Teen Ink Magazine, May 2012 Edition
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Fiction
Better Than One 
Biography
I Am Reality By Caleb D., Wanship, UT
Mauve
My Father By Shreya R., Gurgaon, India
Sugar and Smoke By Trinica S., Dunnigan, CA
Too Close
Outside
Biography
I Am Reality By Caleb D., Wanship, UT
Mauve
My Father By Shreya R., Gurgaon, India
Sugar and Smoke By Trinica S., Dunnigan, CA
Too Close
Outside
Hot Topics
Community ServiceMy Baseball Buddy By Amy S., Cumberland, RI
EnvironmentAfraid FOR Sharks
HealthFalling
HealthSmall Spaces By Anonymous, Charlotte, NC
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Café Cubano By Ashley K., Lake Worth, FL
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Cold-Hearted Youth
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Cold-Hearted Youth
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Concussion Repercussions By David S., x, United States
Letters to the EditorPositive Poetry
Letters to the EditorRecycling Rebellion
Letters to the EditorWhat I've Learned From College Essays
Pride & PrejudiceDear Sexist Pigs in My Algebra Class By Alexandra Z., Macomb, MI
Pride & PrejudiceThrough the Back Door
EnvironmentAfraid FOR Sharks
HealthFalling
HealthSmall Spaces By Anonymous, Charlotte, NC
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Café Cubano By Ashley K., Lake Worth, FL
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Cold-Hearted Youth
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Cold-Hearted Youth
Letters to the EditorFeedback for Concussion Repercussions By David S., x, United States
Letters to the EditorPositive Poetry
Letters to the EditorRecycling Rebellion
Letters to the EditorWhat I've Learned From College Essays
Pride & PrejudiceDear Sexist Pigs in My Algebra Class By Alexandra Z., Macomb, MI
Pride & PrejudiceThrough the Back Door
Nonfiction
My Mother By Pauline B., Oshkosh, WI
Educator of the YearKristin Zerbe, English Teacher, John Dickinson High By Ryan M., Wilmington, DE
Educator of the YearMichael Reitemeyer, Math Teacher, John Dickinson High
Educator of the YearTheresa Martin, Special Education Teacher, Helen I Smith School By Taylor M., Franklin Lakes, NJ
Personal ExperienceAn Imperfect Union
Personal ExperienceFireflies
Personal ExperienceFishing with My Father
Personal ExperienceGreen Can Mondays
Personal ExperienceHereditary Memories
Personal ExperienceMiss American Pie
Personal ExperienceThe Difference
Travel & CultureDestination Wedding, Orthodox Style
Travel & CultureMy Mother’s Ban Xeo
Travel & CultureTall Ships By Emily V., Rochester, MN
Travel & CultureWhy I Travel
Educator of the YearKristin Zerbe, English Teacher, John Dickinson High By Ryan M., Wilmington, DE
Educator of the YearMichael Reitemeyer, Math Teacher, John Dickinson High
Educator of the YearTheresa Martin, Special Education Teacher, Helen I Smith School By Taylor M., Franklin Lakes, NJ
Personal ExperienceAn Imperfect Union
Personal ExperienceFireflies
Personal ExperienceFishing with My Father
Personal ExperienceGreen Can Mondays
Personal ExperienceHereditary Memories
Personal ExperienceMiss American Pie
Personal ExperienceThe Difference
Travel & CultureDestination Wedding, Orthodox Style
Travel & CultureMy Mother’s Ban Xeo
Travel & CultureTall Ships By Emily V., Rochester, MN
Travel & CultureWhy I Travel
Reviews
Book ReviewsBetween a Rock and a Hard Place by Aaron Ralston
Book ReviewsKeturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
Book ReviewsPay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Book ReviewsThe Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
