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For Now

  • Jessica Wahlstrom
  • November 5, 2020
If I get sick again and I can’t get better, my heart will break too intensely.
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Fool Me Once

  • Amory Rowe Salem
  • October 6, 2020
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life

  • Mary Mandeville
  • May 6, 2020
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
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The Algorithm of Love

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • December 3, 2018
The life I had doesn’t flash like I see in movies. The life I want is what stares ahead.
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CAN-CER-VIVE

  • Elizabeth Ann Reed
  • October 29, 2018
I’ve only had breast cancer once and already I know too much.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement

  • Adrienne Celt
  • October 17, 2018
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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Naked in Japan

  • Jenessa Abrams
  • October 16, 2018
Thin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
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What Did You Expect, Though?

  • Mallika Rao
  • March 6, 2018
The immune system, meant to protect a body from foreign invaders, works too assiduously, sees danger where there is none, turns on itself. Such conditions lend themselves to metaphor.
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What to Read When It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  • Anna Leahy
  • October 27, 2017
A list of books that offer various ways to understand what breast cancer means in our lives, individually and collectively.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Grace

  • Brandon Taylor
  • July 10, 2017
After the anger came a deep, resigned sadness, as if her cruise were canceled at the last minute. She’s stuck on the shore of her life, watching everyone she loves sail into the distance.
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Fire

  • Marcia Aldrich
  • June 19, 2015
The line between impulsive and planned suicide is thinner than one might think.
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Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship

  • Emily Rapp Black
  • January 22, 2012
Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories.
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