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.

Ode to my Cat

Submitted by J. Harrington on March 27, 2008 - 10:18.

Ode to my Cat

By Jason Paul Harrington
Lyme Elementary School, Grade 7

I see you walking
Majestically like a lion
Your coat
Shining as black as night
Your underside
As white as snow
Your fur
Short
Soft and fluffy
I see you jump
And attack
As dust flies by
I hear you meowing
Asking for love and affection
And receiving just that.

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