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Write a story that starts with two characters saying goodbye.

Posted in Character on Oct 26, 2022

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A Gamble

Winner of Contest #44 🏆

The chance of you breaking up with me right now is 19.67%.That’s lower than the chance of a long-distance relationship failing but higher than the chance of rolling doubles on two dice.We stand around awkwardly. This is the last time I’ll see you for an undetermined amount of time, as if you’re just another high school friend that I lost touch with after graduation. We spent the whole day together but now that you’re leaving, all I can think of are questions, not goodbyes. In some ways, this is like the end of our first date all over again, ...

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Love is in the air ❤❣

Submitted to Contest #44

“Goodbye, Elise”“Goodbye, James”I saw her walked off with tears streaming down her cheeks. I also can’t bear the thought of leaving her and I just stood there watching her leaving the airport. The airport was filled with lots of passengers arriving from flights or going to catch a flight. Although the airport was crowded and noisy, my eyes was still on the blond-haired woman who had just shattered my heart and walked away.Then, to my surprise, Elise turned around.“I almost forgot”. She jogged back to me, handed me a letter and nodded.“Don’t ...

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The Rose Garden

Submitted to Contest #44

Even though it had been going on for such a long time, I still couldn’t help but marvel at what was happening before me. At who was standing before me. But somehow, even after all of this, I couldn’t bring myself to think that I would’ve wanted my life to be any different. He stared at me sadly, anguish clear in his crystal blue eyes. He gazed into my eyes for a while longer, until he softly raised his hand to my face, gently caressing my cheek. “Goodbye,” he whispered. Tears formed in my eyes, spilling over as I tried in vain to not br...

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The Big Bad Bully

Submitted to Contest #44

People love to throw around the concept that ‘one never knows when they say goodbye to someone for the last time’ and pretend that they are so philosophical.“Do you have your lunch packed? Did you get breakfast? Do you have your homework in your bag?”People say it, but do they really take it seriously? Do they treat every goodbye as if it were there last?“Yes, yes, and yes, Dad. I’ve got everything good to go.”No. They don’t.“And you’re sure you’re okay with taking the bus to school?”Goodbyes are just repetitive until they aren’t anymore. Th...

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A Personal Twist On La Llorona

Submitted to Contest #44

“Goodbye”, I whisper, watching the color drain from her face. A small flurry of bubbles escapes her lips as if she was trying to wish me farewell too before she finally stops struggling. I happily remove my hands from where they were clasped around her neck.I step back from the river as I stare at my children’s faces, all of them float aimlessly in the looking clear-glass water, hair clouding glassy rolled back eyes. I smile as I take my youngest in my arms and stroke her long blond hair.“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,” I sing, my sm...

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“Saying goodbye – Sushant and Anika “

Submitted to Contest #44

                           “Saying goodbye – Sushant and Anika ““Goodbye “ – is a very heartbreaking word. Its not easy to say Goodbye, but as they say “every cloud has a silver lining” same way Goodbyes also have something “good “ about them. Sushant and Anika were two such lovers. They had met at a coaching institute and it was a love at first sight for Sushant. Sushant greatly adored Anika. Though, she was...

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Definitely NOT Love At First Sight

Submitted to Contest #44

"Bye! Let the door hit you on the way out!"I yelled. "Bye, Vic,"Hunter stated. I watched from the living room as Hunter walked away and out the front door. "Mom! Why is that Hunter guy always here?"Cadence called. I walked upstairs and into Cadence's room. "I've told you, C. He wants to marry me, and he's been asking for years now. But every time I say no because no one can replace the wonderful man your father was,"I replied. Cadence nodded and put the book down that she had been reading. "Can you ask Bebe and Ariana to come in here please...

