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The dream between a men from Mars,women from venus...

Submitted to Contest #81

"Love, Love and Love only...❤️" It was a pleasant Monday morning.. The cycle of nature continues as everyday . It won't stop for me or you. Our world see lot of birth, death, success, failure, blissful moment, sad moment and love. The word "love", really a magical one. In that magic, a man from Mars and a woman from venus are getting together. They both make a new world that was filled only by love. No one can change this. When a nature decided to make a pair, definitely it will happen. It won't stop for anyone. Like tha...

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My high school love life

Submitted to Contest #81

It was wintertime. Everybody loves wintertime, don't they? Making a snowman, snow fights, having fun, maybe having chat with friends that was all needed to escape away from the boring world we're living in. I wanted no different than that, but everybody doesn't get what they wanted in their life. It was like any other regular day of my life, or at least I thought it was. The day was pleasant like any other day of winter. Whatever, I didn't like being there at school felt like I was in some kind of solitary confinement. Rules, punctuation, ...

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8th Inning Baseball

Submitted to Contest #81

8th Inning Baseball MARP MARP MARP MARP, my alarm cut the sweet sleep that had graced me from consciousness for about 4 hours. The clock reads 4 p.m. that leaves me about 3 hours till I go back to sleep. Guess I can get my stuff done, but then again, what does it matter, nothing really matters. I guess I could at least make something to eat. I drag my limbs from their dormant positions on my bed.  I’m a little tired of the way that most of what I eat is just microwave junk. How could it go from me making amazing meals diminish to th...

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Wrong person, wrong time

Submitted to Contest #81

It all started when I was flipping through the pages of my favorite novel 'Pride and Prejudice' while sitting in a library with stacks of books lined sequentially. I was fully focused on the novel. Darcy and Elizabeth's love story almost made me forget the real world. While I was so into the book, I heard someone approaching from behind. "Hi! Are you Joseph?" a girl in her brown turtleneck and short skirt asked me. I turned down the book and replied "Yeah! Do I know you?" "I'm Kayla. We both went to the music class together in the 5th grad...

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My Only Love

Submitted to Contest #81

Time does fly. Sometimes it seems like it was yesterday and sometimes it feels like it was ages ago.    I met my wife when I was 15 years old. In high school. When I saw her the first time, I was in awe. I cannot explain the feeling. It is like my heart stopped beating. Time stopped. It felt like the world slowed down around me. All in slow motion. I remember, it was my first day of class of the year. Summer about to end. It was Tuesday after Labor Day. I was always and even today, a very punctual person. For some reason, t...

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Life is all about second chances

Submitted to Contest #81

I love you today As I have from the start And I’ll love you forever With all of my heart I make a rhythmless poem of my own as I walk down the street sloppily and almost bump into a white Mazda car. The driver’s eyes go narrow, no doubt from the effort not to say out loud the hateful words he’s spewing at me in his head. Unexpectedly he decides to let me go away only by shooting murderous glimpse and proceeds toward his destination. I’m actually way too busy planning my 1st anniversary with Brad rather than how that man was planning to blow ...

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Imperfect Memories

Submitted to Contest #81

Imperfect Memories Ronnie got up once again to heat his coffee. He knew there was no way he should be expected to send this email with cold coffee. It was completely reasonable that while he composed this three to four line message, he should have hot coffee. Ding, Ding, Ding. The microwave brought him out of his reverie, indicating that time was up. His coffee was hot once again, and he needed to send the damn email. He sat down at his desk chair, opened up the draft, shifted in his seat, took a sip of coffee, shifted in his seat, stood...

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Pencil of Hope

Submitted to Contest #81

There is a tradition in my former school where the younger students give pencils to graduating students as a token of good luck on their entrance exams for college. A certain 12th grader is assigned to a student each from 7th to 11th grade by their specific representative. An elaborate way to ensure everyone would receive pencils, wouldn't you agree? All the same, students can still give a pencil or pencils or anything actually for moral support to whomever they want to. Heck, students can even decide not to give anything to the one assigned...

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The love story that never ended

Submitted to Contest #81

Once again, he sat down with a firm mind. “I can do it “, “I will do it” .He said himself louder. His hand scribbled something on paper. "No", screamed his tongue and now the paper was in the dustbin, crushed by the same hand that wrote. “I am not good at anything” he thought. His mood went off and his lights too…Later, the room was lit up by the sun. He sipped a cup of coffee and returned to his writing desk. “ I must read some motivational quotes before I start” said his mind and he switched on his internet.Ti... Ding…. His notif...

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The Last Moments in America

Submitted to Contest #81

A girl asked how her parents met.21st August, 1995:A tornado was predicted to happen near a neigborhood. An 18 years old girl named Sara and her mom was waiting for her dad to come home anxiously. The wind blew stronger than ever, while they were trying to evacuate. They ran back to their house because the wind were too strong. They heard a car sound nearby but they didn't know who it was. After ten minutes of getting scared, they went outside. Seeing some flipped cars, broken trees and poles. Sara ran to a car that she thought she knew. She...

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Just Friends

Submitted to Contest #81

“Hi!” a girl with brown hair and blue eyes smiled at me. “I’m McKenzie Russel.” Her luscious brown hair bounced around her shoulders while she talked. McKenzie. McKenzie.“Hey, I’m Levi Jackson,” The first words I had ever said to McKenzie. Why couldn’t I have said something like “I’m sorry I ruined your life. I didn’t mean to and I still love you even though you don’t think I do.” I don’t care if McKenzie ever loves me again (actually, that’s a lie. I really want McKenzie to like me again). I just want her to know that I still loved her...

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Taylor's Version

Submitted to Contest #81

Note: Inspired by a true story that happened merely last Valentine's Day"Have you listened to it yet?"Cassandra blurted excitedly, handing me her cell phone which almost fell out of my hands in her haste. Her yellow hair was a huge mess like she hasn’t combed in days. I almost laughed at the sight, my best friend since high school hasn’t aged a day, well… mentally. I shook my head in response and that only made her even more animated to make me listen to it now. We have been waiting for this song to come out for almost a year now but those d...

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Long distance

Submitted to Contest #81

It´s been difficult for them both; he hates long distance and having to constantly be online, she hates unreliability and staring at screens. ´They've been texting less and less, and last Saturday they were on a video chat and they blew up at each other for being terrible at long distance dating. He yelled at her for always cutting video chats short and never visiting, she yelled at him for never replying quickly and missing calls. They knew the points were unfair, they were both busy and conflicting schedules made things hard, but they ma...

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The Rhapsody

Submitted to Contest #81

Jake was a gentleman from an island in the Visayas who came to Metro Manila for the college scholarship. He took Bachelor of Arts major in Philosophy at the University of the Philippines - Diliman Campus. He grew up in a countryside, he was not fond of city life. He preferred to stay inside the university the whole day. He also resided in the male dormitory inside the university campus. He only went out once a month, only when he really need to buy something.One time he represented the university in an inter-collegiate competition, where he ...

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Love Letters

Submitted to Contest #81

Having a crush or admiration towards someone is a normal thing we all get to experience since we are young. Some of us would have the courage to admit our feelings towards the person we admire while some of us don't.There would be times where we write in our diaries about that person and I used to do that when I was still young. Before I sleep, I would always go in front of the drawer, grab the diary that I always kept hidden so that nobody can read aside from me the contents I've written (since I'm too shy and would be too embarrassed to sh...

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