Writing Prompt: Tell Us About the One Who Got Away

We love a writing prompt when we have a contest underway because it always gets us, well, in the mood to write! With just nine days left of our Narratively x Belletrist True Romance Writing Prize (which you can read more about here), we want to get you energized. So … did you inexplicably ghost your soulmate only to realize shortly after that you’d made a huge mistake — but by then it was too late? Or maybe your lost-true-love saga dates wayyy back. Make a forever promise to your camp crush at age 11 and actually expect to keep it — but learn that she’d long forgotten who you even were? Or something else completely? We want to know all about it!

And, to make this extra fun — because who doesn’t love a side of competition to go with your long-lost love story — we will award a limited-edition “Never Not Reading” hat from Belletrist x Tertulia to the person whose comment gets the most “likes.” So, please share a short tale below about the one who got away — it can be one sentence long or …