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I have experience with this

Submitted to Contest #81

Oh, no… My human’s malfunctioning again. Every time he gets nervous, he freezes. I have to help.Woof!Oh, right! That’s it! Thank you, Poof!Even if he doesn’t understand what I’m telling him sometimes, my human’s intelligent enough to get my message. I brought him my food bowl to tell him he should bring out the dishes. Next, I should bring him my water bowl so he won’t forget the bottle that goes POP and those transparent bowls on transparent sticks they drink its contents from. Later on, I should remind him about the meat in the oven.It’s o...

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Butterflies and Bubblegum Pink Hair

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I hadn't seen her in months. The last I said to her was terrible and she left in tears. I spent endless nights sitting in bed, trying to sleep, but my mind would drift off and think about her. Her beautiful ice blue eyes, her soft blonde hair, and the way our hands fit perfectly together while walking down the halls together at school. How could I have been so stupid? I thought. I stood up off my bed and looked at myself in the mirror. I spent hours putting together the perfect outfit. A short black skirt, one she’d given to me on my birthda...

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Tomatoes and Basils

Submitted to Contest #81

Adam placed the plates on the dining table, hastily setting the two spoons and forks beside it. He glanced at the clock, 6:53, in seven minutes Troy is going to knock on his apartment door and they’re going to celebrate their third anniversary. It was an interesting thought that they’ve been together for three years. Adam remembered when they first met, on that coffee shop down the block with the bright white neon sign. The candleholder that he bought from the department store fitted well with the aesthetic that he planned out. A romantic ...

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Temporal Dislocation

Submitted to Contest #81

Translucent hands trembled as he laid the cutlery out, his eyes blurring from unshed tears. He would get it right this time. He had to get it right. Cass folded the napkins into triangles, standing on the sparkling white dishes rimmed with gold. Two menus, one on either side of the wine bucket that held a red wine of some unseemly price range. He straightened the candles that were on the side of the table this time. (Cass remembered the time when the candles were in the middle and Geoffrey accidentally knocked them over with a wild gesticula...

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Muscle Memory

Submitted to Contest #81

What Malcolm and Eli didn’t anticipate while having their first sexual experience together during Jewish Summer Camp next to the horse graveyard is that they would be reintroduced fifteen years later -- as an IT expert and a middle-of-the-road insurance broker. It’s not as if they regret the beautiful nights they spent together rolling over the bones of old-timey-Appaloosas, it’s just a bizarre and inappropriate thing to bring up to a work acquaintance after 15+ years of radio silence. Malcolm was given the assignment to fix an ongoing ...

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Geriatric Penguins, and Why I Give a Shit About Them

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Rockhopper penguins typically die 10-15 years after they hatch, usually at the mouth of a sea lion, entangled in a human’s net, or from avian cholera. However, Wellington and Drake are pushing 34 this December, and the twilight of their prolonged life spent under the roof of Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, I find it only appropriate to reflect on their journey inside these walls. Here is a not-so-brief timeline:December 1987: Wellington and Drake are hatched at a SeaWorld. March 1991: Wellington and Drake arrive at the Shedd Aquarium a m...

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Forget Me Not

Submitted to Contest #81

Juniper never thought she’d see Robin’s face again. Never thought she’d look into those deep blue eyes that have just the right amount of green in them to mimic the globe, a miniature planet Earth spinning in front of her. Never thought she’d hear that voice, like the first notes of a song you’ve heard a million times but can never remember the name of. Never thought she’d feel her heart somersault inside her chest, stumbling over the dismount like it did when she was fifteen.  But here she is, waiting at the bus stop on the street wh...

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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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Remember That Night

Submitted to Contest #81

In exactly seven minutes, Myron will jog past my backyard, only to find me standing there, tending to the garden like I always do except for every other day.He will look through me in a way that he looks through everyone, and he will brush the hair from his eyes.Then he will look at me with his unremarkable brown eyes.He will remember that night, when we were drunk and stupid, where all the lights had rained down on us and the world felt smaller and more in focus.He will remember that he had pulled me closer that night, that he had run his s...

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Different and the Same

Submitted to Contest #81

Jess woke up feeling like an asshole. Her pajama pants were pulled up under the skirt that she’d forgotten to take off in her drunken stupor.  The drive home felt like a distant memory. She remembered it in bits and pieces. His hand on the steering wheel. The fuzzy dice dangling from the mirror. He still had the same taste in music, and when “Can’t Fight This Feeling” came on they both sat in silence until the chorus and then they were twin volcanoes, erupting into song side by side, just like old times. He still hadn’t learned the wo...

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An Inexpensive Plate of Love

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Brian couldn't cook. He could do plenty of useful things: knit colorful sweaters, fix a tire, pick up a local custom within minutes of being somewhere new. But for the life of him, Brian couldn't cook. Unfortunately, Brian, like so many others in New York City, was a hopeless romantic. It was Brian and Rob's sixth anniversary of dating, and it was also the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. How romantic, right? There was nothing like living in the epicenter of a worldwide pandemic and being young and in love. Each day that went by, Brain could ...

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Destined to Be Different

Submitted to Contest #81

Step by heavy, apprehensive step, Becca walked up to the juice bar where she was meeting her blind date. Well, where she was supposed to meet him. If he didn’t show, that would be understandable in her mind. Blind dates are so strange and you never know what to expect. She almost didn’t come herself. However, the picture her coworker, Dani, had shown her was quite convincing. Flawless skin and dark brown eyes, a killer combination in Becca’s mind. Pair that with a nice smile and she knew this man would be the death of her. He hadn’t been smi...

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A calculated risk

Submitted to Contest #81

It’s been a while since I went on a date. Can’t say there haven’t been a few opportunities, but not really ones I was willing to pursue. People around me say I play it safe too much, that I won’t enjoy life if I’m always so cautious. They’re not wrong, but they’re not right either. I chose the safer options for major life decisions and I haven’t regretted any such decision so far. With relationships and hookups however, I admit I often wonder what would’ve happened if I had taken a gamble in some of those cases, but it’s not like those t...

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Timeless

Submitted to Contest #81

Do you believe in a love that transcends time? Well then, you are in luck! This is a tale about a love that has bloomed across many lifetimes, becoming stronger with every sunrise and sunset. In total, our fated lovers have found each other in the midst of six different lives that span different times and places. It wasn’t a simple feat, mind you. There were always obstacles that stood in the way to keep the two separate. Yet in the end, they would find each other and the memories of their shared pasts would return as if told in a fairytale....

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A Shot at a Date

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Romance was hard to come by for Florence, most of the time her dates didn’t get far past the first one. For three years she had decided to put her heart in a box when it came to dating. She simply thought she wasn’t ready to try again. Instead, she focused on her single life, putting her needs first. Thinking that if she explored her own self that she would figure out what she wanted in her love life when she was willing to go back on the hunt for a lover. Thinking that maybe this next time she would explore her bisexuality and try dating bo...

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