Romance

BowTied

Formally Coming Out

Going from a regular straight guy to a groom at my gay wedding in very short order.

I spent my entire life dating women, some very beautiful women. None of these relationships led to marriage. They'd last for a year, maybe two, and then end, pretty much always them dumping me. Working in banking, I was daily dressed to the nines, typically in three-piece suits, heavily-starched shirts, usually but not always white, and bow ties. I'd been wearing bow ties exclusively since...Read On

Added: 11 Feb 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,030 | Tags: gay  wedding   | 2 Comments

hottiesoftie

Queen of Ace

❣ HAMDA ❣ "Hey Mum, I am  leaving for my interview and will see you in an hour. And don't forget that I love you!" Hamda said. She walked out the door on a bright and sunny Wednesday morning. Today felt like a good day, and she knew that something good would happen.   ~*~ "Welcome to Black Bels Advertising, how may I help you?" A blonde woman sitting behind the desk asked me. ...Read On

Added: 25 Jan 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,794 | Tags: chicklit  women'sfiction  drama  romance  love  

redwriter

Back Without Regret

Music takes him back over many years

That’s it. Breakfast dishes all cleared away. Cups neatly stacked, in the lower cupboard, Cereal bowls alongside with the plates. Now, why do I find something so menial satisfying? Oh, don’t I know the reason very well? It’s a form of security. Just like the warm aroma of my wife’s scones baking in the oven. There’s something steadfast and reassuring about that sort of thing. Fifty years or...Read On

Added: 14 Jan 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,832 | Tags: dating  promise  hope  dismay  reassuring   | 7 Comments

redwriter

A Special Moment

Elderly man returns to the school he left seventy three years ago seeking a lost memory

Standing at the school gate, Harry Connor cursed softly. Memory, you damned trickster. A tantalising image had shaped in the furred conduits of his ageing mind. A gem of reminiscence teasingly snatched away, evading his grasp. He had made this journey seeking to recall a special face. Now, the school’s soot-darkened bricks and stark arched windows had fleetingly evoked a significant...Read On

Added: 25 Sep 2019 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,918 | Tags: memory  search  punishment  girl   | 1 Comment

Welshdreamer42

Leap Of Faith

It didn’t look this high from below. “That’s it, take it nice and steady.” Nodding at the instructor, I lean back, gripping the rope tightly, and ease it through the cleat. My feet slip on the wet rock as I struggle to find purchase, heart hammering fit to burst. Below, Anika waves, the movement caught in my peripheral vision while I’m staring straight ahead. How did she talk me into this?...Read On

Added: 07 Aug 2019 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,870 | Tags: love  friendship  self-discovery   | 11 Comments

Kavyansh

Springtime is for Lovers

A chance meeting on a Paris street in Spring leads to lifelong love and commitment

When we first met it was entirely by accident. Even now I remember it clearly, although almost four decades have passed by since then. It was one of those lovely bright sunny days that are so typical of Paris in the springtime. I was strolling along the Boulevard Haussmann, just outside the Magasin au Printemps where the pretty girls were selling their bunches of lily of the valley as...Read On

Added: 11 Jun 2019 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,209 | Tags: accidental meeting  instant attraction  adulterous loveaffair  blissful happiness   | 3 Comments

rune

Once Upon A Time

How do you know if it is love ... a love story.

The world where I live in is my imagination. Ever since I was a teenager, I always liked being alone lying on our house's rooftop covered by the tree branches. The swaying leaves gave me shade from the harsh burning rays of the sun while talking to my favorite tree and eating my manzanitas with the birds, or sleeping after all of my house chores was done. Hiding at the rooftop,...Read On

Added: 04 Apr 2019 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,547 | Tags: thinking  rune   | 7 Comments

Ansaryon

Kissing the Girl

A hot summer's night, an office party, and too much tequila

  Kissing the girl   Errin slipped out through one of the side doors, the hot and sticky summer air enveloped her. The heatwave has rolled over the city the past few days relentless and scorching. She needed some cool air, for more than one reason. The red wine, tequila and the usual cigarette with wine have unlocked bottled up feelings. She sighed, she had hoped that the night air...Read On

Added: 24 Feb 2019 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,242 | Tags: crush  friendship   | 6 Comments

JamesFoley

Heaven's in Reach on St. Pete Beach

Your best friend loved her and died for her and for you.

They lowered Bobby Bishop into St. Petersburg soil on a perfect December afternoon. For Jonathan Wilton, who'd flown from New York for the burial, this was Florida's old winter miracle. But no Florida sunshine cheered Bobby now: lost in Iraq (K.I.A.), aged twenty-eight. No longer in the breeze, steering a sailboat down Pass-a-Grille Channel, or skiing the Vermont hills. No more sunlight...Read On

Added: 05 Jan 2019 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,190 | Tags: soldier  friend  killed  girl   | 2 Comments

JamesFoley

Manet and Monet: Mastery and Mystery

If your sweetheart robs you and leaves you, do you crack up or find someone finer?

