Hi there! I moved this question to the Questions and Answers subforum.
Short answer: you can't delete literary works as it messes up the database.
However, you can edit out all the text and re-title it something like "Removed". You can also unpublish the work using the "Unpublish" button in the editing window. This makes it visible to you but no one else. (You can later republish the work if you wish).
Hope that helps and welcome to YWS!
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci
