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The gas station attendant looks at me and says, "My advice, get out of town." There’s no snark in his voice. He’s worried.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Casserole
He trusted her. He loved her. He was waiting for her to provide.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Katherine Tunning
Thoughts well up like that sometimes. / Brief pleasure in watching them blossom, / cutting them off. Today is slow. / I expect tomorrow will be also.
The First Book: Veena Dinavahi
Make your own meaning. It sounds cliché, but I’ve come to accept it as a survival skill.
“Three Initiates”: On Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L
When Thornton’s characters’ lives on and off screen drastically diverge, A/S/L not only satisfies nostalgia, but catapults the narrative to a whole new level.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Sun Never Sets on the Sunrise Highway
With so little going on, we get to talking. Talk about the past, chitchat to pass the time.
The Tightrope Walk of Making Comics: A Conversation with María Medem
I have a love for showing movement and things as they are. I feel very uncomfortable when things are abrupt, especially if the story doesn’t call for it.
What to Read When You Can’t Catch a Break
What reliably got me out of that slump was writing more and reading literature that lifted me out of my immediate crisis (I can’t go on!) and into the world (and yet we must!).
Funny Women: Advice for Midlife Lady Writers
Do not use a frowny face when forwarding your manuscript to an editor. Do not write “frowny face” either.
Long-term Art Project
She hid out in a bathroom, calling out for her father. She called him "daddy," a term she hadn't used since she was a child.
Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress
Bige as an in-your-face activist-poet resists the colonizer through a poetry they themselves appropriate and transform mainly via language play and voice into an indigenous poetry of personal redemption.