The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths

Autobiography as Muscle Memory by Sandy Longhorn

Posted on Feb 20, 2014Mar 1, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

Traveling to the house of born and raised, I dredge a map from muscle memory. If I said the bones called me home, I’d be taking the easy way out; instead, it was the scent of blood I bled when pounding shingles into the roof, the sweat of July making the hammer slip […]

Fairytale for Girls who Seek to Meet the Horizon by Sandy Longhorn

Posted on Feb 6, 2014Mar 1, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

Once there was a girl born quiet on these rolling hills, her throat dry, her lips and tongue gone tangled. She listened well enough and learned to keep a house as trim and neat as her mother, was introduced to boys from town in hopes she’d find a match. It was then she […]