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."
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Week 24: Nightmare -- Mcdonald

Submitted by ggevalt on April 11, 2007 - 11:37.
Week 24: Nightmare -- Mcdonald

Photo and words by Michael McDonald
Mount Mansfield Union High School

A nightmare is something you’d hope you’ll wake up from, that you see every color in opposite or something in scary forms. It’s the kind of thing that people run from, and avoid seeing. It’s the real world taken out of your hands and put into the worst possible thing you can imagine. Dreams are to be good but a nightmare is the polar opposite — a nightmare makes you hope that no matter how deep of a sleep you’re in you’ll wake up and everything will be OK.

UPCOMING: McDonald, a senior at Mount Mansfield, took this photograph and wrote this piece in response to the prompt “nightmares.” More student work from this prompt will appear on an upcoming Young Writers Project page and on this Web site. Deadline for submissions to this prompt is April 18.

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