> Now, that was a bad story. It could have been all right, but I decided to submit it to a Young Writers competition, and that meant I rushed it and I had to cut about half of it out, and it turned out dreadful.
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> Pa"nostalgia"ul

Ugh-- young writer magazines. I spent a long while trying to figure out why WP [Writes of Passage, a high-school writing magazine who couldn't come up with a better name] didn't accept my stuff, only the type consisting of:

Look at me.
I am not making this poem rhyme.
That way they'll think it's cool.
It's all a metaphor, man, don't you see it?
There's no real flow or rythm here,
I'm just adding commas and spaces.
Life is shallow and fleeting.
I thought I'd get by with numerous vices,
But I was wrong.
Then someone I knew died.

Judges:
We'd better submit this one or they'll realize we don't understand it.

Non-family members of those who were printed: well that don't make sense. They're just trying to sound deep.

I later realized I didn't get accepted 'cuz I was about five, six grades below the other kids that submitted stuff and I wasn't at 'their level' yet.

Chr"ugh ugh ugh he he he ugh"is