Modeled after Brady Dennis’ original 300 word series, this series captures people and moments in 300 words: no more, no less

The first year in St. Louis was awful.

The second lonely.

And the third, dull.

St. Louis was where junior Sierra Stanton lived, but it was never really home.  However, on an early June morning, she was finally preparing to return to life as she once knew it.

Her clothes were packed.  The desk in her room was taken apart and ready to load into the mini-van.  She took one last look at her St. Louis room before turning her back for good.  She couldn’t believe it was actually happening’”she finally convinced her mom and grandma to let her move back to Kansas City with her dad.

She had missed him, her best friend.  She missed attending his band’s gigs and listening to old records with him.  For the first time in three years, Sierra and her dad wouldn’t have to limit their relationship to two phone calls a day; instead, they could now eat dinner together and talk face-to-face every evening.

Of course, leaving her mom in her St. Louis apartment alone would be difficult.  After a tearful embrace and promises to call every day, she shut the van door and headed out.

As she sits on her bed, she scans the bedroom she has always dreamt about returning to: the one with the purple walls, the bookshelf with a countless number of her favorite books and the two dressers to store her clothes.  Her boxer, Delilah, pants beside her as she completes her homework, and thinks to herself how lucky she is to have her life back.

Although she misses her mom and grandma, she would never choose to live go back and live in St. Louis again.  Sierra is perfectly content with her life in Midtown.

Because, like they say, there’s no place like home.