Write about someone who’s been sent to boarding school.

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“Submarine Academy” by Philip Clayberg

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My mother helped me pack my luggage. Good thing it wasn't a big trunk or it would've been too heavy for us to carry out to the minivan.“But why does it have to be a boarding school?” I asked. “Why can't I just stay here at home and go to the public high school? Wouldn't it be cheaper?”“Your father and I went to a boarding school, Shui,” my mother said. “The same one you're going to. The Cousteau Society Boarding School.”“You both did?” I asked.She nodded. “And it was a good experience. We made friends and learned things that we probably woul...

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“An All-Girls Boarding School” by Ry G

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My parents are very overprotective. And that is an understatement. They think they have to protect me from the world. They believe that school is the only thing that is important, and that’s that. I think their greatest fear was me getting a boyfriend. I know this because they have lectured me about it countless times. “Boys are just a distraction,” they said. “Boys will keep you from getting a good education,” they said. These lectures never really bothered me because I was never really interested in boys. I told them this many times, but t...

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“Kingsford’s Academy for the Elite” by He!do I.A.P.N

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Michael Cavendish liked to think of himself as a simple person. Not simple as in dumb, but simple as in easy to figure out. A young man with few wants, and relatively easy to please. Almost like a linear function; you plug in different numbers to the input, and get one output for each. Just a straight line. Michael was the same. On the inside at least. Just because he happened to be “popular” at his school and his father was the creator of InstaTravel, the first teleportation device that was made widely available and affordable. Becau...

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“Ad Heroibus, Auxilium” by Regina Perry

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Every time I close my eyes, I see the troll. It looms in front of me, drool slavering from its monstrous orange jaws. It looks rather like Dr Suess’s Lorax, but it’s much bigger and much hungrier. It looms over me, opening its mouth. This is the moment I’ve been preparing for all term. My heart is beating faster than that roller coaster I was too scared to ride when I was eight and Laurel had her birthday party at a theme park. The troll gets closer and closer, opening its mouth wider. I catch a glimpse of jagged, orange teeth. Dr Suess forg...

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“Miss Anastasia's Finishing School” by Holly Pierce

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a warning: there is an extreme situation in which there is intense fear and some drowning “Hurry up! We have to go!” My mother yelled. I silently rolled my eyes. Her footsteps echoed on the stairwell as she entered my room. The lock outside the door clicked as she twisted the knob. “What are you doing? You only have one bag packed. Get going, or there will be consequences,” she cautioned. I shivered at the thought.“Okay, Mom,” I muttered. I grabbed a random handful of shirts and jeans before picking up the enormous pile of uniforms. A brochu...

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“Unwanted Visitor” by Aisa M

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That wasn’t the first time I’ve seen her pale face. She has haunted my dreams like a storm surging on to an unsuspecting, still night. Her ceramic-white face appeared like lightning, cutting through the apocalyptic sky. Her long black hair loomed on my face like torrential rain. Her melancholic cries for help came in like the howling wind, pounding the dormitory until it’s cracks and hinges wept. Her eyes. Her bloodshot eyes glared at me relentlessly, countless times. And that night she called my name for the very first time. Her voice sound...

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“Haunted Girls” by Ann Doe

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Although this story was mainly written for the boarding school prompt, I tired to include something from ever prompt. I hope you like it! It was not that Ginny hadn’t provoked her latest suspension. She had. But it hadn’t been all her fault. Laura and Aimee had come up with the idea. She had only provided the lighters. Her father smoked. It hadn’t been that difficult to get them. Home-schooling had driven her mother insane, she barely slept, and her father grew more and more absent. Trees passed by slower and slower until they blurred i...

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“A Classy Notion Incepted” by Khagesh Mahanta

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I have gone through her first monthly progress report card that is too elaborate, covering all the possible aspects, indicating a huge overall progress, in her. In the very first month, in the boarding school of her choice, she is rated as one of the 10 best students, by the assessment team. Our only daughter Ava, who has just crossed her 12, is away from home for the last one month and is staying at one of the best boarding schools of India. Every day, we both the parents speak to her to get an idea on how happy she is, wherever she is. But...

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“The Boarding school” by Sidhartha Mishra

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I passed my seventh standard examination with 92% marks. I am told that henceforth I will be studying in a renowned school in Nainital, Uttarakhand. It has alumni in the likes of Ram Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Dalip Tahil, Major Somnath Sharma (recipient of India's first Param Vir Chakra), Vice Admiral Anil Chopra of Indian Navy etc. to name a few. Even thinking of going to such a renowned school gave me goosebumps. But at the same time the thought of living away from parents and brother made me a little sad. Next day we started our jour...

