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  • beta physics

    i. the rain wrapped impatience around your roof, bored through the wood like a thousand million termites (or one you-sized termite, blind, breathless) and seeped from the cold clockwork like ...

    • Poetry
    2 min read
  • my fingers, buried in the frost

    my fright - lost in the tide, floating on its back, tracing the sea into its belly, (i swore i could see the waves massage her where they met ...

    • Poetry
    • Romantic
    1 min read
  • the kudzu review

    the a.c raps against the back of my neck with a rattling cough there is a coin ricocheting through its lungs. mosquitos cling to the ceiling lights like treehuggers fearful ...

    • Poetry
    • Narrative
    2 min read
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    • Poetry
    • Narrative
    1 min read


Way, way back in the 1988 Presidential election, then Vice President George H W Bush had a phrase he liked to use: "A Thousand Points of Light." It refers to the idea that a community is made up of people who contribute in a thousand, different small ways, but with each helping to illuminate their community. It's a phrase I think about a lot when it comes to YWS. Looking forward, the site will continue to change and grow, but it will always remain a community dedicated to promoting creative writing as a favorite pastime.
— Nate