I kissed her softly on the bruise I’d left on her cheek.
Then we hugged there, still wearing our kimonos, and made up.
Tag: romance
One look
One look turned into one moment turned into one day and night together.
Then, four hundred years before I would see her again.
Life
The best thing about my life is that it is like living in a movie.
It’s a western-romantic-time-travel-teen-roadtrip-comedy.
Lovefool
Unsure of what to do and what to say, the best she could say was “Let’s just avoid the day altogether!”. Meanwhile, her heart pounding in her chest, eyes cast downward trying to force a smile; he agreed, and neglected to notice the shoulders cast lower.
Dark and sweet
Black, brown, with steamed milk or without, or maybe an espresso or a frappuccino (what’s the difference between that and cappuccino anyway?) – I’m taking my time weighing options to find the best, the perfect choice, and although I know it’s just house policy, the smile she gives me is the sweetest smile, the very definition of beauty: patiently soothing my insecurity, assuring me that my choice, if and when it comes, will be appreciated, while I’m determined to make the most of this moment, aware that her smile distracts and delays me even more. Amanda was right, I really needed to get out more.
Fairy Tale Ending?
“No one understands our love,” the dragon sighed.
“Interspecies relationships will take time to be accepted,” the princess said, “But at least he had nice stuff to add to our hoard.”
Berries
I’ll be your cherry and you can be my strawberry.
We’ll elope and marry and then what will our parentberries do?
Black Tears
I looked into her eyes in the moonlight and said, “don’t cry, not for me.”
She placed my hand on her wet cheek and replied, “it’s not tears, my love, it’s blood.”
Relationships
You said you loved me and promised that we would be together forever. Now you’re moving to New York for college; what happened to your promise?
Romance
You’ll never see your wife and children
again. So tell us what it was going through your head when you looked into their eyes
and said “no thanks I’ll take the hooker instead.”
Love
A passionate love went in search of camaraderie. A carnivorous hatred found it.
Cathy
Each night on the stroke of midnight his young, dead wife would text him. Her final message, the one they found beside the body, read, ‘That tapping on the window is me’.
The Morning After
On the first morning that Harriet woke up next to the young tan man beside her who barely spoke a word of English, she worried to herself, “Have I made a foolish mistake?”. 35 years of mornings later and she smiled as she watched the sleeping tan man in her life lay next to her, and she reveled in knowing that it was the best foolish mistake she had ever made.
The Sage of Love
They both knew it was love at first sight. She came to hate him more than anyone else she had ever known.
Shared Opening Sentence
They say the accident took your memory of us.
So why is it you still hate me so much?
The Greatest Story Ever Told
For some deeply serious reason the young lovers couldn’t be together. Except they totally were after an inordinate amount of lingering glances and meaningful hand touches.
Modern Faerie Tale
I killed him to break the spell and be with her at last.
It turns out that doesn’t grant me legal immunity.
Modern Faerie Tale
I killed him to break the spell and be with her at last.
It turns out that doesn’t grant me legal immunity.
A Tiny Tale of Unrequited Love
Margaret waited for Bill for 10 years. He didn’t notice.
What I Missed
I said that you should leave LA because it’s what you want to do. What I meant is: I love you more than I love having you.