LadySpark

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@Lauren2010 wonderful advice! One of the magazines I'' submitting to actually want a whole collection, which they pick from, so that': why Imm doing collection while submitting single pieces! Yes, ...

Hey y'all! I'm an oldie and the majority of you probably have no idea who I am, but I used to be pretty active here on YWS. Anyway, I'm back ...

five. i used your august eyes as an excuse to sleep with someone else. i said that anyone who had eyes like a late-summer storm deserved what they got. after ...

four. there are holes in my pockets. the stones i gather from the creek bed fall out sometimes, when i'm walking too fast or moving around. because of that, i ...

three. there you are. i found you, between the tall grasses of august and the frosted mornings of january. you sat on the edge of my ford's bench seat and ...

two. i held your handful of stardust for days after you left. i sat with my back against your barn. sat when the rain came, sat when the dead leaves ...

one. you and i are the spring showers. you are the pitter patter in the morning, against mama's kitchen window. i am the torrential downpour that chips the whitewash off ...

~i should have been home yesterday~ because it is from there i get all my liquid courage. from the moonshine from the coal dust, from the porch swing, from you. ...

Welcome to YWS, my dear!

Welcome to YWS!

When you say you can't change your profile settings, what do you mean? From the looks of it, your profile is set to the default "no gender" setting. If you'd ...

Welcome to YWS!

hey! welcome to YWS! I hope you love it as much as I do

First things first: sending your first draft of your novel to a publisher is a bad bad idea. There's not a single writer in the world who could be published ...