WRITING CONTEST
3rd EDITION
FICTION INSPIRED BY FICTION
“Love stories in the era of social media”
Open to all Juniors 5, 6 and 7
1 narrative of around 150
words.
Submission Period: June 14 – July 14, 2017
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It was his eyes or perhaps his smile or just his beauty that attracted me. I remember the first time we exchanged glances, it was as if time had stood still.
ResponderEliminarI don´t know if it was destiny, but now that he is here I will not waste a second of my life without him.
It is funny because I don´t know if it was tru love; love is a very strong word, a very powerful word; we define love as our heart, the way as humans beings long to be with our so called soulmate. Was he my soulmate?
It took a year for me to talk him on Facebook, we became best friends, but I could feel that there was an enormous distance separating us, as if ours were two completely different worlds- yet he taught me the value of love, what it is like to care for one another.
Claudia, 38. 10 miles away, active 2 days ago.
ResponderEliminarAbout Claudia: I'm and art history teacher and a mom of 4 boys. I like go hiking and watch old movies.
Sebastian, 43. 10 miles away, active 12 hours ago.
About Sebastian: I hate my job but it gives me the chance to do what I like: spending time with my children and travel around the world.
So far the only thing these two had in common was the ability to swipe left and right but without getting anywhere, until the little flame appeared inthe top of their cellphone screens and it was a match!
The first date was arranged while the excitment and fear were hidden. After 90 long minutes of awkward talk, they both were able to chill out and find out how much they actually connected.
The number of dates was growing and the app was soon uninstalled. They had to put up with their friends mockery for a while, but in the end they were smiling at each other, glasses in their hands and rings in their fingers, telling the story of how tinder had brought them together.
It was 5th july of 2013, and I was chatting on my computer like everyday. On those days , I passed most of the time surfing the internet. So I was playing candy crush saga on Facebook when in my notifications appeared a friend request. I opened the profile, and she was a beautiful girl. She was blonde ,she had a perfect body and the most beautiful blue eyes that I have seen. Besides, as if that were not enough,in her profile said that she had the same age as me.
ResponderEliminarObviously, I accepted the request, but i wasn't ready to talk with she, because I am not a very social person and I am scared to talk to women, so I kept playing my game.
A few days later, I received a message in my facebook, and when I opened it, I couldn't be so happy to see that it was she! The beautiful blue eyes girl!
We talked for months, I had never seen her , but I was completely in love. One day, she said about hang out, and I accepted very happy her invitation, but I was committing a big mistake.
I went to the place where she said we had to meet us, but she wasn't there. I had waited for she 15 minutes, when an old man appeared in front of me, and he said my name. On that moment, I realized that the girl had never existed, and in all that time, I had been talking with that man. I asked to him who he was, but he didn't answer , and I was in shock. He simply punched and dragged me to a van which was like 100 meters away. When I saw that the van was a little far, I saw the opportunity and I started to shout the strongest I could. A police officer listened to me and he see the whole scene. He took his gun , and he said to the kidnapper that let me go.
ResponderEliminarThis is the story of how I met my boyfriend. It's based on real facts and it started in 2013 at Escuela de Lenguas…
There was a girl called Malena. She was 15 years old and she came to the Escuela de Lenguas every Monday and Wednesday and she had a friend in the same institute. He was called Rodrigo.
Malena and Rodrigo were best friends at school so they were talking all time by whatsapp. Once she was in Escuela de Lenguas talking to him and he said that he had a friend who thought that she was pretty so Malena asked about him and after English she searched him on facebook. He was called Francisco. He didn’t have many photos on his facebook page so Malena didn’t know what do. To help her Rodrigo gove her Francisco’s number and talked to him about Malena.
On the next day Francisco sent Malena a whatsapp, she was very excited and they talked all afternoon. They talked via whatsapp for some days but one day they stopped talking. Francisco didn’t send anymore whatsapps to Malena and she was embarrassed so they never spoke again.
Francisco had left the institute so Rodrigo couldn’t help Malena anymore.
A few months later, it was summer holidays and Francisco had gone to his hometown with his family. He had moved to La Plata in 2013. One night he went out with his friends and he had drunk a los so he sent a whatsapp to Malena by mistake.
The next day when Malena saw the message she was very confused so she answered and from that day on they started to talk again but this time for a long time. They had never met face to face to they arranged to meet. One night Malena went out with her friends and Francisco too. They met for first time that night and talked all night in the club.
They kept talking for a few months…
On 31st July 2014 it was Malena’s birthday so she went out with her friend. She wanted to see Francisco again but he told her that he couldn’t go out because some of his friends wanted to go out.
In the middle of the night Francisco showed up and Malena was very happy. They started to talk and dance… That night they kissed for the first time. From that night something had changed between them. They arranged a date and they kept meeting for a few months but the 6th September it was the birthday of Malena’s friend and Francisco was invited… That night Francisco asked to Malena if she wanted to be his girlfriend… She was shocked… She didn’t expect so she went to the bathroom with her friends and told them what had happened. After thinking about it some time, Francisco asked her again and she said yes!
After a while Francisco confessed why he had suddenly stopped talking to Malena via whatsapp. He had thought that Malena wasn’t interested in him so he thought that he was bothering her and didn’t talk to her anymore. Malena explained that she felt embarrassed and the day that Francisco sent drunk a whatsapp he had done it on purpose. He actually wanted to send it to her.
Nowadays they are happy together.
Twitter, the love bird.
ResponderEliminarFor Alice and Mark, it didn´t take more than 140 characters to write their love story.
The two met over twitter when Alice was trying to find tickets for a concert. After searching a lot she discovered that a user tweeted that he had an extra ticket. She wrote to him but he said that the ticket had already been taken. However the two continued to tweet back and forth. Alice asked his name and he answered: Mark. Over a few months, they had exchanged phone numbers, chatted on the phone and eventually met in person.
When Mark decided to propose, of course, twitter would help him do the job. The whole thing was live-tweeted with the hashtag #AliceFindMark. After an elaborate scavenger hunt for Alice that took her to the place where Mark was, he dropped to his knee with a print-out of a tweet reading, "Will you marry me?" She, of course, said yes and they lived happily ever after.
Night Love
ResponderEliminarIt was friday night and i was in bed when my best friend phoned me inviting me to go out and i agreed. I got ready and i waited for her in my house; when she arrived, we went to the party, it was full of people. I was talking with a friend when i saw a beautiful man standing near my best friend so i went with them to talk. His name was Peter, he had green eyes and short brown hair, he was really nice. At five am, i went home and i started to look for him on Instagram, after looking for one hour, i found him and followed him.
The next day, i was playing on my phone when i recieved a message from Peter; we talked for months and we agreed to meet in the shopping centre at eight pm.
I was on my way to the shopping centre and i was so nervous to see him again. When i arrived he was standing at the door so i got of the car and walked to him. We entered to the shopping centre and went to Starbucks, we were talking when he told me that he had to tell me something very important, so i asked what it was, and he asked me if y wanted to be his girlfriend and i agreed.
Now we talk and meet everyday, i feel great next to him and i hope this will last many more years.
Username:Tony
ResponderEliminarWell, this is how it all started.
It was Thursday night and I was doing my homework. Nothing special, just the same as always. Suddenly, a cloud showed in the screen of my phone, it was an Instagram notification. When I opened the app, it was a new follower. “@TonyStanford5” it said, and I started following him too. “I think that I’ve seen him in school before…” I thought.
After seeing some of his pictures I remembered him. He was two years older than me. It was impossible not to recognize him because he used to wear those cute round glasses that made him look exactly like Harry Potter. He seemed really nice, but I’d never talked to him.
Nothing happened after that. We just liked each other’s pictures, but nothing much. I didn´t see him a lot because I studied in the afternoon, and he in morning, but sometimes he stayed in school for the optional subjects, that´s when I started to see him. We used to see each other and smile, he was really cute. We never talked, but it was nice to see him. I tried to talk with him a lot of times, but it was so hard for me, I’m really shy.
I was chatting with a friend by Snapchat, and I realized that Tony’s username had a mini birthday cake next to it. It was his birthday. After thinking about it for infinite hours and discussing it with my bestie, I gathered enough strength and typed “Hey! Is it ur bthday 2day?” then I sent it.
Oh, how stupid. Why did I ask that? Of course it was his birthday, why would that cake be there, otherwise? It just took him 3 minutes to read it. While he was typing I was biting my nails so hard I almost ate my fingers. Finally, he pressed send. “Hey! Yes it is! How u doing?” he wrote. Oh my god why I was so nervous? It took me like five minutes to think an answer, even when it wasn´t that hard. “Happy bthday then! I’m great, how r u?”.
After an hour I realized that I was having a perfectly fluid conversation with a stranger, how great was that? Well, it wasn’t a complete stranger, but we’d never talked before. It was really easy to talk with him, I felt surprisingly comfortable.
Days went by and all we did was chat and get to know each other more and more. He became my internet-best friend. It was sad because I couldn’t see him at school, he was really nice, and we had a lot of things in common.
June was starting, that meant that Tony was would have P.E. at 3pm on Wednesdays. It was Tuesday so maybe I could see him the next day. It was 1.30pm and I had to enter to class. I was sitting on the stairs waiting for my best friend when I felt someone pushing me from the side. “Hello, what’s up?” Yes, it was Tony. He sat next to me. He was really close, I was petrified. Oh, God, he looked even better at that distance. “Hey, I’m doing great” I answered. And we talked until my teacher came.
That’s how we met, 16 years ago. Now we are married and have 2 children. Thank god I followed him when I saw that cloud on my screen!
TheEmptyBox added a new friend on a chatroom called TheMysteriousBag.
ResponderEliminarOnce they started talking they could not stop doing so and they became addicted to each other. The love grew fast like roses in spring. They did not know the each other´s faces but they knew that no matter how different they were, they would love each other.
The most important day finally came, it was high they met personally and they had arranged to do so at a coffee shop. They did not know how they looked each other or what their names were, the only thing they know is their nicknames.
Unluckily, one of them did not appear on the date, TheEmptyBox waited and waited but his guest never arrived. as he was leaving, he found a note saying, ´I don´t have the courage to talk to you, I feel you don´t deserve me. I´m not confident or sure you want to meet me. I´ll make my way out. Max-TheMysteriousBag´.
TheEmptyBox searched in the telephone directory the phone number of every Max he could find. He wanted to listen to his voice, he wanted to tell to him how much he loved him. For many days he had tried hard until one day he finally found him…
Heart illness.
ResponderEliminarAlma and lucas had been in love for fifteen years. One day Alma discovered that she was suffering for a serious heart illness. Alma was de CEO of a software company when she discovered her illness so she came up with an idea: starting working on an operating system wich could represent her after dying.
Two years later Alma died and his soulmate was heart broken because she hadn´t told him about her illness. That made him fell miserable and lonely.
Alma died in summer, that winter Lucas found on Alma´s laptop a folder called "to my beloved". He installed the operating system that he had found and discovered that Alma had been a special treatment to be a mother, she had frozen her ovules, In the same folder there was a letter...
' My soulmate, I´ve done this because I want us to have the girl we´ve always wanted. I know you´re going to be an excellent father. I attach an operating system where you´ll find podcasts and videos so that our daughter will knows me. I love you very much and I´ll take care of you from where I am.'
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ResponderEliminarHeart illness.
ResponderEliminarAlma and lucas had been in love for fifteen years. One day Alma discovered that she was suffering for a serious heart illness. Alma was de CEO of a software company when she discovered her illness so she came up with an idea: starting working on an operating system wich could represent her after dying.
Two years later Alma died and his soulmate was heart broken because she hadn´t told him about her illness. That made him fell miserable and lonely.
Alma died in summer, that winter Lucas found on Alma´s laptop a folder called "to my beloved". He installed the operating system that he had found and discovered that Alma had been a special treatment to be a mother, she had frozen her ovules, In the same folder there was a letter...
' My soulmate, I´ve done this because I want us to have the girl we´ve always wanted. I know you´re going to be an excellent father. I attach an operating system where you´ll find podcasts and videos so that our daughter will knows me. I love you very much and I´ll take care of you from where I am.'
There was a girl called Anne who was going out with a boy called John. Their relationship was a little boring, but they were happy with each other anyway. Sometimes Anne felt lonely but tried to ignore it.
ResponderEliminarOn a Saturday night, they went to a party. Not surprisingly, John left Anne alone for some hours. Anne didn´t know what to do as she didn´t know anybody. She was about to go home when she met a boy. His name was Evan, John´s best friend, Anne hadn´t recognized him. So they started talking and became friends. Anne told Evan that John had left her alone. He didn´t look surprised. 'You shouldn´t trust John' said Evan. Anne got angry with him, and went home.
Anne kept going out with John. However, after some time, he started to behave in a strange way. Anne was worried. At times, John hadn´t paid attention to her bbut then that became increasingly common. So she revised John´s whatsapp and discovered that he was cheating her. She inmediatly remembered Evan´s words. Anne got so furious that decided to cheat John with Evan, his best friend. That was her revenge.