In Tidewater Virginia in July, 2017, Max Stewart unloaded from his SUV a nine-foot inflatable dinghy, then pumped it up by foot. With him were his cousin Sally Angland and her university friend Simon Grant. “What's this crazy trip about?” Max asked.   “As you know,” Sally said, “I'm publishing my book on Impressionist painters. It highlights Richard Vlass, a university professor and...Read On

Added: 11 Nov 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,316 | Tags: plagiarism  impressionism  love betrayed  love victorious.   | 2 Comments

BowTied

The Bride

What started out as a little event turned into much more!

Linda, a friend of mine with whom I worked some years back had told me about a friend of hers who was TG and whose biggest dream was to be a bride. Linda thought I might be able to help. Since I'm pretty much daily in suits and bow ties, she figured I'd make an ideal bridegroom . The plan was, initially, for the bride to wear a wedding dress and me to wear my tuxedo  for what would amount...Read On

Added: 28 Sep 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,806 | Tags: wedding  crossdress  bride  bridegroom   | 5 Comments

Rumple_deWriter

Now and Forever

She no longer just needed her best friend—she wanted him, as a man, and wanted him now and forever

Now and Forever: a love story The dream was back--so were the eyes. They hovered in an angry sky just above the horizon, seeing everything but focusing on nothing. Amy knew those eyes—knew a time when they’d been filled with happiness and a love of life. But that had been before her brother came back from Vietnam. Young, naked, and skinny, she stood alone and vulnerable on a hill surrounded...Read On

Added: 14 Aug 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,834 | Tags: friendship  love  sickness  recovery  dreams  revelation   | 5 Comments

JamesFoley

Midnight Moonlight Mystery

Intellectual guy and adventurous guy meet a girl trapped in an adventure.

At the Carolina Coast Hotel, some guests, bewitched by the full moon, still lounged on the lawns in the wee hours. That September weekend was ending. The sweet summer of 2017 was bidding goodbye. Meanwhile, Conn Franklin, a James Dean lookalike, was coming up the beach from his boat, ignoring Stefanie Ryan waving to him. But Conn's friends, Wyatt Graham and Cooper Peterson, were...Read On

Added: 01 Aug 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,192 | Tags: summer's end  mathematics  sailboats  love  money   | 1 Comment

henrietta_fielding

Roses are Red

Kate stumbled down the neatly raked path, her glasses steamed up with the heat of raw emotion and half-blinded by tears. She trusted she would find her way to her favourite spot in the Walled Garden if she were blindfolded, or even in the pitch dark. That was if the entrance hadn’t been barred by solid metal doors at nighttime. It was as though she was led by a homing device to her place...Read On

Added: 09 May 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,619 | Tags: romance  heartbreak  supernatural  fairy tale  sleeping beauty     | 9 Comments

JamesFoley

Girl Fears Ghost Girl

Once so wonderful. And so alive.

Night on the beach. Awakening suddenly, David felt Jamie’s dark hair tickling his cheek. He stirred on the towel. “How long was I asleep?” “Only for a few minutes,” Jamie said. “You must be beat.” Easy night, peace. The sky clear above a sea dark as itself. The eastern stars were ushering up the aging half-moon, still clinging to the ocean’s edge. This old ocean that could take one...Read On

Added: 18 Apr 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,608 | Tags: girl of today  girl of memories.   | 1 Comment

Farmerroger

If it’s meant to be

Sometimes in life, there are those moments in time that some things will eventually come true and when they do, you will jump at the chance of happiness. These are the times in life, that if something is going to happen it will happen. So if it does, it is just meant to be. There has always been this one thing in my life that I always truly believed in. This belief has followed me throughout...Read On

Added: 22 Mar 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,629 | Tags: love   | 1 Comment

KazeronnieMak777

The tales of a little boy and a little girl and the flowers

Love is shown in your deed, it is not just shown in your words. Love is something you do, .......

Tale 1 A little boy was fond of a little girl who was studying next class. They lived in a beautiful small town. Then, the little boy picked the wildflowers on the roadside for the little girl after school every day. The little girl was very glad to have the gift. She always showed a lovely smile on her face when the little boy handed her the flowers. He always blushed with a...Read On

Added: 03 Mar 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 748 | Tags: enlightenment  motivation  life  love  encouragement  heart  faith   | 1 Comment

audreymulamba

Summer Fling

This story is all mine and no part should be copied or retrieved. This is a fiction story.

Added: 19 Feb 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,397 | Tags: romance  fiction   | 2 Comments

JamesFoley

Hamlet and James Dean Died Young

Young couple, once in love, now estranged: they discover that Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a reckless, d

about 2200 words Hamlet and James Dean Died Young by James Foley In Virginia, an hour’s drive south of D.C., there’s a huge white house—built in the 1890s out on a point on the Chesapeake. And this summer when I drove there for a Wednesday-evening literary-club meeting, a gale was churning the water in front and on both sides of the house. And somehow on that lightning-blasted...Read On

Added: 15 Feb 2018 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,254 | Tags: couple  love  hamlet  reckless  disturbed  free-spirited   | 1 Comment

Kijo

Cat Lover: That New Year's Scent?

New Years Eve but there's apparently something different about Mill?

