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Tag: daughter

Dream by Julia Nunnally Duncan

Posted on Mar 16, 2019May 2, 2019 by Julia Nunnally Duncan

In my dream she is a baby still, cradled in my arms, sheltered from any harm that might come her way. As I hold her, she looks up at me, and I can see she feels the depth of my love— never wavering, ever constant. But in reality, she is twenty now and has left […]

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What Mums Mean to Us and How to Spoil Them This Mother’s Day

Posted on May 8, 2017May 16, 2017 by Hannah Green

Your mother is not always the person who brought you into this world. Maybe she adopted you a few years in, or maybe she married your father after you were born. A mother is not defined as who gave birth to you but rather who has nurtured you like a parent should since the moment she […]

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The Girl Who Howled by K. S. Keeney

Posted on Feb 19, 2017Feb 14, 2019 by K. S. Keeney

Mothers anticipate the bittersweet, but when I opened my throat, she shut my mouth. Children are so wild. Stuffed it with cloth. Then, she sent it home. Branch-broken, run wild, cry into the night. Sometimes wolves would answer. I slept in a burnt-out hutch, learning a witch’s charred secrets. I yipped their philosophy at the […]

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The holy modern miracle of the sleeping artist by Zainab

Posted on Feb 5, 2017Feb 22, 2017 by Germ Magazine guest author

The day my mother first fell asleep, it began to rain. It lashed heavily against the French windows, the mulberry trees in the yard almost screaming with terror as the wind whipped them ungracefully around and the old swing and dead flowers fell under the weight of water. As she sunk, languid and tired, into […]

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I Teach My Daughter Forgiveness by Demi Richardson

Posted on Jan 20, 2017Feb 14, 2017 by Germ Magazine guest author

My daughter recently had a birthday, but I couldn’t tell you how old she is. Here’s what I can tell you. When she was ten I told my daughter that she was never something I could want. She was not something planned or expected or desirable, and when she was born I took one look […]

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I Am Not My Mother by Mahima Kapoor

Posted on Dec 23, 2016Feb 27, 2019 by Mahima Kapoor

You are the horrid moon that seeks to wreak havoc inside me, with a rope you pull me to you, and I let you, and I leap high and higher and higher, always assured that I’m about to reach you, but you’re only close enough to make me dance to your tune, far enough to […]

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Father of the Year by Kate Foley

Posted on Dec 13, 2016Feb 14, 2019 by Kate Foley

from the perspective of your daughter, twelve years from now I was Daddy’s girl until I found out that Daddy had another girl and another girl and another girl and he rotated through them like revolving doors in the winter. I was Daddy’s girl but then Daddy started sleeping with someone half his age. I […]

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Things Lucy did that nobody understood by Zainab

Posted on Nov 27, 2016Dec 12, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

When they asked Lucy’s father what word he would use to describe Lucy, he said “phantasmagorical.” He had trouble pronouncing the word, so it came out jumbled, messy, and illiterate, which ironically perfectly suited his thoughts on Lucy. He loved her, yes; he’d seen galaxies when he’d held her for the first time in that […]

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Floating by Ashira Shirali

Posted on Nov 17, 2016Dec 5, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

It was raining the first time I left my body. Mom left the house to be one with the storm. Her shirt was still stained with hot tea when she left, and the floor behind me was still covered in broken glass pieces. Mom had been far away from here again, yelling about Missed Opportunities […]

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