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Hello

Submitted to Contest #44

 You wrap strands of hair through your fingers and pull as hard as you can. You do it in the bathroom and then come out, and she’s been doing it too, and you’re both crying. Crying because it’s the right thing to do when you’re saying goodbye. After three days together you’re tired of her and ready to go home and she feels the same and you both know it and don’t care, but still, you have to cry.  “I’ll e-mail you,” she says, and you smile and don’t say anything because she doesn’t mean to lie.  You never hear from her, and she...

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GOODBYE

Submitted to Contest #44

Marissa turned to face him with teary eyeballs. She tried hard to prevent the tears from splitting but just couldn’t. She watched him keenly. He had turned misty-eyed also, but he was doing a greater job at stopping it from splitting than she was.“Goodbye”, she said at last, then turned to leave.With pains and deep sorrow, he whispered “Goodbye”. He watched her go, then turned away his head. He took out his handkerchief and rubbed something wet on his cheeks while he walked away faster, and faster.      &nb...

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A Sunflower

Submitted to Contest #44

The dark shadow clouded around my figure again, but it was getting weaker. I no longer succumbed to her menacing voice, as I had for much too long. Her perfectly chiseled cheeks beckoned me, but I was getting stronger. I might not outlast the spirit that had trapped me for so long, but I had a different focus now.I smiled the most genuine smile that I'd had in a long time. The spirit had no control over my emotions.“Goodbye,” I whispered, without the slightest hint of regret in my tone.“You don’t mean that,” the spirit played with my hair co...

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As The Clock Struck Zero

Submitted to Contest #44

An artless merlot. Vigilant in its nature as it stained the sterile carpet with child-like innocence while panic seethed into the air, besmirching the lungs of many aboard. It wasn't the violent jolts nor the abrupt descents that frightened her, but rather the frenzied roars of horrified men and women who pushed and shoved along the slender aisle towards their supposed saviour. Fear plagued her thoughts as she sank into the stiff seat. Her daughter squirmed against her strong grasp, babbling along to a nursery rhyme that drowned beneath...

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The hardest Goodbye

Submitted to Contest #44

"Goodbye my dear," said a woman with tears filled in her eyes. She was the one who really cared about me. She was the one who loved me more than anyone else."Goodbye mom," I said standing at the entrance of my house. I completed my schooling at Porur, a small town in Tamil Nadu. And I wanted my graduation to be done in a city. I took up this decision because of two reasons. The first reason is that my town doesn't provide much facility for higher education. So I had to shift elsewhere. The other reason was that I had to relieve my mom from m...

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Bittersweet

Submitted to Contest #44

Everything about that day was bittersweet. But bittersweet can mean so many things. Jack grinned, the carefree fourteen-year-old, messed with his tousled brown hair as he waved to Jane from his window in the car. Jane tried hard to force a grin, but only managed a quick wave, before she turned around and faced the house that was once full of life. Full of memories. She remembered everything, the two of them chasing each other in the yard, sitting together in the swing on the strong tree, eating together in patches of grass, each of the momen...

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A Scribbled Amour

Submitted to Contest #44

Present Day"Enough is enough! I can't do this anymore!""But why, is it because of me and my ugly body?""No!!! I just can't bear you, Anthony. I just can't!"A moment of eerie silence intensifies with a mixture of grief and anger. That was when Anthony, with his bleeding heart, bids goodbye to his love forever. "But Ileana, I love you…I didn't mean it. Please understand!""No!!! I don't want to stay in this toxic relationship where you take my love for granted! I don't want it!""But, listen to me…""I don't want to listen to anything you have to...

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Farewell

Submitted to Contest #44

When I got to thinking about what would be a good way to lead off a story with two people saying there last goodbyes forever, there was only one movie that came to mind. There are great movie scenes and then there’s what “I” consider to be the greatest movie scene of all time: Rick (Humphrey Bogart) putting Isla (Ingrid Bergman) on a plane and saying "farewell" in the classic movie Casablanca. My saying farewell to Charlotte O’Hara wasn’t nearly as dramatic nor epic. We had dated for three years on again, off again and our love for one anoth...

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