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  • Official Polls Re: How'd you discover YWS?

    My teacher recommended I join an online writing site, since I was always writing but so shy about letting people see my work. I went home and Googled 'young writers', ...

    May 4, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Happy Birthday, Teenager

    Hahahahahahahahahaha... That is all.

    Apr 30, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Masterpiece

    Okay. Because you kissed my ass so nicely, I'll review this. :) But it's going to be tough love. Also, I'm going to assume you gave me permission to rip ...

    Apr 22, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: absolution

    I'm a terrible editor. This has been gathering dust for three months and I'm still not sure what to do with it. All yours, yws. deep in the dark she ...

    Apr 16, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: M-I-M

    Damnit. I thought if this was terrible I'd have an excuse to keep being lazy. No more excuses... (P.S. Who decided villanelles are male, anyway? Or that they, you know, ...

    Apr 12, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: My Aborted Child

    You seemed to have skipped developing a realistic story and strong characters, and gone straight to preaching to us instead. It's obvious the whole purpose of this story was to ...

    Apr 10, 2011
  • Historical Fiction Short Stories Re: Telephone Line

    This was short and sweet and uncomplicated-I loved it. I wasn't sure what era it was set in-sometime in the first half of the last century? But that doesn't matter ...

    Apr 5, 2011
  • Official Polls Re: What makes you pick up a book?

    Oh, wow. Um. A mixture. Usually I just randomly find books, like if I'm in a bookstore or the library and I happen to pick one up, I'll have a ...

    Mar 31, 2011
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Character Description

    (I said 'Emmanuel Sand, who could he be?' out loud and my mum just invented a plot for me. So, this is a joint effort from me and my mummy, ...

    Mar 14, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Mary-Sue: A life

    Haha. I thought this was a really crappy story until I realised it was satire. I'd never heard of those terms before, (luckily TvTropes never disappoints) but still found this ...

    Feb 27, 2011
  • Official Polls Re: What do you like writing most?

    I'm not surprised that 'Novel' is winning-it was my vote too-even though I've been writing a lot of short stories lately.

    Feb 15, 2011
  • Fantasy Novels Re: A Journey - Part 1: Memory ~~(Chapter 3)~~

    This was a good start to a story-I haven't looked at Chapters Two and One yet. I liked the descriptions of the land and the people, and the way the ...

    Jan 30, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: you say

    You say I live inside An icy shell That you’re sick of trying to crack. You say I push people away Because I don’t want to seem Human. You say ...

    Jan 16, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: guilt

    The acid of your treacherous thoughts drips down your spine soaks into your stomach churns your last meal sends it surging up your throat. Solidifies into iron bands around your ...

    Jan 15, 2011
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: Break

    (Sorry if this review sounds like I'm telling you what to write... That's just how I review, I think about how I would write the story and go from there. ...

    Jan 7, 2011


The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening