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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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“Until We See Each Other Again” by Colleen Lee

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“Have you packed your things already, Mark? Make sure to bring extra jackets so you won’t catch a cold when December comes. Did you call Johnny?” “Yes, mom. I’m still here until three days, okay? Don’t worry at all, I’ll be fine,” Mark answered, reassuring his mother with a warm smile. “I don’t know, Mark. Do you really have to go abroad? You know it was hard for me to let your older brother go, and now here you are,” she started, taking a look at him from head to toe and vice versa, as if it’s the last day she will ever see her son agai...

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“Veronica George Must Die” by Miranda Thomas

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"Veronica George, do you plead guilty to 3 charges of first degree murder,?" "No". My name is Veronica George and I am 18 years old. I had a week left at home before I left for college. To be honest I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. I had an opportunity to be the main role in a new teen movie, but since my incarceration, they will probably choose someone else. My childhood best friend Dean and I wanted to spend this last week together. We decided to make plans and visit Las Vegas and play the slot machines in hopes of ...

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“Letting” by Miles Newmyer

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Letting The Kid had just climbed out of the pool. The last couple seconds weren’t there, he wasn’t entirely sure how he got out of the pool but he was making his way, conspicuously, past his stand and around the corner. The basketball game stopped. Concerned murmurs rose from the hot and busy water. The Kid was white, an oddity on this side of town, but his blue lifeguard shorts put his whiteness in its place. He rounded the corner into the bathroom, unprepared for the familiar tepid reek he winced. In front of the sink he looked.  ...

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“Just this Once” by Day Valice

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"When did you get so serious?" What a laughable, disgusting question. Nothing ever changes, except what people know. My own family never knew. Every morning, following a lovely dream of somewhere else at some other time, I struggle to get out of bed. I think, is there a point, or, how will I mess up today? I spend extra hours in bed, just trying to go back to sleep. It only gets worse as the deadline arrives, the supposed finish line of my life at home. It's nothing special, my life. I'd try my best after waking to do something with it ...

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“Kindness, Knowledge, and a Bit of Sneaking” by Leigh Dalton

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Kindness, Knowledge, and a Bit of Sneaking I’m so excited but sad at the same time.  I will be going to college in three days.  I am going to be a vet.  I love animals and I just hate seeing them in pain.  But they could also just be there for their yearly checkups. Anyway, I forgot something- to introduce myself.  I am Violet.  Violet Denues.  Sorry that I got sidetracked. This is how the beginning of the first day started.  I heard my dog howling and jumping on my bed.  "Izzy, stop, I'm so tir...

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“Bittersweet” by Pierce Jennings

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Six days. Six more days, and I would be free. My chest tightened at the thought. I was anxious at the idea of leaving my parents (specifically my mom), but we all knew my upcoming move was the start of an exciting adventure for me. I’d been accepted to my dream university – University of California, Berkeley – to pursue a degree in electrical engineering, which also meant moving across the country from everything I’d ever known. It was a bittersweet feeling to know I’d soon be moving on from this shit town. In fact, I could almost taste – No...

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“His Last Chance” by Glen Benison

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Alex Grundle walks beneath the glow of the lamplights, swatting at the swarm of late-summer flies that circle his head and kicking a stub of a fallen branch.            The red brick home stands at the end of the road, at the edge of town and this is the third consecutive night that he has made this walk. Tonight, will be his last, for tomorrow he leaves for college.            Two nights ago, he walked right past the red brick home,...

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“Summer Note” by Maryam Tariq

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 “Lila! Did you double-check the bag? Are you a hundred percent sure everything is packed?” Lila was shaken out of her stupor by her mother’s panicky voice. She had spent the last hour running around the house, making sure all was arranged for Lila’s imminent departure. And now standing at the doorway, she glared at her daughter as sweat trickled down her brow. “Lila!” She always said her daughter’s name with a weird gravity, dragging the la and ending it with an H. No one ever said it like she did. Lila nodded in affirmation. And ...

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“A Lake Carries Her” by Marina Datthyn

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Zuzu Miller, like her mother before her, was a crier. They cried during Casablanca. They cried during Hallmark movies. They cried during particular stories on the Sunday Morning show. They cried when they sang “The Old Rugged Cross” on Good Friday. They even cried during certain commercials. Zuzu’s biggest love/ hate was the Olive Fingers commercial. A little orphan boy with olives for fingertips was passed over by every prospective set of parents who came to the orphanage- until the rainy night he looked out the window to see a car pull up,...

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“The Last of the Mundane” by Elizabeth Corbitt

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2:14pm August 1, 2019 There was something about the laziness of summer that called to Allison. The heat comforted her, surrounding her with the warmth of sunlight reflecting off the pool, ever increasing the natural tan she seemed to carry throughout the whole year. In summer anything seemed possible, a far cry from the start of every school year and mundane routine established with it. Summer meant vacations, parties with friends, staying up too late and sleeping the day away. It meant those stupid flings that seemed perfect in the summe...

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“Going Away To College” by Matt Jones

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Those six weeks had been everything I’d wanted them to be and more. The warm months spent outside of school were always special because of being with friends, being free to laze around on hot days breathing in the enchanting aroma of freshly-cut grass and daily barbecues, while celebrating a birthday in August had always been a bonus. But there were a few extra cherries on top of the cake that was the summer holidays that year. It hadn’t been any old birthday either, it was my 18th. A seminal milestone in any person’s life – in fact is ...

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“Before I Leave ” by Rawiya Scarlet

Submitted to Contest #53

The sun shining through my window told me that it was a new day. Silencing my phone alarm I rose from my bed yawning and stretching. Today is the day to start to make things right I told. I walked over to my study desk ignoring all the packed boxes and focusing on the calendar in front of me. Glancing down at my plane ticket I focused on the date. Friday at 10 o'clock, I'll be boarding a flight. A flight that will be taking me to a new chapter in my life, to college, the college of my dreams. But before I go there are some things I sti...

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“24 Hours” by Honor Jacobs

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It was the day before college, i woke up with my stomach filled with butterflies, i was so excited to leave this crazy house. I went downstairs and my mum had made me my favourite breakfast, pancakes with lots of syrup. My good mood however was quickly shattered when my twin brothers started loudly discussing their plans for my room now i was close to moving to college. I guess i had no reason to be upset since i wasn't going to be using it for the next few years but it made me so upset somehow.  I had made plans with my best friend Car...

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“Summer Fling” by Jessica Flowers

Submitted to Contest #53

The backyard was the only thing in the house left out of the remodel. His parents had meant to do it, but then they had run out of money. So instead of a green gardening space with a quaint pool it was a black tarp with two outdoor lounge chairs. It’s where Max and Hattie had spent almost every single day of the summer so far. Today they were eating sunflower seeds and drinking cold lemonade. Even without the pool, they both wore their swimsuits: trying to deepen the shades of their melanin. Max reflected on the sum...

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“Charlie the Chicken” by Chelsea Obodoechina

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This was the last day before Charlie was off to college and he still hadn’t succeeded in changing himself. It wasn’t like he exactly tried very hard during the summer—there were a lot of “maybe laters” and “I’ll do it in the mornings”—but he’d made a promise to himself and he was going to keep it, even if it killed him. Which it wouldn’t because Charlie was quite averse to danger. He called it being careful, but the kids at school had another word for it: chicken.  And, like all children who had smelled blood in the unknowable water...

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