LOL

by Kris L. Woodall

Ben and Matilda work in the same building. They have an argument in the elevator when Ben cracks a joke that Matilda considers offensive. They meet a few more times and show that there is no love lost between them. Both are single and turn to online dating to find their soul mates. Ironically, they cannot stand themselves in the flesh but cannot wait to get online and chat. There are references about the ‘jerk at the office’ but they cannot put it together. What would you do if you loved someone’s online persona but hated them in real life without knowing? LOL

Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Enemies To Lovers, Contemporary

37 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 22, 2014

Reviews

[maggieandteddy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute little short story. Not quite a novella in length. H & h conflict at work.
They develop online friendship (& more??) If it had even 2 or 3 more pages at the end, I would have given it 4 stars. I enjoyed it. I read it last night. The writing was pretty good. It needed a mini-epilogue for this mini-story. ^_^

[Lorelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute, and clean CR.

[Chele · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cute short story. Wished it was a full-length book.

[DU418 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating 2.5. A short story requires the author to put in more effort to give the characters depth. Unfortunately, this story did none of that. What was meant to be cute became a long grocery list of things about him or her, a lot of telling and no showing, with a very predictable outcome.

There was too much use of sentences beginning in -ing words and too much effort at unnatural description that pulled my head out of the story. It didn't feel natural, but stilted. Come halfway, I was glad it was short and could get it over. That said, it was a cute idea that could have been great.

Story was clean, with reference to sex outside of marriage without any actual scenes. There were repetitive curse words toward the end that, frankly, surprised me and felt unneeded. Formatting was weird on my device. The indents were too deep and the paragraphs not spaced evenly. However, I did not find any spelling errors. Will not recommend.

[Melindeeloo · Rating 3 out of 5]

At work she's the witch and he's the jerk, but when they unknowingly hook up on an online dating service they are soul mates.

This was cute but super short so there wasn't really time to make the 'turn' from enemies to lovers work as well as it could off to flesh out the leads as well enough for me to get attached to them. Somehow their nasty dialog was stronger than their online heart to heart conversions.

[Laplumedelyla · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was too rushed but otherwise a good read.

[Jessica Del Fuoco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute short story.

Funny how things work out. This short was cute and entertaining. Nice quick little read and one I think many can relate to.

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

An easy and short read.

[Daysha Hawkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny i own it

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a cute short story. Held my interest, despite being a bit predictable.