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.

Mistake

Submitted by ledouxl01 on December 5, 2007 - 13:09.

Mistake

By Lauren Ledoux
Lebanon High School, Grade 12

Mistake
I didn't mean to,
it was by accident.
I said it, and then...
I felt horrible.
The look on her face was unprecedented.
I wish I could take it back,
but I can't.
The words are gone forever...
Lost inside her heart.
The tears streaming down her face;
pain, the pain I feel for her.
Why was I so stupid??
I thought it was what I wanted to say;
I never meant to hurt her.
She's my Mom, my comfort, my everything
and hate is a strong word...
Mistake

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