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Write a story about a sweet sixteen.

Posted in Short Story on Oct 26, 2022

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✍️ 13 stories

Walking Alone

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My dearest baby daughter, In sixteen years your father will give this letter to you. You don't know me, and may never know. I am your mother. Why should I write to you? Why should I ever make myself known to you? I do so because I love you. I do so because I want you to know that I love the gray drizzle of rain in the early morning and the music of Beethoven. I do so because of an old yellow umbrella I once owned as a child. I could not bear it if you knew nothing of me. I could not bear it if I did not tell you the story of m...

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The Official Birthday

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THE OFFICIAL BIRTHDAYThis is my official birthday, Dora decided.     Many a child has wished that, desperate to persuade their parents of the brilliance of the idea, once they have discovered that the Queen celebrates such a day.    But Dora, everyone who knew her agreed, was no longer a child.    Many an adult has wished that, though often adding, aloud or in their wistful, half-humorous thoughts, unless it meant them growing an extra year older.    But Dor...

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City of Angels

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When I was fifteen, things were the same. When I was sixteen, they were different. I knew that when I woke up that morning and there was no soup. “We’re out,” she told me. I looked down into her eyes, the eyes that held the stars, and I said I’d be back. I strapped my knives over my waist. I could feel her looking at me, but I didn’t look back as I stepped out into the place that was the City of Angels.  I walked through the memories of that city again. And again, I tried to push them away. I walked through those dark and looming stree...

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Mary's Sweet Sixteen

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Mary awoke with a start, and remembered it was her sweet sixteen. She jumped out of bed and ran to her closet, excitement bubbling up inside of her. She slid the doors open and put on her favorite dress. The dress was light blue with a darker blue ribbon pulled around her waist. Mary pulled on her only pair of white high heels and burst out of the door.  Mary whipped her head back and forth, no one was in the hallway, she rushed to the stairs. No one was smiling back at her, because no one was there. Mary yelled, “Hey everybody I am awa...

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The Surprise Party

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They’d been planning this forever. From her birth, most likely. Mya’s mother, Helena loved hosting parties. And Aunt Beatrice loved birthdays. Together, they’d make her Sweet Sixteen a hundred times bigger, bolder, and brighter than it needed to be. They selected a theme every year and stuck to it religiously. Her fourteenth had been a sophisticated Garden Gala. Her ninth had been the Cindy Lauper song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. They never told her what the theme was prior to the day. She’d just wake up her birthday morning, a brand new ou...

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Maybe not such a complete disaster after all

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   This was a complete and total disaster. Nothing could possibly be worse than this, other than maybe an apocalypse.    Anna was tiring of planning her best friend Eve’s sweet 16, but she had promised to make it special and she wasn’t going to let her down. Looking down at her list of supplies and things she needed to do she scowled, she really needed to start gathering supplies. If she didn’t the party may not even happen.    Sighing, she slowly unfurled her aching body, wishing she hadn’t skipp...

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I Love You Delilah

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AndrewStop. Stop. Stop. Stop!!!! STOP!!!!!!!!!!I don’t want you. Stop texting me. STOP!!!!!!!!!!I don’t like you. That’s it, you’re getting blocked.“Hey sis, what’s up?”“Oh lord, Andrew won’t stop texting me, it’s like he still thinks I’m in love with him.”“Well Delilah you did date him for three years.”“Yeah but we’ve also been broken up for 5 months.”“So, It’s not that easy to get over someone like him, if you know what I mean…”“Whatever Kora. ugh”“Just saying.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Andrew Happy Birthday loveyyyy!!!!!! -read 1...

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A not so sweet sixteen.

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"Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve this, all this pain and hatred. It's sad knowing that the people who I told my secrets to yesterday, are the furthest from me today. It's sad that they are too the people I most fear. We slowly fell apart, and let the distance widen between us, now looking back I wonder what we even were. You were like a beautiful rose I held on to, the more I kept you close, the more your thorns got sharper. Even though it hurt me I still held on, I still kept you close. But you didn't see that, and that's why you l...

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First Chances

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"Oh my gosh Jax, I can't believe you're finally turning sixteen," Jamie gushed. "Now wake up already will you?"Today was the day I turned sixteen and honestly I hated it. Why you might ask? Well maybe it was the mere fact that I was growing up and soon I'd be a highschool senior. Yeah I'm totally not ready for the college applications, the extra curricular activities and more classes. "Come on Jax, I know you're wake and you can hear me," Jamie whined as he tried to tug my duvet away from me. "Leave me alone Jamie," I said and wrapped the du...

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Four Impossible Things to do before Sixteen

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To turn Sixteen is to stand in the rain, fully clothed and taste the earth. That's how turning sixteen makes me feel. Technically, I haven’t turned sixteen yet, only a few days. A few insignificant days that leads to an insignificant event. When Sarah turned sixteen we threw a huge party, she was found passed out in the garden the next day, the only thing I remembered from that night was making out with Robert on the front porch, his arm slipped around my waist and then I threw up. Sarah also said I was boring “Come on! You’re turning 1...

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My Sugar's 16th

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She swore that if she had to kick any higher for the pom squad that her tights were going to burst at the seams!Jenna hated breaking in a new outfit when the competitions needed a new routine. She had done this since she was a little girl, but there were just some parts of the craft that annoyed her.Her nose scrunched in concentration, trying to execute the timing on the routine because she had to kick, turn, then catch Stacy as she did her jump.Yes, Harper High wanted more recognition, and there were scholarships involved! A part of her nev...

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Mom Overboard

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Trevor’s eyes were hazel and bright in the afternoon sun. His black bangs hanging over his long eyelashes. We smiled together, mine hidden behind my thin lips, his wide and flashy. I ran through the forest, dancing along with the spirals of light shining through the tree tops. He followed after. My house was at the end where the path turned into a Cul-de-sac. It was a two story modern home with white shutters and large windows on the corner of Borrow street. I had lived there all of my life but despite that living there had always felt forei...

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Artistry

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Cheers filled the air, echoing off the walls of the hall, ricocheting off the edges of my best friend’s flashy smile. I was silent as I watched her spin and twirl in her sky blue dress, dancing and grinning and laughing in mock sheepishness as the crowd took so many pictures that my head began to spin from the flash. Her eyes twinkled as she spotted me. I was too dazzled to return the glance. The music floated through my ears, the bass shaking my heart as the world slowed down around me, the look on her face making my stomach flutter.  ...

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