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Like You

Submitted to Contest #82

Human beings aren't built to be alone, but I'm an android. The circumstances of human existence rarely apply to me, but I must learn how to be like them, that's why I was made. My designer once said "loneliness causes a great deal of distress to a person and that's why people shouldn't be alone". I don't understand why human beings can't be alone. It's an easy enough thing to do. But as I navigate my way through the human experience, I realize they have themselves to blame for being alone. They constantly fight with one another over myria...

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Second Chances

Submitted to Contest #81

   "Valentine's Day Madness! Buy One Get One Free! Matching Couples' Sets!"     I sigh, remembering the pain of why I’m now single.      It all happened two months ago, on December 22nd. It was a snowy day. My boyfriend and I were walking through the park, holding hands and acting like everything was fine when just the opposite was more accurate.     “Babe, I think we need to talk.” my boyfriend had admitted, pausing and turning to look me in the eye.   ...

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Love Story

Submitted to Contest #81

Jason came bursting into the house, face flushed and grinning ecstatically. Eduardo smiled, Jax greatly resembled his grandpa, Jonathan. Same sharp blue-green eyes and all American features.  But instead of smugness, there was humility. Instead of glittering charisma, there was sincerity. Instead of laughter, there was calm. Suppose, and Eduardo wasn’t trying to flatter himself, that was his doing. Of course, it’s physically impossible for him and Jonathan to have a baby or a genetic grandchild. Eduardo and Jonathan adopted Jo...

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You Knew Me

Submitted to Contest #81

Date; 02/13/18 Time; 24:30am It’s late at night, I can’t sleep...I’ve been thinking about him again...even though I stopped crushing on him, my heart feels stronger feelings than last time...I sit upon my windowsill in my room, I watch as rain pours itself down in front of the half-moon that lights up the darkened sky, my head pounds as hard as the rain is pounding against my window. I can’t keep hiding these feelings anymore...I glance towards the transgender flag hanging against my wall, beside the rainbow flag, which has hung there for ...

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I remember.

Submitted to Contest #81

I remember it all. "I remember seeing you at school, every day for four years. You were the only reason I actually came to that crappy high school. I was never a good student, but you were always there, so always went just to stare at you. I remember making eye contact with you during algebra. The feeling of your eyes on mine burned deep inside me with passion. Those eyes ripped me open and exposed the person that I truly was, that person that I hated. But I always imagined that those eyes loved me so much more than I did myself. Your eyes ...

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Six

Submitted to Contest #81

6 Years. 6 Months Dating. 6 Weeks before the First Date.  6 Texts before the question was asked.  6 Swipes Left before landing on her.  6 hours of video chatting.  6 Seconds of hesitation before calling first. 6 photos shared between them.  6 things they have in common.  6 different things about their physical traits. 6 Fights before Now. 6 Minutes of yelling. 6 guest invites to the wedding. 6 band members played. 6 Years. “6 Years!” Cora exclaimed, slamming the black and white photo on the tabl...

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Last True Love's Kiss

Submitted to Contest #81

I look over at him. My beloved David. I remember the good times and the bad. My chest feels like a cobra is wrapped around it squeezing it until I can’t breathe. I’ve lived a good long life and I couldn’t have been happier. But now I can feel it like how you feel a storm coming. I’m dying. I slide out of the bed, stumbling as I lift my weight up. I hear a groan behind me and turn my head to look at the lump. I sigh, good he’s not waking up.  I take a deep breath then step forward again. I walk out of the room and head down the hall, to...

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Murky Waters

Submitted to Contest #81

If 3 A.M. isn’t the right time to be half-submerged in a muddy puddle, June thinks there probably isn’t one. It feels right though. It’s something about the way water wicks up the threads of her tattered sweater, pooling in the center of her upturned palms, settling in the hollow between her collar bones. It beads across her rain boots, but had long since started soaking into her socks. Perhaps the rain boots are a bit unnecessary. It all comes down to user error. The intended function of rain boots isn’t exactly keeping your feet dry when l...

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Until Forever

Submitted to Contest #81

“Daniel” Eddie called out “get me the wine glasses from the storage room please” he shoved his hands into the cotton gloves and bent down to open the oven “Dad, they are like four or five sets of wine glasses there, which of them do you want?” Daniel walked into the kitchen “bring the finest of them all, I want this to be the best dinner Anne has ever had” he opened the oven and brought out the already prepared turkey “oh my God, Dad that smells so good can I have some?” Daniel stared at the hot pepper sauced turkey “no way, not until your m...

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Pink & Blue

Submitted to Contest #81

Felix goes by Felicia now. They pumped his chest with silicone or something, though they bounce natural enough. Maybe they got something more natural now. I make a note to ask him later. He still has his John Holmes though, thank God, like two coke cans stacked together. We’d sometimes hang after school and I’d fantasize about doing to him what those two blokes did to Joey Lauren Adams in Chasing Amy that got Ben Affleck all bent outta shape. It’s been half a decade, but when I saw him at the mall last week, I thought, eh, fuckit.  As f...

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The Set-Up

Submitted to Contest #81

Emery didn't normally celebrate Valentine's Day. It just didn't go with his vibe. Besides, Valentine's Day was busy, which meant that people were more cheerful, more careless, et cetera, et cetera... a perfect heist planning day. Or heist committing day. Which, you know, when you were the cities greatest (not) supervillain was something to be cherished. It meant that that bastard, Bubble Bath, The Shine Monster, He Who Makes You Slip, Emery's nemesis, hero alias Bathesar, would be on the lookout. Because they'd been through this routine. Man...

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Stood Up

Submitted to Contest #81

I check my phone for the third time. Randy should be here by now, this is the third time he missed a date. The first two times I understood, his mom needed him and then his cousin needed him, but this time he promised me that he would be here.  It was our anniversary for God’s sake, why would he miss one of the most important days of our relationship? The tiny pessimistic voice in the back of my head whispered, Maybe he’s cheating on you. Maybe he doesn’t want you anymore and found another person. I shoved those thoughts away, trying t...

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When I was in New York, a Dead Man Said my Name

Submitted to Contest #80

When I was in New York, a dead man said my name. It was summer and the heat was incredible; you could see the homeless beginning to blister on street corners, and people selling bottles of ice water for one dollar. Tourists with sweat dripping down their arms barely had time to stop to admire the scenery before they were pressing into buildings and basking in the blast of AC. I was on my lunchbreak and had some time to kill before I needed to get back to the office, but I wasn’t particularly enthused about going anywhere. I’d stood under t...

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Progress

Submitted to Contest #80

A thick blume of smoke left the old man’s wrinkled face, and he once again took a long drag from the long cigar that hung from his mouth, too old to care about his deteriorating lungs. A myriad of newspaper clippings and word photographs filled the walls. He coughed hard. A weak, wrinkled hand beat his chest as he cleared his throat before he spoke “it never felt like we were making history you know?” his eyes fell before bouncing left and right. He shuddered. It saddened me how weak he seemed, I almost spoke to break the silence as thick as...

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I love you

Submitted to Contest #81

This isn't apart of any series, I just had an idea, and it fit the prompt. So, enjoy!Noah bounced on his heels. He just finished decorating the kitchen for his husband, Elijah. It was their anniversary, and Elijah’s birthday.Elijah’s plane was supposed to land in an hour, and Noah was going to bring him back home and surprise him with a fancy dinner.“Leo!” He called. His best friend was helping him, since Noah couldn’t cook to save his life.“Yeah?”“Where’s my phone? I want to call Eli!”“On the couch!”“Thanks!” He went into the living ro...

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