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The Perfect Merlot
I found myself getting excited about a new online dating prospect, which I never usually do, but with all the chaos and lockdowns, I can’t remember the last date I’ve been on. Tall (or so his profile says), dark and more handsome than most. He’s maintained a sweet spot of communication over the last few weeks, that is to say showing interest but not seemingly waiting by the phone. We have a video chat scheduled for tomorrow, fingers crossed!
Merlot and Me
The day I met Jack was the day I remembered why the river has always ran through my blood and why a deep red merlot from Bright Cellars was my favorite wine. A name means everything and mine suited me perfectly. Samantha Maplegood. But I was over being good. So why did I decide to spend my first week on summer break at a monastery in the muggy South with few luxuries and even less visitors. Because nothing I ever did made sense or was what I really wanted to do. I’d lived for other people and now was ready to let my inner she-wolf do some howling.
Michele ZirklePublished 3 years ago in HumansMy date with a blackbird
My date with a blackbird On an uneventful evening, I sat down in my lounge chair, kick up my feet, and had a bag of potato chips and some dip. I turned on the TV and started flipping through the channels. Wouldn't you know it, every channel I went to was playing some kind of romantic show. Even the commercials all seemed to be about couples doing things together.
A Single Spark
There are times in life when love fails to burn, even with accelerants and the best firewood money could buy. It's no one's fault. No matter how hard both sides work the fire just won't start. They can beg and plead and sometimes even feel heat or see flames, but nothing they do changes the simple fact: there is no fire.
The Dinner Date
Venessa was shaking, she was wearing a elegant red dress, complete with red lipstick to match, as she lay in wait for her date to arrive. It had been a few years since her last date and she was incredibly nervous about how the date was going to go. Her friends had pumped the guy up to no end, so she was surprise how worried she was considering how great this guy was suppose to be. Maybe it was due to the fact it had been so long since her last date and she didn't know how to act, regardless she was certain she was going to have a good time.
George HallPublished 3 years ago in HumansUnder the Paper Moon
Him. John Hopkins Hospital. She was temptation. And I was the angel that fell from heaven. It was a sunny afternoon in Italy. She walked into my small bookshop that had a derelict wooden sign outside of its windows: Paper Moon Bookshop. I waited at the counter near the cash register with a book in my hands. I scanned the page quickly, earnestly consuming the text.
Bella LeonPublished 3 years ago in HumansBottled
A Love Story: Part 1 The Encounter After the dawn Kyle knew he had blown it. His morning personal time was announced by the sound of energy and no time for relaxing.
Amos WaterburyPublished 3 years ago in HumansCursive Capital I
Even in the evenings, April in Florida was as hot as July anywhere else Eddie had lived. The bistro down the road always had its windows wide open instead of using air conditioning, which really only made the place hotter.
M.J. WeisenPublished 3 years ago in HumansDREAM DATE
Late afternoon light played delicately across the greystone walls of the historic building. A woman stood opposite, a small street separating her from the path that would lead to ornate, wooden double doors. She inhaled deeply, standing squarely facing it.
Sarah FlickPublished 3 years ago in HumansWine and Spirits
This wasn't the “you go for the breadsticks and endless soup-and-salad” type restaurant. It was the “a bottle of wine costs forty dolls, you can't pronounce half the items on the menu, and why are there snails?” kind of restaurant.
Jennan KelloggPublished 3 years ago in HumansA Chance Encounter
The airport was spinning, or maybe it was all in my head. The kind of dizziness that consumes you like freefall. I forgot to transfer my bags onto the connecting flight and in a moment of panic, walked out of the door marked with the unmistakable fluorescent red EXIT. I squinted to focus my eyes on the steady hands of my leather watch that read 7:29 pm. Great. I thought to myself as I marched erratically in the lobby of the airport. Amid the sea of people, I felt lightheaded.
JY LincolnPublished 3 years ago in HumansPeach
To say I was nervous would be an understatement. My entire body buzzed with chaotic energy, it's only release through the rapid bouncing on my feet. I touched my phone screen to check the time again. I was early, panicked that I would get stuck in traffic in this huge city I suddenly found myself in.
Noelle BrooksPublished 3 years ago in Humans