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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 […]

For Marci and the Other by Sarah Elizabeth Jones

Posted on Sep 17, 2015Sep 16, 2015 by Germ Magazine guest author

Slow in. Fast out. Just when you feel a little give driving around the turn, punch it. Too soon and you’ll spin out. Too late and you’ll lose time. The porridge has to be just right. My gut told me to turn right one afternoon. I listened. Slow in. I turned down a dark road […]