New Years Eve is the well known evening of massive parties happening anywhere in the world. From a group of classmates, Mill had been invited out to a party in celebrating the coming new year. Jynx as her "designated sober buddy" kept watch over her well being the entire time. Mill was not much of a partier due to embarrassing herself by tripping over her own feet in previous occasions,...Read On

Added: 18 Nov 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 709 | Tags: catlover  shortstories  romance  cat  lover    

Kavyansh

The Mysterious Stranger

Mam and I have lived alone ever since Da died. I remember that day almost twenty five years ago as it were yesterday; there was a terrible storm and Da was outside fixing the tarpaulins covering the hay bales when a freak gust of wind uprooted the ancient oak tree beside the barn. Da was crushed under timbers from the barn and died a few hours later in hospital from his internal injuries. No...Read On

Added: 03 Sep 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 4,776 | Tags: loneliness  stranger  mystery  attraction  enchantment  dreams  time shift   | 2 Comments

Kijo

Cat Lover: The Gift of Friends?

On Christmas Eve, what is the perfect gift?

The atmosphere of Christmas Eve could be felt everywhere; Mill had been walking around downtown feeling frustrated. She could not figure out the perfect gift for Jynx. Extravagant or simple? Aside from the dilemma, she was home alone this morning to see a note placed on the fridge door: "Be back later! J" Seemed like the perfect time to find a gift at the last minute rush hours...Read On

Added: 28 Aug 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 818 | Tags: catlover  shortstories  romance  cat  lover    

alresindanger99

An Exercise in Futility

He's an uptight bibliophile and he's a messy artist. Can I make it any more obvious?

These are the first two pages of a 44-page endeavor  It’s not like AJ’s known for his spontaneity, he’s not some feral college freshman. He’s not even an eager eyed person. He’s boring. He’s routine, painfully routine depending on who you talk to. Being boring is easy, it took just one moment of weakness to remind him. Class was wrapping up when the idea came from nowhere and he acted on...Read On

Added: 11 Aug 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,194 | Tags: gay  college  love  

aussie_kitty77

One in a Million

She realizes dreams can come true …

Added: 05 Aug 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 968 | Tags: love  first meeting  surprise   | 1 Comment

Kavyansh

A Fairy Tale Of True Love Triumphant - Part 1

Once upon a time before the Normans came to this land, there lived a great king who was renowned for his wisdom and love of peace and justice. Caradoc, for that, was his name, was much loved by his subjects, and anyone, man or woman, was guaranteed a fair hearing in his courts. When he walked or rode about his kingdom, he would greet everyone with a cheery wave and a cry of ‘Good day to...Read On

Added: 19 Jul 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,556 | Tags: wise king  beautiful daughter  wicked uncle  mysterious knight   | 4 Comments

frogprince

Our Last Time

A sweet memory.

It was just after midnight on January 1, 2008. The sound of revelers and slow moving traffic going around the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile down the Champs-Élysées drifted up to our room. Carol and I stood on the balcony of our hotel room in Paris, France watching and listening to the fireworks over the city skyline. It was our last time together as friends and lovers. In two days, we would...Read On

Added: 26 May 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,362 | Tags: love  romance  foreign travel  memories   | 11 Comments

Kijo

Cat Lover: Hot Chocolate for the Soul

Relaxed and relieved in time for a casual conversation.

The first semester is over! Mill celebrated at home with a hot chocolate that eventually became a warm temperature. Student life was ridiculous living on your own, luckily the government's monthly funding allowances came in handy for small achievements even Jynx received a hot chocolate. The atmosphere of giving lurked about in the air everywhere. "Holidays coming in soon..." Jynx...Read On

Added: 08 May 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 635 | Tags: catlover  shortstories  romance  cat  lover     | 1 Comment

NkosenhleDaBeast

A LETTER TO AN IMPRISONED OBSESSOR.

it is a story about love that takes an unexpected turn when evil is done in the name of ''LOVE''

  A LETTER TO AN IMPRISONED OBSESSOR.   I gave you my heart but not my mind even though I had always lost myself in your presence, you had me, you took me, you used me, but because I had always lost myself in your presence, you could not find the real me, and you lost me. Where do I even begin to describe the feeling I had when my eyes first saw those almond shaped hazel brown eyes...Read On

Added: 16 Apr 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 3,907 | Tags: love  charm  hurt  

Shotgun011

We Danced

"Don’t look back," she said, and both of us were victims of the night, and we were also it seemed to be each other’s form of physical kryptonite, and somehow, I knew we were bound to be together. She also said to keep your eyes on mine as we took the floor in the fading dark light of the setting sun. It felt like thunder and the sound of heavy guns in my chest when she looked at me, and in...Read On

Added: 12 Apr 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 4.83 | Words: 719 | Tags: musings  prose  general  poetry  romance  memoirs  dylanesque   | 4 Comments

Survivor

Diana Discovers

Diana is in a summer of discovery.

Added: 06 Apr 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 8,298 | Tags: romance  first time  teen love  sexual awakening  young adult  discovery  lgbtq   | 5 Comments