romance

First Kiss by Barry Garelick The night Anne became ill, she and Mark had talked as they often did at the end of the day. The sun was setting, casting long shadows and a...

Collateral Damage by Bill Tope Challo stood back from the bus, along with a handful of other riders, to allow those departing to step onto the curb and be on their way. As they...

Kandy by Bill Tope 1I pulled my car to a stop alongside a small brick home just two blocks from my high school, where I’d graduated some 40 years before. The sign said they...

Annabel Lee by Paul Hilding And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulcher there by the sea— In her tomb by the sounding...

The Matryoshka by Matias Travieso-Diaz “Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you’d crush them to paste.”~ Lauren...

Anything Goes by Viktor Caeneus “Here’s your cocktail, Hon.” I took my rum and coke, sans the lime wedge to my great disappointment, and checked out the waitress. Black and white A-line polka dot...

Date Night by Bill Tope Amy sat on the sofa in the living room, beneath the comforter, contemplating the wallpaper. The television, on mute, was wildly flashing colors and images off the hardwood floor....

Getting Rosie Laid by Bill Tope Rosie, my girlfriend Cathy’s younger sister, had over the past year been spending most of her weekends with us at our apartment near the college. Nearly a month...

Casualty of Love in the Time of Coronavirus by Vanessa Leigh Giles Chapter 1 Until Death do us Part‘Ring, ring!’. I answered the telephone and asked, “Hello, good evening. Who’s this? “Hello.” This is Dr....