Romance

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

curvygalore

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

Akizuki

The Dollmaker

A lonely 17 year old doll maker who creates a doll to be his companion and their struggles.

Year xxxx. Central Tech, the center of surrounding cities. Rain began to pour from the grey; cloud filled sky. Within the confines of the city's tallest building, a mature featured boy had set himself down in a chair, body parts surrounding him. Goggles placed over his eyes; he glides a hand over pale, supple skin. The boy tinkers around with a heart, closing up the chest after...Read On

Added: 27 Feb 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 680 | Tags: futuristic  emotional  reallife  technologyadvanced   | 3 Comments

Shotgun011

Miracle Drug

There have been times when I want to take a trip to the inside of your mind and possibly spend the day there and see, and hear all the things you haven't said. I would also like to spend the time looking out of your eyes and seeing all that you see, as well as watch your thoughts form and then come about. Wondering if you would feel a thing when I hear you when you call? Maybe you would...Read On

Added: 27 Feb 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 813 | Tags: romance  musings  memoirs  observations  prose  general  observayions   | 1 Comment

Shotgun011

When Teardrops Fall

How many paths have been tried by us and then failed? For there has been no one there to point a finger and no one to blame, and we are standing here in the dark light of the sun together out here at these distant crossroads as we have done in the past. Looking down those roads and wondering which direction to go, as you know that I will accompany you which direction you might choose...Read On

Added: 18 Feb 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 649 | Tags: romance  musings  prose  archival  memoirs  general  poetry   | 1 Comment

authorinthemaking

love at the wheel part 2: A new journey begins

Love at the Wheel Part 2, sequel to a live story began in 2010.

    Love at the Wheel Part 2, sequel to a live story began in 2010. It's the next journey in Charlotte White and Robert Swift's life as they now try to learn how to be in a relationship together now that their feelings for each other are revealed. But it is challenging since Charlotte's mother is gravely ill, and also the antagonist that they vanquished in Part 1 is now seeking revenge.  ...Read On

Added: 16 Feb 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 3,123 | Tags: love story  illness    

authorinthemaking

Love At the Wheel

My story is about a girl named Charlotte whose parents ran a bus company in London.

Dedicated in loving memory to my friend Erin R. Faralan     Chapter 1 Sunday morning Sam, the landlord, knocked at Steve’s door to inspect his apartment. He wanted to see if it was clean, and also to get his past due rent. The tenant Steve opened the door still wearing his pajamas. The landlord’s mouth dropped open at the sight in the living room: countless beer bottles and...Read On

Added: 14 Feb 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 5,312 | Tags: romance   | 2 Comments

alresindanger99

American Carnage

James and Zarina are nobodies more or less until they've been arranged to marry each other.

Zarina felt herself being stared at which is something she should be used by now.  The three versions of herself in the mirror looked back at her for an answer to the question they posed. It made glancing at the beautiful figure in front of her hard and yet she remained absolutely entranced. I’ve never been so dolled up in my life, and it’s for a stranger. Being married off was one of...Read On

Added: 29 Jan 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,090 | Tags: america  racism  love  different generations   | 1 Comment

Kavyansh

The Photograph

If it hadn't been for the miracle of the Internet and social media, Anne and Kevin would never have known each other. Even today they have only ever met online, although their relationship is as real to them as it would be between two people who live in the same place and time. Neither are in the first flush of youth; in fact, they are both well into what some describe as their twilight...Read On

Added: 16 Jan 2017 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,448 | Tags: love story  old photograph  autobiography   | 9 Comments

Shotgun011

Earthdark

Standing here wondering if I will miss the final warning at the end for living this lie that I have lived? I know I am not worthy of a lot of things, and has me wondering if I am standing here alone and knowing that there is nothing left to lose as the darkness begins to fall and voices can be heard haunting me with their questions. Which has me wondering if it is from someone I have let...Read On

Added: 25 Dec 2016 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 827 | Tags: romance  musings  prose  general  poetry  contemplations  recollections  

annabellecoggsworth

Fortune Favors the Bold (and the Smart) Chapter 11 (Final Chapter)

Chapter 11 June 21, 2011 I woke up in the morning in a total panic. Well, technically I didn’t wake up in the morning, that was the problem. I looked at the clock, and I saw the numbers 12:08 staring back at me. How could I sleep for that long? I knew that I was concussed but still. That was a long time to sleep. I hopped out of bed and nearly collapsed. My ankle hurt so bad. I...Read On

Added: 24 Dec 2016 | Category: Romance | Avg Score: 4 | Words: 2,459 | Tags: millionaire  billionaire  ceo  lawyer  female protagonist  office  boss   | 1 Comment