Shannon’s Pick: Emily Deibel’s compelling short story
Emily Deibel slams her reader in the driver’s seat by her engaging use of the second person. This rare narrative style makes the viewpoint of the main character compelling, heartbreaking, and uncomfortably real [...]
Lourdes’s pick: Michele Tallarita’s short story.
Originally published on March 7, 2011 “Swamp Monster Bonanza” is, as in the words of character Attison, weird in its beauty. I cannot explain in words my fascination with this story. Maybe I am in awe of how people who once ridicule Robin and Attison can suddenly be paying to see them do tricks. Or it could be [...]
Shannon’s pick: Jon Papernick
Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote a response piece to the furor arising from her diatribe against violent and mature themes in YA literature, “Darkness Too Visible.” Gurdon’s response primarily backs up [...]
By Michelle Barker “Beautiful or useful, one or the other,” growled Jimmy to his son. “The rest ain’t worth spit.” Halen Minn had heard those words every day of his life, and as the wooden trading cart rattled along its pot-holed muddy course from their Brinnian village into Hellarsburg, he heard them yet again. It [...]
By Kirsten Rice
He’s talking again, saying crazy things about packing the car and leaving town. So I tell him, “No, Grandpa, you can’t leave right now, just drink your tea.” And I go get Mom.
Grandpa’s house is weird now, without Grandma and almost without him, so it feels like I’m trespassing [...]
Ta-da! Here is the excerpt we’ve all been waiting for–the first chapters of Allen Zadoff’s novel, “My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies.” And YARN is the only place on the Internet where you can read it. The novel will be released on May 10, but here’s a tantilizing first taste [...]
By Kody Keplinger
We used to be friends, but I’m not sure if you remember. It seems like a long time ago now – before we went in search of more and somehow got turned around along the way. We used to lie in our beds, separated by five miles of corn fields [...]
By Chris Campbell
Through the grimy windshield of his rusted-out Chevy Monte Carlo, Sam studies the entrance to the Rosedale Mall, trying to steel himself for the mission at hand. He wavers between going inside to get it over with and getting the hell out of there before someone recognizes him.
If that happens, he’ll be forced to enroll in one of those science-geek magnet programs where instead of homecoming and prom night, the student body rallies around the finals of the Upper Midwest Robot Skills Competition. He’d electrocute himself in the tub with three hairdryers if it came to that. [...]
By Arthur Slade
The 7-11 is empty, so I count the hairs on the third finger of my left hand. Forty-one. Forty-two. Forty-three. DING. The door swings open and Yvonne sashays in, her butt clad in blue jeans shorts, a tank top clutching her breasts. She doesn’t see me; she hasn’t really seen me for over a year. Her hair is blonde now. After my first glance I continue with my work. Forty-eight. Forty-nine[...]
By Andrea Torrey Balsara
The Toronto News Weekly
April 14, 2010
The paper industry giant, Cold Comfort, had its logging operations in northern Ontario closed today, pending an investigation into the death of photographer Edward Frickley, from environmental group ACTION NOW [...]
YARN is very pleased to be able to publish this excerpt of Barry Lyga’s brand new novel, “Archvillain.” If you want to know more about Barry and his novels–like “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl,” “Hero Type,” and “Goth Girl Rising”–see our interview with him from earlier this year. And enjoy [...]
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