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Virginia Albert

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The comically six worst online dates I've ever been on

Weekly Contest #350

#350 Comic Relief – Virginia Albert – 4//10/2026This week’s prompt: Write a story with the goal of making your reader laughThe comically six worst online dates I’ve ever been on In 2026 and years preceding, every single person with access to a Smartphone or even a computer felt the weight, the gravity, the nagging tug, the loneliness, the candy flipper, the seductress, the home of my future husband? – all in the form of dating apps. When you go on the App Store, there are more dating apps than in any other category, it seems. Apps from inter...

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Alone on the Brooklyn Bridge

Weekly Contest #349

The year was 2017, sometime in the fall. I had just moved to the City for work at a prestigious agency Deutsch, which turned out to be a total shitshow. My roommate, who I met on a random roommate matching website (Roomi – not that random, I guess) became quick friends despite a mutual distrust of each other and love but also disliking each other. The space was small, so it was difficult to share with anyone, no matter how much I liked them. We had a party on our rooftop, where her friends from Yale (maybe four total) came, and my 20 friends...

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Essence precedes existence

Weekly Contest #348

Throughout my entire life, I have wondered if I was adopted, an alien from another planet, yet I knew none of these things was materially true. I always felt different from other people in ways that I couldn’t particularly articulate. I felt like a loner, an outsider, even though I had friends and was well-liked. I experienced a high level of cognitive dissonance about what it meant to be in elementary and high school in seeing yourself a certain way, seeing others a certain way (as Lacan would write), and finding the middle ground where you...

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