Fiction

The Weather Witch

By Cynthia Heinrichs

Raindrops splatted a sharp staccato against the single window pane. In a pot on the floor the incessant drip drip drip from the thatch replied.

She pressed her forehead against the cold glass. I must ask Bran to patch that. If this rain ever stops, the whole roof needs doing [...]

Fiction

Sara Zarr!! Exclusive short story!

YARN is thrilled to share a Sara Zarr original short story, exclusive to YARN. It has everything you love about her work, in a small summery package.

When he did something it made you think you could do it, too.

Whether it was skating or writing a story or [...]

Fiction

“Swimming Naked” Wins SCBWI Magazine Merit Award!

Well, we always knew the work we published was award-winning caliber. But now we have outside verification. Stephen Eoannou’s short story “Swiming Naked,” published in January 2012, just won an SCBWI Magazine Merit Honor for Fiction! [...]

Fiction

Exclusive Short Story by Ned Vizzini!

We are thrilled to share with you Ned’s latest, “Strike a Chord”—a YARN exclusive short story!

From Ned Vizzini’s first collection of essays “Teen Angst? Naaah…” to his novel “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” (now a major motion picture), there is a running theme throughout his writing—a self-aware teenager is a complex, beautiful, burdened, hilarious, resilient, layered human being.

Fiction

Iman in Iran

By high school senior, Amir Tamimi

The Pakro family lived on Nejat Street, among a small community of veterans from the Iran-Iraq War. The father, Omid Pakro, had lost both of his legs under a tank in Khoramshahr, near the border. That was not the worst part. The tank belonged to the Islamic Republic, his own side. Tragic blunder. [...]

Fiction

Into the Vast

By Laura Williams McCaffrey

All of my fourteen years, we have lived in the dark because of the Dragons. The stone walls of our cave hide us from them, and also hide the light from us. I open my eyes, I close my eyes: darkness.

High above, the rounded roof of our cave is mostly solid rock, but a few pieces have cracked and fallen away [...]

Fiction

Waxing and Waning

By Isaac Blum

Valerie first touched my penis on November 8th 2011, between a swivel chair and a fax machine, in the room Len Hargreaves’ father used as an office. In a moment of semi-drunken lust, we barricaded ourselves behind the heavy door, threw ourselves on the Turkish rug, and, as they say, “went to town.”  [...]

Fiction

Orleans: Carnivale

Sherri tells YARN that “Carnivale” takes place approximately nine months before the start of “Orleans” and gives a glimpse into the world of the heroine, Fen de la Guerre, and her chieftain, Lydia, before their world is turned upside down.

[...] You might find this hard to believe, Fen, but I was a grown woman before we met.” [...]

Fiction

700 Years in Heaven

By John Cusick

In school they tell you time is an illusion, but the profs over-complicate it if you ask me. There’s no such thing as before and after, just a big mash of now. “Time” is something our brains make up to help us get from point A to point B. Like the long path up to Stacy Adams’ house. [...]

Fiction

Sonic Boom

From seventeen-year-old Chinese-Indonesian writer Christie Suyanto:

I shared a drink with a stranger one April.

It took me three seconds to find out that her name was Jet Roscoe. Another three to realize that she’s exactly the type of person my parents warned me about. [...]

Fiction

In the Shadow of Elizabeth Smart

Three years ago, when I was fourteen, I waited for my mother to pick me up from a department store downtown. Katie Rennert and I spent Saturday afternoon shopping, but she had to leave early. Her mom called while we were in Women’s Shoes saying she had to go out to dinner with her grandmother [...]

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