Women can’t drive my car, he said, adjusting his mirrored sunglasses. Because it’s stick? I asked. Because they don’t know how to drive fast, he …
PBR by Phoebe Lyons
That night, I slipped out of the house with my hair in knots and toasted my DARE officer with a Coors Light from the passenger …
Self-Experiment #1: The Best People in Life Are Free
Growing up as someone who belongs to the female gender — specifically one who is part of a tight-knit and old-fashioned culture — I was simply raised …
Decisions, Decisions…
This email has been posted with the reader’s permission and with the names changed for the sake of anonymity. Every so often our Germ staff …
The First About a Boy by Izzy Gappmayer
What first got my attention was the way he held himself. He was at ease in his own skin, the way I never was. He …
Falling by Kiernan Norman
The past few weeks have been mounted in hot pink and mahogany. Hot breath, sticky and drooling, fogs up the glass and I resist the …
Iron Man Presents a Young Boy with a Bionic Arm, and Neither of Them Could Look Happier
Seven-year-old Alex Pring was born with only a partially formed arm. The video shows the process of an amazing team of students creating his prosthetic …
Sixteen by Erin Traylor
The morning after, ………….when you hug your mother having found her ………….in the kitchen wiping plates, that’s when she’ll say ………….she knew, but she doesn’t …