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A Chance Meeting

Submitted to Contest #56

A Chance Meeting My mother called me “ugly” once. I was staring in the bathroom mirror for the fifteenth time, looking at my reflection, making sure that this red dress doesn’t draw attention to my ‘thunder thighs”. Yeah, right, Janneke, whom do you think you are? Purposely pushed an annoying strand of hair behind my left ear. “Ugly,” was the one word my loving mother u...

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No Light without Dark

Shawna Williams

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“What can I get you, dear?” I asked the young man who had just sat at a booth alone. “Um.. I’m actually waiting for someone.” he said, glancing out the window. “Cup of coffee, to settle the nerves?” I asked him and the man smiled at me. After settling the man with a cup of coffee, I returned to the counter and began wiping it down. It had been a slow night, just a couple truckers and a few lonely souls, but now I was excited. I smiled at a frazzled looking woman who came blowing in the doors, her beautiful brown hair flying everywhere ...

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I Hope You Dance

Ken Coomes

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“Welcome to another episode of Love is Blind. I’m Kevin Bloom, your host, and moderator. And I’m still not related to Orlando.” Kevin waited a few seconds while the live studio audience chuckled. “Tonight I’ll be talking with Blake and Miranda about their blind date last night. And in the second half of the show, we’ll bring Beatrice and Janice back after their second date, and find out how that went. But now, please welcome Blake Litton and Miranda Shambo.” Kevin led the audience in applause, as Blake and Miranda walked onto the set, hold...

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Unlikely Friends

Lonnie Larson

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Sharon was cleaning up the girl’s locker room after the basketball game when she heard noises coming from the equipment room. She slipped around quietly until she could see what it was that was making the noise. What she saw, shocked her. She saw Veronica Tipton, the richest girl in school. She was standing in the trash cart in a large heavy duty black trash bag. Sharon watched as Veronica dumped a half full garbage can in on top of her. Veronica sat down, wriggled around and then pulled the top in and twisted it shut. She watched as Veronic...

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A Fresh Start

Robyn Jipp

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"I hate parties. I don't know why I even let you talk me into coming."Jen shoots me a sideways glance from the corner of her eye."You're coming because you need to learn how to socialize and not always be an introverted weirdo," she chastises me. "And because Carolyn has someone she wants you to meet.""I don't even know Carolyn very well. Why's she trying to play matchmaker for me?""Well, I know her and I trust her. Don't worry, she wouldn't set my wittle brovver up with anyone nasty-wasty." Jen takes one hand off the steering wheel to reach...

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Blind Introduction

Moji Sola

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She didn’t want to do this. She didn’t want to be here. She hated blind dates; they were so uncertain. None of the parties involved knew what they were going to get, they just hoped for the best. Well, she wasn’t a big believer of hope. Ava Sommers was a practical woman. She never relied on hope, never has, never will. Which was why this date was giving her the jitters. She wasn’t worried about the looks, God knew she had her fair share of beautiful assholes, she was more concerned about the attitude. She could handle that too, sure, but she...

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Always Human

Christina Li

Shortlisted for Contest #56 ⭐️

I met her at the edge of the world. She sat with her feet dangling over the Edge, the place where the stars touched the earth. I’d almost tripped when I saw her. From the distance, she looked like a marble statue, the ivory glow of the moon softening the edges of her silhouette, turning her hair into the colour of winter snow. No, not a statue, I thought as I approached, squinting into the darkness. A ghost. Perhaps foolishly, I thought of my father.“Guǐ” he called them in his stories. “Stay away, Leo. They linger between the ...

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It's the little things

Palash Jhawar

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Anna “What do you mean I don’t date enough?”, a slightly hyper Anna asked her friend. Rita continued to give her the look, completely unaffected by Anna’s outburst. She just put up her hands and indicated everything in Anna’s vicinity. “Look at yourself, Anna. You are at work on a Sunday morning. For the past 6 months, I have seen you put in 80 hour weeks. You really need to get out more”, exclaimed Rita while maintaining her death stare. Anna broke her eye contact and looked around at her cubicle. Her cubicle was all she had been seei...

