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Tag: mother and daughter

Insomnia & My Mother by Meggie Royer

Posted on Apr 25, 2015Dec 3, 2015 by Germ Magazine guest author

Yeah I’ve got a backbone that can’t decide between being its namesake and being a wishbone. My whole life I’ve been pulling the shorter end, bringing home more men than my mother has ever known in her entire life, up the stairs and into my bed until she finally falls asleep. Yeah the bottle is […]

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My Favorite Photograph of Us by Talicha J.

Posted on Jan 13, 2015Mar 6, 2019 by Talicha J.

This is where I like to go before I get to the cracked vase of our life together. The places we once existed but no longer fit right, taken at a time before things didn’t make sense, not because I couldn’t understand them but because I was a child, I shouldn’t have had to. A […]

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Anger is Sadness Set on Fire by Megan Tyler

Posted on Aug 28, 2014Feb 14, 2019 by Megan Tyler

My mother made a slide show for my grandfather’s funeral, and I would stand in silence, observing the process, and she pushed me aside as if she was hiding a secret between the words she had typed onto that empty page and she did not want me to look beyond the letters.   The remains […]

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For My Daughter by Tina Lear

Posted on Aug 25, 2014Nov 3, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

I missed out on feeling your handprints, sticky with doughnut frosting, on my face, on the face of my days. I missed out on being your personal dragon slayer, the guard at your childhood door, the one who saw, and did something. Sometimes I go back, and I’m at the kitchen window, and you come […]

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A Memoir of Boredom by Aparna Datey

Posted on Aug 16, 2014Nov 3, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

“I’m bored, Mom.” My twelve-year-old daughter, Mita, spat out the words. I knew this was a prelude to the next question, and it came predictably disguised as a polite inquiry with undertones of a demand. “Can I play on the computer?” I shook my head, and the no-nonsense look quelled the teetering complaints on her […]

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