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BATTLEFIELD by Keren Chelsea

Posted on May 9, 2016May 9, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

I WILL NOT LEAVE MY DEAD ON THE GROUND. LET ME SING FOR THE FALLEN; LET ME MOURN AND LET ME WEEP. LET ME LOOK AT THE SIGNS OF STRUGGLE AND AT THE BATTLE SCARS. THEN LET ME SAY THAT I MADE IT OUT ALIVE. LET ME SAY THAT I’VE SURVIVED. LET ME SAY THAT […]

Growing Up (Part Three) by Keren Chelsea

Posted on Feb 27, 2016Mar 13, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

dear twelve-year-old me, depression is an eating thing / it’ll turn you into somebody you don’t want to be / it is not soft or lovely / or poetic / there is nothing beautiful about the pain that comes with this / but please do not fall for what they say / when they tell […]

I Stopped Wishing I Was Dead by Keren Chelsea

Posted on Jan 9, 2016Jan 25, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

november has gone: thirty days passed by and i’m still striving. my hands no longer shake from the tragedy inside my lungs but it is not any easier to breathe without aching all over. the pain does not only reside in my chest. but yesterday, the stars lit up the sky, and my mother smiled […]