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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“Mournful Future” by Lacy Pierce

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Alex and Sarah had been trying to enjoy what they knew would probably be their last few months together. They had been friends since first grade and together for the last two years. Alex had always known that she’d preferred girls. Sarah had tried to date a couple of boys. She liked them okay as friends but just could never get as excited about them as most of the other girls in her and Alex’s class. Alex was the same way. The town that they lived in, Blue Ridge, Georgia, was a small one of less than 2,000 people and it was full of b...

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“Suitcases Full of Love” by Audene Isaac

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Hot. The air was so hot. It was heavy, and sticky and oppressive. It clung to the roof of your mouth and the backs of your ears, hiding in your armpits and the crooks of your elbows. Persephone was sitting on the edge of her bed, her suitcase open in front of her, the clothes inside neat and politely recumbent. In her lap was her stuffed cat, Mirabelle, a gift from her mother all those years ago. She looked up at Pers with loving, yellow eyes, beady with hope. Persephone fiddled with the handmade collar around her worn ...

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“Ghost days” by Helen Barber

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The park was summer in its essence. In the shallow of the lake, reeds and cat tails – their fluffy head sticking out amongst the greenery – blew in the breeze, as swans and ducks and all manner of insects made their homes there. She watched this all from her hilltop, listened to the buzz of the flies with distant interest. Other groups milled about below her, laying in the dry grass beneath shady trees, or sitting with their bare toes dipped in the lake, but on the hilltop, she was alone, the wind washing away the killing heat of the midday ...

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“Choose Your Own Adventure” by C. R.

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I always wanted to wake up in one of those choose-your-own-adventure books; you know where each decision you make leads you to an alternate ending? I feel like I am living one right now, only I have no clue about the conclusion of my story. For a brief second, a ripple of panic runs through my body, followed by an electric current of delight. I imagine this must be how the characters in those stories felt; they didn't know how their story would end either. I sit up and look over at my closet, the floor covered in piles of ordered chao...

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“It was a dark and stormy night” by Eric Rikkinen

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It was a dark and stormy ni --- Well, actually it wasn’t. It was a clear, warm, harvest moon type of night towards the end of August. My last weekend at home. On Monday, I would hit the road and head for the “Bright Lights and Big City” to start my real life at university. I’d had it with this back-woods town. Small minded people, living small lives, accomplishing nothing of importance until finally dying an unremarkable death. Get Me The Hell Out Of HERE!!! It was finally Friday!! I had just told the b...

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“SUMMER SALUTATIONS” by Kyle Shafer

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It was my last day at home and I was beginning to grow sad. This bed I laid in was soon to be a cheap twin in a cramped closet of a college campus. I stared up at the ceiling, the ceiling of my childhood. Those zig zag cracks in the paint were forever embedded in my memory. The parts that were chipped from when me and Dad tried to hang glow-in-the-dark stars up there. That didn’t go so well, they were cheap and didn’t glow. Dad took them down after a week and bought me a planetarium projector. He used to do a lot of nice things like that, ba...

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“Here's To You, Kid” by Colton Oliverio

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Jamie’s bedroom was different than most kids'. And if that was not an analogy for his life, he didn’t know what was. It was though the room was a sort of monstrous nostalgia mashup. Lined along the walls were pictures of figures whose heydays were past memories. The Beatles smiled charmingly from one corner, and Hendrix shredded at Woodstock on another. Elvis swung by his closet, and Jefferson Airplane stood in psychedelic colors over his bed. He found that one at a garage sale for five bucks, and Jamie considered it the best investment he ...

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“Clumsy” by Victoria Hagen

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His hands were under mine--he knew how clumsy I could be. And I couldn’t risk breaking something this delicate, something that was everything to him. The palms of his hands were soft and a little bit clammy, but it was only because the water was heating up. I remembered his knuckles being rough, and that’s what I force myself to think about while my heart beats faster and faster. He switched to holding both of my hands to the glass with only one hand, and he took the lighter in the other. The familiar scent filled the car, the same sc...

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“Memories” by Kien Vargas

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How does one describe the feelings centered around leaving home? Should I call the knot in my throat anxiety? Is the bitter taste in my mouth fear? Does the pause in my step stem from uncertainty? I have yet to untangle the three. It seems that when one shows up the other two arrive unannounced as is there motive. As I walk down the street in my very small world a glint of sun of a car window catches my attention. As I look at the car my eyes drift toward the playground near it and suddenly I'm hit with a memory. I'm six, scrawny, proporti...

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“Teenager with a heart of kid” by Olfa Messaoudi

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It is all about dreams. When I was a kid, I was watching tv all the time exactly series about teenagers who were my idols that time. They were beautiful and smart, they have a good lifestyle and they were simply free. That's what I really needed in my life .I was feeling inspired, excited and impatient to end my school and live that life. Their life seems full of actions and adventures. I hated fighting with my parents to go out and asking for permission every time, to eat whatever they want and to order me to study all the time, I was waiti...

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“The Bad Beginning to a New Beginning” by ░▒▓█ KIᗩᖇᗩ ᕼIᒪᗪᗩ █▓▒░

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The hot, fiery, humid summer breeze blew onto my face, sweat rained down my cheeks. I felt as if I was a tree with sap all over it. All I wanted to do was take a bath filled with ice cubes. The days kept growing closer and closer and hotter and hotter until I'd have to leave my beloved home. My nerves were on a maniacal roller coaster, It was just the thought and idea that I might not blend in, that I might end up failing epically, or I might just start getting homesick. But it could just be those hot, humid, scorchy, irritating summer Calif...

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“The Last Night ” by Julia Wellham

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“Oh my gosh you made it! Finally!” Chrissy jumped up from the stool where she’d been sitting at the bar counter. “I’m five minutes late,” Jess replied laughing at her friend’s dramatic demeanor. Good ole Chrissy. She was going to miss her. “What, five minutes? No, it’s been ages.” She drew out the last syllable in an exaggerated fashion and threw her arms wide. “Besides,” she added in a slightly more serious tone, “it’s our last night together. We have to make every minute count. What if we never see each other again?”&n...

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“Goodbye Autumn” by Drew Taylor

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“So you two are really making it work?” Jake asks Dave as they cheers to the last week of summer vacation. Jake drinking a lukewarm beer he found next to empties on the floorboards of his janky Camry. Dave drinking Mango Gatorade he swooped from his parents garage fridge, the one containing cold beers and hard seltzers, on his way out the door. “We’re great bud. She really makes me happy,” says Dave.“I’m honestly surprised as hell but happy for you. Who woulda thought. How’d this even start?”“I know right?” Dave takes a sip, leans ...

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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

“Mournful Future” by Lacy Pierce

“Suitcases Full of Love” by Audene Isaac

“Ghost days” by Helen Barber

“Choose Your Own Adventure” by C. R.

“It was a dark and stormy night” by Eric Rikkinen

“SUMMER SALUTATIONS” by Kyle Shafer

“Here's To You, Kid” by Colton Oliverio

“Clumsy” by Victoria Hagen

“Memories” by Kien Vargas

“Teenager with a heart of kid” by Olfa Messaoudi

“The Bad Beginning to a New Beginning” by ░▒▓█ KIᗩᖇᗩ ᕼIᒪᗪᗩ █▓▒░

“The Last Night ” by Julia Wellham

“Goodbye Autumn” by Drew Taylor

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Write about a few people spending a long-overdue weekend away at a cottage.

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