Nina and Fausto had been together for ve years. They lived in London, she was almost 18 years old and a very beauful and rich girl; He was 20 years old and a nice and sweet boy.On 4th of july Nina celebrated her birthday at home. There, Fausto met a girl called Regina who, at that me, was studying Medicine with Nina, and was very jealous of her because she loved Fausto and hated the perfect life Nina had. So, Regina thought a plan to separate them. She asked a friendto photograph her quickly when she went directly to kiss him. When this happened Fausto got furious and told her that she was crazy. Four hours later, Fausto le/ Nina´s place without telling herabout the kiss. The next day, he got up and had a friendship nocaon on facebook from Julia Jensen, on her prole there was the pic of Regina and him kissing each other so he discovered that that was a fakeprole. Fausto got so desesperate that he started calling his girlfriend but she didn´t answer. By the following month, he had been calling her so constantly that he worried quite a lot. So, he decided to contact Toby, Nina´s brother who told him Nina had killed herself, to his surprise. Fausto was in a state of shock and kept asking himself ‘Had Nina commi5ed suicide or Regina killedher?´
ResponderEliminarThe dangers of Facebook
ResponderEliminarToday, I will tell you the story that changed my life. We always use social media, but we don't know the dangers that it can bring to us, and I learned that the hard way.
It was 5th july of 2013, and I was chatting on my computer like every day. On those days, I spent most of the time surfing the internet. So I was playing candy crush saga on Facebook when a friend request appeared in my notifications. I opened the profile, and she was a beautiful girl. She was blonde, she had a perfect body and the most beautiful blue eyes that I had ever seen. Besides, as if that was not enough, in her profile it said that she was he same age as me.
Obviously, I accepted the request, but I wasn't ready to talk to her, because I am not a very social person and I am scared to talk to women, so I kept playing my game.
A few days later, I received a message in my facebook, and when I opened it, I couldn't be happier to see that it was her! The beautiful blue-eyed girl!
We talked for months. I had never seen her , but I was completely in love. One day, she suggested we hang out, and I accepted very happily her invitation, but I was making a big mistake.
I went to the place where she said we had to meet, but she wasn't there. I had been waiting for 15 minutes, when an old man appeared in front of me, and he said my name. At that moment, I realized that the girl had never existed, and all that time, I had been talking with that man. I asked him who he was, but he didn't answer , and I was in shock. He simply punched me and dragged me to a van which was like 100 metres away. When I saw that the van was a little far, I saw the opportunity and I started to shout as loud as I could. A police officer heard me and he saw the whole scene. He took his gun, and he told the kidnapper to let me go.
Fortunately, the old man is now in jail, and I will never trust in the social media people again.
It was a sunny day and everybody was outside enjoying the fabulous day, and Brandon and I were in my house watching TV. Brandon is an incredible person, beautiful ,and he has been my best friend since we were five. I've never had a lot of friends but I’m okay with this.
ResponderEliminarSuddenly, the lights went off and I really hate the dark so I held Brandon tight, because I was very scared. We went outside and sat in the street to talk. He told me about a new girlfriend that he had met the previous week. He always told me about his girlfriends but I don't know why this time I got annoyed. I'd never felt this for anyone, I think that it is love.
I was very scared to tell Brandon what I felt for him because he had a girlfriend so I thought: ‘I’m his best friend and he tells me everything about his life so I can wait until his relationship has problems and at that moment tell him how I felt’. But I am very anxious so later that night, I told him what I felt for him. He was very nervous and said that he had broken up with his girlfriend because he felt things for me too and he kissed me.
LOVE STORY
ResponderEliminarIn 1885 there was a boy and a girl who loved each other. The boy was called Jim and he had to go to the war of GBR and leave his girlfriend .
In 1887 the woman got a letter from the army which said that he had died in combat. She became so sad that she tried to search for him and know more about him. She thought that they were wrong.
Fortunately, at the end of the war in 1889, with the victory of GBR, Jim was alive. The army thought that he had died trying to help another soldier when a grenade exploded.
He came back home and he found his wife extremely sad. He was so depressed that she had tried to kill hermself 3 times. Finally, they got together again and got married and had children, two to be more exact.
The years passed and the family grew and the most important thing was that GBR was never at war anymore.
