Modernlovecontest Stories

A monologue about some of our first loves. Familial love. At least what an 18-year old has to say on her experience of familial love and what she's learnt when it comes to that form of love. Very conditional at times.

Season 2 of Modern Love is here! And in this season, LOVE breaks all the rules. To celebrate, Wattpad and Amazon Prime Video teamed up to launch the #ModernLove Writing Contest! Share your take on what love and connection means to you. Interested? Read on for more details.

In our world today we throw around the word "love" quite aimlessly. We believe it to be an emotion, something that we feel on a whim for no rhyme or reason. I don't believe that's true. I believe love is a conscious choice of action. Because we love someone we put action behind our words. I don't believe anyone truly has a full understanding of love. I believe life will continuously push us to our limits in regard of how much love we give and learning new ways to express that love as we grow as individuals. I also believe that with the conscious choice of love, comes some not so voluntary emotions or sensations. In this book I am going to explore what those experiences meant to me and can hopefully provide some insight to others who might be feeling the same way but are having trouble identifying those feelings.

Fall in love, make mistakes, break the rules, and leave regrets. We wreck our brains searching for answers that can explain why we make certain decisions or feel a certain way but in the end, we can't fully explain love or any other emotion. At some point in our lives we all developed a specific picture of what represents the abstract idea called love. Be it a face from distant memory or a taste that reminds you of an event. But just as how Ethan Hawke said to Julie Delpy's character Celine in the movie "before sunrise", maybe every choice we make for that one person, that seemingly earth-shattering love story, is simply based on the one moment when you realized, "i wished i had met you earlier, i really like talking to you."

Short story for modern love contest. Two broken halves can create one whole. Two broken people can create one true love.

I tell the story of my mother. her favorite memory of my father, as well as her last words.

Everyone has a chapter in life that they recall their transitioning period.

One moment, two people and a world of possibilities.

Arthur and Isla were neighbors, but not really friends. Their relationship was transactional, meeting at the hedgerow to discuss the news, gardening, and baking. A submission in the #ModernLoveContest which examines the beautiful, yet fleeting friendship between an elderly man and a young woman.

Clumsy thumbs and the panic that ensues. A #ModernLoveContest short story.

"I don't regret getting hate from my conservative Indian family for saying ' I LOVE HIM ' . Facing consequences for being who you are is better than living a lie ".

Nothing comes between a girl and what she loves the most. (Entry for #ModernLoveContest)

A story of a girl who was just having fun at a fair when she met the love of her life

Determined to run away from her failed marriage, Cartier Davenport, finds herself escaping failure by secluding herself in a seaside village hidden away in the rolling hills of the English countryside. Surrounded by her books, paints, and large overgrown garden she's forced to hire a caretaker for the old thatch-roofed cottage she's purchased as her haven. Rowdy and foul-mouthed Noah Turner is hired and lives by the ideals of work smarter not harder often clashing with the perfectionism of Cartier. Sparks fly, but mistakes are made, and fights ensue when these two come to a head. This opposites attract reverse age gap romance will be a fun and easy read due some time in August!

Sometimes family holds a bar for perfection and reward isn't real love. But real love does exist.

Growing up

It's about a girl in her life trying figure out. What is love? She look at her past to present to see how she grown and learn from love and pain. She been though and over come it.

This is a submission for the #ModernLove Writing Contest. Written: August 10th, 2021

Aisha lives a life that looks normal from the outside. She and her husband have achieved the American dream. Or so it would seem from the outside. She has lost herself under his control and living that life that she was always taught she should have. On her way to rediscovering herself through a lost passion, she also finds a love that is unconventional. Who will she choose?