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A Stranger in the Woods

Submitted to Contest #29

        Adelphie played with her food, pushing bits of potato around her plate with her fork. “I know his mother is the best Healer in the palace. That doesn’t mean I should marry him.” A particularly fat pigeon alighted on her wrist and rubbed his head on her thumb in support.               Her mother sighed. “Del, I told you to keep that thing off the table.”           &nb...

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You walked into that room and entered my heart

Submitted to Contest #29

Love is a funny thing. Every Friday when I was five years old my mother would drive me to my grandmother’s house. My brother and sister were in school and my mother’s beauty parlor was around the corner from Nanny.She dropped me off at ten o’clock and would re-appear after lunch with her hair coiffed majestically and a trunk filled with groceries.It was a fun day. Nanny, dressed in her suit, hat, and white gloves and I drove around the corner to the deli where the man behind the counter handed me a piece of lox on a bagel, before getting dow...

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Elegy of Springtime

Submitted to Contest #29

It was a funny thing, the way love bloomed under the early buds of a cherry blossom, then died away when the blooms started to fall. Spring had been full of pastel things unfolding, be it flowers or feelings of the same rosy ilk. After, summer was hot, withering, and it chased off the tail a love never meant to be. He still couldn’t help but miss her, though, when he watched the cherry trees fill in with green canopy overhead.  A can of sun-warmed lemonade in hand, he sat at the riverbank, under the dappling shade of the very cherry tre...

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One Good Monday

Submitted to Contest #29

Gloomy is the only word I can use to describe the beginning of this story. Dim lit, early morning sky filled with clouds and tears propelling down, making their way into every crevice the city holds. Deep inside the gutters below was only darkness. The cobble stones once filled with happy people, now empty, as the bricks destroy the movement of the rain, ceasing the life within the little suicidal lifeforms. As if a skirt riding up at a burlesque show the clouds separate, teasing the sun only to get even darker than they once were. Not a sor...

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How I Fell In Love With A Serial Killer

Submitted to Contest #29

Myles and I had been getting on well those last couple of months, no new girls had been brought into the corridor, and I could tell our relationship was blooming into something more than what it had been. This was probably due to my soft flirting. Warmer smiles when he came to talk, louder laughs when he tried to joke, and trailing touches when he gave me gifts. My cell had looked quite different from its original bare stone prison, blankets covered the small bed, a chair sat in the corner, and an old bookcase was slowly filling with second ...

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Hey babe, I love you.

Submitted to Contest #29

When I try to describe your beauty, your smile, your kind heart, I find that my words only begin to scratch the surface of my love for you. You are too amazing, too much of a wonder for language to describe. When we are together, and with each gesture you make, and each word that you utter, I realize, more and more, how special and caring you are, and how lucky I am to be with you. When we are not together, the very thought of you brings me more fully to life.Thank you for being there for me. Thank you for loving me and letting me love you. ...

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Star Lovers

Submitted to Contest #29

A long time ago, there were two stars beyond a distant sky. They lived far away in the pocket of a dark nebula that drifted through the universe. One star was bright and burned forever blue, the other was just as bright and burned forever red. They were relatively opposite but still fundamentally the same. For centuries they circled one another, perpetually caught in the others gravitational pull, dancing for all eternity. In many ways they loved each other. The way one shined so bright and beautiful against the endless void of space in...

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The one that got away

Submitted to Contest #29

As I sign the final decree of divorce, I cannot help but think back to the time when I fell in love with Penelope. We were 13 or 14, attending the same junior high, but never had any classes together.There was this walking club that met every Saturday and Sunday morning for a few months every year. Its goal was to educate the youth about the city’s architecture and history. My friend and I signed up because we were genuinely interested in learning more about the city we lived in, but I imagine that the promise of a better grade in some of th...

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Valentine Candy-Grams

Submitted to Contest #29

Harbor Creek High School’s first block began with the morning announcement program. Students in the A.V. Club praddled off school-related news bulletins to a camera broadcasting to a closed-circuit television system that the whole school watched every morning. They led the pledge of allegiance before launching into what needed to be known for the day. Meatloaf was today’s lunch entree. Our basketball team won the game over the weekend. They and the track team had practice this evening. A few clubs were meeting at lunch and some birthdays wer...

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Love at the Stables

Submitted to Contest #29

Matt was an experienced horseman, as many of the veterans of the Great War expected a young, enterprising lieutenant and leader of men to be. As a personal challenge, he had jumped at the chance of joining the prestigious Equestrian School to test himself against the best horsemen and women the country could offer. The estate included several rings, a racetrack, two showgrounds and access to the surrounding countryside which consisted of handsome wooded hills and cool streams. Everyone that had dared to enter into a personal competition with...

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I call dibs!

Submitted to Contest #29

 Feb 14thDear diary, I should stop starting my entries like that but this is out of habit. I went to the cinema today to celebrate my single-hood. Follow this story to find out why this is the event I’ve picked to write about from my day. It gets real good. The cinema was a bad choice. All those nauseatingly happy couples were all over the mall and made me feel a little out of place. But I stuck it out and got a ticket for the horror movie. I’ve got to live what I blog about. It was rather full and I sat at the very front. I think my he...

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Where the Fireflies Grow

Submitted to Contest #29

The stiff breeze lifted a strand of hair from her forehead, small sweat droplets causing the other strands to stick profusely to her skin. The sun glared high overhead as she stood there waiting on Tara. Ever since the two girls had turned sixteen, Tara had been obsessed with her appearance, refusing to so much as walk outside to get the mail without looking flawless.Emily sighed with relief as she saw her best friend’s front door open briefly and close, Tara emerging between the hedges that flanked the sidewalk as if she was on the red carp...

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Love or fear?

Submitted to Contest #29

I love you! The text read, she didn't know what exactly she was supposed to reply. "I love you too!", She replied. But, she didn't know if she genuinely meant it or not. Two months or more passed by, when she was just tired of everything that ever happened to her till the date. Locked herself in her room, speaking to none, being a total psycho, she just wanted to disappear. No messages or calls from friends, neighbours being just a headache, relatives being not so helpful, family being everything but still couldn't help her get out her ...

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You and me: Us

Submitted to Contest #29

I met her only yesterday. Wait, that’s not true. I’ve known her my whole life, but yesterday. Yesterday was different. You see she’s been a common denominator in my life. Through the tears, hissy fits and honestly nobody knows my greatest hits like her. She doesn’t just know those parts of me, she is those parts of me, because in those memories and moments you see, she was there. Always carrying a smile to match my frown, a laugh to match my scowl even tears when I am overjoyed. To call her a rock is just wrong because she’s done more, been ...

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Development of a Healing Heart

Submitted to Contest #29

I don’t want to feel this way. I don’t want to feel this way.I don’t want to feel this way, but I can’t help it. I love him.I love everything about him. I love his smile, his eyes, his personality, his devotion to God, the way he treats me, the way he always looks at me, the way he makes me smile.His name is Isaiah, and I love his soul.I’m in love with him, but I’m scared. I’m not used to this feeling.I’ve never felt like this before. For most of my life, I’ve been broken so many times by pain that I never deserved t...

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