perzine

The author of this zine expresses the range of emotions she experiences when she and her lover break up.

The author drives a bodaciously decorated car and enjoys the attention it brings.

A mother's perzine dealing with some pretty heady topics. She writes of the bad relationship she has with her own mother. Now that she has a child of her own, she wants to mend their relationship so her newborn can have a grandmother to be close to. Pondering if she and her boyfriend will ever get marry. Being heartbroken when she finds out her dear friend Michael was knived to death trying to break up a fight.

Missy's delightful comic drawings recording her lifestyle. The comic strips show Missy shopping, flying a kite, getting a pet fish, playing in her twee pop band, etc.. The back pages have some of her zine and music recommendations.

A Canadian teenager's personal musings on things she busies her day with - tv, music, shopping, school. Also included is 15 book reviews and her experience printing the previous issue of Patina at Staples.

A look back at one woman's struggles getting through college and finding a good job. She transfers from college to college, changing her major each time, losing the chance for a full-time degree. She decides on a career in the travel industry, working her way up the ladder to eventually start her own family. She reminisces back to her mother's ability to have both a career and family, when such a thing was uncommon. She understands now what her mother went through back then.

A young woman leaves her small town in Maine for the big urban landscape of New York City. Focusing on her personal observations with a style like a street reporter, learn of the people and sites she finds unique in her new home city.

In this perzine the author describes a childhood marred by abuse and poverty and her attempts to learn from experiences, overcome obstacles, and become a better person.

In this perzine the author tells about her experiences as a camp counselor at a children's camp in New Hampshire.

A teenager comes back to her family after a year away from her hometown. Curious to find old friends, she becomes bogged down in new dramas of her original circle of pals. She feels her friends have grown up too fast for her to handle, and the more she is around them the more she notices her lost of youthful innocence.