loss – MAGAZINE

Grief

Posted on Aug 16, 2023Aug 16, 2023 by Lana Day

When you died, I lost a piece of myself. I remember feeling like I had died that day too…

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A New, Complex Romantic Read

Posted on Apr 16, 2020Apr 15, 2020 by Joshua Flores

Lydia thought she had her life planned out with her boyfriend, Freddie. They had ordinary lives, ordinary jobs, and an ordinary, wonderful life together. But when tragedy strikes, Lydia must reevaluate her future and try to find some solace in a world without Freddie. Both tragic and ultimately uplifting, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird […]

No Sympathy from the Heat by Alyssa May Trifone

Posted on Mar 16, 2020Mar 15, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

In Fort Myers, the weather doesn’t change much. Despite this, my grandmother will always tell you about the sun, how it chars your skin red as a valentine. How the birds, paying no mind to the humidity, will sing throughout the persistent Florida summers. How even the rain brings no sympathy from the heat. Every […]

I Will Wake Up by Bea L. Hertz

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

The following is a featured 100-word story from the December Writing Challenge. And she won’t. Stupid plane. Stupid ballet. Gigi, dead, because of them. Without a broken leg from dance… She would’ve been the survivor, not Rose Ridgeway. Teary-eyed, I mosey through Roman High. Apologies engulf me. Those we love never truly leave. Rose expresses “regret.” Deep down […]

Grief Vocabulary Test by Spencer Hyde

Posted on Jan 26, 2020Feb 24, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

It’s not that you need to know, really—just that I need to say it to someone. I can’t think of the word for it, but we’re learning about it in AP Lang right now. Disconsolate. I have a hard time remembering the definition, but I don’t think that’s it. Whatever. It’s not like it’s a […]

hiraeth by Emmy Song

Posted on May 22, 2019Jul 18, 2019 by Emmy Song

the long summer i wished would never end. you wondered if your clammy fingers could get away with brushing against mine, measuring the weight of my thighs, tangling your heartstrings with mine. because everything you did ended in tragedy. my dreams typed out in lowercase letters i was afraid of growing up so i sanded […]

Friend by Melissa Sussens

Posted on Apr 24, 2019Jun 18, 2019 by Germ Magazine guest author

Do you know how often I still think of you? How many hours I’ve lost scrolling through the shrine of your Instagram; how I am an addict for the rewind of your stories. Do you know that when it’s late and I’m sad again I open your Facebook page, a reflex more natural than reaching […]

Moving On by Claudia Miranda

Posted on Jan 4, 2019Mar 1, 2019 by Claudia Miranda

The day after your death, the sun still surprisingly came up and shone down onto the cold and blue horizon. There were no loud noises, no yelling, no more crying, no shattering glass. Just silence and sunlight. Your body looked so still; muscles no longer singing, chest no longer rising and falling; your skin as […]

Mute by Jenneve Abaño Aying

Posted on Nov 3, 2018Jan 16, 2019 by Germ Magazine guest author

Somewhere along the way, you lost your voice You remember it being made out of springtime lullabies and strong powerful marching songs. It was the way you expressed yourself. A defence mechanism in times of war. You used it against strangers and enemies and friends and family. To fight and unite and sing your sister […]