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 15, 2012

Molly - Heat


New Orleans is the only place that wears shorts all year long.
We don’t have snow or seasons for that matter, so why waste the closet space with anything but summer clothes?
We never escape the heat.
One day it’ll be hot, the next day hotter.
There are many hallelujahs on a breezy day.
We handle the heat, and we stay in the kitchen. 
We are just used to the heat, so we complain when it gets cold.
We are fine when it’s hot because it gets us in the mood for ice tea.
When it’s cold, we just don’t go out, but if we do, we just run from indoor place to indoor place in our shorts, of course.

Molly, age 15
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