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Basura

September 21st, 2017

[T]erms like “white trash” and basura most accurately reveal those who are doing the defining. Consider what we throw away, and why. Look at what we throw away. Think about the reasons why.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: My Souls Are Out A-Wandering

By Emily Schikora

April 23rd, 2017

What is marriage but another form of colonization? A renaming? A power taken, a power taken away?

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Post-Election Dispatch: Charleston, SC

By Emily Rosko

November 29th, 2016

Right now as I write this, smoke from fires in the southeastern Appalachian Mountains haze the morning. We’re under orange alert—the air quality bad enough that schoolchildren will stay indoors today. This morning the coastal flooding is up again thanks to the powerful tidal pulls of the recent supermoon. On my errand this morning, I […]

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Wolves

By Alison Stine

November 28th, 2016

This is how the election changed me, though: I fear white women, too.

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Bring It

By Marcia Aldrich

June 17th, 2016

I used to like my mother best when she killed a spider or fly with the palm of her hand.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Grow

By Ishelle Payer

December 4th, 2015

I look like springtime, everyone agrees. Soon I’ve added a pair of gloves, brand new, but stomped in the dirt for authenticity’s sake.

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Fire

By Marcia Aldrich

June 19th, 2015

The line between impulsive and planned suicide is thinner than one might think.

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Something to Do with Evolution

By Sarah Sheesley

May 11th, 2015

I used to be younger than I am now. I used to live in a charming, rundown little house, and now I don’t.

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On Loving and Leaving New York: Home

By Melissa Febos

October 14th, 2013

Driving down Second Avenue, we saw the usuals: skater kids and college students, queens and models and junkies. My heart hurt more and more. The landmarks of my most troubled memories now filled my heart with longing. I even missed my ghosts.

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