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.

Come On, Come On

NeonKiwi's picture

Supply me with the properties
Of every single war
Or give me a loaded shotgun;
I'll never ask for more
Donate all your apathy
To angels of the dead
And blow this fucking bullet
Through my fucking head

Poet_Jessica's picture

whoa. the end through me WAY

Submitted by Poet_Jessica on July 17, 2008 - 20:18.

whoa. the end through me WAY off balance. anything you'd like to talk about?
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Last night in my bed, I stared up at the stars in the sky and thought, "WHERE THE HELL IS THE CEILING?!"

hahaa i love that quote...

NeonKiwi's picture

Hrm.

Submitted by NeonKiwi on July 17, 2008 - 20:25.

Why does everyone keep asking me this?
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"Perfection doesn't exist, in my mind. Only greatness does." ~Geist

Geist's picture

Because we respect and

Submitted by Geist on July 18, 2008 - 06:44.

Because we respect and admire you as a writer and early termination thereof would leave a sense that we could've done something to assist in the prevention of said event.

Speaking generally.

NeonKiwi's picture

Oh...

Submitted by NeonKiwi on July 18, 2008 - 13:07.

Thanks, Geist. That makes me feel a bit better.
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"Perfection doesn't exist, in my mind. Only greatness does." ~Geist

Poet_Jessica's picture

very well put,

Submitted by Poet_Jessica on July 18, 2008 - 15:12.

very well put, Geist.
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Last night in my bed, I stared up at the stars in the sky and thought, "WHERE THE HELL IS THE CEILING?!"

hahaa i love that quote...

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Submitted by AutumnEastman on July 17, 2008 - 21:10.

I love the rhyms and all i just think i have a hard time understanding what its about.

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