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

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Megan - Heat

Escape the heat. The word escape scares me as if I am running from something. I certainly am not
running from New Orleans or the heat, not when I walk into an air conditioned room and need a
sweater. There is no need to get out of the heat when it is where you belong. My skin craves it. The
winter is something that scares me. If I could be scared of a season, this barren, cold, dry season would
enter my body with cold shrills of terror. Whether or not you prefer the warm or cold weather, there
is no reason you should want to leave New Orleans because of it. New Orleans can’t help it.  Blame the
equator or global warming, people like to blame things on that.

Megan, age 17
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