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Horn is blown; To arms

Submitted to Contest #61

Horn is blown; To arms A nervous face, tension filled black eyes and lips bitten and chewed with a pondering grimace is what meets me when I looked at the wardrobe mirror. A face that is not particularly remarkable in any manner, not ugly just not something which warrants a second glance, height on the shorter side around 5 feet 3 inches with thick black hair a little more than shoulder length pulled back in a ponytail. With clothes I had pulled out of the closet all around me I stood there in the middle of the room staring at the mirror. Th...

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Maturity

Submitted to Contest #61

"I don't know how to explain my days recently. It's like there's something lacking and I don't know what it is. Should I write or not?" These were questions that only I could answer.My classmate called me to let me know that we would be having a high school reunion. I was not excited and interested in it because I didn't want to recall those memories where my classmates kept bullying me about everything, but I had my second thoughts whether I would go or not. I never enjoyed my high school days because of them. I was a lo...

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Class of '94

Submitted to Contest #61

I can’t believe it has been twenty years since I finished high school! Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday and sometimes it feels like it was an eternity ago. It’s hard to explain. I miss those days and sometime, I don’t. I remember my last day of high school was on June 23rd, 1994. My last final exam was economics. When I was done, I was extremely relieved. It was around 11 AM and I had submitted my paper to the teacher in charge. Five years of secondary school. It seems to have been five long years back then. Today, fives years seems ...

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LOVE YOU MORE

Submitted to Contest #61

LOVE YOU MORE By Mar Camen On the first school day of September, in the year 1994, a short woman walks into a Canadian College. She has long dark hair and although her expression shows eagerness to learn, her wrinkles could not let her lie about her age. She is in her early forties. She is an immigrant to Canada. She left her country due to the increase violence that reigns in Mexico. Her name suits her physical appearance, Maria Lopez. She walks to her classroom. The path is wet, the grass is wet from last night rain, but it is a sunny d...

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Round Two

Submitted to Contest #61

*Warning Sensitive Topics*I lay silent, keeping my eyes shut, where have I ended up? Will I open my eyes and find myself kneeling in front of God himself? Or will Satan be laughing as I descend into the depths of Hell? Beeping noises fill my ears, and I match my breathing to the steady rise and fall of the sounds. I wait a moment longer before peaking from the curtains of my eyelids. Well, Hell is either really plain, or Heaven is super overhyped on Earth.Suddenly a glass door on the far side of the cream-colored room slides open, and a tall...

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Garden of Ink

Submitted to Contest #61

Tinsley Everdale only liked things halfway there or halfway done.  That’s why when she was seated at the tattoo parlor, fake ID propped between her thumb and pointer finger, she told the man with green pictures beside his eyes to stop inking.  It was how it appeared in her dream, succulents bent at odd angles with various types of greenery in the background. Half a garden, just like she wanted.  She couldn’t remember exactly, but she thought it was her aunt who exclaimed, “You’ve become a piece of art!” when seeing her fore...

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Jeff’s Crash

Submitted to Contest #61

Honey, you got some mail,” called Jeff’s wife Lisa from the kitchen. “Let’s see what we got today,” Jeff began. “Bill, bill...bill. Nothing.” Lisa stopped Jeff as he went to walk away, “Wait Honey there’s something else.” “Oh yeah my Golf Digest. Good looking out Lis,” said Jeff. “No, Jeff, you have an invitation,” said Lisa. “It’s to your twentieth high school reunion. You missed your tenth and your fifteenth don’t you think you should at least try to make it to this one?” Jeff thought then said,...

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HAGS

Submitted to Contest #61

Facebook was useful; it showed me exactly what I did not want to know. I followed everyone from my past, but only to avoid truly actually interacting with them. Mentally I knew that the reunion was coming up. Doing the math was easy, For I knew how long ago I graduated high school. That by no means meant that I was excited. I was not one of those that dreamed of reliving the glory days, if any one peaked in high school they had failed at life. How sad would it be to hit your best at eighteen. You are giving up on life before it fully begins...

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L'Internazionale

Submitted to Contest #61

On a Sunday evening in November in 2021, signs were put up by two tired men and a woman in blue overalls outside the gates of Granite High School in a town somewhere east of Seattle and west of New York. The two men and the woman who set up the signs crossed the parking lot and opened the front door of the school. In the entrance, which adjoined the cafeteria and was divided only by a glass wall with the office of the principal, there was a hand trolley with two kegs. They moved the kegs into the cafeteria, which was decorated with a number ...

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The Reunion

Submitted to Contest #61

The last few years had not been kind for Tyler James. His near perfect life had come tumbling down when he told his father he was gay and he had been thrown out of the house. He had lived with a few boyfriends but these relationships had never worked out. All his belongings had been sold to make money for food and accommodation. Parting with his beloved guitar had been one of the hardest decisions he had ever made but survival came first. He was now living in his car and only managed to afford doing this as a friendly woman called Angel deli...

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A Changed Woman

Submitted to Contest #61

I stepped out of the taxi and onto the pavement. My legs were shaking, but I knew that I had to do this. I had to face them all. I straightened myself up and took a deep breath. As I walked up to the door I could feel my confidence wavering, but I could hear my mum’s words still echoing in my ears. “You have to go Jess. You must show them that you have changed. You need them to know the adult that you have turned into, despite everything that happened” I knew that she was right. From the moment I had received the email about the school r...

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Is This Really you Joe?

Submitted to Contest #61

Joe prescribed to his own theory that all class reunions were bullshit.  They stood as a testament to social discourse while advertising as a social event.  All lies.I mean, who in hell would want to meet up with people you barely knew during high school or college?  Who? I’ll tell you who. Those kids you knew who grew up to be successful and want to shove their success down your throat.  So no, Joe!  You are not going to your high school reunion.Joe went to tear up his invitation but stopped...

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Fat to Fame

Submitted to Contest #61

My schedule is so busy, that I’m unsure if I’ll be able to make it to my ten-year high school reunion! I get a call from an old buddy that I have kept in touch with over the years and smile, “Hey Jarome! What’s up?” I walk out of the photo shoot, grabbing my jacket, and planner. “Hey Bella! How are you doing beautiful?” I giggle softly, rolling my eyes. “I’m fine, what’s up? It’s been a while.” There is a long pause. “Bella, tell me you're going to the reunion.” I look at my planner, “what day was it again?” I hear him sigh loudly. “Next Sat...

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Girl like me

Submitted to Contest #61

I woke up to my phone ringing like it's going to blast , I picked it up and I heard her yelling "Day after tomorrow we have a school reunion and you are coming ". I said "but.... " "No buts and if 's you are coming and that's final" and she hung up. Commanding right, but I love her. She's my bestie Maya, the only good memory from my high school. By the way I am Samantha, a strong, beautiful, independent young woman. But was I always like this? No! Well I definitely don't want to go to the reunion but Maya is stubborn and is insisting me to g...

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Joshua Jackson an Alumni who purposefully avoids their high School Reunion.

Submitted to Contest #61

This story tells of Joshua Jackson an Alumni who purposefully avoids their high school reunion.High School Reunion is a meeting of former classmates often organized at or near their school.Joshua Jackson purposefully avoids his high school reunion at Lincoln Community School due to the following reasons . Among them includesJoshua Jackson commented that he was too far from the school so he could not possibly attend high school reunion, the neatness and proximity to the school was another factor.Again Joshua Jackson commented that high school...

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