How do we work?

Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Maeve - Mardi Gras

There is a creature.
Its name is seldom used
and is only whispered in the darkest of alley ways.
This small group
is fabled to live among us,
in New Orleans…

But once a year,
They get the hell out of Dodge
and cannot be sighted for at least a week.
Many believe that they migrate,
so that they can feed.

These creatures that I am talking about
are
PEOPLE FROM NEW ORLEANS WHO HATE MARDI GRAS!

*gasp*

It is said that they are adept at navigating the alpine slopes of Vail, Colorado,
and that many of them visit the “wonderful world of Mickey” acquiring strange hats that may be a
symbol to other like minded creatures that they are indeed, one of them.

This formidable beast is a danger to our life and our liberty here in New Orleans.
Now I hope you join me in the fight to raise awareness,
and that this infectious state of mind be squashed before it spreads.

Aid me in this fight.
Vive le Carnaval!

Maeve, age 17
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