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literally stories Magazine is the place for short story fiction from around the world. Read the best romantic stories from our Romance category. Literally Stories is all about short stories. It was created by writers for writers. It exists to showcase a wide spectrum of short story fiction from new and emerging writers to more seasoned authors.
literally stories Magazine » Romance
3w ago
Ivy swallows the enclosing wall of the Gellert Hegy while the rest of Buda is covered in clouds, the shade of gray that indicates a storm is coming. Across the Danube, in Pest, it is dry; soft blue skies. Nineteenth-century granite makes pointy party hats on each turret of the Halászbástyas fortress neighboring the Buda ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
10M ago
The skirl of Citizens Arrest fills the stairwell of my walk-up. The electric guitar twangs and pulses through the walls; my key chain vibrates in the door lock, sending judders up my arm, rattling my teeth. I thump on my neighbor’s wall. “Sorry, cielo!” Manolo yells. The music stops but my head still throbs. The ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
I’m in our living room and the sun is hitting the couch in your spot just how you liked it. I always wanted to close the curtains so it wouldn’t fade the fabric, but today I leave them open, like you would’ve wanted. I suppose I’m daydreaming again because I swear I hear your voice ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
-Prologue- Ineffable Is As Ineffable Does With a peaked roof topped by a small brass eagle, the “Caretaker’s Cottage” in New Town Cemetery is a seven-by-nine rectangle that stands long side up. A few years back the City of Charleston had money left over in the Parks Department budget; two thousand dollars was allotted for ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
Emma was lying in the park between my dorm and mid-afternoon lecture and if it hadn’t been for the fact she was feeding birds with the grin of the manic and magnificent I may have continued my stride. With her bare toes all a-wiggle, her short blonde bob, a white summer dress that ended just ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
In a bathing suit, of a most direct design, Shelly Kearns was gorgeous and desirable all the way past dreams and, in the water, a sylph of the first order, and with every dive she took, explored the bottom of our pond for odd treasures of any sort, reclaimable for new duties or positive salvage ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
And always it is this Gift-giver, this woman from the other side of midnight, this darkness that is not taken from. And she comes in pieces, trajectories, soft angles and planes, curves from a world galore I look for in this, her classroom of touch, taste, and sleek terrors wherein she says, Hello, Two-Dream Tommy ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
Well here we are at Week 317. This week is like the old saying about buses. (For all the kids reading this – A bus is not your mum or dad giving you a lift somewhere, it is a big long vehicle that takes loads of you as long as you pay. Paying is when ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
The morning sun assaulted every nerve ending in my shattered brain and that same vicious sun illuminated the headline that hovered before my bleary eyes: Bigfoot’s Miraculous Aqua-Baby Discovered. I tried to focus, then I tried to blink it all away. Miserable failure was the result on both counts. I did not conjure clarity, nor ..read more
literally stories Magazine » Romance
1y ago
It wasn’t a lifetime but 37 years was a good stretch of time. After a particularly vivid dream where the two spoke again finally, and connected intimately in the lobby of the apartment building he grew up in, Craig Bugowski woke up happy, and fished for his iPhone. Karrie M. was on his list of ..read more