Due this week

5. Haunted. Have you ever been in a house where things go bump in the night? Do you believe that some buildings or places are haunted? Is there one in your town? Tell us a story about it. Make it believable.
Alternate: Lockers. What one thing do you wish no one to know about in your locker? Or what is the most important thing in your locker? Deadline: Friday Oct. 17.

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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.

Week 24: Nightmare -- McDonald

Submitted by ggevalt on April 11, 2007 - 11:40.


Nightmares (Entries due April 18)

Photo and words by Michael McDonald
Mount Mansfield Union High School, Grade 12

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.

guess who!

Submitted by jhasenfus on April 11, 2007 - 14:13.

hey mike! i love your description, and the picture is amazing. Everyone can relate to your comparison between dreams and nightmares. I feel like I need another sentence though at the end...not sure what. It's great though!

Jacie

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