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Joan Leotta's avatar

Date with the Cheshire Cat

He grinned the entire two hours we dined, even while chewing. Frowned when I paid half, then walked home alone.

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Truth In Advertising

We each sat in the uncrowded restaurant lobby alone, waiting, pining, neither recognizing the other from our fraudulent profile pics.

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Pamela Pescosolido's avatar

The Mysteriousness of Men

I thought it went well.

You laughed and said, “I’ve no interest in seeing you again.”

Was it my breath?

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Mileva Anastasiadou's avatar

We Dressed Up For The Occasion

He showed up as Gargamel and he played nice at first. Smurfs escape in cartoons, but I didn't.

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Alan McDiarmid's avatar

I decided to take dates as a nice gift for my blind date, hoping the joke would land. It didn’t,

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Kelli Short Borges's avatar

This made me laugh :-)

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Angela Fitzpatrick's avatar

Half a Twin

During our first dinner, James admitted he’d prefer to date my sister.

“She’s married,” I objected.

He replied, “that’s attractive.”

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Leah Reinhardt's avatar

No Benefits

She’s in HR, I am a bartender. She asked me one question all night. Only one of us is salaried.

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Cheryl Snell's avatar

Perfect Gentleman

Abandoning his broken car in a vacant field, he hitched home. At least he had opened the door for me.

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Sherri Alms's avatar

First date, last date

You told me how to dress "sexy" for our next date. I pushed back my chair and said goodbye.

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Adele Gallogly's avatar

Seeing Someone

No seats left together, but you suggest watching anyway. Rachel McAdams grins at you in moonlit rainfall, only at you.

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Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦's avatar

They were cold and clammy. I could have accepted that. When they were matched by your heart, it was over.

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Kelli Short Borges's avatar

(Can we have two stories? I think so but not sure. Ignore this please if we're only allowed one!)

Three Dates In

we ponder dinner—Mexican or Thai?

“I’m easy,” I shrug.

“Have an opinion,” you bark.

“This is over.” I smile.

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Mike Freveletti's avatar

MR. LIBERTINE

Like superheroes? Indifferent, presently, deep in comicon. My date? Leather. chains. Bullwhip. Superman, yeah you, I need a different Earth.

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Kay Rae Chomic's avatar

The Shortest Golf Date Ever

“Wait! You can’t play from the men’s tees.”

“Yes, I can.”

Whack! She outdrove him.

He stomped away, muttered “FuckYouBitch.”

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El Ti's avatar

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to submit something to your contest. What a terrific prompt!

Lisa Taylor

Alcoholic, Unreformed

Amid Chinatown's rich squalor, the man importunes us repeatedly as you weep at my refusal to consider a second date.

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Kelli Short Borges's avatar

Overheard by the Bartender at Texas Steak-N-Chop

NYC slick, he gulps Manhattans, jokes about dating a cowgirl hick. "Yep, I sure can make em’ steers," she winks.

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