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

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“Her Nauseatingly Cliche, Nostalgically Pop Classic, Ironically True...Life Drama” by Angel Long

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"I'm so excited I could literally scream!" "Uh yeah, you kinda already are, actually." "Sorry but, yeah, excited! Why are you so blah? This is gonna be so much fun! Stop rolling your eyes." "Can't help myself. Fun? Look I understand you took too many hits to the head falling from pyramids... and behind the bleachers activities...but try and remember not all of us loved highschool huh?" "Okay one, fuck you, had you spent a little more time behind them maybe you would have fonder memories. Two, maybe you're just afraid Jason Ferguson will pull...

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“Beth and Sarah ” by Eliza Vargas

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"Oh, it's that time, look at what came in the mail for you!" "Nooooo. No no no-no-no. How did they find my address?" "Okay, you realize it's just your high school reunion right? Your acting like the mafia is out to get you and they sent you a note to say they're coming." Sarah chuckles to herself while looking at her girlfriend in awe. "You don't get it I have no desire to go back there. Exes that I can't stand, other people I can't stand that will be their, friends that I haven't talked to in years so we're probably not even friends any mor...

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“A Life Long Friend” by Kane Fedde

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Kat glanced over as the door opened, and her friend let himself inside. She had been expecting him, of course, and the door had been left unlocked for the sake of not having to get up to greet him. She was perched in her desk, which sat in main view of the TV, where the couch likely should have been. If she'd had any roommates, she was sure it was where the couch would be. But the couch was shoved under the breakfast bar, forgotten about until Daryl came over. “Welcome to hell,” she mumbled to her computer screen, saving and closing he...

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“The Park Bench Where We Met” by Alista Richardson

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The night is resoundingly quiet, not a soul wanders the cool streets. So the clicking of my heels thunders like the clouds above me. I can’t even hold back the cliche melancholy washing over me anymore. I should be in the packed gymnasium, visiting my old best friends, my old teammates, my favorite teachers, but instead, I’m wandering the street like a lost puppy looking for its mom. I tried to go, I really did. But as soon as I walked in the entrance, dressed in a casual dress I usually wear to work and my “attorney heels” as my hus...

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“Moments In Time” by Cherie Friedman

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P O V: Keavy Lacy Méan Scoil Mhuire Newtownsmith Galway, Ireland Summer 2020 “Life is made up in a series of moments put together. Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are endings. The Beginnings of our post-secondary life mark the endings of our school years unless, of course, we are lucky enough to go onto universities.” Standing in my secondary school, Méan Scoil Mhuire hallway, I feel like I have one foot outside these halls into my current life of forty-years-old and one foot in my former life. My past has come blaring back w...

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“You'll Pay Me to Go?!” by HL Love

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“Really, Shelley?” I halfheartedly tried to tone down my disbelief. “You’re going to bribe me?” I was wondering at my friend’s sanity. She was seriously waving a hundred-dollar bill at me. We’d known each other for aeons, but this was pushing my boundaries—well, maybe this was more like pushing my fear out into the open. “Does this make me look fat?” I asked Shelley, as I turned again, trying to see my backside. Who was I kidding? Was I planning and not just contemplating going? The more I stared at myself in the mirror, the more convinced...

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“Transformation” by Russel Lad

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That would be $100.94 sir... Uh yeah got a little dosed off there ha-ha..., my name is Mark I am an ordinary man in an ordinary world filled with monsters with 3 eyes and 4 nipples... Oh wait scratch that out that is not what is happening right now wait why are we talking to ourselves again? We already went through this Sir? The cashier repeated, Sir that would be $100.94 please we have a long line today and it is mid-September so we have lots of customers to serve... Oh yeah just got a little dosed off there ...

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“Dancing with Anxiety” by Dede K.

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I rolled out of bed that morning to get ready for work. Ding! I reached into my pocket for my phone. An email floated on my screen, “High School Reunion- TEN Years!” My eyes glossed over my screen for a while, daydreaming of peoples’ reactions to me. NOPE, not doing it. I started to slide on my skirt, tuck in my button up shirt and put my blazer on. But, what if the man you are meant to marry is an old classmate. NOPE, can’t do it. I opened the email again and started to read. Nope, nope, nope. “Click ...

