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

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“The Final Page” by S. Closson

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Sometimes it’s best not to say goodbye.Farewells are always messy affairs, riddled with anxiety and emotion. I don’t understand why we are so obsessed with the practice, why we feel compelled with placing a nice, neat bow on an entire portion of our lives. Its like were forcing a chapter to end instead of allowing it to happen naturally.We don’t say goodbye to our childhood friends when our time is over, not in the traditional sense. One day we just say, “see you tomorrow,” but that tomorrow never comes. We return home from playing, none the...

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“Goodbye Home” by Samadhee Ismail

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Dear Ms. Khan, Congratulations! You have been accepted into the Biomedical Engineering program at the College of Engineering for the Fall Semester of 2019. Along with the acceptance letter, in order to complete the final process, we have forwarded your I-20 form for you to apply for the F-1 student visa along with the financial forms and we also need your final transcript from your high school. All International Students are required to life On-Campus and you should complete your housing application on our website. Please forward us all t...

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“Bittersweet Departure” by Joanna Bertheau

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“Mom, have you seen my red jumper with the school’s logo on it?” I yelled in the direction of the hallway as I rummaged through my closet, making two heaps of clothes behind me. The first would be the things I leave here and the second was vaguely in the suitcase I was bringing with me. When I got no answer to my question, I tried shouting a second time but before I could finish she was at the door, leaning on the doorframe. Some of her dark brown curls had escaped the hair clip and were dangling freely around her face. “Calm down ...

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“Growing Friendship” by Anna Irwin

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I had spent the day with my friends from high school. I always wondered who would be my friends when I got older. Like, would I keep in contact with my high school friends through college or, am I gonna be friends with my college buddies for the rest of my life. What about that kid I met in elementary school that I STILL know? Or my BFF from middle school? Every person I met as a kid I thought was gonna be an eternal friend, but how would it really turn out? My parents already have different friends from even when I was a kid, how did they e...

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“A Summer to Remember” by Xiao McdonaldsWorker

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~Chapter 1~“Zoey! Guess what?! You got accepted into Harvard University!” Mom said, waving a paper in her hand, when I came back from Coffee House. “Really?” I asked. “This is not a hidden camera prank right?” I said, excitedly. Mom gave me a long envelope. My hands trembled as I opened it. “Go ahead and read it in your room.” Mom said. “Dear Zoey Climat, congratulations! You have been accepted into Harvard University! This college will help with your job and knowledge. You will be sharing a dorm with 2 other people. The date for you to...

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“MISSED COLLEGE” by RADIUS HAVWAALA

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The sound of a pounding mortar breaks a rather dull morning, hauling you back to the reality of your present milieu. The unpainted walls, the darkened grass thatching, and the reed doors, just unpack the horrors of real poverty before you, dumping it on your conscience like a sewage pile. But somehow, you remember why you came here; to say bye to your parents, because in three days, you are off to college. Your mood somehow picks up; the squalor, no matter how repulsive, cannot square with that.“This diva is off to college. Isn’t that someth...

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“Broken Keys” by Dhruv Srivastava

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He caressed the piano so lovingly that it may have forgotten the years of neglect it had suffered from him, but the memories proved deeper than forgiveness. Though his touch was tender, it fell on keys out of tune and yellowed, and while he breathed softly so as to not perturb it, dust still flew off on every exhale. He got up off of the stiff bench after a few minutes, putting his fingers once more on middle C, the way his old teacher had taught him when he was a child. He remembered the years of lectures from, and shouting matches with, hi...

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“An Unkind Description” by Anisha Yagnik

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She was set up for failure. Anyone who looked closely could see it, but most people didn’t have their seeing eyes on. (And if they did, she didn’t have her hearing ears on). Without looking too closely, Delilah Reddy was evidently a mouse. She disliked the moniker. She rejected it at her boldest…which, admittedly, was not very often and not very bold. To that end, the moniker stuck to her like gum to your used-to-be favorite left shoe. An eighteen-year-old on the precipice of her college years, Del believed in the myth of a voluntary “f...

