teenager – MAGAZINE

The August Odes

Posted on Apr 28, 2023Apr 28, 2023 by Sophia Dublin

I wrote these last Summer in the final days of being a teenager…

So, How Does a Mortgage Work Anyway?

Posted on Nov 29, 2016Jan 2, 2017 by Elyse Jones

Seriously. I don’t actually know how a mortgage works. All I know is that when you buy a house, you get this thing called a mortgage, and you spend a decent amount of your life trying to pay it off (which, honestly, sounds like a nightmare to me). But before anyone tries to correct me […]

Pandemonium: The Times and Lives of a Teen-Next-Door

Posted on May 6, 2016Jun 20, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

I am a teenager. I live in a pseudo-democratic country where the citizens have all the rights possible and there’s supposed to be no discrimination whatsoever (except if you’re a feminist, a woman, someone belonging to a minority, or someone not heterosexual). Everyone here has a voice on the Internet. More often than not, one […]

In Pieces by Megan Tyler

Posted on Jan 23, 2016Feb 14, 2019 by Megan Tyler

in silence where I lay with roses and their thorns where i bleed where i cannot speak there is another word for this there is another way for this in silence I forgive the shock of my lips and break into a million pieces now it flashes before my eyes wounds heavy and scarred another […]

She’s Electric by Adriana Danish

Posted on Jan 17, 2016Jan 16, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

Jellyfish are transparent in color and you can see all of its insides. And even though you know touching it would do you harm, you’re too mesmerized and too caught up with its beauty to care. She was like that as well. Roaming around – loud and happy Like a ball of sunshine that never […]

The Truth About Vampires by Julia Maltby

Posted on Dec 7, 2015Dec 7, 2015 by Germ Magazine guest author

Next time you see me Try to find how hollow my smile has become. How it bears all my teeth to prove I am complete But most of them have cavities anyway. Next time you see me Grab my hand and show me the light. I’ll surely be burned like the ghoul that I am […]

Letter to Myself at Age Fourteen

Posted on Dec 2, 2015Feb 14, 2019 by Kate Conroy

1. Believe in love, every kind, big and small, weak and strong. 2. But don’t wait for him. Or any guy. Or anyone at all. They’ll never be able to give you what you really want. They’ll only hold you back, when I know that you can fly so far, as long as you’re doing […]

Untitled by Dani Steinberg

Posted on Nov 21, 2015Dec 13, 2015 by Germ Magazine guest author

When you need me You can’t find me When you find me You don’t need me What am I? Dani Steinberg is a 13-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She spends her free time reading, drawing, singing, and playing table tennis. She hopes to work as an artist or in the film […]

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.