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Write about someone who gets proposed to five times on Christmas Eve.

Posted in Romance on Jul 5, 2021

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Love with the Loveman’s

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   Everything was going great this year. My professors were teaching me a lot of piano, and I was getting a B+ average instead of a C-. I had entered a few piano competitions, won twenty dollars, and got a part-time job as a performer in a small symphony. I had quite a few boyfriends and girlfriends, broken up or got dumped on terrible terms, and was still clueless about my sexuality. My father was now conscious in the hospital after he had a stroke, although he still was at death’s doorway and there was about a 70% chance he ...

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Henry, Harry, Harvey, Horace, and Harold.

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When you're the fifteenth princess in a royal family with twenty kids, you know that there isn't much chance of you getting the throne.Ever.So what my life is going to look like is this:Fourteen:Get a job, because even a princess must learn a trade before she comes of age. My trade will be art. Fifteen:Start looking for boys you like, or else you'll end up with an arranged marriage and sometimes that backfires and you get stuck with someone you don't like at all.Sixteen:Find a reliable man and get married.Seventeen-eighteen:Establish a house...

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The Mouse With Five Wives

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There was once a young mouse lad. He was a very handsome mouse, with carefully brushed whiskers and shiny black eyes that reflected everything before them. His coat was the color of whipped cream, making him stand out against the night sky. It so happened that this mouse, whose name was Tiddler, was getting his little mouse-hole ready for Christmas. He shoved his messes into corners to make room for decorations, and snuck into the human's kitchen to steal uncooked rice and threaded them onto string to use as holiday lights. He set up a li...

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The Unconditional Love of Vineet and Megha

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 "The Unconditional Love of Vineet and Megha".       SHORT STORYIt was a lovely morning. A strong breezy wind just crossed like a hell on her face, she was Megha a young charming girl walking beside the footpath. She was a mixed portion of innocence and more sensitive girl. Her father was a lovable and the caring person, but he never shows his immense love on her daughter. Her mother was not just like an ordinary mother but she was more than that like a good partner as wel...

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Five Dates

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The holidays are always full of shit. Lights that give you spots in your eyes and Santas in deflated suits begging you for money in the entrances of supermarkets. Love is pretty nice too, and to my surprise, I wound up getting five dates on Christmas Eve. The first was a complete douchebag, who sadly reminded me of me. Unshaven in the worst way possible, showed up to our coffee date in a sad pair of jeans and faded “I paused my game to be here” shirt. Scratch the thing about him being like me, he reminded me of a little brother. Or someone...

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Bright or Obscure

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I am in line at the drive-through, waiting for lunch. It is busy, and the line is long. I guess it is a Sunday. It doesn't feel like a Sunday... but I am okay with that. Especially this time of year...-~-There we sat, side-by-side. It may have seemed ridiculous, but her and I liked to sit on the lake dock this time of year. It was our tradition. The first year we started, we brought Christmas lights and strung them out on the edges of the deck. And here we were again, our feet barely dangling over solid ice. "Anna."She simply turned and...

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5 Golden Rings

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“Nayeli! Over here!” My good friend Matteo calls me over. He’s sitting under a tree in the dimming sunlight with snow falling and a beanie on his head. I walk over to him in a somewhat hurried manner. My beanie sits on top of my head covering my unbrushed hair. I’m wearing a deep rouge dress with long sleeves and a pleated skirt. My mittens fall off my hands as I sit down on the bench next to Matteo. He smiles at me and I smile back at him. We have a lot of history. We were best friends from 3rd to 6th grade. Then we fell apart through high ...

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Merry Mary, Marry Me?

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‘I never expected that…’ Mary thought to herself, ‘How odd…’ Balancing the tray of home-baked cookies on her lap, she pondered the day while riding in the back seat of the Uber. Her neighbor, Sally, asked her to watch her eight year-old son, George. They helped each other out. Today, Sally needed last minute items for her New Year’s party. George challenged her to play some board game he’d gotten from Santa. They sat on the floor by the tree. Games always gave Mary a chance to get to know people. The game made no difference. George excelled...

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One Hand

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“Will ya marry me, my laydeeee…?”It was flattering to hear it a second time in the last hour. Laura was heading home and the homeless man was probably thinking that she was someone from his better past. He was dirty, badly shaved and stooped over with the weight of his life, but he did smile and charm her with his question. And what if he had a ring? Anything could happen on Christmas Eve…She was waiting in line for the bus when she heard the proposal and saw him looking at the crowd that was eager to part and avoid him.So, why not have...

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Samantha's Suitors

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On the outside, Samantha didn't look like the type of girl who would date multiple guys at once. Let alone someone who would be juggling five relationships at the same time. Each of the five guys was in love with her. Each had a quality she had sought out. Each one possessed a little something that she needed. On this night, Samantha knew that each of her boyfriends were planning to declare their love. She had long ago decided which one she'd choose. Now all she had to do was sever ties with the other four... Samantha's relationship with e...

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Decaffeinate My Heart

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Louisa Taylor, known to everyone except her grandmother as Isa, loved misty morning hikes, her nieces, and bohemian pillows, but if she was being honest, she rolled out of bed each morning for two reasons: coffee and Cam.The mere thought of a mug of coffee was enough to give her a warm, cozy feeling equivalent to snuggling in front of a winter fire, and the smell, well, that jump started her brain before she even took a sip. It was, in short, her beloved addiction.Cam, on the other hand, who might have once been called her secret obsession, ...

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Maggie's unexpected gift on Christmas Eve.

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"When am I meeting my sister in law?"  "Which one? Just kidding." He brushed it off when his little sister's facial expression changed.  Martin and Maggie's relationship was the talk of social media. They had a fairly tale-like relationship, admired by everyone.  "Oh, I nearly lost myself. You two made love worth fighting for."  "Whatever sis, I am off to pick up Maggie" He responded as he walked fast to his car, he was on a call. He drove fast, passed by Lisville shopping mall. He looked like he was on an em...

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Of the North

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The night bites, bitter cold. Five hours of daylight, five men asking for my hand. Each praying he’d have more luck than the last. I clutch my bear coat tighter around myself, fight to move through the snow. The moon lights my aimless way; no ghostly lights grace the sky tonight. I wonder if I’ll die out here, buried beneath the snow. A storm stalks me, threatening in the wind, more fearsome than any bear or wolf. I breathe a sigh of relief, and it chills me down to my bones. -The first one’s name was Uruk. I sat on ...

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Shift

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Not again. It was happening all the time now. Aida Nguyen was experiencing... actually, she didn’t know what she was experiencing. All she knew was time kept repeating itself.        It had started three weeks ago, when she was ordering a burrito at Taco Bell. She placed her order at the Drive Thru, and was going to the window to pay and get the burrito, when time shifted. Everything moved back to two minutes prior, when she was getting to the Drive Thru. It seemed like she was the only one to notice, as we...

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On Christmas Day...

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Ah, Christmas!, Naomi thought as she breathed in the fresh Christmas morning air. Everything was covered by a blanket of snow with the occasional dot of dead trees which were decorated with Christmas lights. Naomi clutched the mug of tea in her hand tightly as she felt a slight breeze shoot by her, causing her knuckles to turn white. Deciding that it was time to go back in, Naomi got up and walked back into her warm house. The warmth hit her in the face as soon as she walked in but Naomi welcomed it gratefully. She washed her mug and went to...

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