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“Counting Crows” by Kate Bibb

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There was a sickening finality to the crunch of gravel beneath the taxi’s tires as it drove away. Don’t leave me here, I mentally begged, but the driver couldn’t possibly know that he was leaving me stranded here. I shook off the lingering sense of foreboding as I marched toward the Gothic manor, dragging my luggage behind me, but maybe I have multiple personality disorder or something because my mind was split. On the surface, I was thinking about mundane things like whether or not the chefs at my new school will scramble the eggs or ...

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“Heather” by Anna ♡

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I had only ever seen my roommate twice since I’d arrived in July: once when I’d woken up in the middle of the night, and once when I’d entered Professor Carver’s office as she’d been leaving. As she passed I caught the scent of heather. Now it was August and I had yet to see her in classes, but through her absences on the roll I learned that her name was Cecilia, which stuck with me the moment I’d first heard it, only because it rolled off the tongue so pleasantly.In our room her side was bare, scant of possessions. But she possessed a few t...

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“A bird named Calm” by Esther Ojifinni

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Menes perched glumly in the small taxi that was taking him to his boarding school. He never really wanted to go, but his parents insisted. Why now? Couldn't I wait a few years? Menes thought. His sister, Valeri was next to him in her pink hoodie. The hood was over her face, so Menes couldn't see her face, but he could tell she was crying. "It's not going to be so bad," Menes said reassuringly. "You'll make friends. Then we can see mother and father again." Valeri sniffed and lifted her hoodie. Menes could see she was sad and fatigued. "Did...

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“Goodbye, I Don't Need You Anymore” by Elaina Goodnough

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Hello. How are you? I assume you are doing well, you are everyone's closest companion right now, even if they are embarrassed to admit it. Did you know you are what sent me to boarding school? Foolish daddy took your advice about me not growing up proper, and sent me away like a letter to be trifled with. Don't get me wrong, I don't blame him, I blame you. I blame your devious ways and multiple faces. I am still recovering from when you were my best friend. I hated it, but I never broke it off. You thrived off of me, and I told myself I ...

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“Second Chance for Eternal Optimism” by Jill Davies

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Cold November air held the small town of Avonlee in a pre-dawn stasis as Woody made his way up Newart street toward the old cemetery. The sun was just beginning to light the sky behind the eastern horizon, adding color to the grey dawn, but it was still too early for anyone of consequence to pay him any mind, and that was exactly what he wanted. Woody wasn’t supposed to be out and he was definitely not supposed to be headed to Saint Cordelia’s Catholic Cemetery without supervision.But it was a risk he had to take. He couldn’t leave without s...

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“Everybody Knows That” by Phoenix's Fire

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Everything’s just out there. And you're just here. You feel nothing can be a part of you, and you can’t affect them. At all. It's a feeling as if you are running through a ring, over and over again, with the billions of people running through their rings around you. You bump into each other, sure. Yet you’re never in the same ring at the same time. Their…. Existential. They exist, but not to you. Thinking of this, rolling through life in my ring, letting my mind run free through the field known as the universe, how is it possible that I saw ...

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Write about someone who’s been sent to boarding school.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 120 stories

“Submarine Academy” by Philip Clayberg

“An All-Girls Boarding School” by Ry G

“Kingsford’s Academy for the Elite” by He!do I.A.P.N

“Ad Heroibus, Auxilium” by Regina Perry

“Miss Anastasia's Finishing School” by Holly Pierce

“Unwanted Visitor” by Aisa M

“Haunted Girls” by Ann Doe

“A Classy Notion Incepted” by Khagesh Mahanta

“The Boarding school” by Sidhartha Mishra

“Counting Crows” by Kate Bibb

“Heather” by Anna ♡

“A bird named Calm” by Esther Ojifinni

“Goodbye, I Don't Need You Anymore” by Elaina Goodnough

“Second Chance for Eternal Optimism” by Jill Davies

“Everybody Knows That” by Phoenix's Fire

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Set your story in a Gothic manor house.

Write a ghost story where there’s more going on than it first appears.

Write about a family attempting to hide their secrets from someone new.

Write a romance that involves one partner saving the other from a fire.

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