Love Stories – Short Stories
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Short Stories
My Ideal Guy
My Ideal Guy is Debbie Pittel’s submission to the assignment in the free module of The Guide to Writing Romantic Fiction. Write 500 - 1000 words on your first love. You might choose to focus on the beginning, middle or end of your own romance. You can write in the first or third person.
If you haven’t a love experience that inspires you, imagine the one you would love to have.
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Twirls of Red
Twirls of Red is Gillian Gilbride’s submission for the optional exercise, Try it for yourself: Write a Love Story, in the free module of The Guide to Writing Romance.
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Home Is Where The Heart Is
Home Is Where The Heart Is by Debbie Pittel is the love story she submitted for the optional exercise in the free module of The Guide to Writing Romance.
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A Distant Love
Godzilla stood, as always - alone, aloof, commanding. Even the two old ladies in front of me were giving him the eye. I couldn’t blame them. He hadn’t changed that much since school except now he wore a long, black leather coat instead of a school blazer and had swapped his school shirt and tie for a black polo neck. His jeans were black too (almost the colour of his hair), making him look even taller than he really was. One thing had changed since school: unbelievably, he looked even more gorgeous – and he knew it!
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Goodbye
I’m sure even Shah Jahan wouldn’t have felt as excited, had Mumtaz risen from the dead, as I was when I saw him. Imagine meeting him after all these years at the Taj Mahal, symbol of eternal love. For a moment my heart raced like a teenager’s, faster than the car I drive on the LA freeway. I felt as though I were walking on a cloud like in the old hindi movies, where the girl glides across the heavens in a white dress.
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Four White Walls
I laughed. It wasn’t a belly laugh. It was a laugh that was expected of me. That’s what we did in those days, Goi and I. When I came to rest on her skin I turned brown. When she landed on mine, she turned black. Two well-meaning but ill-advised chameleons, mirroring each other’s emotions so thoroughly that in the end we gave life to a third party - a nusu nusu. The half-and-half who laughed. Even when it was not appropriate. That morning, I laughed our nusu nusu laugh.
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The Rain
Shamim knew that she loved him. But it happened every time he tried to touch her. Those voices. “Nuisance. Clumsy child. Try to smile, at least.” Those were the words she’d grown up listening to. Her childhood mantra.
He said: “Beautiful”, between appreciating breaths. Her body responded, ecstatic. Her mind said: “Liar!”
And so she froze. He thought she didn’t like him anymore. Or worse still, as today’s encounter revealed: “It’s another man, isn’t it?” a biting disgust in his words.
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The Raft
Susie threw her glass of wine in his face. In that instant, she hated him and wished she had never met him.
Dave lunged forward, trying to grab her arm. She evaded him, but slipped in the wine swimming about their feet. She teetered, trying to hold her balance, but fell heavily against the deck railing. A swell lifted her and she was overboard.
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Hot Summer
It was one of those summers when everything was ripe, and that included Jeremy’s mysterious new girlfriend Rose. Would their relationship endure through their country summer of love, or is one of them about to give in to temptation elsewhere?
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Give and Go
When an ex-footballer and ex-sports journalist returns to London after twenty years in Australia, he finds himself confronted with a reminder of his broken marriage and the events that propelled him to the other side of the earth.
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