Set your story at a retirement or leaving party.

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“What the Party is For” by Ian Gonzales

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I’m not a big fan of parties, especially office parties. They’re usually pretty boring, and being the new guy I haven’t really gotten to know a lot of my coworkers. I’ll probably just spend an hour or so holding up a wall, sipping weak punch and eating bland sheet cake. But it has to beat spending another hour trying to transcribe heavily redacted reports, so I’m here. Six weeks I’ve been working at the home office for the vaguely named Interworld Solutions, and this is the first time I’ve heard of Baker. Of course, there’s a lot about my ne...

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“The window” by C P

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It was the end of June in Mumbai. After three days of incessant rains, the monsoon relented to allow the frenzy of Mumbai life to resume. The tracks re-emerged from the swaths of overflowing waters and the local trains carried this frenzy and distributed and re-distributed it across the city. Madan was in his office, a hitherto unused corner improvised as an office by setting up partitions on two sides to give him the benefit of having an independent office matching his recently acquired stature as an officer. His crammed office on...

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“Farewell to a professional” by Maximilien Brown

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“Today we bid farewell to the best of us.” All around the room, glasses raised to the ceiling, in reverence for the moment. “John was a man like no other. A creative mind, fiercely dedicated to his craft, and known to us all as a kind and caring friend. Agreeable nodding began to circulate around the banquet room. “And who can forget our fine man’s sense of humor? Lest we forget the Prague Fair fiasco,” the speaker said with a sly grin. Disparate laughter broke out across the room among the older attendees. The younger people in the audie...

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“Retirement” by Marie White

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Though Collin got to the chintzy restaurant half an hour after the party’s start time, he found its honoree, a man whom he’d never seen arrive a second late for anything throughout their twenty-five year friendship, absent. Just in case he’d missed him, he, again, surveyed the room—a banner screaming, “Happy Retirement!” draped across the ceiling, streamers taped to bisque-colored walls, and coworkers clustered around scratched walnut tables, chatting as they sucked cheddar chunks off toothpicks and sipped...

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Set your story at a retirement or leaving party.

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✍️ 19 stories

“What the Party is For” by Ian Gonzales

“The window” by C P

“Farewell to a professional” by Maximilien Brown

“Retirement” by Marie White

🌟 Similar prompts

Start your story with someone saying “I quit!”

Write a story about someone who knows it’s time to retire or change jobs, but is hesitating.

Write about a rivalry between two coworkers that has unforeseen consequences.

Write about someone who has long since quit but decides to go another round for old time’s sake.

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