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.

codename

Anonymous's picture

The Truth/Peach

i. I don't love you too. I'm sorry I told you I did. Maybe the most attractive thing about you is only your similiar love for girls.

ii. Your face is pretty but your voice is too little. I wish you wouldn't giggle so much. We may be almost the exact same age, but I feel much too older than you. Your legs are prickly and your lips feel alien. Too different.

iii. I don't actually like the smell of patchouli, not on humans. I like girls to smell like girls.

iv. I'm not physically attracted to you, but that's not the only reason. I was tired of your boredom and your ego. You did ignore me too many times. You had two chances to make my birthday special, but both times you did nothing. In four weeks, you wrote me two letters. We're too distant. I'm pretty sure sex means more than that. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this when you asked me, but I couldn't figure out the right words to say. And I still love you.

Syndicate content

Sponsors

    We are grateful to the Vermont Business Roundtable and its members -- business and educational leaders throughout the state -- for their generous support of this project. These leaders recognize the value of what we do and the importance of writing in life. For more, see: VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE & members
    We also depend on the generosity of individuals. Please DONATE NOW to continue our work. We are a 501(c)3 federal charity and so all donations are tax-deductible.