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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 […]

The One Thing I Can’t Forgive by Jessie Bacho

Posted on Aug 13, 2014Nov 3, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

I walk into the hospital playroom, it’s the first time I’ve seen my sister since… She’s playing with Barbie, looks up and sees me– she actually smiles. I’m afraid of her face, mauled with stitches. Fifty-three, they whisper. Each one my fault. I’m the big sister. I’m five, she’s only three. I should have protected […]