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.

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  • 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.

Silent

Usagi's picture
Submitted by Usagi on May 5, 2008 - 16:57.

"Why isn't she talking?"
"Day of Silence thing."
"I was gonna do that, but--"
I have a presentation today,
I need to talk to the nurse,
I have a tennis game,
I have friends, I have a life,
I don't want my day to be
interrupted by some
not-speaking vow
that doesn't pertain to me anyway--
"--I just didn't."

Silence
makes it easier
to listen.
I can hear what's really being said.

Fuck you, I think.

(Maybe it's a good thing
I'm can't talk.)

mixedmusic333's picture

I know what you mean,

Submitted by mixedmusic333 on May 5, 2008 - 18:14.

I know what you
mean, but,
you've just got to
believe the best
in people... it
makes it easier to
ignore them.

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