Romance

Verity

The Poppy Field

I woke to the sound of bird-call. The clock told me it was eight-thirty, that’s late for me. I turned to see an empty pillow, he’s up. I had better get up, he’ll be waiting for me in the kitchen no doubt. He must have snuck out of bed, he usually wakes me. Oh well, I was getting on a bit, I deserved a lie in now and then. I’d had a good sleep, I was feeling happy, today was going to be a...Read On

Added: 24 May 2021 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,259 | Tags: true love  romance  making love     | 10 Comments

happyjack

Illicit

Sunday evening, the lost, pale fragments of Saturday night.  This is the place where excitements go to die, last night’s adrenalin rush of a mirror ball cascading its light, the overplayed enthusiasm of a spontaneous, drunken moment in the middle of a high street, a vision of a momentary lover, who fell through the gaps of nowhere, sometime in the early hours.  You come here on a Sunday...Read On

Added: 11 Apr 2021 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,577 | Tags: illicit moment   | 2 Comments

alxb19

Don't Ask

She asked why, he answered "don't ask!"

Gail's first day at this new department in the Foreign Office was an uneventful day that did not come as any surprise to her. She had seen a lot of ministerial and government departments before. She had been seconded, from the Home Office where she had been working, since leaving Cambridge, for some twelve years. A typical classics student, and an ambitious young lady, Gail had given most of...Read On

Added: 13 Mar 2021 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,862 | Tags: romantic  deadly   | 6 Comments

Peter_Pan

Once Upon a Childhood

A true recollection from sixty three years ago

Completely true in every detail, I remember after all these years, how she sat, the little silver bracelet she wore on her left wrist – even the charm that hung off it – a small fish. I can describe her dress, her shoes…sIip-ons actually, smell her hair, hear her soft voice – tell you what the weather was like. I don’t have to imagine the tears which come to my eyes as I write this either....Read On

Added: 12 Mar 2021 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,711 | Tags: school holiday  ruth  kissing  cinema  mother and father  yorkshire   | 2 Comments

Mendalla

The Goodbye We Never Had

Political rivals deal with their shared past

Frank Baldwin stared out the window of his office. The lights of downtown Eversham shone before him. Usually, the mayor smiled when he looked out at those lights. A lifelong resident who had been the city’s mayor for twelve years, Frank was pleased and proud with the work he had done to improve the city. Tonight, though, he gazed out at them and sighed. It was looking like twelve years...Read On

Added: 10 Aug 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,205 | Tags: lost love  politics  mayor  escort  past  election  affair   | 7 Comments

Marco

Can’t rain forever (part 05)

Julie at last can have everything she wants... but doesn't she already have it?

“My family is much different from the Glantrys. We value the person, not their wealth or heritage. I’m working as a lawyer, starting from the lowest. I attended a public school where nobody knew me, and I had to work to do anything that wasn’t connected to my studies. Yes, I’ve been luckier than most. Just to make you understand the difference, I’ll tell you this family secret, and I trust...Read On

Added: 26 May 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,102 | Tags: emotional  selfconfidence   | 2 Comments

Marco

Can’t rain forever (part 04)

Julie discovers the truth on her family... is it real?

“No, Julie… It’s because I love you. I fell in love with you the moment I saw you when I was buying that book, and that love grew the more I was knowing you. The day you smiled for the first time, I felt like if nothing else in the world was more important than to make you smile. Now that I know what caused your sadness, what broke your heart and confidence, and your enjoying life, I am so...Read On

Added: 25 May 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 4.5 | Words: 2,061 | Tags: emotional  love  rebirth   | 2 Comments

Sam

One step from angel to deamon

How can we forget our lost love? Why forget them? They are the ones who grew us up, they are the ones who destroyed us, they are also the ones who abandoned us in the countless shipwrecks of our hearts. Why chain ourselves to the risk of breaking every link with every sigh, every desire? They met, they loved each other from a distance, fled, got together, hugged each other, gave each...Read On

Added: 19 Apr 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 565 | Tags: love  break   | 4 Comments

AlwaysEnigmatic

Ghosting

She.   He stopped texting her, all of a sudden. She could not understand why, since he had asked her to be his completely, to belong to him out of her own will. She had found this disturbing and enticing at the same time. The nature of her feelings for him drove her to him in ways others would not have thought possible. These others would maybe have felt asphyxiated by his demands but in...Read On

Added: 06 Apr 2020 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 671 | Tags: love  longing  past   | 2 Comments

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   | 3 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   | 6 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

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.   | 1 Comment

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     | 11 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: 0 | Words: 748 | Tags: enlightenment  motivation  life  love  encouragement  heart  faith  

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   | 1 Comment

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