Incandescence

Discuss.

Sureal and Lama, Pointing out hypocrisy does not deflate an argument. The ideological position "Pastor Ted" built his career on is no less faulty because he could not follow it--indeed, ...

I got the idea for Balloons in Winter most totally from my own experiences. If I get inspired by external sources, which I have no experience with, I can't maintain ...

in_too_deep, The best thing about this is its length. If it were shortened by an additional eleven lines, it would be even better. Frankly, this is junk, and every line ...

green_river, As a poem, it's a placeholder. The reader is confused by the title and led on a trail of description that provides little insight into the scene before finding ...

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is ...

MO=Missouri. I am the dot clobbering Areida's dot.

prio-- Welcome to the YWS. We are more than happy to review pieces you post. Keep in mind that there are two major guidelines you should use when making posts: ...

Elizabeth, Your barf bags are much appreciated. For the soppiness, you could probably get this published by some blundering teen magazine. If that's your aim, you're through here. However, if ...

hellstrife-- The most unusual part of the site is actually the YWS Writing Blog, Squills, which randomly has tremendous in- and out-flux of use. It's sort of like girls going ...

London Aspen, Being nine years old, I give you my highest accolade. This is far more lucid than most of the work posted here by much older and more experienced ...

jlu_262, This is a list of vignettes, none of them particularly striking, and it's diminished by gimmicks like strings of rapid-syllable words. You could have stopped this at "and I ...

Sara, Re: "I know this needs a lot of help, whatever." For me, this was a garden variety rant dressed up with meaningless imagery--beauty is only skin-deep. Unfortunately, the last ...

Lama, Since when? In all of history, news has been a powerful agent of government. It's only in America that news stations have (largely) been given free-reign. I don't think ...

Lama, The question beckons to be asked and answered: why is being unbiased so desirable? Besides the completely mind-numbing discussion of whether one news station is less biased than another, ...