James Offenhartz

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“Claire's Left Hand” by James Offenhartz

Claire’s Left HandBy James S. Offenhartz Where to find a bioengineer, that’s the $64 question. June was about to turn 14 and she didn’t have a left hand. She never had a left hand except prenatally. I, her mother, told June my umbilical chord wrapped around her left hand and cut it off, but June didn’t believe me. She told me that maybe a secret abuser came in the middle of the night to try to abduct June and I grabbed June’s hand to try to stop the kidnapper and June’s hand had come off because I loved her s...

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I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from. Bowling Green State University and am in a writing group on Sundays. I am former assistant editor of Mid-American Review and Prairie Margins and was Fiction Editor of Prairie Margins. I have multiple articles published in the National Spiritualist Summit Magazine,

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