always doing the voices of the wicked stepmother and ugly stepsisters. But my mother used to come in and turn out the light, yelling, “There is no such thing as ‘happily ever after’! And, certainly no Prince Charming!” Then would begin one of their many fights. And I would hide under my blanket, burying my face in my pillow, and promising myself that I would find Prince Charming. For me, there would be “happily ever after.” *** &nbs...

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No Escape

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As soon as they turned into the cul-de-sac, Leone felt cold. ‘Pull over, please,’ she said, more sharply than she intended. ‘Sorry?’ Tom turned the radio down. ‘Please!’ she said. ‘Pull over, just for a moment. I want to… can we…’ She couldn’t finish her sentences. Air wheezed in through a tight throat. ‘Hold on, we’re nearly there,’ Tom reassured her, parking outside Number 8. Leone could see her mother peering between the slats of the blinds in the living room, and it was already too late. ‘Okay - what’s the problem?’ Tom asked. Leone's mo...

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Discoveries

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   “I mean, I’m the one who’s supposed to be a feminist Linda,” my friend Jayne said, when she’d had enough of my moaning. Mind you I had moaned rather a lot, and she’s one of those people who has enough somewhat rapidly. “And I’d be the last person to advocate loyal little wifey obediently trailing in her husband’s footsteps but ….”      The trouble is, I could, and can, see exactly what she means. It’s not as if we’re selling or giving up our house in town. We’re just going to liv...

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This Isn't the City

Submitted to Contest #59

(Write about a couple who have just moved to a place that one person loves, and the other hates.)I demanded change. Monthly, weekly, daily. Every time I walked through our front door I was convinced our house would fall apart. If I so much as pressed the door closed too tightly, the entire complex rattled. So I told him we had to find a new home. It didn’t matter to me where we were in the city, it just needed to be new.  Now, I’m finally receiving that change. And to say I'm nervous is an understatement. He hadn’t even shown me th...

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Forward

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“This was wrong, David. Wrong.”“Give it a chance, Edith. Come. Let us discover this world.”Edith stares about wearily, looking at the strange world before her.David had parked the space-time teleportation vehicle––his “travel whatchamacallit,” as Edith always liked to mutter when he was not around to hear it––in the dark alleyway between two large brick buildings. She had fallen out of the vehicle rather nauseous, groaning, holding her throbbing head in her hands. David, of course, was giddy, excited; he leapt from his seat and into the humi...

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The House that Jack Built

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The House that Jack Built Suzanne Marsh The add read: Lovely old home for sale cheap. Five Bedroom, two bath, gables, and huge bay window. Handyman Special. Smith Realtors 555-554-5678. It sounded like a dream home. My husband was out of town, we had been looking for a Mid Victorian home for what seemed forever, now it seemed I had found one. I called Smith Realtors, the agent was willing to meet with me that afternoon. I called my husband and told him about the house. He was stationed in Iraq, so it was my decision alone to make. He was due...

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Hell

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I have come to bring this bag that has stones, and this one also, lighter- and Fatty put the identical bags at the entrance of the mine's gallery system.  It goes to the bottom, Don Braulio, manager of the gold mine, told him, shaded like almost everyone who came to or left the mine.  "It must be the dust of the mine"  You know right?  No. I think I'm going to get lost, said the Fat Man whose hat was his brown hair - looking up over the shoulders of Don Braulio Vázquez, a middle-aged man, scratching his closed beard to fr...

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The Farm

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Standing waiting in the arrivals hall at the airport, he felt like a small boy again. He was bursting to share his good news. He was sure it would thrill his wife when she heard. Bren had been away for three weeks on holiday with her sister. They always chose weirdly out of the way places with hardly any means of communications. He knew only too well, he had tried phoning them, but there was no reception, not surprising since they were staying at an oasis in the middle of the desert. Just then, she swept out, looking tanned and relaxed....

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Our Home

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Stepping out of the train station, gazing towards the sky dreadfully, he sighed. Heaven was about to cry while he took the luggage. I was staring at him with narrowed eyes observing all of his dramas, drinking hot coffee from across the station. I have no idea why the hell he dislikes such a romantic climate? The petrichor soothes the brain cells and George has his drama going on. Why do men have to be such a baby about this beautiful weather?  I smiled looking at the sky, dreaming to take a bath. It reminded me of how tired I am of tra...

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Kayleigh

Submitted to Contest #59

“This is it,” Greg said “Yeah, this is it.” his wife Jan replied. They both stood and stared up at the towering victorian townhouse which stood looming before them. Greg smiled at it while Jan frowned. She thought this had been a bad idea but Greg had been so excited to see his old childhood home had come onto the market. She couldn’t say no to his excited face when he came across it in the properties section of the local paper. It looked run down and in major need of some TLC. His family had moved out of it when he had been a child. They ha...

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Happily Ever After - No Matter Where, No Matter What

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‘What are we going to do after the wedding? Where are we going to live Josh?’  ‘Gabby, don't you trust me?’ he said with that special spark in his eyes.  ‘Of course I trust you, I love you.’  ‘To Saturn and back?’ he asks with a contagious smile. ‘To Saturn and back a thousand times’ ‘Good’ he says as he takes my hand and we continue our walk through the park. That conversation seemed like forever ago even though it’s only been two months. So much has happened these past few weeks that I have lost track of time but who...

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The Dull Sun

Submitted to Contest #59

“Congratulations Mr.Nema. Here are your promotion orders. Now you will head the sales department of the branch office at Ghansore”, saying in his usual loud voice, the boss Mr. Iyer handed the letter to Suresh Nema. Suddenly all the curious office staff came forward to congratulate him on the much awaited promotion.  Mr. Nema didn’t get a chance to read the orders , he had to hurry to the parking lot for carpool with other three people who stayed in the same apartment block but didn’t work with him. He didn’t want...

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Burning Eyes and Broken Dreams

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Harlow The building’s old. Decrepit. Unremarkable in every sense of the word. And yet - something about it makes me wistful. Nostalgic, even. But I can’t quite place what that something is.  We walk through the doors and into the lobby, my backpack slung over my shoulder, suitcase trailing behind me, the broken wheel making a click-clack sound as it jostles around on its hinge. I glance over at Thomas. His face is passive, his eyes pointed down towards the carpet that might have been white once, but I know him - I can tell that he hate...

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