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.

Maybe

Anonymous's picture

i.
We're not really flirting,
I said (whispered),
and you
agreed,
either missing or
ignoring
my sarcasm.

ii.
I wanted to
teach you
what a good kiss
feels like.
Your lips looked like
petals lifted
from a lupine stalk;

your skin felt like
comfort,
warm,
heavy,
different.

iii.
You were right when you said
that love is
too easily confused
with other
emotions.

iv.
So
maybe I'm just
lying.

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