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Cardigan date

Submitted to Contest #56

Shivers of insecurity yet a bead confidence in her tiny little red dress, the fact that she doesn’t see who or what to compare to, builds a sense of coziness in her own skin. She smiles and slips the thin cotton cardigan down her shoulders, softly it falls into the ground unnoticed. Days, weeks, months, years she’s always wanted to uncovered her flabby arms, as she thought she had, just to get the cool breeze kisses from mother nature telling her she’s good enough. Finally, thanks to the guy who sits across the table from her, judgment wasn’...

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Secerets 💙

Submitted to Contest #56

My name is March Spring. My father is a part of a spy organization. I've been apart of it since I turned thirteen. Three years ago. He said his son should "learn the ropes." I hate it. I didn't get a say in if I wanted to be apart of it or not. My dad just assumed I did. The only good thing is my best friend, Ryker, is there too. I'm not supposed to know him. He's actually a prisoner, but I go to visit him all the time. He won't escape, because he hates his family, my dads rivals, and doesn't want to go back. I'm going to see him right now, ...

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Sunrises Over Afra and Gervassi

Submitted to Contest #56

"I just don't see why you had to bring her." Eleanor and Gervassi stood on the porch together, standing several feet apart and whispering. It was some of the most aggressive whispering anyone ever heard, and yet that was just the dynamic the two seemed to have. Gervassi wished that Afra hadn't gone inside, but he knew too that this was a battle he had to fight alone. His ex girlfriend, and maybe now ex friend in general, glared at him from across the porch. "She's wasn't part of our group growing up. She doesn't belong with us." "I don't kno...

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Coincidences Happen

Submitted to Contest #56

It was ten minutes before her date and Maeve had to meet her boyfriend in the lobby. Her best friend/roommate didn't return at his usual hour which could only mean he was not going to return at all that night. With one swirl in the middle of the living room and one last look at her outfit, Maeve smiled and checked her phone. No new messages and no new calls. She checked the time again and realized there were five minutes left. Maeve sat on the edge of her red L shaped couch and stared ahead patiently.She was getting really bored and did...

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A story about Joseph and Mary meeting for a blind date.

Submitted to Contest #56

My story is entitled Joseph and Mary meeting for a blind date. A blind date is a social engagement between two people who have not previously met, usually arranged by a mutual acquaintance. A blind date is arranged by a mutual acquaintance of both Joseph and Mary .Also both the two people Joseph and Mary take part in the blind date and have never met or seen each other ,hence the phrase "blind date". It is the responsibilities of the person who arranges the date to ensure that they are a good match. Sometimes it is not...

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Last Friday Nights

Submitted to Contest #56

It was a cold night. February 14,2020 Jared Collins finished our love story. I thought my valentines will be perfect. But Jared did not direct my life. My name is Cinderella 26 years of age I lived at California. Daughter of a C.E.O. to be honest it's not my real name. My name is Mary Katheryn McCarthy. Born on July 23, 1994    I still believed in fairytales. True love kiss is real. One day I was dreaming for a prince charming waiting outside of our mansion. While holding my shoe glass.(Someone knocking our door)"Oh my go...

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Just a kiss 😘

Submitted to Contest #56

LAURA "A blind date?!" I shout. HUNTER "What?" I say after my friends tell me they set me up for a blind date. LAURA This is not happining. I know she cares about me, and want me to get a boyfriend, but I draw a line at blind dates. Usaully. I don't have anything aganist the boy, I just don't want to date someone I don't know. Sadly, my friend, Kit, already arranged everything. I'm meeting this guy at 9:00 at the Island Grill restaurant. I don't want to stand up some random guy, so I guess I'm going. HUNTER "Guys, there is no w...

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Hello and goodbye...forever

Submitted to Contest #56

I glance up from my conversation with my friend, Beth, and behind her, I see him entering the café holding her hand. Waves of emotion rush through me; fear, surprise, anxiety, excitement, desire, and joy, all at the same time. I had never expected to meet his wife and had hoped I would never have to. Seeing her felt even worse than I could have imagined. She looks so kind, so pretty, so wonderful. Remember, he doesn’t want her. He is with you. Yeah, but not publicly. Publicly he’s still with her. I argue with myself. I try to refocus on m...

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A red dress on valentines day

Submitted to Contest #56

She said a red dress. On valentines day of all days, and I, a nice jacket with a rose in his pocket. How many of us here tonight are living the exact same scenario. I could sit in any of these empty chairs and present myself to the lady in red as her date and they would be none the wiser and my date could mistake me for a random guy sitting in anticipation of meeting his date. It would seem that we all share in our unoriginality as well as our sense of fashion. I can only stand out with my conversation. What am I going to talk about? Hey, wh...

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We’re All Grownups Here!

Submitted to Contest #56

(Write a story in which two people who know each other are introduced — but neither person admits to knowing the other.)The only way I can describe it is to say that it was the worst moment of my life.  ~~~~~I had finally gotten up my confidence, and with it enough nerve to actually put my money and my skills on the line for a ten day Photo Adventure Excursion to Iceland.  I was excited beyond description and totally preoccupied with checking my photography equipment. I was trying to decide how much stuff I wanted to...

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Lavender Eyes and Broken Heart

Submitted to Contest #56

”December sucks.”I whisper to myself on the first chilly morning of December. And again while I choked down the breakfast my mom had prepared for me. And again when I sat alone on the bus. I wrote it over and over on my math test worksheet until the tip of my pencil broke.I was walking to the tree where my best friend, Christina, and I always met before brunch. Since we had separate first-period classes, I would reach the tree first and wait for her to be released from her class. Once she was, Christina burst out of the room with a dreamy gr...

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A Red Lip Too Precious

Submitted to Contest #56

Alicia glanced at her watch for the umpteenth time. The gesture serving two purposes at its root; one to get away from the prying eyes of the arse responsible for waiting her table and the second… Well, the second was the fact that she was having the biggest deal of her life sanctioned while she waited for a man she had never seen before to give her the experience of what an amicable relationship felt like when she couldn’t even give him props for punctuality. It didn’t matter to her though, not in the least as she stood up muttering “good r...

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The bridge

Submitted to Contest #56

“I stand in front of the mirror and marvel at myself. I'm not the kind of man who's super concerned with how he looks or how I am seen by others. I don't have time, I never had. I always had to run in the race of professional evolution to get out of the swamp that my birth gave me. First I studied and worked, I didn't even have enough sleep time. Then, after I finished my studies, I started the search for jobs, for projects, for gaining prestige and money. This gain was almost my only food, quenching a terrible hunger. In the beginning, it w...

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The End of Love

Submitted to Contest #56

They arrived at the same time but since one went to the back door and the other to the front, they didn’t see each other. Pat clicked her car keys, standing at the front door of Cora’s house, and shifted her weight from one foot to the other. She let her keys fall into her purse and then snapped the purse closed. Clouds were gathering, thin and wan, stretched across a darkening winter sky, and just before the door opened, Pat put up a hand and two tiny snowflakes landed. They melted perfectly into the suede palm of her glove, and then the do...

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Keep It Between Us

Submitted to Contest #55

“Can you keep a secret?”I never really gave much thought to the weight of that question. At least not until the moment it was thrown directly at me.It was my childhood friend of twelve years, Trisha, who suddenly sprung those words at me during the day of our grade school graduation.I remember it as clearly as the sky was that day.She looked at me with honest eyes that seemed to scream out, “Please say yes!”.So naturally, I said yes.It almost felt like it was more of a reflex than a genuine response on my part. Because honestly, I don’t thin...

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