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“This could be true” by Keith Manos

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This could be true [a short story by Keith Manos] I figured Angela would be at our high school reunion because she was one of the popular girls twenty years ago at Gahanna High School. Of course, she would show up. Me? I wasn’t popular. I wasn’t anything. Twenty years ago, they called me “four eyes” because I wore glasses. Jim Brown didn’t wear glasses. Neither did Mick Jagger. N...

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“The Reunion” by Harsh Srivastav

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The night was as tired as he was. Both looked foggy and frail. He had a long day at work and had just reached to the door of his home, and was tussling with his keys against the dark to open the door. The right key finally opened the door unlike the missing key of the answer of his question which he was yearning to find since long.The ajar door welcomed him to his well disorganized home ;some credit of which goes to his bachelorism and some to his liking of keeping things not in the way they are meant to as if he didn’t care enough abou...

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“The things we keep inside.” by Paul Blackburn

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Joe strode confidently into the hotel lobby, his strut completely belying the fact he was more than a little shitting himself. “Reunion?” he asked at the reception desk, and the busy receptionist didn’t look up as she pointed towards the elaborate ivory doors to her right. “Through there and follow the corridor around. You can’t miss it.” She glanced up and gave a hint of a smile, flashing Joe a look that said no more questions. He didn’t need telling twice, he thanked the lady and made his way through the doors. Joe could hear the par...

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“Michael's dilemma” by Angela Sokolova

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“How do you run this washing machine, Maria?” - Michael asked, screaming from the laundry room. “I’m coming, darling, don’t touch!“- His wife called from the kitchen. Michael stood up and heard the bell on the mailbox, a sign that the mail had arrived. He headed there and unwittingly pressed one of the buttons on the washing machine, which turned it to 100 degrees. He reached into the box and pulled out a single letter, yellow in color and sealed with wax on the front, the seal of Lovgard High School. Michael sighed, and the next moment he...

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“Coming Home” by Beth Robertson

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For some reason I had decided to keep in contact with the girl from my high school who had been my nerd accomplice trying to create the remedy for becoming invisible. Since those day that we had managed to keep an A average and had planned to become script writing partners to score an Oscar while also being two of the thinnest people to manage to stay grounded in a wind storm and manage to be invisible most times except when it was really necessary, we had managed to grow enough to remember the need to sidestep for survival. Sinead and ...

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“The Necromancer” by Sherry Quartz

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It’s Saturday morning. Mika heads out to grab something for breakfast. “Good morning, welcome to Dunkin, what can I get started for you?” “Good morning. I’d like two plain bagels with cream cheese, please.” “Toasted?” “No, thank you.” The gentle-faced cashier steps away to pack his order. She rings it up and smiles when Mika drops his change into the tip bowl. Mika goes over to the napkin counter before he leaves. In the corner of his eye, he sees someone sitting at a table with a friend; well, he assumed they’re friends at f...

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“My Vamp Agenda” by Twilight Wayve

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I wouldn’t have even thought about going if I hadn’t spent the last two years of my life deeply regretting one thing: not having been able to apologize to him. I mean, okay, so it was a little ridiculous for a vampire to apologize to his prey for biting him when it was all too clear what my intention had been, so in no world could I imagine waltzing up to him now and saying, “Hey, it’s Dylan, remember me? I’m really sorry for outing the fact that I was a vampire right in front of you, and oh, forgot to mention that I definitely didn’t mean...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 139 stories

“Her Nauseatingly Cliche, Nostalgically Pop Classic, Ironically True...Life Drama” by Angel Long

“Beth and Sarah ” by Eliza Vargas

“A Life Long Friend” by Kane Fedde

“The Park Bench Where We Met” by Alista Richardson

“Moments In Time” by Cherie Friedman

“You'll Pay Me to Go?!” by HL Love

“Transformation” by Russel Lad

“Dancing with Anxiety” by Dede K.

“This could be true” by Keith Manos

“The Reunion” by Harsh Srivastav

“The things we keep inside.” by Paul Blackburn

“Michael's dilemma” by Angela Sokolova

“Coming Home” by Beth Robertson

“The Necromancer” by Sherry Quartz

“My Vamp Agenda” by Twilight Wayve

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Write about a character passing down their favorite childhood toy to a new generation.

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Write about a character who’s obsessed with an era they never lived through.

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