English Short Story

Charlie woke up on one morning from a rough sleep, feeling like he did last night, not knowing where he fitted in the world. Everything was changing around him, the technology was getting more advanced, the music had more meaning and fashion started to kick in. It was a dark and cloudy Monday morning in Sydney and Charlie was getting ready for school, when he sat down on the edge of his single bed with his covers untucked and half on the bed and half on the fall, Charlie started putting on his school socks. He was still pondering the question that kept him up last night “where do I fit in this world?”. Charlie thought to himself “is anyone asking them-self the same Question, should I know where I fit in?. After pondering this for ten minutes, Charlie had to leave for school. While in the can on his long trip to school, his mother was listing to the radio, she turned the music up. Charlie sat listing to the song with him head on the window of the car and looking out at the house’s, kids walking and talking to their friends and other cars passing them, when he started thinking about the lyrics to this one song, once again he thought to himself “do I fit in ?, should I be a part of this generation ?”. He knew when the song stopped that he had to start finding where he fitting in the generation of the 60’s

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A few moths had passed and Charlie still didn’t feel like he fitted with the this society. While he was trying to find out where he stood in society, society was changing from the clashes between communism and capitalism dominated the decade to the society of hippies, parties and dugs. In the 1960’s there was a dramatic change in the Australian society, there ...

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... out the door and heading for the party.

Later in the night at the party Charlie had been drinking and we was having the time of his life with all the teenagers at the street party. Charlie was drunk at midnight and had kissed all his friends and some people that he didn’t even know at the party. Not long after having his twelfth drink he found himself in the back to a strangers car, they were both smashed, never seen each other ever in there and they were both naked.

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Ohh kids you don’t need to know what happens next. I sat you down to tell you about this because I don’t want you having the same mistakes as I did. “ like that even happen Dad stop telling us stories about when you were young, everything has change it’s not the 60’s anymore” said Emma and Nicklaus, Charlies two teenage kids.