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.

Race

greenie's picture

Off they go again,
a fanatic race to see who
can get around to all
the stops
first.

First stop:
gas station,
kiss-kiss,
subtle hints, careful now,
not too close,
away again,
faster, hurry-hurry.

Second stop:
tire change,
hours together
keep the dance,
quicker now,
rush-rush.

Whir, whish,
zip, vroom,
zoom.

Casualties
stay behind,
broken rims,
as broken hearts,
broken minds...
in this race,
casualties
stay behind.

Whir, whish,
zip, vroom,

zoom.

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