Book ReviewsThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides By Ada D., New York, NY
Movie ReviewsFollowing
Movie ReviewsMurderball
Movie ReviewsThe Woman in Black
Music ReviewsA Day Without Rain by Enya
Music ReviewsClear As Day by Scotty McCreery
Music ReviewsPlus by Ed Sheeran
Music ReviewsSea of Memories by Bush
Music ReviewsStorms by Amarna Reign
TV show reviewsDownton Abbey
Video game reviewsFat Princess: Fistful of Cake By Stephanie K., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsFifa 10 By Missael M., North Glendale, AZ
Video game reviewsSimCity 4 By Girish J., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsWorld of Warcraft By Conor C., Wilmington, DE
Book ReviewsKeturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
Book ReviewsPay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Book ReviewsThe Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
Book ReviewsThe Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides By Ada D., New York, NY
Movie ReviewsFollowing
Movie ReviewsMurderball
Movie ReviewsThe Woman in Black
Music ReviewsA Day Without Rain by Enya
Music ReviewsClear As Day by Scotty McCreery
Music ReviewsPlus by Ed Sheeran
Music ReviewsSea of Memories by Bush
Music ReviewsStorms by Amarna Reign
TV show reviewsDownton Abbey
Video game reviewsFat Princess: Fistful of Cake By Stephanie K., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsFifa 10 By Missael M., North Glendale, AZ
Video game reviewsSimCity 4 By Girish J., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsWorld of Warcraft By Conor C., Wilmington, DE
Art / Photo
The Road goes ever on & on 
"Do not be afraid. Just trust me." Mark 5:36
A Flash of Bright
All Books Contain Magic
All Hands On Deck
An oasis
Attack
Birthday Cake
Blowing bubbles
Bubbles
Colors
Cup of Tea Anyone?
Dancers Dream
Emotion
Ferris Wheel Kiss
Field of Gold
Firer-Flies
Friday Journal
Golden Girl
Hanging Hate
In the Flowers
Innocence
Keep me Where the Light Is By Katya K., Westfield, IN
Live Life, Take Chances
Nostalgia
on the bug.
Outlandish
Red Ballon
ring ring
Roots
self portrait pop art
serene By Liyang Z., Mississauga, Canada
Slowly Dying
Sons of Sylvia
Starish
Summer Car Rides
Sunset on the Pier
The Dock
The Perfect Sunset By Kellie K., Milford, OH
The Times Are Changing
The World From a Different View
Thinking...
Tomboy
Waiting
Without a Care
"Do not be afraid. Just trust me." Mark 5:36
A Flash of Bright
All Books Contain Magic
All Hands On Deck
An oasis
Attack
Birthday Cake
Blowing bubbles
Bubbles
Colors
Cup of Tea Anyone?
Dancers Dream
Emotion
Ferris Wheel Kiss
Field of Gold
Firer-Flies
Friday Journal
Golden Girl
Hanging Hate
In the Flowers
Innocence
Keep me Where the Light Is By Katya K., Westfield, IN
Live Life, Take Chances
Nostalgia
on the bug.
Outlandish
Red Ballon
ring ring
Roots
self portrait pop art
serene By Liyang Z., Mississauga, Canada
Slowly Dying
Sons of Sylvia
Starish
Summer Car Rides
Sunset on the Pier
The Dock
The Perfect Sunset By Kellie K., Milford, OH
The Times Are Changing
The World From a Different View
Thinking...
Tomboy
Waiting
Without a Care
Poetry
Birds and Cages and Fire 
Finding Sadness
Mystic Signs
The Subway
To live
Soft Drink
A City of Fools
A Daydream Away
A New Astrology (For Ajna)
Advice By Anonymous, Montrose, MN
And One Day
Autumn Rambles
Barbie Dolls to Tragedies
Beautiful Dresses of Silk & Lace Dancing Below My Watch
Billow
Chasing the Wind
Concrete
Daddy Issues
Dear Yanni
Delete Cookies?
Details
Father By Allison L., New York, NE
Feminization for Adoration
Fighting The Waves By Natalie B., Mount Prospect, IL
Firewalker
Florals
Graffiti
How I Learned
I am...
