Write a story about someone going back to school as a mature student.

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“Back to Basics.” by Len Mooring

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Back to Basics. “Do you know, I find it quite refreshing to be sitting here with a bunch of six-year-olds? There tends to not be any obfuscation in their communications. They tell it like it is. Of course, the desk is rather small, but I can sit on the floor until my other one arrives. “Teacher. I know you don’t believe me, as I sound quite articulate to you, but I really don’t get this alphabet thing. I can’t see how these individual squiggles make up a word, even though I know they do because I’m using them to talk to you. Ever sin...

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“The Diary of a Mad Man” by Nahyan Ameen

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During my stay over an uneventful new years in the mental institution, I was called to the office for a treat. Being carefully ushered in front of an uninconspicuous camera, a pleasant nurse handed me a ziplock full of kit kats and cookies that would go well with tea. I suspected that someone from my family was spying, but that was unlikely because my mother was meant to be in a country far away. Someone from my family must have been at the facility, but we were not allowed to have a meeting. I lustfully looked at a pile of release forms, wh...

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“The Heaviest Door” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

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Someone once told me that if the doors of opportunity do not open to you, break them down with determination. What was I thinking? Did it occur to me to look into the mirror. At an age when most men are dreaming of retirement, I was going back to college at Arizona State University in a program to get my Arizona Teaching License. It all sounded so good after two years of substitute teaching, I needed to find my place. In the two years, I had done every grade and just about every subject including dance where one of t...

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“Never Too Late” by LeighAnne Ferreol

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I tried to remain hopeful as the bubbly sorority girl bounced my way, but I had a horrible feeling of foreboding deep in my stomach. “Hello, Professor,” she said cheerfully. “I know you’ll probably cover this later, but I was wondering if we’d be receiving our syllabus today.” I knew it. I wanted to crawl into a hole by this point. Instead, I forced a sheepish smile. “Actually, I’m a student too,” I explained to her. “Oh,” she said, turning deep red. “Well, I guess you don’t know either then.” She couldn’t get away from me fast enough. ...

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“A Young Lady” by Jeni Conrad

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I’m only forty-five. I’m still young, years left ahead of me. If I live as old as my grandmother did, I still have forty more years to go; that’s more than enough time to do something new with my life. At least, this is the concept I keep repeating to myself on my first day of college, years after sending my own son to his first day. Somehow I made it to forty-five years without having ever stepped foot on campus. I had planned to go to college during my senior year of high school. I had even applied and been accepted to thre...

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“From A Squab to Confident Dove” by Sreedevi Mahapatra

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"Bindiya , Bindiya ! My little angel wake up! wake up!”Eyes still closed, savoring the sweet voice of her grandma, a peaceful smile appeared on Bindiya’s face but suddenly the melodious voice changed to a jarring sound of a bell ringing. With a start she woke up in an unfamiliar place with at least half a dozen faces looking at her curiously. Bindiya realized that she was in a hostel room of a famous residential school in the district. She remembered how everyone in her village was happy to see the first child to get selected in...

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“Bully me no more” by Chub Chub

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“Hi Mrs. Perskins!” A young man waved vigorously as he hurried through the crowd of kids. An old lady turned around slowly, unsure of the voice and man she saw coming toward her. The man was wearing a blue hoodie and blue pants and seemed older than the crowd around the school. He was catching his breathe as he pushed up his thick black glasses. “I’m sorry young man, do we know each other.” Mrs. Perskins asked. ...

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“August Storms” by Paige Leppanen

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Every August, we get at least two days with rain. This, unfortunately, is one of those days. I’m grateful for the excuse to collect my thoughts in privacy, though. The radio is cranked up and I’m checking my bag for the fifth time today, ensuring I have the essentials: my laptop, folders, textbooks, notebooks, pens, highlighters, sticky notes, a stapler, staples, index cards...I love back-to-school shopping for my kids, but it was even more fun buying school supplies for myself. No minor breakdowns because I accidentally bought a pink glitte...

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“Daydream Believer” by J.L. Schuhle

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I arrive on campus early where the lot is about halfway full so I am able to find a spot quickly and I decide to take a few minutes before getting out to calm my nerves. The sun is beating through my driver side window and my heart is beating so fast from nerves that my hairline is starting to sweat. ,I open the window to let in the fresh, crisp fall air. I close my eyes and take a couple of deep breaths- a forceful inhale through the nose and long gentle exhale out the mouth. When I open my eyes I pull my new backpack up onto the passenger ...

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“Chinese Proverbs” by Josefin Björk

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I couldn’t sleep last night, with excitement, with terror. I haven’t felt like this since I was six and going to school for the first time. There was a Jenny Hopkins in my class. Dreadful little thing, she was. Funny how memory works. Sometimes I can’t remember my own children’s names, but Jenny Hopkins will never be forgotten. In some religions, I’ve been told, that means she will live forever in the afterlife. I hope she doesn’t. You must think me terribly petty, but she really was the most bratty little nuisance you could imagine. Oh, I h...

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“An apple for the teacher” by Fraser Ramus

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I had been sat on the bench for the last ten minutes taking in the sites and sounds. I was a people watcher; I loved to look at someone, imagine who they were or was and give them a back story to go along with it. I had always found myself doing it. Sometimes I found myself staring a little too long and ended up getting some funny looks in return. Wouldn’t like to think what back story I was being given!I screwed the lid off my new shiny metal flask and poured myself another cup of Nescafe Gold Blend. I missed my usual long black coffee with...

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“Back to School ” by Kristopher Kozak

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Kurt was a veteran of the United States Army and had been stationed all over the world, including three deployments to Iraq, but none of his ventures had worried him as much as his upcoming one, life as a student back in his hometown of Santa Esmeralda, Texas. When he left the West Texas desert and saw the beautiful woods of Fort Benning, Georgia—his first time ever being out of state—he swore he’d never return and live in a desert by choice again. After retirement, the he found himself ...

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“The Queen Of Seldon College” by Duckie Carson

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Maggie failed to be startled at the news of her redundancy, the premonition had kept her awake many nights, but the call for a change of lifestyle had her feeling utterly lost. Searching the web night and day for a new career path seemed useless with her lack of work experience. From the age of fourteen she had worked in the same local coffee shop, even meeting her wife at one of the many tables she religiously tidied, keeping her bills paid until a couple weeks after her thirty third birthday. Maggie’s wife, Penelope, supported her during h...

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“On the Outside” by Shawnalynn Cromwell

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Trigger warning: suicide It was so hard for Shawn not to feel the atmosphere of the room – it was cold and calculating and deliberately dispelling. She was in the throws of finishing her final student work term and was nervously excited to do so. It was a hard journey to get to this last work term – between taking “time off” to recover from an illness and then rebuilding a brand-new work term to return to, was mentally exhausting! Not to mention being a mature student. The morning meeting ...

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“No Brick and Mortar school for Debbie ” by Debbie Stelzle

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In 1975, the year Debbie graduated from high school. Worked at a small nursing home till 1977. Wanting always to be a nurse, so in 1977 enrolled in a Licensed Practical Nurse program LPN for short. A two-year program and earned a diploma in 1979. Debbie worked as a nurse in Long Term care, otherwise known as nursing homes. Always loved working with the elderly, especially those who had Alzheimer's. Working as a nurse for over twenty years, finding great satisfaction in the job. On that day Tuesday, September 11, 2001, is a beautiful cloudles...

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Write a story about someone going back to school as a mature student.

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✍️ 88 stories

“Back to Basics.” by Len Mooring

“The Diary of a Mad Man” by Nahyan Ameen

“The Heaviest Door” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

“Never Too Late” by LeighAnne Ferreol

“A Young Lady” by Jeni Conrad

“From A Squab to Confident Dove” by Sreedevi Mahapatra

“Bully me no more” by Chub Chub

“August Storms” by Paige Leppanen

“Daydream Believer” by J.L. Schuhle

“Chinese Proverbs” by Josefin Björk

“An apple for the teacher” by Fraser Ramus

“Back to School ” by Kristopher Kozak

“The Queen Of Seldon College” by Duckie Carson

“On the Outside” by Shawnalynn Cromwell

“No Brick and Mortar school for Debbie ” by Debbie Stelzle

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Write a story about high school sweethearts coming across one another after many, many years apart.

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