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Write a story about a teenager spending their final days at home before going away to college.

Posted in High School on Oct 26, 2022

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Withdraw

Submitted to Contest #53

“Get out of my suitcase,” I ordered, crossing my arms and trying to appear mad to get my point across. My adopted 10-year-old sister, Elsie, laid in the fetal position inside my large brown suitcase. Her hair was spread out under her and she was wearing a pink summer dress. At some point during breakfast she had disappeared and this was the last place I expected to find her. “Daniel, I want to come with you,” She replied, giving me puppy dog eyes. I shook my head and smiled. Of course she’d think this is a trip. I gestu...

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Journey

Kylie Wallis

Submitted to Contest #53

During a fairly warm Sunday morning, Annabelle Rothstine was awake and dressed, scribbling nonsense in her diary. She'd had a rather odd dream last night, but could not quite recall the details of it. Still, there were other things she wrote about. For example; her sister Sabina was turning fifteen at the end of the week and Annabelle wasn't sure what to get her. There was also the prospect of her upcoming move into the dormitories at Herondale Hall University. She had applied for various art and literature classes. Done, at least for the ...

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A Quick Look Back

P. Jean

Submitted to Contest #53

(Write a story about a teenager spending their final days at home before going away to college.) As I walk out this morning it is a totally different look to my familiar world, it is soggy and wet. This kind of day usually would find me playing mindless games on my tablet, using my eyes and hands but not so much my brain, but today I feel the need to remember it all. I could use this rainy day as an excuse to stay in and go over my multitude of lists, what to bring initially, what I might need later on if all goes accordi...

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Following Sirius

Aimee P

Submitted to Contest #53

“Whew, sure is hot.” Archie sighed, wiping his bangs out of his face. It was his last day of summer before he headed off to Wisconsin for college. Even now, he couldn’t really believe he was going to Wisconsin, the cheese state of all places, for school. Touring it had been okay, and he was looking forward to seeing what a cooler climate was like, but other than that, he was trying to make the most of his last day of summer. His popsicle dripped on his hand, reminding him to make haste before the frozen treat fell off the stick. Archi...

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Last Days of Everything

Sav G

Submitted to Contest #53

I have 3 more days at home before I leave to go to college. I am SO excited! I’ll be living on my own, making lifelong friends (from what I’ve heard), and be my own boss. No one can tell me when to go to bed, or when to come back home, or when to eat. I know it sounds stupid, but I’ve kind of been looking forward for this moment for my entire life. To get out of my house and really go live my life. I haven’t lived anywhere but here in Kentucky, and I can't wait to see what is beyond farms, horses and green grass. Don’t get me wrong, I...

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Just Got Back

Kira Krieger

Submitted to Contest #53

“Have you slept yet?” Ambrose asked quite as a mouse. Odin spun around in his chair. He slumped to one side holding the armrests, blinking at the recessed lights. Still a little stunned, he saw Ambrose standing in the middle of the shuttle's bridge. In his two-toned PJs, Ambrose rubbed his eyes. A blanket was draped over one of his shoulders. A yawn escaped from his lips. “It hasn’t been that long since you went to bed,” he said, twisting back towards the control counsel. He tapped on a screen and gritted his teeth at what he saw.&n...

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A College for Vampires.

Len Mooring

Submitted to Contest #53

A College for Vampires. There is a little country in central Europe that is unknown except for those who should know it. People ride or walk through it without any cognizance of its unique characteristics. That there exists no houses or roads of a modern nature does not excite any interest of comment. In fact, ordinary mortals never linger there or are aware that their thought processes are diminished for the duration. If people were aware of this land it would be labelled a magical one, and indeed it is. This is the country of the...

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The 'Teenage Experince'

Submitted to Contest #53

“Look at us, in our old age, having completed nothing,” I said while laying on the couch at my girlfriend’s house. “We’re both nineteen,” Bianca said without looking up from her laptop. She knew a rant when she heard one. “Exactly!” I flipped onto my side to see her. “In a few short months we won’t even be teenagers any more—heck, in a few short days, we’ll be leaving for college together—and we haven’t done anything teenager—“ I glanced to the corner. “—ish. Teenager-ish.” She laughed. “What’s that supposed to mean?” Pouting, I sa...

