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Write about someone who didn’t get along with their family as a child, but has since found an appreciation for them.

Posted in Teens on Oct 26, 2022

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“Thank You” by Ash Z

Submitted to Contest #69

He always got up an hour earlier, preparing coffee, orange juice and breakfast for us each day. He raked the leaves when our yard got messy, chopped wood for the fireplace when it was cold, and fixed anything that needed fixing. He worked 9 to 5 each day and gave us spare money to spend on clothes, games, and whatever else we wanted. Did he receive a single thank you? No. She made lunch and dinner for us, making sure we were well fed. When she was busy, she would have to skip meals, but still made sure to give us some cash to buy our own fo...

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“Waffle House Hash Browns” by Elizabeth Lund

Submitted to Contest #69

With sunrise came clarity. As Francie stumbled home on cobblestone streets, the morning sun warming her rosy cheeks, it all came flooding in a wave of discomfiture. Her already weak ankles gave out from underneath her, and she collapsed in a heap on the pavement, the crisp autumn wind stirring her chestnut locks in a whirlpool around her head. She slowly faded from consciousness; but with her last moments of sentience she felt gently being lifted from the hard sidewalk, her limbs going limp like the limbs of a ragdoll.     Wh...

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“Getting Along” by Logan Libby

Submitted to Contest #69

I have never gotten along with my family. And, don’t get me wrong, they are amazing people. But I have never felt fully accepted. Maybe it’s because I was abandoned at birth, and was left in an orphanage until I was 7. And though I was adopted relatively early on, the resentment I had fostered lasted through the rest of my childhood and adolescence. I could never quite place my finger on the reason why I hated my adoptive family so much. They had always tried so hard to get me to open up to them, and yet I’d always rejected them. And, to thi...

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“What Bind Us” by Luer Sabilla

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My name is Callen Grigor, sixteen years old and I'm African-American. My dad Julios Gregor, his American and a car dealer, and my mom Anastasia Gregor, she's African-American and she's the sweetest and kindest wife and mother. I have a simple and perfect life or so I thought I have until when my mother died in a car crash along with my unborn sister seven years ago. Dad and I were both in grief and after that, we tried to live the best we can in our life without mom.Two years after that, dad got married surprisingly. I didn't even meet the w...

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“What a Gift” by Maya Varsh

Submitted to Contest #69

It's currently 4:47 p.m. I hear my brother's soft snores as he takes his evening nap, occasionally getting up to glare at me whenever he realises that I've switched the air-conditioning off yet again. I hear my mother's excitement as she tells her friend about her latest findings regarding prospective undergraduate programs for her daughter over the phone. I also hear my dad's news program blasting through the speakers of this cheap Bluetooth device he got a couple of years ago. It should be noted that ma, dad and I are all in separate&...

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“Spatula Gate” by Joey Snell

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Spatula Gate Okay, so I threw a spatula at him. In fairness, he deserved it. A wooden spoon probably would have done less damage, but that was at the bottom of the washing up bowl; a knife probably more (too far away) - although maybe not with the accuracy level of my javelin style rage. The spatula happened to be the thing I was washing up at the time, the metal handle light in my hand and silver body covered in fairy washing up liquid and the odd bit of stray carrot. I flung it on the spur of the moment, more in exasperation really th...

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“Red Flags” by Lucca Woodard

Submitted to Contest #69

You know, It's been told said that families have an un-breakable bond with their kids, and that they love them with all of their hearts. Well, as that's true for some kids, it wasn't true for me. Hi, my name is Constance, and I'm 27 years old. Yeah I know. I'm pretty old. Let me ask you a question, How is the bond between you and your family? Take your time for this one. Now, I don't expect a book containing 1,000 letters. Although, That would be pretty impressive. I'm just asking that you think about that question. If for instance, you answ...

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“Carry Me” by K .

Submitted to Contest #69

Piercing the mid-winter’s raging storm, A lorry danced through the bumpy outskirts of tiny town. In the trunk of that lorry laid a girl clad in utter calm, yet in her deep emerald eyes, swirls from an undying tornado showed. The blood in her veins gushed through every bit of her being like high tides hitting a rock end. Every now and then she would crane her neck out and check how far away the green light was. It wasn’t new to me; distant looks, longing eyes, expectations and anticipations, I had seen these all-round the globe. Before I...

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“No Place Like Home” by Fiona Kerlyn

Submitted to Contest #69

It had always been a disaster from the start. Kate's life had begun fairly calm and peaceful. Born to an ambitious mother and a diligent father, Kate's future had shimmered vividly before she'd taken her first steps. The family was stable, loving and seemingly perfect in every way. But it was nearing three years of Kate's life when she gained a sibling, then another, then another, then another as the years went by and it didn't stop there. By the time Kate was one year shy of turning eighteen, she'd had seven siblings on her tail. She s...

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“A Loving Family” by Megan Wallace

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“This time next year, I won’t be here for the holidays!” I shouted as I slammed the heavy, wooden, front door of my sister, Alyssa’s, house behind me on that bitterly cold New Years Eve. The shift had begun. Growing up as the youngest of four, I always looked up to my siblings. Renee was my comfort, and she often referred to me as her ‘mini’. Dylan was my entertainer, spending countless hours playing video games, or watching Kung Fu movies, together. Alyssa was my mentor, always trying to be as cool as her while we imitated the gymnasts in t...

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“Escaping the Bherg” by A Mehendale

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They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Maybe that’s why my relationship with my family improves the more systems I put between us.I’m in my bunk, staring up at my mother’s face, stretched awkwardly across the bolts in the ceiling. We’ve been speaking for almost eight clix, and if three rotations ago you’d told me that not only could I hold a conversation - with my mother, no less - for that long, but that I’d be reluctant to end it, I’d have named you a liar and a fool. Three rotations ago it sometimes felt like my mother and I could ...

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“Thanksgiving” by Amy DeMatt

Submitted to Contest #69

               The red and white striped bikini went back into the drawer, to be buried by a small mountain of black socks. She grabbed two pairs of the socks and squeezed them into a corner underneath the turtleneck sweater and a pair of jeans. It was the flip flops that made her cry. There was something about replacing them with the chunky, old “I mean business” kind of snow boots that she’d learned to value over any fashion footwear while growing up in Vermont. She...

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“Home.” by Luna Lionheart

Submitted to Contest #69

My family. A strange bunch they were. They all had the personality of the colour beige though they did have their small colourful times but they were only seen about once a year. I was lucky to experience it twice if they felt generous. But they spent most of their time being selfish and mean. I never found a liking to anything they did, they always irritated me in the slightest way possible. And no I'm not going to blame it on my short temper because they knew how short tempered I was and did everything they could to aggravate me. And succe...

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“Forgiveness” by Chris Culpepper

Submitted to Contest #69

I never really got along with my family as a child. I guess that's true of most kids, but my situation was different. My family didn't understand. They said I had delusions of grandeur from an incredibly early age. I was one of the youngest of an exceptionally large family. I had 11 brothers and at least one sister. She later got into some trouble, but that's a story for another time. No doubt, one of the reasons I had trouble at home was because my father had two wives and a couple of concubines. Yes, it was a different time...I have many...

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“Ccoming Home” by Valerie Preston

Submitted to Contest #69

Coming Home When I was growing up I didn’t think I liked my family. I know it would surprise a lot of people to hear that said, not because you have to like your family, because if they knew my parents, they would understand, but rather from the point of someone saying it aloud. There were only three of us, my parents and myself. I was in a constant state of embarrassment. I suppose that from birth to when I was able to understand what was going on, it didn’t matter. I can’t even remember those years. I might have even enjoyed my childhood t...

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