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.

(True Story)

NeonKiwi's picture
Submitted by NeonKiwi on July 13, 2008 - 21:19.

My little brother almost caught himself on fire in Big Lots today.

offreadin's picture

Hmm...

Submitted by offreadin on July 13, 2008 - 21:27.

Okay, that's no fair. This is just a little teaser. You MUST expand it and tell the whole story. Pretty please with sugar on top, strawberries in the middle and, and, and, and hot fudge somewhere else.
There has got to be a good story in this.

NeonKiwi's picture

Well, really,

Submitted by NeonKiwi on July 15, 2008 - 16:41.

He just picked up a flyswatter/grill lighter combo thingy and pressed the button with the end where the fire comes out facing him. Luckily, it wasn't switched on. He just didn't know it was, you know, a lighter.
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offreadin's picture

Hmm...

Submitted by offreadin on July 16, 2008 - 11:15.

That's a problem.

NeonKiwi's picture

Yes.

Submitted by NeonKiwi on July 17, 2008 - 16:13.

Indeed.
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