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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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“A Teenager” by Rhea Tantri

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The hardest thing about being a teenager is making decisions. Going to college is one matter but, deciding a college based on your scores and their foundation is another matter altogether. My family comprises of my mother, father, sister, grandmother, two dogs and two cats. I love them from the bottom of my heart, but I have never been able to fit in their perfect world. I never worked as hard as they expected me to, neither did I try to understand their beliefs. I have never been confident about myself, hence, I have never felt confident i...

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“My Best Friend Jenna ” by Jessica Golden

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“Wrap it up! Dinner’s on the table!” Aggravated, I closed my laptop and headed downstairs. I couldn’t wait to get out of this town. Every week’s the same in this place, you know? I mean, yeah, quarantine kind switched things up. We didn’t get the “normal experience” you’re supposed to get at seventeen. No prom, no graduation, no senior week, but who really cares anyway? I outgrew this place a long time ago. I wouldn’t have gone to prom anyway. Nobody here sees the bigger picture. There’s a whole world out there! Why my parents left New Yor...

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“THE DECISION IS MADE” by Claire Tennant

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He stood surveying the damage, with no idea of the time. The blackened earth was still hot, and Dan was exhausted. Behind him, Phil stood, his face was streaked with tears his normally pale skin blackened by the ash. The devastation still evident, there were enough embers and sparks against the darkness to show the reason for the exhaustion. “Phil?” it was Dan in a hushed tone “Yeah, mate!” “I can’t believe this.” Phil touched Dan’s shoulder lightly. “It might be too early Dan, we don’t know the damage, wait for the call” Dan knew ...

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“College Bound” by Lonnie Larson

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When Cheryl graduated from high school her father, Paul, let her keep the old Plymouth Duster that she had driven to school from time to time. Cheryl planned on going to college in the fall and her boyfriend, Steve, had received a full scholarship in baseball. She was heading to State but he was heading for a university half way across the country. And to make matters worse. The Summer hit hard and fast. By graduation, at the end of May, the temperature was already topping ninety degrees. “Hey honey. Your father and I are planning on goi...

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“Troublemaker” by Maria Bell

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I lounged listlessly on the canopy swing at the edge of the pool while Sammy, hanging on to the edge, spoke to me out of the water. I had already gone for a swim, dried off and changed. Now my hair was drying while I supervised Sammy. Not that he needed supervision – he had made the junior swim team – but there was no one else home and little else to do on this hundred-degree day. He was telling me of school escapades and friends and childish rumors. I nodded and hmm’d along, gradually losing awareness as the thick heat swaddled me and becam...

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“Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life)” by Art U

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My friend helped me carry the bags out and down four flights of stairs. The electricity was out again, meaning no elevator to carry three bags of fifty pounds each. My mind mused about proverbs around true friends being there to help you carry the weight of the world when times got heavy and tough. These proverbs seemed to find literal context now. I had a silly sheepish grin when my buddy nudged me. “Pick up a bag man, not your servant here!”. The truth is that my friend had been there for me through heavy times, in a more than literal sens...

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“3 Days Left” by Luccia Moraes

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3 days left I look to my left over at my alarm clock. I groan. "No one should be up before eight in the morning!" I rub my eyes and reluctantly sit up. I reach for my glasses and struggle to put them on. As my eyes begin to focus and take in another day in this excuse of a town, I notice the several boxes packed up around my room as a lovely reminder that I only have a little while left before I leave this shit hole and off to college I go. I pull off my blankets and trip trying to get up. Seriously, not a morning person. After several att...

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“Moving On” by Daniel Kleba

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“Dinner is almost ready, come help set the table.” Derek’s Mom called up the stairs. “Okay, one sec,” Derek said. He still had about three more minutes before the yelling started. Plenty of time to finish the game. His fingers flew over the keyboard as gunshots and explosions echoed out from the monitor. A well-placed grenade blew an enemy into bloody chunks and a victory screen flashed across the monitor. “Fucking, fuck.” Tony exclaimed through the speakers. “GG. I almost had you that time.” Derek glanced at the lopsided scoreboard an...

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“Clara & Gracie” by Amanda McDowell

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As the birds began their morning ritual of gossip hour and the sun hiked above the mountain, Gracie fluttered open her eyes. Today was the day she knew Clara would leave. For days she watched the suitcase wheels roll along the gleaming hardwood as Clara continued to pack. When June left a couple of years ago, Gracie hoped she didn't have to feel that lonely again. The three of them were close, but Gracie got to spend more time with Clara since June had been gone. They bonded over nightly tea sessions, lounging on the deck on the sunny days, ...

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“Leaving” by Sofia Sibrian

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I laid in my bedroom, staring up at the ceiling, thinking about how I hadn’t started packing yet. My empty suitcase sat on my bedroom floor waiting for me to pick it up. All my posters that had been previously hung on the wall, sat on my desk, rolled up. The day was almost over, as the last rays of sun shone through my window. I could hear my mom making dinner downstairs, yelling at my brother to help her with the food. My mind wandered to how campus life would be without my mom’s food and my brother always pestering me with questions. I wou...

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“Firsts and Lasts by Sheri McComb” by Sheri McComb

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As mothers, when it comes to our children we usually focus on a lot of firsts: first tooth, first steps, first words, you get the picture. There’s even merchandise celebrating it: Christmas ornaments saying “Baby’s first Christmas” and things like that.  There are too many firsts to count and we try to remember each one by documenting with pictures and loving words scrawled in baby books.             At some point all those beginnings fade away as our children grow up...

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“Alone” by Annie Brown

Submitted to Contest #53

The longest I've ever spent away from my sister was thirteen minutes and twenty-three seconds. I had emerged earthside on our birthday, January 17, 2002, and she was right behind me. And ever since, we've been together, each sister tagging along with the other through all of childhood's triumphs and failures. We shared a crib, then a bedroom, then a school, a friend group, even our American Girl Doll, Samantha. We have simply never been apart. Not until March 20, 2020, when the University of Notre Dame did the unthinkable to two inseparable...

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“Otlichnyy Mayak (The Great Beacon)” by Scott Doran

Submitted to Contest #53

All great houses rise through the greatness of a single generation and fall through the folly of another.  Families of ancient and noble title may endure endless cycles of sovereigns and lieges, revolutions and uprisings, conquests and crusades, famines and pestilences, only to descend into ruin by the taking of title of an unready, foolish, cruel or simply unlucky successor.    For Otlichnyy Mayak, a landhold of six thousand acres seated a dozen miles to the east of Orenburg, that successor was to be a young man b...

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“Too Late” by Lily Hartly

Submitted to Contest #53

Matt and his family aren’t close. They never have been. They’ve spent the last eighteen years going through the motions of polite small talk when left alone together. Matt doesn’t remember a time when they talked about anything real. They don’t talk about their feelings. They smile politely at each other and eat dinner together every night. To someone on the outside, they would probably look like a perfect family. They’re fairly wealthy, they live in a big house in Concord, Massachusetts, and they throw a big Christmas party every year.&nb...

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“Still you” by Alyanna Marie Poquiz

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With her head held high,Keisha entered the room like she owned it. She gracefully sat on the edge of the bed and crossed her legs."Last two days." I murmured as I stare at my calendar teary eyed. "I won't miss you." Keisha said and shrugged. "I know,will he?" I asked hesitantly.  "Of course he would,he loves you." She said,those kind of words gave me a bit hope but then again, the truth is as clear as a crystal. "Yeah" I sighed. "As a friend." "I doubt that."  "Why?" "Just go tell him how you feel." Keisha hissed.  ...

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