Write a story that takes place at a spring dance.

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“The Best Firsts” by Timea Patient

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The Best Firsts I was so excited; I could hardly wait. I’ve been waiting for this night for months! I had started planning my dress, looking for it since the day after Halloween. It took me until boxing day to finally find it. It was beautiful light pink; the top was lace with a flowery design the bottom was floor length silk that felt so smooth on my legs. On November 1st when I first started searching for my dress, I did not have a date for the spring formal yet and honestly, I didn’t think I would get one. It’s not like ...

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“There's a Flower Sasquatch in This One” by Smudge Himmel

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I shouldn't be nervous. What is there to be nervous about? I've been taking dance lessons since I was five, any of these other kids can't say anything bad about my dancing. I'm not nervous, I'm just... excited! Yeah. It's really never any use to convince yourself you feel a different way than you do. And yet, I've been trying to, I really have. Because... well...Because. I haven't even let myself dwell on it. I won't dwell on it. I'll go through these doors and the blaring music will shut out my thoughts and I'll dance till my feet bleed and...

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“The Eventful Spring Fling” by Logan Odendahl

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Saturday March 21, We made the decision to meet each other at the dance instead of going together. I stand with the boys in the back of the gym. Garrett is saying something about how the soccer team is going to win their game next week. Aaron then elbows me in the side, I look up and him and he points to the gym entrance. It felt like the world stopped spinning. Cora walked in, everyone else disappeared and suddenly it was just the two of us. Her brilliant blue eyes met mine, and she smiled a blinding smile. We started to walk to...

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“That Night” by Addison Cary

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Standing there in the hall in front of my locker just felt weird. I've been here every day for school so why does it feel different? I go further and grab my notebooks for history like normal and shove them into my backpack. That is when I notice what was making me feel weird. A note. Written with cut out letters from a Women's Catalog. Stuck with tape from a cheap store to my locker door. It said "I lIkE yOu but Don't knOw If yoU feEl the SamE waY. NOt telLiNg wHo iT is." Reading it made my heart skip a beat or more. I was overwhelmed with ...

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“Bleak Wood Dance” by Ellie Watson

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“Look. Paula. I’ve told you a million times, and I’ll tell you again. Stop stressing! You look great.” I sighed, leaning back against the bathroom stall door. Paula raised her eyebrow at me in the semi-grimy bathroom mirror. Then she continued smoothing the front of her dress down. “I don’t know. I think we should have worn different dresses,” Paula said. I listened to the pounding of the music coming from the gym. “Or at least you. Your dress makes my dress look like crap in perspective. Like, come on, Mads.” Paula frowned. I rolle...

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“It Was Meant To Be ” by Jackie Stjohn

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On the day of the dance it must've been the strangest day of my life.I sat on the cheap bleachers at school with all the other socially awkward people. My date kind of ditched me to go drink with all her friends in the bathroom. I don't even know why I came. I should've known the popular girl wouldn't want to hang out with a socially awkward girl like me. I just wanted to get real experience at a dance before high school is over. The lights were blinding and the music was blaring. it was like a more boring disco. not like I've ever bee...

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“The Spring Dance” by Jenny Elaine

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The air was cool, and the smell of jasmine drifted gently along the breeze. The faded red barn had been transformed from a drab, lifeless old building to a structure that was alive and breathing with music and laughter echoing through its rafters. An array of colorful dresses flashed across the rustic dance floor, and I sat quietly to one side, smiling softly as I watched. I glanced shyly about, wondering if anyone would even notice I was there. I was wearing my only good dress, which previously belonged to my older...

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“Paradise Hotel” by Martina Ndedi

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At the station,"What happened?""I told them inot but they didn't want to hear, they didn't……"April 6th 1991,End of summer, andcomes the king of season, spring, new beginning, new growth, change anddifferent events but, Tanga a hidden village which the reputation fororganizing the most beautiful spring events and also known as a "meltingpot" due it's diversity of race, a place to meet new people from the worldduring the Untangata traditional spring danse always occurring on the 6thof April at the center of it's largest market square. Francis ...

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“Annabelle Love” by Abagail Langdon

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Annabelle glanced in the mirror at her sunburnt nose, two big blue eyes staring back. They were the kind of big that almost appeared photoshopped—like a beautiful human caricature someone would overpay for on a beach pier in July.The afternoon sun reflected off her long, red hair that she had been fidgeting with for upwards of 20 minutes. Redhead. A term Annabelle’s eight-year-old brain detested. She first heard it in the pre-k sandbox. It was the start of the college semester—a concept which meant nothing to the class of four-year-olds—and ...

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“Just Seventeen” by Lisbeth McCarty

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I was just 17, like the song says. Carly, Jady, and Candy all came to my house at 5:00 p.m. so we could get ready for the big spring dance. I was already jealous of all of them. They had cool names that ended with "y." My name was Jane. Plain Jane was a moniker that applied to me with ruthlessness. I planned to fix the plainness with make-up. If possible.Jady was the best at changing her looks into okay to pretty. I watched in awe as Jady started by adding clip-in extensions to thicken and lengthen her hair. It was like a beauty magic ...

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“Walpurgisnacht” by Kat Bauer

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My sister is perfect. She’s a successful actress, gorgeous and wealthy, and semi-secretly Wicca. Technically her sect isn’t Wicca, but they have some strange Scandinavian name I can’t pronounce, so I say Wicca. Before Walpurgisnacht, I hadn’t seen my sister for nearly two years, and then only on holidays. Her absence had more to do with our parents, a perfectly WASPy couple that everyone was surprised but not surprised to learn ...

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“He looked at her. She looked at him. ” by Shaili Reetoo

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This year’s spring festival began with a silly costume race where we dressed up as our favourite characters and partook in lots of events. Not only were there the simple running races and hurdles but also blindfolded three legged sprints and two persons sack races. It was exhaustingly fun. We competed in teams that consisted of our class members, my class is the best no matter what others say as we have the biggest will to win. In the middle we had a celebratory banquet or feast if you will. The feast brought lots of speeches and singi...

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“And Hello” by Katherine Varga

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April 2021I know I could just text Hanna, but scooping up some white pebbles from her mom’s garden and throwing them at her bedroom window is much more fun. When you only ever communicate with someone through your phone, any new way of making someone aware of your existence becomes a thrill. Even pebbles.Hanna's face shows up in her window. She grins and holds up one finger. I nod. I can wait one minute, no problem. It's all we ever do now. She runs out the door, hopping a little to finis...

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“Reminisce with me?” by Erin Klump

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Reminisce with me? Dances weren't really my thing. Buying expensive clothes to match the theme, finding a date, dancing. I try to avoid such dances, but it was better than being home alone on a Friday night. Minus having a date, I managed to find a great spot right next to the buffet table.The funny thing about this is that I don't go to this school. In fact, I'm not even a student. How did I get in, you say? I'm not sure, usually, the kids or parents who chaperone or volunteer for these kinds of things check for ID, or just ask ...

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Write a story that takes place at a spring dance.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 89 stories

“The Best Firsts” by Timea Patient

“There's a Flower Sasquatch in This One” by Smudge Himmel

“The Eventful Spring Fling” by Logan Odendahl

“That Night” by Addison Cary

“Bleak Wood Dance” by Ellie Watson

“It Was Meant To Be ” by Jackie Stjohn

“The Spring Dance” by Jenny Elaine

“Paradise Hotel” by Martina Ndedi

“Annabelle Love” by Abagail Langdon

“Just Seventeen” by Lisbeth McCarty

“Walpurgisnacht” by Kat Bauer

“He looked at her. She looked at him. ” by Shaili Reetoo

“And Hello” by Katherine Varga

“Reminisce with me?” by Erin Klump

🌟 Similar prompts

Before bed, you put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time. When you wake up, you realize you've gone forward a lot more than one hour.

You made a promise to yourself you'd finally do it on the first day of spring. Today was the day.

Write a story about someone who finds something interesting peeking out from a melting snowbank.

Write a story about someone walking through a park on a spring evening, told only through internal monologue.

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