Heartbreaking Attraction
Fiction Shorts word of the day: Act
Dakota’s newly single, after a devastatingly messy breakup.
Suddenly she’s on her own. Should she jump back into the dating pool? Will it make the heart ache a little less?
She decides to try.
She meets Phillip, agrees to dinner, but he leaves to use the bathroom and doesn’t return.
Next she attends the Theatre with Tony, receiving a text the next day advising she wasn’t his ‘one’.
Then she meets Raphael and they seem to click. Three dates later and he’s ghosting her.
She finally realises her brokenness acts like a magnet to the players of the dating world.
This drabble has been written as part of the daily Drabble Drop challenge and today's random word, that must be included in the drabble, is 'act'.
Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful idea in a confined space.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Yo Dakota, learn to make yourself happy. You don't need them nasty ass lying men. You got this, gurl!