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sleepless, loveless by cityscape
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"Sometimes happiness feels like a chore." A short story chronicling the relationships (and lack thereof) of Drew; in which nights and days are spent curled up in the tear-and-food-stained sheets, with and without the warmth of another living soul, because he has lived like this and he'll probably die like this -- whether he likes it or not. (As if life ever bothered to ask). Otherwise known as: Sleep is for the weak, and love is for those asleep. So Andrew shouldn't wonder why he's virtually a self-induced insomniac who might just very well die of loneliness one day.
5:48 [re-write 2.0] by cityscape
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Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021
Door To Door by defend
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Hudson Ellis is good at his job. Somehow, he manages not to annoy people when he knocks at their doors and asks them to contribute to the charity he works for - instead, he gets them to sign up for sponsoring programmes and fish whatever spare change they have out of their pockets. Even the infamously tough residents of New York City are falling victim to Hudson's easy-going ways and wide smile; that is, until one woman renders him speechless with sarcastic refusals and slams her door in his face. Perhaps Hudson would be able to forget her - if it wasn't for the fact that she lives on the same floor of the next apartment over, and they both have floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for a rather generous view into each other's flats.
Ante Meridiem by cityscape
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A dialogue short story about the things we wake up to that remind us there are still things in this life worth waking up for. ante meridiem - [adv. & adj.] "before noon;" Abbr: A.M. Or a.m. [credit to owner of image (not me)]
Kiss Cam [Teaser/Published October 2016] by KiaraLondon
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❝So maybe we've had better ideas.❞ Available to Order Now! NOTE: Kiss Cam was published with Swoon Reads Macmillan. This is only a TEASER. The other half of the book CANNOT be posted online. To read the rest of the book you can either purchase or borrow from your local library. Thank you for supporting the book. :)