Category: Daily Dose of Romance
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The Weight
She came home from her mother’s house at nine-thirty on a Tuesday with a face that said she was fine and hands that said she was not. Finn could tell the difference. He’d learned it — the way her jaw went slightly tight, the way she set her keys down instead of dropping them, the…
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First Aid
She was trying to open a can of tomatoes when the lid slipped and cut her palm. It was small — a thin, stinging line across the heel of her hand — but Mara gasped and immediately started doing what she always did: minimizing. “It’s nothing. Don’t.” She was already heading to the sink. But…
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The Nickname
He called her *starling*. Not always. Mostly when she was being particularly herself — too much, too loud, too wide-open with her feelings in a way she’d spent her twenties apologizing for. He’d look at her across whatever room they were in and say it like an observation. *Starling.* She’d asked him once, early on,…
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The Drawer
It started as a joke. “You should just leave a drawer at my place,” Camille had said, three months into whatever they were, pulling a wrinkled shirt from her overnight bag. “Like a normal person.” Remy hadn’t said anything. He’d just looked at her with that look — the one she’d learn to call his…
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A Small Change to the Daily Romance Stories (And What’s Coming Next)
After months of sending daily romance stories directly to inboxes, I’ve decided to make a small change to how things will work moving forward. Don’t panic. The fictional men are not being taken away from you…. The stories are staying. But instead of receiving them automatically by email every day, the daily short romances will…
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New Year’s at the Edge of Everything
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE | They’d both come to the party single, which was the setup. They’d both been ignoring each other since August, which was the context. And now it was eleven fifty-eight on the thirty-first of December and they were on the balcony while the rest of the…
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How You Ask for Things
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE | She’d been in therapy long enough to know her own patterns, which meant she saw it happening and still couldn’t stop it — the pulling away, the getting quiet, the performing fine at exactly the moment she most needed to not be fine. It was…
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Hands
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE | She’d been painting his hands for three weeks before she admitted what she was doing, and by then she had seven canvases and a problem. Rafael was a sculptor. He used his hands the way other people used language — with precision and intention and…
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What We Grow Toward
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE She’d moved back to her hometown for all the sensible reasons — cost of living, her mother’s knee, the particular pull of familiarity when the world got too fast — and had not, in all her planning, accounted for the fact that her childhood best friend…
Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc 