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Write about a character who goes to — or purposefully avoids — their high school reunion.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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Submitted to Contest #61

I’m currently standing outside my high school. Today is our 10 year reunion. And I desperately don’t want to go in. I don’t even know why I came here. Everyone was so excited on the group chat, wanting to reunite with old pals and see what everyone is up to. The truth is, I am so scared to go in. Not because I haven’t done anything useful with my life for the past 10 years, but because I haven’t really found myself yet.  After high school, I ended up becoming a doctor. I am a successful Pediatrician in one of the best hospitals in the...

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Class of '94

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I can’t believe it has been twenty years since I finished high school! Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday and sometimes it feels like it was an eternity ago. It’s hard to explain. I miss those days and sometime, I don’t. I remember my last day of high school was on June 23rd, 1994. My last final exam was economics. When I was done, I was extremely relieved. It was around 11 AM and I had submitted my paper to the teacher in charge. Five years of secondary school. It seems to have been five long years back then. Today, fives years seems ...

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EveBrooke High School for the Super Powered

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We hereby invite you to the Reunion of Class 2010 of Evebrooke High School for the Super Powered to be held at the following date, please RSVP.Andrew Weng, also called ‘The Griffin’, landed on the pavement of the school’s parking lot, his cape flowing gently behind him. He was dressed in his hero suit. It was purple with dramatic black lining and the image of a griffin on his chest.It was a large gorgeous building reaching three stories high with multiple training facilities. With a rate of 87% of attendees joining hero firms, the school rec...

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Time stands still

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Hannah O Connor looked at the invitation on the iPhone screen which lay on the solid industrial style wooden kitchen table. She could sense the bumps of the joins without even touching the table, old habit of rubbing the tips of her fingers left to right while she pondered what to do. “Class of 95!” It screamed. Dear lord had it been so long? Everyone must have changed so much, with the freedoms of youth left beind and the ravages of having children played on the lined faces and stretched bodies of her old classmates. Although sneaky looks t...

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Sweet Revenge

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Bill checked his appearance in the mirror: tie straight, hair combed, jacket collar down as he headed out the door to attend his first high school class reunion ten years after graduating. The organizers had held previous reunions that he didn’t attend for a variety of reasons, away serving in the military being the most prominent. Truth be known, he was anxious about seeing his former classmates and rationalized many excuses to avoid attending. It was not as if there was any requirement to attend these gatherings and like most people he lik...

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The Last Dance

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Walter shuffled around the garage looking for a tool he'd last seen ten years ago, but he swore and grumbled that he knew it just had to be there. He hasn’t moved it, it must’ve been that darn young kid who came around when he was tinkering , wanting to help him. He needed that tool to get the car running so he could go to the thing tomorrow. Ah, yes, the thing. His 45th high school reunion. He winced just thinking about going out with all those old creaky folks dressed up in their vintage clothing and trying to dance lik...

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Remember Me?

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I remember high school well; it was the worst time of my life. High school is unkind to smart, high achieving girls, especially if you’re not conventionally beautiful. High school is a cesspit of pretty blonde bimbos with more boobs than brains, muscle-bound jocks whose knuckles drag on the ground when they walk, weird emo kids who wear dark jackets in the summer and stoners so high they don’t even know who they are. For 6 long years, I languished in high school. If I wasn’t being teased, mocked and gossiped about, I was being ignored. That ...

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A Gorgeous Night

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Stepping out of the cab feels like hammering the last nail into my coffin. Every nerve, every muscle in my body tells me to turn around, to go home, consequences be damned. For a brief moment, I consider it, but then Ella’s disappointed face appears in my mind, and all thoughts of flight dissolve. Fight it is. I take a deep, shuddering breath. Ella’s fingertips gently lace around mine and I squeeze her hand tightly, my gaze landing on the auditorium.  Next to me, Ella turns toward me with an anxious smile. “Come on. It’ll be fun.” The...

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The Last Reunion

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The huge glass-walled room darkened as the last remains of the sun vanished behind the spectral and desolate mountain ranges. The heavy, gray curtains, still undrawn, flew as the gentle evening breeze sneaked its way into the room from the half-closed windows.The long shelves packed tightly with documents, business contracts, and proposals stood still as ever. The computers on the high desks remained dead with black screens. In the corner of the room and across the mahogany table, a girl in her mid 20s remained gazing into the space in front...

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People Can Say All They Want

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“Yeah, I’m good Johnny. Glad we got the book done ―“― Um-er yaa, yeah I’ll be back tomorrow morning I just have something tonight ―“― Sure, sure okay see you then.”Tommy hung up and slid the phone back into his pocket. Experiencing the cosmic scene of flaming leaves and afternoon Sun and sat back on the park bench. Looking left, he locked eyes with his best friend Coop. “I know what you are going to say, Coop. I did it again.”Coop was emotionless.Tom continued, “Weird, isn’t it? So weird… I know ― knew those people and I just feel like ...

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Parking Lot Kiss

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The display on my phone lit up. Linds. I sighed and hit the ignore button. I know what she wanted, she’d been pestering me for weeks. I wasn’t in the mood. I toss the phone onto the floor and continued to flip through the home and garden magazine. A moment later it began buzzing again. I continued reading about the latest home trends. Rattan furniture was making a come back, and macramé wall hangings. I guess the 70s are here to stay. I sighed and flipped to a different page. The window next to my head rattled. I jumped from my out stretched...

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The Reunion

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The old building loomed up ahead as David Popescu waited patiently at the pedestrian crossing for the traffic lights to turn green. A successful crime writer, David was nothing like people often imagined him. At nearly 6’5 feet tall, he towered over most people. Though built like an ox, he carried himself with an almost careless grace. His face was deeply tanned, his hair close-cropped and jet-black, and his blue eyes radiated with intelligence. He felt uncomfortable in the simple three-piece suit he was wearing and kept tugging at his colla...

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The unavoidable reunion

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Three men, decide to organise a trip to Europe, neither one of them had ever embarked on travelling outside the u k; the furthest one of them had travelled was London. They all lived sheltered lives, but none knew that the other shared a hidden secret that their folks knew nothing of. In their late 20's, and still living at home, all three worked for the same company, in one of the local packing warehouses, they never mingled with other folks within the warehouse, and were always seen every day taking tea-breaks and lunches or just st...

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Sixty Revolutions

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The door spins lazily with that little mosquito-whine sound only audible when no one is around to draw the ear with their clattering footsteps on linoleum. Slightly louder, a brushing constant, is the schuff schuff  of the bottom of the door, that little brush part that no one can remember the name of but looks like the baleen of a whale. The door baleen collects dirt and dust to hold until the friction of the floor finally pulls them under and smudges into inconsequential smears. You stand just outside the revolving door, close enough ...

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Joshua Jackson an Alumni who purposefully avoids their high School Reunion.

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This story tells of Joshua Jackson an Alumni who purposefully avoids their high school reunion.High School Reunion is a meeting of former classmates often organized at or near their school.Joshua Jackson purposefully avoids his high school reunion at Lincoln Community School due to the following reasons . Among them includesJoshua Jackson commented that he was too far from the school so he could not possibly attend high school reunion, the neatness and proximity to the school was another factor.Again Joshua Jackson commented that high school...

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