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Write a story about two people falling in love via email.

Posted in Valentine's Day on Feb 9, 2024

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Love.edu: Courtship and Coincidence in Modern Academia

Winner of Contest #237 🏆

Thursday, Jan 18 2:12 PMTo: eliserhodes@elliott.eduFrom: fredericklaird@greerstate.eduSUBJECT: Your (Brilliant) Paper on Mirrors/Jane EyreDear Professor Rhodes,I hope this email finds you well. I must confess that, although we have never met, I am a longtime admirer of your work—I was actually at your talk on Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell last year, which I greatly enjoyed.I write to you today to express my sincerest compliments on your paper The Beast Within: Mirrors and the Internalized Male Gaze in Jane Eyre. I know better than a...

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'Til Death we're apart

Submitted to Contest #237

Content warning: implied alcohol, death (abstract) From: SJG2354@IntimateLibrary.com To: ATD6534@InfiniteLibrary.com Subject: Vent Sesh - Read with wine Emily!!!!! I am AT MY LIMIT with him! I swear, he is running this whole company into the ground. Nobody is paid enough, everyone works too many hours, AND he just laid off like forty people. Were they bad people? Hell if I know! We had just hired them last month!!! Seriously, their benefits hadn’t even kicked in yet. I wish he was dead. At least then his spot would be open and maybe we...

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The Inconvenience of Falling In Love

Submitted to Contest #237

It’s 1998 and I’m in grade eight. It’s kind of cool sounding if you ask me, how every year will match my grade up until I graduate. I’m just one semester away from diving head first into my freshman life. I already have an empty hot pink binder, ready to fill with that chapter of my journey. My cheeks get hot as I admit this, but I’ve also decorated it with stickers; peace signs, Ring Pops, shooting stars. I have a Lisa Simpson on there, too. I know it’s a cartoon, but my eyes turn into big, red balloon hearts whenever she plays the sax...

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Puppy Love

Submitted to Contest #237

To: Mr. Bradley TapperFrom: Lydia HanniganSubject: Beagle puppiesDate: Friday, February 9, 2024, 9:15 AMDear Mr. Tapper,I am writing in response to the beagle puppies you advertised. I know you said they would be perfect for a big family, but I live alone and have long wanted a pet in my life. My husband Howard passed away in September, and my kids, well, they’re all on their own now. But I raised three of them, plus dealt with their assortment of fish, turtles and guinea pigs over the years. I think I can handle a puppy. I have a dog park r...

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Mud!

Submitted to Contest #237

From: ahoc@bananabandana.comTo: robwarren@gmail.comSubject: No size selectedFriday 12 May 2023 12:24Good morning, Robert!Just checking in, I saw that you ordered a bandana from our store this morning, but didn’t specify the size. No worries though, your payment is secured, and your order will go through once you reply to this e-mail with your preferred size. If you need any help, please refer to our sizing guide attached below.Kind regards,Alexandra HockenyCustomer Support1 file attached: banana_bandana_sizing_chart.....From: robwarren@gmail...

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Domiciliary Valentine

Submitted to Contest #237

       To whom it may concern,I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to inform you that I won’t be able to work this Wednesday, the 14th. I understand that this is short notice, but I have had a killer – Blank. The computer screen turns off as the power in the house shuts down again. “Are you kidding me?” Addison growls at her dim reflection in the blank computer monitor. The slick black surface reflected back her disheveled dark hair and her dumbstruck eyes glaring through their wide-rimmed glasses....

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Love Judith

Submitted to Contest #237

Detective Womack had a sharp eye for detail after twenty plus years in the Homicide Unit in Baltimore.  Once the home of Edgar Allan Poe, the original literary creepster, his mind was on the newest homicide case as the forensic team took pictures of the murder scene. He put his hand to chin that had doubled over the past decade as he lived on a carbohydrate diet of doughnuts and bread. “Another lonely hearts email club.” He shook his head. “Hard to believe who was who.” Officer Ronwick examined the desk of the victim while wearing hi...

