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I've always really liked the story. We make a big deal out of it at my high school because Shirley Jackson went there. Every year the library puts up a ...

In reply I think I'll just show you on the poem. Obviously what I've cropped may not always be cropped cleanly, but I think you get the idea: all you ...

I totally just remembered this! In my dream, I logged on to YWS and everbody's name had changed first I saw that my own name was a sort of dark ...

Mmm, this is yummy. I'm listening to the Leonard Cohen album "Songs From A Room" right now and your poem complements it. Have you ever read or listened to Leonard ...

Every form of government works in theory because the theorists get to choose the way their fictional people function. I'm against communism on a moral basis because I think the ...

Sheesh, Heather, you scared me...I saw "Goodbye" and I was like, "WHAT? IS SHE LEAVING US FOREVER AND EVER?" Have fun on your trip!

This sort of "message" poem belongs in a chain email or animal shelter advertisement, not here. It doesn't strike me as a serious piece in any way. So. Spay/neuter the ...

Trust me, we all suffer from the same thing. Now, I'm not really one to talk because I hardly ever write prose as a result of my complete lack of ...

It seems to be more of a fragmenty summary of an event than anything else. What do you want the poem to say, other than "here is my description of ...

The first and second aren't that impressive, but I LOVE the third. It seems that you took the second and did a bunch of adjustments? They look cool and still ...

Kelsi, it's not really a matter of what parents should be but what some of them are. But I don't think her parents did it. The media can pretty much ...

I'm working on my nominations. We might want to advertise that it's 2007 only...I saw at least one person post a nomination for a 2008 piece... This kind of makes ...

The characters in the book are just a result of Golding's own perspectives and from the time he lived in. The book was supposed to be about society and about ...

Thanks for the comments, guys! (In case anyone doesn't know who Mathew Brady is...he was a Civil War photographer. Obviously the Civil War was the first conflict in American history ...

I agree with Snoink--it seems to be too much stuffed into one poem. But the poem as a whole has big problems because it's all show and no tell. It's ...