At only seventeen years of age, actress, writer, and feminist Blythe Baird has already established an impressive resume. Most notably to date is her recent appearance in the blockbuster film Divergent. In May, Auslynn Films will release its full-length feature film The UnMiracle, which has been called a gritty neorealist portrait of suburban American faith. The film follows suburban teen Kayla Stevenson, played by Baird, whose…
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Germ Interviews Poet (and Irish Folk Dancer) Alice Osborn
Alice Osborn is the author of three books of poetry, After the Steaming Stops, Unfinished Projects, and Right Lane Ends and is the editor of the anthology, Tattoos. She’s working on her next poetry book, Heroes without Capes. Her past educational and work experience is unusually varied and now it feeds her strengths as an editor for hire and writing…
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Dear High School Me
There you are, just a girl in want of a respectable grown-up life, five weeks shy of eighteen, thinking college maybe, a nice boy, but not one you’ll marry. Not you—you’re a career girl. All you need is to find the right career, and then, yes, a boy, sure. But it’s the world you want, an education. And you weren’t…
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A Girl at His Show by Sheryl Monks
Every night Rasputin chose a different one to come up and go inside the box of blades. Always they were pretty, and always they were thin, T-tiny thin like snakes, wearing green eye shadow and Burlesque on the Beach t-shirts. People thought it was a hoax: all the girls were plants. Rasputin was insulted. One night, to prove his greatness,…