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Sunny Goodbyes

Shiza Ali

Submitted to Contest #53

Zip!! She sighed, zipping her suitcase close. Pulling her knelt body up, she stretched her arms, twisted her waist till a satisfying popping of joints was heard. The beads of sweat trickled down her forehead hanging among her bushy dark brown brows. Her slender fingers wiped the damp salty brows. The beads dropped onto the carpeted floor camouflaging into the red Turkish carpet. The sight of the thick fluffy jacket hanging on the stand made her cheeks red, soaking her in her own precipitation. "One more day!", She said to hersel...

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Misfits

Jane Andrews

Submitted to Contest #53

College is a time for new beginnings, for reinventing yourself and being the person you couldn’t be in Middle School or High School. Even if you change your image when you hit 15 or 16, in everyone else’s eyes, you’re still the shy girl with glasses and skinny legs or the fat kid who sits by himself in the lunch hall every day because he has no friends. But no one else at college knows who you used to be and that’s what I was looking forward to – until a long-forgotten book made me change my mind. * “Jen! Can you clean your room out for me...

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A Muddled Mind

Zahra Daya

Submitted to Contest #53

I grab the tissue box yet again. If I’m being perfectly honest, this rota is getting a tad bit tedious now. This is now the 4th time mum has given a shot at a meaningful, enlightening speech that would aid me in my college life - and it merely ending in a torrent of tears. Of course, I couldn’t possibly show this on my front so I mask my face with a despondent look, casting my eyes to the floor. Honestly, I should get an Oscar for my flawless acting. “Thanks, honey” “No problem mum”, yep, even the same words. I climb the step...

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The Kiss

Julia Gibson

Submitted to Contest #53

In high school I was a homely girl, not ugly, only plain and shy. Most people, including some in my family, just ignored me, so I didn’t have many friends. It would have been alright if people had just ignored me, but some decided it was okay to pick on me, to make a public spectacle of my shyness and plainness. “Kids will be kids,” you say, but the worst bully of all was an adult, the mother of one of the more popular girls in my school. She also happened to be my Aunt Elaine and the popular girl was my cousin, Margaret.Margaret was a princ...

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Toys in the Attic: The Summer At Childhood's End

Cara H

Submitted to Contest #53

The Summer at Childhood’s End I On the first day of August 1978, eighteen-year-old Sabella Laaksonen sat on the front porch of her family’s El Paso home with a popsicle in her hand. Sabella had a lot on her mind. Two weeks from now she would be at Texas A&M in Corpus Christi to follow in her mother’s footsteps and earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Brice Laaksonen often sang the praises of being an Aggie and enjoyed retelling the story of how he met Thyra when he was a junior working on his Bachelor’s in engineering. Thyra was jus...

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August Dread

Chris Buono

Submitted to Contest #53

I wake up around eight fifteen with my stomach in my throat. Almost throwing up while brushing my teeth, my mother asks if I’m okay when she hears me gagging over the toilet bowl. I won’t admit it, but everyone knows I’m nervous. Today is my last day home before I drive my old clunker four hours away to university. I should be excited and I was at one point, but the thought has been looming over me like a dark cloud on a sunny day for the past month.At first it was exciting. A small-town kid who’d ne...

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Saving a life

N C

Submitted to Contest #53

Let’s see…...Adam is in my class, but where’s Cresh? I thought we all signed up for the same things. Design, math, and computer science. I looked through the rest of the list. Cresh was nowhere to be seen. I frowned. Had he moved without telling me? If so, where did he go? Me, Adam, and Cresh had been the best of friends since kindergarten, and I couldn’t go to college without one of them. We had promised each other to take classes with each one of our favorite subjects, so without him, the friendship triangle just couldn’t be completed.&nbs...

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