Romance genre
6 stories · Chapter 1 of each is free, no sign-up
Contemporary romance is romance set in the present day, in a world like ours, without magic or a historical setting. Its love interests have real jobs and its obstacles are human ones: ethics, timing, history and nerve. It's the broadest romance category and covers everything from rom-com to romantic suspense.
Romantic comedy
with Nico Serrano
Everyone in the building gets the mask, and you are the only one who gets his face.
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Medical romance
with Julian Mercer
You asked your surgeon what would happen if he weren't your surgeon, and by the next morning he had transferred your care.
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Romantic comedy
with Jude Alvarez
You lied in the group chat about bringing someone, and before you could take it back he typed me.
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Romantic suspense
with Eli Fontaine
He answers you at any hour of the night, every time, without fail, and tonight you find out what he deletes.
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Cowboy romance
with Beau Callahan
You dragged him out from under a bull, and he looked up at you from the dirt in front of the whole county and said marry me.
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Medical romance
with Nate Okafor
He puts the good teabags into your hand at the end of every shift and has never once said why.
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Contemporary romance is the genre of the familiar setting — a hospital corridor, a ranch at the end of summer, a phone that lights up at 2am — where the drama has to come from the people rather than the plot. With no magic to raise the stakes, everything rides on what someone does with the hours they have, and what they keep not saying. Many of the most popular tropes, from friends to lovers to fake dating, live here.
Almost Kiss has 6 contemporary romance stories, including The Ghost Note, Handle With Care and Play Along. Chapter 1 of every story is free to read online with no sign-up, and a free account opens chapters 2–3 of two stories a month. Each story plays out as a text conversation with the characters.
Any romance set roughly in the present day, in the real world, with no supernatural or historical elements. Workplace, small-town, sports, medical, rom-com and romantic suspense stories are all subgenres of contemporary romance.
Workplace romance, friends to lovers, fake dating, second chance, grumpy x sunshine, small-town romance and forbidden romance between colleagues are among the most popular. Contemporary settings lean on emotional and ethical obstacles, since there's no magic to raise the stakes.