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.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • 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.

cluttered

her eyes are weapons, deep and
sharp and blue. and not
just blue like the sky, but
like those turquoise waters in
the keys, the
ones that leave you
forever seeing in a
tinted shade. or "dark blue,
dark blue," with andrew mcmahon pictures
on her walls and
11:11 am in her thoughts. don't
understand? not important.
she understands you.
half-thinking en español,
ella necesita un bolígrafo, she has
to write it down or
she'll forget it and
you will too. her mother
told her to
clean her room and
her mind or
it won't get
any better.
ella desee para nada, porque
nadie comprende.

NonSequitur's picture

The arrangement of the lines

Submitted by NonSequitur on June 3, 2008 - 17:56.

The arrangement of the lines makes it all the better
:)

"I think you can let go of my arm now." -M
"And your waist?" -C
"If you don't mind." -M
* * *
Sorry, that was taken WAAY out of context. It's from a short story I like.

Thank you!

Submitted by Katy on June 3, 2008 - 18:15.

Thank you!

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