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Teen Ink Magazine, June 2011 Edition


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Articles from this Issue


Fiction


Hold On, Love
The Cornfield By Kaitlyn G., New Hope, MN
The Catalyst
Annie's Nightmare
Chopsticks
Perfectly French
The Morning After
Life Support
The Runaways
The Typist and the Kiss By Stefan M., Lebanon, OH
Character Bleed

Hot Topics


Community ServiceJaila’s Room
Community ServiceThank you, Ruth By Moheem I., Wilmington, DE
HealthHow I Was Reborn
HealthPut Down That Diet
Letters to the EditorA Homeless Soldier By Ryan V., Phoenix, AZ
Letters to the EditorA Painful Obsession By Girish J., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorDitch your Gender
Letters to the EditorHow to Upgrade Your Nickname By Kevin K., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorHuck Finn
Letters to the EditorOne Hill in Sarajevo By Hannah B., Bexley, OH
Letters to the EditorThank You, Teen Ink
Letters to the EditorTime for “The Talk” By Emma M., Brooklyn, NY

Nonfiction


Growing Up by the Sea By Elizabeth O., Scarsdale, NY
Just Like You By Brittany P., South Plainfield, NJ
MemoirIn the Eyes of Forever
MemoirSurreal Summer
MemoirYou Can Leave
Personal ExperienceNo Ordinary Quake
Personal ExperienceSongs of Tradition

Opinion


Hope for Homeowners By Claire R., Denver, CO
Cyber-Bullying
Armed and Less Dangerous
The Rise of Mr. Mom

Reviews


Book ReviewsGraceling by Kristen Cashore
Book ReviewsNight by Elie Wiesel
Book ReviewsOn Second Thought by Wray Herbert By Anonymous, Brooklyn, NY
Book ReviewsShiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Book ReviewsThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie By Mank K., Wichita, KS
Book ReviewsThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Book ReviewsThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd By Shannon B., Oxford, MA
Book ReviewsThe Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Book ReviewsTrue Believer & At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Book ReviewsWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë By Anonymous, South Portland, ME

Art / Photo


American Trash
Bamboo
Blood Rose
Caleb
Candy Wash By Brittany E., Houston, TX
Country Boys By Salma S., Sugarland, TX
deer-in-headlights
Forest - Oils
Fraudulence By Jacqi L., Los Angeles, CA
Green
He Will Wait Forever
I Can See for Miles and Miles By Elise S., Austin, TX
Jasmine
Kiss Me...Please?
La Boqueria
Life on a Limb
My Picasso By Mallika D., Tampa, FL
Oh, Help!
Peace On Earth
Reflection By Amber F., Boulder Creek, CA
Sail away
School House Vote
Silhouette
smile with love
sole mates
Sunflower Godess
take me with the next train
The Inherent Evil Of Man
The King
The sort-of Dead Dog feelings
The Storm
The Superego
The Wonders of Reading
Three
Uggs the Top By Maria P., Voorhees, NJ
Unmasked By Nigel G., North Vancouver, Canada

Poetry


Alien Hospitals
Being Free
Bits and Pieces
Devastation
Nightmare Box
Regret
The Game
What Does This Mean?
Reject
A Marvelous Word
A Secret Genius
A Ship on The Horizon
A tear By Kate S., Auckland, New Zealand
Addiction By Anonymous, Dhaka, Bangladesh
All the King’s Horses
Anticipating the Island
Art of Relationships
Big Empty Table By Lauren S., Wyckoff, NJ
Bird Watching
Blue Lips and Rhombus Eyes
Boom Boom Pow
Broken Sky
Call Me Alice
Candle Wax
Chalk Houses
Charcoal
Chewing Gum
Cicada’s Lonely Song
City of Shadows By Dani N., Stafford, VA
clairvoyant
Coexist
Colossus
Crickets
Dawning
Death’s Grip
Disappointment
Disrupted cosmos
Dreams By Shiann D., Brighton, MI
Drops By Anonymous, Laguna Niguel, CA
Empty
Ending With a Bang
Escape
Failure
Faites Confiance En Moi (Trust Me)
Freedom Brig
Game’s Up By Anonymous, Boca Raton, FL
Gasping
Getting Stronger
Glitter
greening over the bricks of my home
Heat Stroke
I Keep Forgetting that Daniel Ends Up with Laurie By Bryce L., Randolph, NJ, NJ
I Opened Up My Body
I would say sorry
In the Apartment
In the Soft Coast-Water By Heidi S., Mattapoisett, MA
Inevitable
Kavya By Nate L., White Plains, NY
Lauren Elizabeth By Anonymous, Traverse City, MI
Least Lonely Solitude
Life.
Like Tissue Paper
Listening
mama's burning idealism By Anonymous, st.petersburg, FL
Midnight Canvas By Anonymous, McKinney, TX
Mnemosyne, Revisited
Mr. Puppeteer
Musica Dierum Music of the Days
My Childhood
My Life in 81 Words
My Problem
My Three Favorite People
Ode to Spanish (Get Out of my Bed)
Other Room
Pain?
Perfection
Perfection By Bacon M., Midland, TX
Phoenix
Pride
Questions By Natalie B., Park City, UT
Reflection's Revolt By Anonymous, Anoka, MN
remember that day
Sacred Sleeping TIme
Scared
Self Placatory
silent shadows
Sinners Like Me
Sit By
sticky pearls & feathers
Still Life of Girl with Broken Dreams By Anonymous, Leipsic, OH
Strawberry Seeds
Strength
Summer
Sunglasses
Superhero
Textbook, Pages 9 And 31
The 4th Dimension By Nora S., New London, CT
The Boy Who Owns The Universe
the dust, or, on the falling of a star
The Girl in Front
The Now
The Price of Beauty
The Sea By Marina M., Fort Lauderdale, FL
the space between my hands and heart
The Spirit of Music
The Unwritten Creed
The Winds of Change By Alex H., Pearland, TX
This Isn't
Time slows for you
To the Notorious You
To the Prom Dress in My Closet
Turquoise
Turtle's Life By Ross A., Andover, MA
Violets on the Sidewalk
We Were Cowboys and Indians …
Wet By Cara B., Wyckoff, NJ
What used to be By Caroline B., Valley Glen, CA
Where Art Thou
Whisper
wow, I’m really bad with titles today …
Writer's Block By Anonymous, Norton, United Kingdom
Your presence
Blue Ink Blood
Door
Foot in Mouth
Nature's Love
stuck in the suburbs
Stupid Knee Brace
They Lie.
Tulips
winter majesties
a sweet
Evil Comes
Seasons: The Mask
The Swing By Anonymous, London, United Kingdom

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