Fiction
Long Distance Doesn’t Work, Does It?
A random word drabble: college
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In June, Fiction Shorts are offering a twister to go with some of the daily words. Today, the twist is a genre: romance.
Our relationship was a secret for years. Fourteen-year-old boys didn’t have relationships in those days. We fell into it, exploring feelings in our body we didn’t understand. To cut a long story short, we finally realised we were in love.
Then it was time for college…
I wanted to study physics. He wanted to study politics. I wanted to head to the East Coast. He, to stay out West.
We thought long distance wouldn’t work. We were wrong.
We called every day, and visited when we’d scraped and saved enough.
We are married now, and in our forties!
This Drabble (a story of exactly 100 words) was written in response to this prompt from Nancy Oglesby:
