Run Away

Many people especially teenagers run away from home. As a runaway myself, I understand why they ran away from home or from wherever they lived. I understand where they're coming from.

This is my first contest. And so for this contest, I want stories about a teenager between the ages of 13-17 who run away from home. I want you to describe why they ran away and what will happen to them once they ran away. Did someone in their family cause them to run away? How long will they be a runaway for? What are the challenges and struggles that they will have to encounter?

I'll let you decide the reason why. After all, it is your story. Don't be afraid to be as creative as possible. I want you to be very creative with this. Write your best. I won't be judging on how you spell or format it but please don't use sticky caps.

Any genre is allowed. You can write this any way you please. It can be written in first or third person or even written down in the main character's diary or whatever. It doesn't have to be fictional. If you wanted to, you can write about a person experience if you ever ran away from home.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me. I'll kindly answer any questions for you. I don't bite at all.

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on September 26, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 100
  • Final notes:
    Contest judged by moderator

Contest Winners

  1. Kaylie was 14 going on 21. She thought she knew it all but she was no different from all of her friends. They all wanted to grow up before
    by Melancholic Smile 2900 words, 3 comments, on Aug 28 1:11 PM 2008. In Drugs, Fiction, Running away, Teen, Teen pregnancy
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  • by no-way-ap 400 words, on Jun 17 12:14 PM 2008. In Fiction, Love, Other, Young adult
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  • I was a "young" 13 at the time. It was Saturday morning, Summer of '66, Phoenix AZ. All four of us kids had quietly gotten up, made ourselves some cereal and was watching Saturday morning cartoons when our mother got up scr
    by PixieCrimsonPanther 1100 words, 1 comment, on Jun 28 10:28 PM 2008
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  • 15 year old child Zak runs away from his parents.
    by EZlats 800 words, 3 comments, on Jun 28 11:14 PM 2008
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  • I sat in my living room, sipping boiling hot coffee. Straight black, just the way Blade likes it. He sat across from me, studying both his surroundings and me with steel blue eyes, finally realizing he was in no danger he rel
    by Surfingfarmhand 600 words, 5 comments, on Jan 20 9:16 PM 2008
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  • A brief story about how I met my husband for the first time (in person) and how we got married. Enjoy.
    by Ghost of a Siren 1900 words, 27 comments, on May 30 3:30 AM 2008. In Contest, Personal, Romance
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  • by Fearlessfox 400 words, 2 comments, on Jun 29 10:01 AM 2008. In , Humor, Young adult
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  • by Myra La-Ryn 1600 words, 6 comments, on Jun 13 6:25 PM 2008. In Fantasy, Fiction
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  • Aly shivered in my arms. I hurried along the wet road avoiding what puddles that I could. The rain had begun less than half an hour ago yet
    by Writing0Freedom 3200 words, 1 comment, on Jun 30 11:17 PM 2008
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  • 1 / CYBERNETIC DREAMS2 / FADE IN:3 / EXT. BUS STATION IN MASS. - EARLY MORNING4 / ADAM sat alone on a ben
    by Oleander 10100 words, 2 comments, on Jul 4 12:39 AM 2008
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  • "well feel free to fall, Let's see how far you get without me." 1 / All micca ever wanted was to do was get away.2 / It's all she thought about. All she could ever t
    by hannah37 800 words, on May 1 10:07 PM 2008
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  • My name is Ben Taylor. To put it to simple terms: I hate my life and everyone in it. But, it can be confusing, so all I can do is start f
    by Fixing Benjamin 1200 words, 6 comments, on Aug 27 7:40 PM 2008. In First person, Novel, Teen
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  • Cody paused after he had run for a mile or so. He was so afraid that his Dad would come after him. He had jumped fences and barely missed being hit by cars. All to get away from that man.1
    by lmcrubberduckie 600 words, 3 comments, on Aug 31 8:57 AM 2008. In Fanfiction, Fantasy, Science fiction, X-men
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  • God, if there was ever such a thing, never intended Man to take so much power that he destroyed the people around him. She didn’t believe i
    by The Black Iris 700 words, 1 comment, on Aug 28 11:01 AM 2008. In Contest, Fiction
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  • Read a story of love mystery and imagination
    by JordanBurnes 2600 words, 10 comments, on May 15 2:11 PM 2008
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  • Tiger-Lily gold member
    June 28, 2008
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    "I won't be judging on how good you write " O.O Is there a criteria you will be judging by then? O.o I'd like to enter, but that was a bit of an odd statement there. xD


  • Ghost of a Siren
    June 29, 2008
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    I ran away when I was 18, but I guess that was too old to count? lol.

    • Primal Scream
      June 29, 2008
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      You can enter it anyway. I'm not too strict about rules or anything. I don't even think it was one either. lol

      I ran away when I was 15. For 4 months.


  • miles of smiles
    June 30, 2008
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    Cool contest.

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