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.

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pepper_tree's picture

She was tired of sitting
And simply feeling
Worthless
So she ran
She ran until
She thought
Her shins would shatter
And her stomach
Would rip
And her body
Would collapse
Because
Nothing
Simply isn't
Good enough.

NeonKiwi's picture

Hrm...

Submitted by NeonKiwi on June 30, 2008 - 21:35.

...
*almost question mark*
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You can hold on to fire until you reach the point you realize it's impossible.

pepper_tree's picture

?

Submitted by pepper_tree on June 30, 2008 - 21:38.

Darn.
I'm confused again...

NeonKiwi's picture

I just

Submitted by NeonKiwi on June 30, 2008 - 21:40.

am not quite sure what to make of this, is all.
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You can hold on to fire until you reach the point you realize it's impossible.

pepper_tree's picture

Oh,

Submitted by pepper_tree on June 30, 2008 - 21:41.

Okay.

pepper_tree's picture

Suggestions?

Submitted by pepper_tree on June 30, 2008 - 21:36.

I know this is really rough and weird, anybody know how to help it?

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