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Lost & Found

Submitted to Contest #237

" Dad, can you pick me up? I don't feel good. My heart hurts."" Honey, you only have two hours remaining, be strong, I know you can do it."" But my teacher was mean to me and now I'm sad."" I can't pick you up again today. You need to put your big girl panties on and soldier on."" Also, Dad, I lost my Hello Kitty backpack."After I pushed 'end call'; I opened Google, " How do you send an email to county jail?" I want to love someone, someone who will love me and take care of me. I want to sing duets with Denis- he can sing the John Travolta p...

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Office Connections

Submitted to Contest #237

Subject: Concerns About Project Progress and Project Readiness From: Sarah sarah.writes@gmail.com To: Mark mark.workmate@yahoo.com Hey Mark, I hope this email finds you well. I just wanted to check in regarding the project's progress. I noticed a few areas in your last report that might need some attention before we finalize everything. Let's sync up soon to ensure we're on track and avoid any potential issues down the line. Your insights and collaboration are valuable as we move forward with this project. Let's connect soon to discuss ...

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I EMAILED HIM

Submitted to Contest #237

It took me since the bang of our universe to fall in love, but it took the shortest of a second to completely and utterly lose my common sense. My fingers lingered the glowing backlit keyboard. On the screen flashed a simple confession and I exhaled both in relief and disbelief. What was I even doing? My feelings were like a language I didn’t speak. Yet these feelings were unreasonably potent and dangerously persistent.This whole thing started as a half-hearted excuse to touch the waters of online dating. That's what led me to Flame; a cyber...

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Anonymous Artists

Submitted to Contest #237

Everest was named after a mountain, but had never climbed one. Her parents named her such, thinking that she would become a great climber of high altitudes, but to their dismay, she merely became a hopeless romantic with a great addiction for lovesickness. Everest got a degree in computer science, but made a living making commentary videos on pop culture. She didn’t really care about the things she talked about, but rather, she liked to argue and hear herself sound intelligent about things that didn’t require her to be technically learned a...

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Everything in common, nothing to lose

Submitted to Contest #237

We started to communicate by email just a few weeks after I joined the Facebook group. We just hit it off. We seemed to have so much in common. I knew she was a bit nervous about giving me her email address but I explained that it would be safer and more secure than using the messenger function on Facebook. For me it felt that we were moving to a new stage in our relationship. Friends? More than friends? Friday 6.23pm I had to change a lightbulb this morning. It is the first time since John died. He always used to change the lightbulbs. H...

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Programmer of hearts

Submitted to Contest #237

He clicked his mouse on the unread letter. It was from her. They'd only seen each other once in the capital, and then she'd gone back to her hometown, and they'd started writing to each other ever since. She felt as if she had known him for several lifetimes. Their meeting had been a mere formality - their bodies had to meet because their souls were old acquaintances. They had so much to say to each other; to recall all the unfulfilled dreams from before and to share the conclusions they had come to in their previous lives. She thought s...

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Little Frog

Submitted to Contest #237

I’m late, again.  But to be fair the train has been known to be quite unreliable lately and okay I might have stopped to get a coffee for me and granddad, so he’ll be less upset with me. I’m running through the large building; the spring air is usually what I wait all winter for but today the sun is doing little to my advantage. I’m sweating like an iced cup on a wooden table, trying to hold our coffees, while my overstuffed tote bag keeps falling off my shoulder in a way that makes me want to scream. “Hold it! Hold it!” ...

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Dear Stupid: A Love Story

Submitted to Contest #237

Saturday, 10:00 p.m.Them: “Your stupid.”Me: “Excuse me? You’re coming in a little hot there, buddy. We haven’t seen each other in how long? And that’s what you have to say to me? I’m stupid?”“And FYI – It’s ‘you’re’ (not ‘your’), as in you’re the one who’s stupid here. Obviously. First, for calling me stupid completely out of the blue. And second, for not being able to put together a simple, grammatically correct two-word sentence.”Them: “Wow. Feisty! I just remembered…you always had to be the smartest person in every room…constantly correct...

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