nonfiction – MAGAZINE

Grief

Posted on Aug 16, 2023Aug 16, 2023 by Lana Day

When you died, I lost a piece of myself. I remember feeling like I had died that day too…

Tan France: Naturally Hilarious

Posted on Sep 16, 2019Sep 15, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Celebrity memoirs can tend to be a hit or miss with audiences. Some have two-hundred plus pages of repetitive anecdotes of little interest to the readers while others dig deep, profoundly revealing the secret lives of those we see on both the big and small screen. Tan France, star of the Netflix series Queer Eye, […]

stale by MacKenzie

Posted on Apr 4, 2019Jun 18, 2019 by Germ Magazine guest author

you tell him, “thanks for letting me know, sir,” then you amble your way off the table still chewing your crackers. you got them at the back of the fridge this morning, the holiday’s leftover. stale like the lips of an indulgent lover. you’re so cool when you play pretend, and even you know it. […]

Interview with J. Albert Mann, Author of What Every Girl Should Know

Posted on Jan 8, 2019Mar 1, 2019 by Joshua Flores

What first inspired you to write historical fiction, specifically for young adult audiences? YA and historical fiction are a perfect fit because so much in life depends on the experiences we have when we’re teens, and this includes historical figures. People who end up doing amazing things often do them in response to their childhood. […]

Mother Always Wins by Arlene Antoinette

Posted on Dec 3, 2018Feb 11, 2019 by Germ Magazine guest author

My second love, a Cuban boy with skin as white as paper and curly charcoal hair, adored me from the ends of my nappy braids to the tips of my caramel toes. Growing up in different neighborhoods, fate spiked with dumb luck brought us together in high school. I’m still unsure what the attraction was, but I couldn’t […]

We Can’t Be Friends: Real, Authentic, and Completely Absorbing

Posted on Dec 2, 2017Dec 2, 2017 by Joshua Flores

Cyndy just escaped the clutches of Straight Inc., an organization claiming to help teenage addicts recover while secretly brainwashing and abusing them. But now she has to return home to her judgmental mother, her edgy friends, and her complete confusion after the horror within Straight Inc. In the second true to life story from Cyndy […]

Childhood by Alyssa Gibb

Posted on Nov 8, 2017Jun 22, 2018 by Germ Magazine guest author

I awoke to the smell of her cheap perfume filling the air. “Mom?” I asked confused. “Get up,” she growled, scratching the skin of her neck. “Get dressed. I’m taking you somewhere.” She never stayed long unless she needed something, and the previous night she had been in a fight with my stepdad, because […]

Each Morning I Paint a 12-Hour Masterpiece by Rin Baatz

Posted on Sep 20, 2017Oct 30, 2017 by Germ Magazine guest author

“I didn’t recognize you at first.” I had just walked into my first period when I was greeted by the confused stare of a classmate I’d known for over a year. He, apparently, didn’t recognize me without makeup. “Are you sick?” In my natural state, I look ill. I am pale, and I am veiny. […]

136 to 110 by Rebeca Talley

Posted on Aug 6, 2017Sep 27, 2017 by Germ Magazine guest author

I was always a little plump. Plump meaning “having a full, rounded shape: slightly fat.” As a child, people referred to it as my cute, little baby fat, but when you’re a socially awkward sophomore in high school, the title changes. Up until the previous year, I had not given much thought to my shape […]