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Set your story at a wedding reception, where a group of high school friends are meeting for the first time in years.

Posted in High School on Jun 9, 2023

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Table Six

Submitted to Contest #202

The champagne glittered in the light from the chandelier. Ellie gripped the microphone and glanced over at Nick. He winked at her and reached for the hand of his new bride next to him. Ellie glowered at him. She was not supposed to be giving this speech. This was for the best man, but at the last minute, she’d been handed a mic and told it was her turn. She cleared her throat and looked out at the room full of faces. There was Nick’s mom, smiling at her. There was Bri’s dad, looking proudly at his daughter in white. She knew everyone in the ...

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Looking Different

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“Are we at the wrong wedding?”There was no point in denying it any longer. Violet looked way different from what Clara remembered. She didn’t think Violet even remembered her, let alone the rest of her friends at the table. They were in different classes, physically, socially, and economically. She wouldn’t have gone if the baby skin invitation didn’t reek of an open bar.“Why do you think that?” Max asked. “She looks pretty normal to me.”“Do you ever remember her being super religious? Or that blonde?”He shrugged. Hallie made a good point. T...

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Reunited

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           Brad sorts through the stack of envelopes he had just removed from his mailbox.            “Gas bill, electricity bill, VISA bill. I swear I owe something to everyone on the planet some days. Wait, what’s this?”            Brad lifts the small, white envelope closer to the sunlight and reads the return address on the back. It was from his old high school football budd...

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The Invisible String

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“So, what do you do for work?” “Where are you living these days?” “How are things going with you and that one guy?” She could already hear all the inevitable questions she would be asked tonight, the questions nobody yet had a chance to ask as she had snuck into the back of the church as close to the start of the ceremony as possible to avoid such conversations. Now, as she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror, she could not work up the nerve to go out to the reception. She had snuck a peek at the whimsical fairy lights twinkling...

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Frankie Bonner

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Ka-chick.Ka-chick.“Frankie, my face is hurting!” Mallory complains, massaging her cheeks. The bridal party whines in agreement. Frankie has spent the last two hours ushering the tipsy brides, Mallory and Sam, to every beautiful location around the golf course, making sure they take advantage of the cotton candy sky above them. Beads of sweat trickle down Frankie’s face as she double-checks the last few shots. “Looks great, everyone! Just a couple more on the bridge, and then you can drink!” Frankie shouts. The few golfers sitting o...

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We All Did.

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"All this, for a third wedding?" Michael spat as he walked up to me in the hallway from the parking lot. The afternoon sun was flooding through a high arched window on the far end, framing his head in the warm orange light, like a long-suffering saint."It's only her first," I said, trying to sound light about it, like he was teasing, and I was taking the joke well, as the groom. The truth was that it was embarrassing to me, and he wasn't teasing."It's nice to see you though, Mike" I added. "How are... how have you been?"Michael sneered in hi...

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But I Accidentally Drank the Poison Myself

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“Holding onto bitterness is like pouring poison into your own cup and expecting the other person to die.” -Susan Cheever Ava’s couch was not comfortable. It was a low-slung, mid-century type - yellow velvet, very stylish. If any of the wine in her glass were to slosh over the edge, it would be an expensive fix. But she was unconcerned. With one arm slung over the couch’s back, the other letting the wine glass droop and tilt just so, Ava examined the photographs on the opposite wall. They were enormous, stretched across four canvases th...

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The Dying of The Light

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Pinot Grigio buzzes in my veins while the bass of the music speakers near the head table buzzes in my chest. The alcohol loosens up my joints and allows me to pull off dance moves I didn’t know I still had. I don’t know where my date scurried off to and I don’t know where my $49.99 tie went. But there’s one thing I do know: I’m parched. I mosey back to my table with the people with whom I had been conversing all night. I give them my most genuine smile as their faces contort. My fingers wrap around the nearest bottleneck of wine, s...

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The Misfit Toys' Reunion

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Allan Richards sat in the driver’s seat of his parked rundown sedan as he checked the copy of the invitation he had printed out earlier that morning, verifying that "Community First United Church of Christ" was indeed the appointed location. For a long moment, he considered hitting the key in the ignition and coming up with some kind of explanation of why he couldn't make it, but eventually he instead removed it from the console and, with a heavy sigh, swung the door open. He walked toward the front of the venue, catching sight of signs de...

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A wedding and a love affair

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I was invited to five weddings that month. But this wedding was not similar to others. It was my first love’s wedding. When I knew she would get married, I felt nothing. It made me surprise and be a little harassed. She used to be my whole world. We had a lot of memories together. I thought I would be so sad if she marries someone else but the reality was different. Perhaps, time blurred my feelings of her. I received her invitation on Facebook and clicked “Join” indifferently. But when I put my feet on the hotel lobby, I began regretting. I...

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The Golden Girls

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That was not the plan. That was the first thought Jenna had as soon as she saw that wedding invitation in her mail pile.  She put the invitation at the bottom of the pile and threw it on her dinner table. She didn’t need another reminder of her failure in life.  I need a drink. She went to her fridge and grabbed a bottle of Zinfandel that was almost empty. Of course , she thought.   She grabbed the bottle anyways and headed towards her couch as her cat, Ginger ran towards it as well as if it was a race. If anyone was...

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What Once Was Is No More

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I shook my head in disbelief. No one could be more surprised at the fact that I showed up than me. All I have to do is open the door. One hour. That’s all the time I'll be here. There was once a moment that I would be nothing except elated to be walking into this building, with those people. The memories we’ve made together are in the past, however. What’s done is done. If I’m being honest with myself, there’s only one reason that I’ve come. I’m fully aware that the invitation I received was out of pity. I should have shaken it off, moved on...

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I Do

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Daniel has been dreaming of this day ever since he was a child, the flowers, the music, the centerpieces, the perfect woman, and all his loved ones from the past and present reunited under one roof. “Can you please for the love of christ help me move this fucking couch Daniel” screams his very pregnant bride to be from the other room, “I’m coming Beatrice my love, you really shouldn’t be moving furniture in your condition sweetie.” he responds quickly undoing his tie to the wedding tux he has tried on six times since he bought it. Beatrice w...

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The Five Stages of Being a Superhero

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“Four superheroes are invited to a lesbian wedding – that’s gotta be the set up to a joke, right?”            “Five superheroes. Look, Ultrasonic’s name is in front of that empty chair.”            “Honeybee’s right. Also, Cy-Clone, are you sure you can afford to be making lesbian jokes? You know, you’re not the most popular on Twitter, so…”            “What, no! People love me! ...

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That Was the Plan

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“Friends and family, welcome to the wedding reception of Alvin and Belinda. Now, the happy couple are asking that we do something a little different tonight” Fred took a sip from his beer and began to dread what the next part of this announcement might possibly be. He already felt overdressed and out of place here. The last thing he needed was something else to make this night anymore awkward.  “There is about 30 minutes before we take our seats. As the Master of Ceremonies for tonight’s event, I would like to invite you to introduc...

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