A change of venue. One drink, poured carefully and sipped slowly. Is that truly all it takes to see the potential for your future? Part of the NARomance #SpringIntoLove contest Prompt 5 (gif)

Kensy's first love was her high school sweetheart, Jackson. They were happy and wanted more than anything to stay together, but college and distance got in the way. Kensy and Jackson drifted apart, ending their high school romance during their Freshman year in college. Six years later, Kensy and Jackson reached for the same book at a new bookstore. Had the years apart destroyed the love they once had for each other, or was this accidental meeting a gateway to fall again? SpringIntoLoveContest One Shot for NARomance's Spring Into Love Contest Prompt 3: As you were checking out the new eccentric bookstore that just opened, you were surprised to see someone you haven't seen in several years the one that got away. Spring is the season for new beginnings, right?

Jules was born with the same faint birthmark that everyone else in the world was, fated to darken into a brilliant crimson color when she encounters the other half of her soul. Her true soulmate. The only hitch is, she doesn't know who he is, and she only has a year to find him before the marks fade. Will she be doomed to be alone? Or will he find her instead? #SpringIntoLove NARomance Spring into Love Contest Prompt#2: Legend has it we've all got our own soulmate waiting for us somewhere out there. Now it's your turn to show us your favorite fictional character find theirs and let their relationship bloom this spring.

Maybelline #bravetogether Contest Entry Mental Health Month - Short Story It can take one person to bring you out of a dark place. Help you find air when the walls seem to be closing in. Time has no meaning in friendships when life becomes too much. (C) Copyright reserved - Otsana Stories The author expressly asserts all intellectual property and moral rights over this work. Infringement may lead to civil action, with associated potential financial penalties that may be imposed by a Court, including disgorgement of profits and cost orders against the defendant.

NA Romance Spring Into Love Prompt #4 After missing your flight to Paris for a vacation, you grabbed the soonest flight possible. Only this was a private jet and you're stuck with a cute pilot who decided it was going to be an interesting flight. With destiny merging your paths, will love bloom this spring in the City of Love? Or is this flirting flight end with the holiday? Hansel Smith missed his flight because of his ex husband. He runs into a handsome stranger, which happens to accommodate him with a flight to Paris in a private jet. Hansel is surprised to find out this handsome stranger is the pilot of this flight, Sebastian Steel. Do sparks fly or will they go their separate ways.

[COMPLETE] [2nd Place Spring Into Love Contest] [1000 words] Reese is on her way to Vegas for a Bachelorette party with her friends. Truth be told, she's more excited for the three-hour plane ride there, than she is the partying and drinking. She's craving alone time, time to relax and read her favorite book - something she rarely gets at home with two kids running around. But when a hunky giant sits next to her, the trip takes an interesting turn. Suddenly, reading doesn't seem all that important. Reese discovers that she and single-dad, Noah, have a lot more in common than their destination. ___ Spring Into Love Contest Prompt 1: On the way to a spring break getaway with your friends, you are seated next to a complete stranger. What should have been a short plane ride turns into something more when sparks begin to fly.

Hypnotized: to capture the attention of someone in its entirety; fascinated, entranced, or bewitched. *** Kannika Deo finds herself out on Valentine's Day in a place she never expected to be again: a party thrown by Ivan Petrov. Will her penchant for shrugging off responsibilities and partying land her in more trouble than she can get out of by herself this time? Read to find out... ***

Coffee-wanted and very much needed. As a student in Prague, Kamila Wesson can't survive without it. The Kavarna Prazirna offers that and much more when she bumps into a handsome stranger one day. What or who else does she soon learn she can't live without? _ _ _ Entry in the #CoffeeShopsBrewStories contest.

Two strangers meet unexpectedly in a bakery on Christmas Eve. Tess was about to close her shop when a handsome, blue-eyed stranger barges in and knocks her to the floor. He requires some holiday treats. She has what he needs. Will he leave with his dessert never to be seen again, or will he give Tessa a Christmas not to be forgotten?

One Caterer. A dash of crying bride, with a hint of Christmas. And one complete and utter fuck up to remember. **THIS STORY IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN AVIANA M. AND LIZZIE LIONESS**