Skye and the City (A Romantic Comedy)
Pollyf79
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  • Reads 11,122
  • Votes 1,413
  • Parts 26
  • Time 2h 47m
Pollyf79
Complete, First published Jan 09
Mature
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Skye Templeton is sick of living in a small village in the Scottish Highlands where everyone knows every single little thing about her. She's tired of her dead-end "situationship". She desperately needs to escape . . . So when a chance encounter opens her eyes to the possibility of a different life, she decides it's time to shake things up a bit.

Moving to Glasgow on a whim probably isn't her smartest idea, but Skye is determined to make the most of her new life. Unfortunately, life doesn't always work out the way you planned . . . Especially if you didn't really have a plan in the first place!

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I initially started this story with the intention of entering it into the Open Novella Contest this year - I've since found out that it wouldn't qualify but I'm still using one of the prompts all the same! 

The prompt I'm using is: 

Prompt 45- "Keep your happily ever after; it ain't mine."

And, much like Skye, I really don't have a plan for it yet, so let's just see what unfolds! ;-)
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