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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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“HAGS ” by Rita Joralin

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Facebook was useful; it showed me exactly what I did not want to know. I followed everyone from my past, but only to avoid truly actually interacting with them. Mentally I knew that the reunion was coming up. Doing the math was easy, For I knew how long ago I graduated high school. That by no means meant that I was excited. I was not one of those that dreamed of reliving the glory days, if any one peaked in high school they had failed at life. How sad would it be to hit your best at eighteen. You are giving up on life before it fully begins...

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“Jeff’s Crash ” by Ryan Norwood

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Honey, you got some mail,” called Jeff’s wife Lisa from the kitchen. “Let’s see what we got today,” Jeff began. “Bill, bill...bill. Nothing.” Lisa stopped Jeff as he went to walk away, “Wait Honey there’s something else.” “Oh yeah my Golf Digest. Good looking out Lis,” said Jeff. “No, Jeff, you have an invitation,” said Lisa. “It’s to your twentieth high school reunion. You missed your tenth and your fifteenth don’t you think you should at least try to make it to this one?” Jeff thought then said,...

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“Remembering Margaret aka Maggie” by Anna Rogers

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After a quick glance at the wall clock Abby re-read the flyer. A bolt from the blue it’d been the last thing she’d expected in the mail.‘By now‘ she mused ‘they’ll be packing out the hall of Barrett High the old alma mater and I wonder having hand addressed the envelope will Margaret aka Maggie be expecting it to have borne fruit? In the form of me ‘answering the royal summons.?’ Barrett High School Reunion Class of 86 We want you.....to join us for a weekend of fun and reminiscing. Culminating in a Saturday night ball.Followed of course by ...

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“Ride to Reunion” by James Morris

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John was reluctant to go, but he knew he had to face his past to get on with his future. His ten-year high school reunion was going to be awkward, at best. He knew no matter who he ran into at the function, they would judge him only on what they had heard on the news and the rumors from school. The last time the class saw Tina was at his high school graduation. Ironically, that was also the day she got arrested in front of the entire graduating class. John still remembered the look on her face as the police put handcuffs on her and placed ...

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“Haven't Changed a Bit” by Heather W

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I stand in my front hall and inspect myself in the mirror. New little black dress, the first dress I've bought in decades since I'm a jeans-and-sweatshirt type? Check. New hair cut, so I could blow-dry my 'always in a ponytail' strands into something sleek and elegant that flows over my shoulders? Check. New dye job, to hide the grays and return me to my teenaged brunette? Check. New me? Sadly, no check. I'm all cleaned up on the outside, but inside? I haven't changed at all since high school. I still live in the house my grandmother lived i...

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“The (Dis) Reunion” by Sharmaine Van Eden

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Surprise! I was taking a well-deserved smoke break during my shift at the Game Lodge. I decided to catch up on Facebook happenings (it was still pretty new then). As I took a deep drag, something caught my eye and I nearly choked on my B&H Ultra Mild ciggie! “What in the name of fuck...?” I thought to myself. A reunion? “Bwahahahahahahahaha”  I laughed and laughed and laughed. “You’ve got to be kidding me?” I said a little too loudly as my eyes skimmed over the details. I was very distracted the rest of my shift and could not ...

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“Squirm” by L. T. Pitkin

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I could be drinking punch, I think to myself. And I almost want to. It wouldn’t be as sweet as it had been, because now I suspect they would invite us to drink alcohol. A way to ease the tensions and loosen tongues. But I have a flask of whiskey now that serves me better. I’ve put the parking break on — something I normally refuse out of principle, to irritate my boyfriend — but it seemed appropriate up in our own school’s version of look-out point. I like irritating him, although he was the one who forced me out of the house because he said...

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“The Unicorn” by Mark Young

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A leaflet falls through my letterbox, "Class of Alto High 2009 - you are cordially invited to our ten-year reunion". My heart was racing, it's been a full decade since I left a young, shy, average boy and grown into the man I am now. Everything I had done since, was leading up to this legendary party. I had fantasised about how I would walk in, acne gone, muscles gained, and a whole bulk of charisma. I checked my socials, “she” was going. As were her friends unfortunately. She liked me in school, I'm sure of it - I know it's just because her...

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“The Anniversary” by KB Butler

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She knew when the anniversary was approaching. The weather changed in September. The oppressive heat of summer lifted, and the winds swept down from Oklahoma bringing slightly cooler air. Texas didn’t have a very distinct autumn season, but it did have a very definite football season. Jenna hated the start of the school year. While everyone was buying school supplies, Jenna retreated from her friends and family, hiding in her little house on South Park Street. The only thing different about this year was ten years had passed and ...

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“High School Reunion about my friend.” by MEKHI AVERY

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It’s almost time for reunion parties. There is excitement and fear for anyone whose time it is to reunite with former classmates. My 20-year High School Reunion is the best reunion story out there. I attended my 20 Year High School Reunion. I had mixed feelings. First off, it was extremely over-priced. One of my classmates scored the “big time,” took out a membership at the ritzy country club and took advantage of the rest of us! Secondly, I tried to squeeze in as much as I could during those years. I loved high school. Well, except for...

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“A Changed Woman” by Claire Jennings

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I stepped out of the taxi and onto the pavement. My legs were shaking, but I knew that I had to do this. I had to face them all. I straightened myself up and took a deep breath. As I walked up to the door I could feel my confidence wavering, but I could hear my mum’s words still echoing in my ears. “You have to go Jess. You must show them that you have changed. You need them to know the adult that you have turned into, despite everything that happened” I knew that she was right. From the moment I had received the email about the school r...

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“The Reunion” by Frazer Shaw

Submitted to Contest #61

The last few years had not been kind for Tyler James. His near perfect life had come tumbling down when he told his father he was gay and he had been thrown out of the house. He had lived with a few boyfriends but these relationships had never worked out. All his belongings had been sold to make money for food and accommodation. Parting with his beloved guitar had been one of the hardest decisions he had ever made but survival came first. He was now living in his car and only managed to afford doing this as a friendly woman called Angel deli...

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“L'Internazionale” by Chris Jones

Submitted to Contest #61

On a Sunday evening in November in 2021, signs were put up by two tired men and a woman in blue overalls outside the gates of Granite High School in a town somewhere east of Seattle and west of New York. The two men and the woman who set up the signs crossed the parking lot and opened the front door of the school. In the entrance, which adjoined the cafeteria and was divided only by a glass wall with the office of the principal, there was a hand trolley with two kegs. They moved the kegs into the cafeteria, which was decorated with a number ...

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“"Untaken"” by Amable Dama

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It was early fall in the late 2000s. As a new girl in town moved in from California. She had graduated from the eighth grade. She was going to the ninth grade in a few weeks. Her and her mom just moved to Georgia. Because her mom got a new and better job. She had a dad that was back home back in California. As the days went by she slowly fell into depression. Her mom seemed very excited and tried to encourage her on meeting new people. She slowly gained fear and concerns about being bullied. Which she quietly experienced that back in Califor...

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“It's Not You, It's Me” by Loren Taratota, Esq.

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3:03 a.m.The phone rings. My first thought is to not answer it, because what good could possibly come from a phone call this early in the morning? Any phone call between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. usually means someone’s dead. I bet it’s my father. I never did think he’d make it long enough to see me graduate college, and when by some miracle he did, I said he wouldn’t live to see me turn thirty. I’m twenty-eight. I could still be right. I shuffle out to the living room, switching on every light along the way. Who has the numb...

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