I Wish I Was a Sailboat
Ideas
Indentations
insomniac
Ivy League By Anonymous, Chicago, IL
Julie With a Music Note
Kool-Aid Red
Like love
Linear
Magic of the Fall By Jacob G., Jenkintown, PA
Music Notes
My Mother is a Mountain
My Parents
Naked
Ode to a Lemon
Oh and with Great Care
On Anarchy
Patient Discovery By Grace B., Tower Lakes, IL
Pawprint
Phone Calls By Rachel H., Wyckoff, NJ
Rainbow
Reconciliation (Treaty of 68.3 Miles)
Red Clay Sky
Remorse By Melanie Z., Prospect Heights, IL
Return (A Plea)
Run-On
Scarlet City Beats
Shakespeare Hates Your Emo Poems
Siege of Virtue
Smells of No. 3, Dupree Dr.
Spiral Fracture
Steep
Summer
Tape By Anonymous, Hillsboro, OR
Ten Summers Spent
The Center of the Universe
The Dance
The Dauntless Nomad
The Quaint Intoxication
The Search
The Silent Killer
These Walls Are Useless
Things That Make Me Smile By Anonymous, San Antonio, TX
Thoughts on Life From A Teenage Atlas
Time is Ticking
To The Mango Tree
Two Roses
Unbraiding Her Hair
Unbreakable
We Were Weeds
What's Forgotten By Anonymous, Shavano Park, TX
Where Beauty Resides
Where Hummingbirds Perch at Night
Where the Willow Won't Weep
Yesterday, Tomorrow, but What's Today?
Child
Gracious
Mother and Daughter
Shy Petals
Me
Sea of Memories
i see you
The Anti[good-bye]otic
Finding Sadness
Mystic Signs
The Subway
To live
Soft Drink
A City of Fools
A Daydream Away
A New Astrology (For Ajna)
Advice By Anonymous, Montrose, MN
And One Day
Autumn Rambles
Barbie Dolls to Tragedies
Beautiful Dresses of Silk & Lace Dancing Below My Watch
Billow
Chasing the Wind
Concrete
Daddy Issues
Dear Yanni
Delete Cookies?
Details
Father By Allison L., New York, NE
Feminization for Adoration
Fighting The Waves By Natalie B., Mount Prospect, IL
Firewalker
Florals
Graffiti
How I Learned
I am...
I Wish I Was a Sailboat
Ideas
Indentations
insomniac
Ivy League By Anonymous, Chicago, IL
Julie With a Music Note
Kool-Aid Red
Like love
Linear
Magic of the Fall By Jacob G., Jenkintown, PA
Music Notes
My Mother is a Mountain
My Parents
Naked
Ode to a Lemon
Oh and with Great Care
On Anarchy
Patient Discovery By Grace B., Tower Lakes, IL
Pawprint
Phone Calls By Rachel H., Wyckoff, NJ
Rainbow
Reconciliation (Treaty of 68.3 Miles)
Red Clay Sky
Remorse By Melanie Z., Prospect Heights, IL
Return (A Plea)
Run-On
Scarlet City Beats
Shakespeare Hates Your Emo Poems
Siege of Virtue
Smells of No. 3, Dupree Dr.
Spiral Fracture
Steep
Summer
Tape By Anonymous, Hillsboro, OR
Ten Summers Spent
The Center of the Universe
The Dance
The Dauntless Nomad
The Quaint Intoxication
The Search
The Silent Killer
These Walls Are Useless
Things That Make Me Smile By Anonymous, San Antonio, TX
Thoughts on Life From A Teenage Atlas
Time is Ticking
To The Mango Tree
Two Roses
Unbraiding Her Hair
Unbreakable
We Were Weeds
What's Forgotten By Anonymous, Shavano Park, TX
Where Beauty Resides
Where Hummingbirds Perch at Night
Where the Willow Won't Weep
Yesterday, Tomorrow, but What's Today?
Child
Gracious
Mother and Daughter
Shy Petals
Me
Sea of Memories
i see you
The Anti[good-bye]otic