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The different perspectives of two people meeting for a blind date Holi

K V CHIDAMBARAM

Submitted to Contest #56

Brains could blind the beauty. With this philosophy Jaideep was quite sure that he will be able to get closer to Jotsna someday, sometime, somewhere, and somehow. He was also sure that he was not a match to her in any other manner whatsoever. Jaideep had no qualms about his being very unhandsome in looks under any circumstances. Jaideep was aware he was neither macho in his built nor versatile in his vocabulary. Whenever he is on the verge of meeting a person of the opposite sex he suffers from constipation of speech and diarrhea of though...

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The Unexpected Introduction

M.W. Nel

Submitted to Contest #56

“Are you sure you can’t come tonight?” Nadine asked her boyfriend, Warren, as she stood by the cabinet in their bedroom looking for her earrings. “I’m sorry boo. You know how long I’ve been waiting to get promoted and I need to take every opportunity to show my commitment, even if it’s just showing up for a work dinner.” He replied making his way to her, wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her closer to him. “I know.” She agreed resting her hands on his broad chest. “Besides, didn’t you say you don’t even know the person whose par...

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CROSSROADS

Vidushi Sharma

Submitted to Contest #56

We often find ourselves in inevitable circumstances. We call it by different names fate, destiny or just plain, simple bad luck. I am in an acquiesce myself now. I haven't quite introduced myself. I am devi. Devi means goddess but today the goddess is being shipped out the temple. I am 27 and for most people that's time when the countdown starts. It's not a story about bombs or terrorists. It's not nice to call my aunt a terrorist. Nevertheless, this is a story of my arranged marriage. In India marriage or rather , a timely marriage is assoc...

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The Compatibility Test

Peace Nakiyemba

Submitted to Contest #56

Boy.I don’t know why I let them talk me into this.I actually do but lets go with the first assertion. I don’t know why I let them talk me into this. I don’t even know how to navigate a first date anymore. The only person I have dated, till she ruthlessly broke me heart a week ago, was Jen. We were six years going on forever and then she claims that she didn’t see a future for us. Six years! A week is too early to be moving on, isn’t it?I tried to make all those guys see reason but Apo said that a blind date would be fun. Just fun. To get me ...

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The Great Safari

Josephine Andersen

Submitted to Contest #56

The Great Safari “Where do we wash?” asked Lisa. “Over there behind those trees. There is water in the river, just take one of the tubs and do a sponge down” “But what about the crocs?” “What?” “You know those big reptiles that bite your legs off.” “ Oh don’t worry about those,” said Ben, “ you won’t find any here.” Where do you find them? Lisa asked herself. They had already crossed the Grumeti River , near Nairobi which was swarming with crocodiles. There could easily be crocodiles here too. She had ha...

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16 and 24

Lauren Brown

Submitted to Contest #56

I still remember the first time I saw him. I was in his apartment. I was somewhat dating his roommate, and it was my first time at his place. I was sitting on the couch. He came from behind me. “My girlfriend gets me flowers, and all I have a is a beer bottle to put it in” he joked. He had thick black kinky hair, sharp facial features, scrawny. I instantly fell for his loud objectionable laugh. It's a funky phenomenon, isn’t it? Love at first sight. But I felt it. I felt it with him. He was wearing a Cosby like ...

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Love on a Saturday

Chris Riffle

Submitted to Contest #56

She’s doing her hair for the first time in months. She even broke out the bobby pins – new ones, not the ones rusting on the floor of her tiny bathroom – in an attempt to give those stray strands a little more purpose. He’s shirtless in his bedroom checking out his body in the mirror behind his door. He’s gained some muscle in the past few months. He’s feeling especially great about himself. He even trimmed his beard a little shorter and neater. It was getting pretty itchy anyway. She puts on mascara but it’s so chunky she has to wash ...

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A Chance Meeting

No Light without Dark

I Hope You Dance

Unlikely Friends

A Fresh Start

Blind Introduction

Always Human

It's the little things

The different perspectives of two people meeting for a blind date Holi

The Unexpected Introduction

CROSSROADS

The Compatibility Test

The Great Safari

16 and 24

Love on a Saturday