We Are More: Crossing at Allenby
While deception had always been a feature of warfare, the emergence of radio communication, ciphers, and submarines created a new theater for subterfuge in the ‘Great War.’
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Ronny James
“What is that?” your mother said, taking another drag from her cigarette.
Each Of Us A Pale Blue Dot
An alien observes the little H-shaped space station orbiting an increasingly dilapidated earth and wonders, What are these humans up to? “Why do they go nowhere but round and round?”…
The Rumpus Prize in Nonfiction, First Place: Daniel B. Summerhill
A tight plot of land with poverty gripping the neck of its residents even tighter. The same way America held off on recognizing street gangs as an issue until blood was spilt outside of the hood in 1988 in Westwood Village, Oakland officials knew enclosing us that way was a type of genocide.
At Disney, I Cry Over the Water Buffalos
There are six of you in Animal Kingdom, in the section called “Asia,” and I joke to my American friends that I am home.
Misperceptions, Assumptions, and Slurs: Jackie Domenus’s No Offense
Even when doing the work to figure ourselves out, even within the seemingly safest of spaces, we must grapple with how others contain and label us.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Second of April
On the third fools’ day, Ma was shrinking downward and I was floating upward.