I remember that Sunday afternoon so clearly. I sat down at my computer desk, logged into my Whyville account, and checked the Whyville Times like I usually did. I glanced at the front-page stories, wishing that I could someday I could be published there, and then I read a few of the articles. I was slightly discouraged that none of my submissions had made it in the Times, but I was used to not getting published.
Later that night, I logged back onto Whyville, and noticed I had one new y-mail. I opened it up, and saw it was from a friend of mine. In the y-mail, she congratulated me on getting my first poem published. I was confused at first, until I looked under the "Creative Writing" section of the Times. There, I saw something I couldn't believe: my very first published poem.
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