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Category: Romance

Stand Your Ground [A Play in 3 Minutes] (Story by R.C. Peris)

November 10, 2018 periswriter

COLLIN: Will you? ALEXANDRA: Stop…please…I’m working. You’re working. CHEF: Get the veal and lobster out. If the table complains the…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance

Insane (Story by R.C. Peris)

November 8, 2018 periswriter

There was a line. No. There was a cloudy mountain range I would not cross. I could not cross. To…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance

The Russian Tea Room: Smoke (Story by R.C. Peris)

November 4, 2018 periswriter

The Czar balanced, like a tiny bird with quivering wings, the slender icy glass of vodka in his palm. Before…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Romance

A Crime Can Free You (Story by R.C. Peris)

October 25, 2018 periswriter

I was found guilty. Fornicating with another man’s wife. Fornicating. Sounds clinical. Clean. Orderly. Our passion was none of that.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, Romance
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Romantic Escape for Two (bp coyle)

October 13, 2018 coylewriter

GalaxyTours® presents a once in a lifetime opportunity! Take that someone special in your life on a never to be…

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Posted in: Romance, Science Fiction

Weeping Petals (Story by R.C. Peris)

October 8, 2018 periswriter

I was sitting on the curb of the street in front of my house. It was a warm day and…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance
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The Girl With The Suicide Scar (bp coyle)

July 31, 2018 coylewriter

She had a nasty scar across her left wrist as though she had slashed it repeatedly some time in the…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships, Romance

Love Lost (Story by R.C. Peris)

June 22, 2018 periswriter

I met him on Grafton Street in Dublin. He was playing the guitar and singing Sunday Bloody Sunday. Or rather…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance
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Rain (bp coyle)

June 21, 2018 coylewriter

We met on a Sunday afternoon towards the end of a very mild autumn. We had not seen each other…

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Posted in: Fiction, Relationships, Romance
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First Kiss (bp coyle)

June 17, 2018 coylewriter

So, yeah, I ended up marrying the first boy I kissed. I am that woman. I was fourteen, he was…

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Posted in: Fiction, Romance

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