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“A sad Goodbye” by Rena Holdip

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I have always heard my friends say they couldn't wait to go off to college and at one point in my life neither could I. Since I was six years old I knew where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do. It was a dream both my mom and I talked about. Following in her footsteps, becoming a lawyer was the legacy she left me. But what would I be leaving behind was even more than I could bear.My dad had been my rock, and I had been his. His promises to her had kept the monster death at bay. I knew he had been close to going on that journey with her, ...

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“-Leaving-” by A.d Bunni

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The dusk was starting to settle outside and a gentle breeze bringing hints of autumn rustled the leaves of the old oak tree. The Tree-House creaked gently, its old floorboards peeling, with crayon and marker stains on the walls and floor. You are sitting on the floor with your knees to your chest. Outside, the gentle lull of crickets are starting to pick up but are interrupted by the thud of boxes your parents bickering. You sigh and bury your head in your knees. You wished they wouldn’t be so loud. You look up at your beat up bac...

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“College or Bust” by Taryn Holmes

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“Almost there…” I was laying on top of a large, gray suitcase, my fingers yanking on the zipper. With one last pull, I managed to shut it and let out a deep sigh. Rising to my feet, I grabbed the handle and dragged it towards the middle of the room. The large gray bag was a bright contrast to the faded cardboard of the surrounding boxes and the combination resulted in a daunting pyramid of packaged items. Even with the packed boxes, I could see even more college necessities peppered against the white carpet of what was only my room for a lit...

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“Breaking Away” by Vicki Wade

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Miami was hot and sultry. I was 17 years old, it was June 1969 and I graduated with honors. Mom wanted me to stay home with her all summer as a last family hurrah before venturing out in the world to attend the University Of Tampa. I am a September kid so I graduated at 17 years old and would enter college before I turned 18. Yes, a little scary but in the 60s kids were in the middle of love, faith and happiness, hippy life was only dangerous if you took a hit of LSD during a sit/love in. Virgo kids do not do drugs they just watch others act...

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“IT WON'T BE LONG MARY CAHILL KURPIEWSKI” by Mary Kurpiewski

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IT WON’T BE LONG After promising myself over and over that I wouldn’t cry through this whole traumatic thing, I finally let it flow last night. Reality is something I can usually face with my faith in God and a stiff upper lip. But this is different. In two weeks my son, Timmy is leaving for college 3000 miles away. After 17 years of his being so much a part of me and his dad and his two brothers and sister, it will be difficult to let him go. ‘It won’t be long’ until we have to say our goodbyes. When my four children were litt...

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“time flies when your having fun” by Joy Benoit

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When I was younger, I envied my older siblings. They had so much freedom. They could go out whenever they wanted, had their own money, lived on their own without the supervision of my parents. Now that I have reached that part of life, I’m realizing that it’s not as exciting as it seems. You leave everything behind. The roads you have driven down almost every day, the cashier that you always gossip with at the neighborhood supermarket, the library that you spent almost every night at. You have to leave it all behind. Those parents that you c...

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“Just Before the Nova” by Daisy Torres

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Cold. Dark. Deadly.Beautiful.These words were often used to describe space, and the young woman peering out one of the many windows of the space station thought them all fitting. The stars looked down upon her pale, freckled face, and smiled.Nova sighed wistfully as she imagined pocketing a star to bring back to earth. She remembered asking her mother as a child if stars could live in the sea. It only made sense, since both space and sea were such unconquered, amiable foes, and if one ventured down its depths, they looked similar enough...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 118 stories

“The Final Page” by S. Closson

“Goodbye Home” by Samadhee Ismail

“Bittersweet Departure” by Joanna Bertheau

“Growing Friendship” by Anna Irwin

“A Summer to Remember” by Xiao McdonaldsWorker

“MISSED COLLEGE” by RADIUS HAVWAALA

“Broken Keys” by Dhruv Srivastava

“An Unkind Description” by Anisha Yagnik

“A sad Goodbye” by Rena Holdip

“-Leaving-” by A.d Bunni

“College or Bust” by Taryn Holmes

“Breaking Away” by Vicki Wade

“IT WON'T BE LONG MARY CAHILL KURPIEWSKI” by Mary Kurpiewski

“time flies when your having fun” by Joy Benoit

“Just Before the Nova” by Daisy Torres

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