Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

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  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

Carolyn

emnoodlehead's picture

I don't know how to write about this quite yet,
I don't know how much guilt I've added within the past few days
Where you have been gone and how much existed before:
Not visiting you when I should have
Not calling you on your birthday
Taking our dinner dates for granted.

I went to your apartment a week ago
To bring you a sunflower (they were her favorite, but I know you already knew that, best friends have to).
You weren't home, out to lunch by yourself again.
I walked away without much worry

I wish I had stuck around.

You loved me without question,
And I to you.

I've already lost most of my family in these past
14 years but I guess He wanted one more.

Now you are higher than this pen or keyboard shall ever go.
Please tell my grandparents about how sometimes
I'm still the little child they said goodbye to years ago
And remember how even though our veins ran differently
You were more of a grandmother to me than
She was around long enough to be.

Thank you for loving me and teaching me
And most of all,
Thank you for helping me remember them.

mixedmusic333's picture

This is beautiful, Em. And I

Submitted by mixedmusic333 on June 1, 2008 - 21:17.

This is beautiful,
Em.
And I really
am sorry.

emnoodlehead's picture

Thank you MM.

Submitted by emnoodlehead on June 1, 2008 - 21:20.

Thank you MM.

leabee's picture

This makes me sad. I'm

Submitted by leabee on June 1, 2008 - 21:20.

This makes me sad.
I'm sorry.
This is really well written.

Poet_Jessica's picture

this is very deep. it made

Submitted by Poet_Jessica on June 1, 2008 - 21:23.

this is very deep. it made me think when i read it. i couldnt help but think when i read it.
i am so sorry.
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Edward: "and so the lion fell in love with the lamb.."
Bella: "what a stupid lamb"
Edward: "what a sick, masochistic lion.."
Quoted from Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

misilover's picture

I love the sincerity and

Submitted by misilover on June 2, 2008 - 09:15.

I love the sincerity and truth in this.
And I'm sorry about...I don't know....this happening?

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