reality – MAGAZINE

You and I, Simplified.

Posted on Feb 25, 2017Feb 23, 2017 by Elyse Jones

When we met, there were shy looks, shy smiles, and nervous laughter. When we met, there was, undeniably, a spark. When we dated, there was passion, and love. Or at least what felt like it. When we dated, there was lust. When we became comfortable, too comfortable, we fought a silent fight. When we became […]

Diary of a Bibliophile by Snimar

Posted on Sep 11, 2016Sep 19, 2017 by Snimar

It’s strange how the smell of paper And ink is like a drug, something I try to get away from, but really can’t. How the sentences, like words woven into emotions, make my eyes rain, And my soul bathe in my tears. How I want to hold that cardboard clad with paper close to my […]

Daily Routine by Martina Dominique Dansereau

Posted on Jan 15, 2016Jul 1, 2019 by Germ Magazine guest author

Suicide lives with me. She sleeps in the same room, kicks her laundry under my desk, and leaves her dirty dishes beside my bed for me to trip over every morning. In the morning when I wake up, sometimes there will be a moment when I almost believe that she’s moved out, but then I […]

Self-Portrait by Isabella Lewis

Posted on Dec 29, 2015Jan 17, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

Diverging into crevices, rotting away, hidden. An intellectual decay, a sophisticated savage, deploring for substance, my sustenance. Longing for a cover to devour, for a cause to fixate and a persona to adapt. Musty inhabiting between the coarse layers where comfort and the concepts of superiority are my neighbours. Occupying the space on a bookcase, […]

The Thing About Masks by Ashley Zhang

Posted on Nov 19, 2015Dec 6, 2015 by Germ Magazine guest author

The thing about masks — ………………..(Rachel realizes as she blindly searches for privacy before her own crumbles to dust in front of a live audience) ………………………………………— is that revelation is inevitable, and the more perfect the mask, the more excruciating it is when it falls away. She supposes she should’ve seen this coming; the cracks […]

Day 282

Posted on Oct 9, 2015 by Germ Magazine

Being a teenager is lovely, even if it is different than how we had imagined it.

I Am by Priya Rinkus

Posted on Sep 25, 2015Dec 3, 2015 by Priya Rinkus

I am the girl who draws stories from thin air I ponder the line between fantasy and reality I hear the whisper of the air and the soft voices contorted between two realities I see the golden mist, nonexistent but in the eyes of youth I wish to emerge from the cold darkness of reality […]