THE PLAN
ResponderEliminarThis very special love story about Christopher and Marie started when they were both very young. They were neighbours and their families were very close. Christopher had loved Marie since he was 8. He thought that she was a very beautiful and clever girl, who was only for him, without any exception. He had never told her this, but one day…
They were 13 years old and then, they surely knew they loved each other. On St.Valentine’s Day, she told him that she loved him so he was extremely happy and nervous. His answer was “So do I, I have loved you since I was 8!” Then he asked her to be his girlfriend, he knew her parents wouldn’t let any boy get near her with that kind of romantic intentions. Her father would get frighteningly angry. But in spite of the high risks, he was decided to take her as his girlfriend.
They started a relationship; every day they used to go to school together, nobody knew about it. But one day, Marie´s father started to suspect his daughter and Christopher. So he told Marie that if she met Christopher again, they would move to another city. Marie asked his father to give Christopher a chance, and finally he accepted. Marie told Christopher and they made a plan. The plan was that Christopher had to show Marie´s father that he was a good boyfriend. Every time she was ill, he took care of her as if she was everything to him. He was very kind with her family, in consequence, he did a lot to be Marie’s boyfriend.
Finally, Marie´s father accepted Christopher as Marie´s boyfriend, and they were very happy with his decision, They made a lovely couple, that everyone in the city liked.
When they became 29, they got married, and a year later, they had a boy called Robin. Now, they are a beautiful family.
If Marie's spectacular plan hadn't worked, now, they would probably not be together.
My memories
ResponderEliminar-I remember it.
I had been waiting a long time for this Sunday. I was only 15 years old and it was the first time that I went to a club. I was with my best friend. She was very excited, she wanted to find a cute boy and become his girlfriend. I only wanted to have fun.
At 12 o’clock we arrived at the club. I was very nervous, of course. We went up the stairs and walked to the dance floor. My friend looked for this guy and when she found him she left me alone. When one hour had passed, he looked at me. I saw him and the first thing that I loved about him were his blue eyes and his beautiful smile. He invited me to dance and we talked and danced. It was wonderful. I didn’t want to go back home but I had to. I said : ‘Goodbye’ and he answered : ‘See you later...’ and whispered thinking that I hadn't heard him ‘...in my dreams’.
I couldn't stop thinking about him all week. I was waiting for the next Sunday a lot. When it finally came, I went to the same club, I looked for him but I couldn't find him. I quit and I was going out of the club when I heard: “Hey, wait”. And yes, it was him with his beautiful eyes and smile.
-Well, darling, this is the story about how your grandpa and I met.
-Do you miss grandpa?- asked the little blond girl sitting next to her.
-Always.
Simon and Lila talk all nights but when they see each other at school they can’t avoid going as red as a beetroot. They can’t talk at school but they talk on Instagram every day for long hours.
ResponderEliminarLila told her friends how much she loves him and Simon too. Their friends thing they’re crazy because: how can they love someone if they only talk on the phone and not face to face?
Their friends didn’t understand the feeling. When they talk on the phone it’s like taking off an invisible mask so they let the other person see a secret part of themselves. A piece of them that no one knows. Also they can tell their secrets without being ashamed. That’s why they love each other, they know the secret parts of the other and they like those secret parts so much. First, their relationship started like a friendship but soon it became something else.
Deep inside Lila and Simon knew their friends were partly right so they arranged to talk face to face at school.
The other day, when they saw each other they smiled at the same time and Simon said: ‘Hi!’ Lila answered with her cheeks redder than Simon’s ears: ‘Hi!’.
I FOUND LOVE ON VIRTUALGIRL.COM
ResponderEliminarI met her about four or five downloads ago, I never had a love story like this before because my old Wi-Fi was very slow
Sometimes I am not the ideal boy for the social stereotype, hundreds of girls have left me waiting in a cinema o restaurant for hours and at certain time of my life i haven given up. But now I met this girl, she understands and listens to my problems,it is real love?
Real love doesn't need a big house or expensive dinners in Paris, somewhere in my heart I want a story like my parents had but ... I don't want to change to be accepted
She is the perfect girl, she doesn't want a lot of luxurious things, she only needs a full battery to make me happy and a $6.99 subscription every month
I met her about four or five downloads ago , I neve had a love story like this before because my old wifi was very slow
ResponderEliminarSometimes I am not the ideal boy for the stereotype , hundreds of girls have left me waiting in a cinema or a restaurant for hours and at certain time of my life i have given up .But now i met this girl , she undestands an listens to my problems , it is real love ?
Real love doesnt need a big house or a expensive dinners in Paris , somewhere in my heart I want a story love like my parents had but ... I dont want to change to be accepted
She is the perfect girl , she doesnt want a lot o luxurious things , she only needs a full battery yo make me happy and a $6.99 subscription every month