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  • Archive Re: Lord of the Flies

    {Ivan} Ivan crouched underneath a palm tree and looked out onto the ocean, watching the waves glisten with crystalline irridescence. The sun was setting. The sea roared. And Ivan felt ...

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: Vigilante

    Hunter - As you said, Saint, he definitely wouldn't be holding the gun around the barrel. How embarrassing! I totally meant butt/stock. Typing one thing, thinking another... As for my ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: Capital Punishment

    Hunter: I will readily admit that I don't know as much as you concerning guns. But I was just working off of the above article and the fact that there ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: What Is Your Favorite Non-YWS Literary Site?

    I'm just curious... I took a look at and it looks like a good place to get some more critiques, as well as a wider reading audience. But do think ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: Capital Punishment

    Well, she specifically told us the the gun was a Magnum. So... it wouldn't have a silver finish. In regards to Paige loading the gun: that could be the case ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: Capital Punishment

    This was a nice start. At least it was refreshing. The stuff that winds up in the action/adventure forum is generally fantasy outcast pieces and poorly written teenager driven prose. ...

    Dec 6, 2007
  • Archive Re: Lord of the Flies

    Ivan watched the other children carefully, studying their faces, watching their mouths move frantically, and their arms flail up and down. They gestured. They pointed. They cried. Sobbing in the ...

    Dec 6, 2007
  • Archive Re: Lord of the Flies

    Name: Ivan Panasenko Age: 16 Specialities: Leading, fighting, exploiting Appearance: Ivan is a short, pale teenager with deeply inset eyes that are brown to the point of being black. His ...

    Dec 6, 2007
  • Welcome Mat Re: I have some questions

    To my knowledge, nothing has ever been plagiarized from the hallowed halls of YWS. And, really, unless you've written something incredibly brilliant (unlikely even for the best of us) nothing ...

    Dec 6, 2007
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Open Up [edit]

    Ah, Sade...the original sadist. I find it somewhat disturbing that you wrote about this guy, at least from a speculative point of view. I'm also kinda jealous. Why didn't I ...

    Dec 5, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Pink Jasmine Blossoms

    Pink Jasmine blossoms fall pirouetting with the utmost grace – like a rigidly trained Russian coryphée, whose toes bleed after every performance: the gun shot wounds of dedication and carte ...

    Dec 4, 2007
  • Science-Fiction Novels Re: Chapter One of Duty Calls Part Two

    Well, I have to say I enjoyed the first portion of this chapter more than this one, but as always, very adeptly written. However, here you have some lag time. ...

    Dec 3, 2007
  • Other Re: yeah, yeah. go me

    I will not read or critique any of your work because you disobeyed a critical rule here at YWS: you flooded a forum with numerous pieces of your work within ...

    Dec 3, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: The Official Goodbye/Departure Thread

    Well, my parents have found my achilles heel... They've decided to take YWS away from me for an undefined period of time. Apparently they feel I spend too much time ...

    Dec 3, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Character Answer Game [2]

    Birds? Jeez, I don't know. I think I associate birds with being free. Like being out of this prison cell hell, for instance. - Booker Lee Doves. Peace. Love. Chocolate. ...

    Dec 1, 2007


/I think, today,/ he thought back, /the important fact is that I don't/ need /to be better than him. He can just be a person. And I... I can just be one too./
— Adolin (Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson)