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Tag: featured story

A Reason by Simone I.

Posted on Jul 30, 2020Jul 28, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

The following is a featured 100-word story from the June Writing Challenge.   The coldness of the wood seeps through my skin and crawls into my soul. As I stare at the ceiling, I decide. Knife. My heart makes one last effort to stop me before my mind locks it away. My eyes close. Wait. […]

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Within by Karina Murphy

Posted on Jul 29, 2020Jul 28, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

The following is a featured 100-word story from the June Writing Challenge.   From behind the clouded window of my apartment, I can pretend the white blanketing the street is snow (alive and soft and fleeting), not ash (him and her, deleting). I can say the burnt sky is at sunset, and the windows are […]

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They Can Make You Pretty Too by Luisa Avezum

Posted on Jul 29, 2020Jul 28, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

The following is a featured 100-word story from the June Writing Challenge.   I walk towards the kitchen, shaky hands, blurry sight. My parents would kill me if they knew I was dying again. I measure my portions in the pink bowl with the kittens marking the insides. They tell me how much to eat […]

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Untitled by Aneesha Fernando

Posted on Jun 30, 2020Jun 30, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

This story is one of the May Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . Ten months on, and I still wake up curled like a bug on the left side of the bed. Alex was so much bigger than I was, and I used to grumble that sleeping with him meant that […]

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In a Bottle by Clea L.

Posted on Jun 30, 2020Jun 30, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

This story is one of the May Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . Ablaze was the word for her. She told me she would meet me on the beach in mid February. It was twenty degrees, and I was wearing a sweater and a jacket and a coat, but her zipper […]

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In Chelsea Market by Loren Rea

Posted on Jun 29, 2020Jun 28, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

This story is one of the May Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . It was him; I was sure of it. The cadence of his walk, how he tilted his head slightly to the side when examining something he contemplated purchasing, the dimple only on his right cheek, all of it […]

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Whisper of the Waves by Sally Menaker

Posted on Jun 29, 2020Jun 28, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

This story is one of the May Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . The stained and tattered carpet of my bedroom floor is woven with memory. I sit down, grounded by the familiar scratchy feeling on the back of my legs. A meticulously folded piece of printer paper floats precariously at […]

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The Oak Letter by Abby Lu

Posted on May 31, 2020May 29, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

This story is one of the April Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . He had stared, unseeingly, unblinkingly, unflinchingly as the casket was lowered into the ground. It wasn’t what she would have wanted. As they sat in their favorite clearing in the woods a year prior, she’d told him about […]

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Oliver by Shaina Marrie Dayon

Posted on May 31, 2020May 29, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

This story is one of the April Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . She stared at the one and only line of a couplet scrawled on her Calculus notebook— the skeleton of a sonnet budding inside her head. Nibbling at her pen cap, her full attention was in attempting to keep […]

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