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An Itch to Scratch

  • Ajay Patri
  • May 20, 2025
I grew up speaking a different Kannada at home. In Bangalore, I have had to relearn the language all over again.
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Why a Happy Ending Matters: A Review of John Vercher’s Novels

  • Maya Williams
  • May 20, 2025
To appreciate John Vercher’s complete oeuvre of fiction, we have to appreciate what has remained throughout his work and what has shifted.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Find Me in the Light

  • Priyanka Bose
  • May 19, 2025
I can never figure out the right rhythm and I’m always off beat—interrupting at the wrong moment, letting the silence hang for far too long.
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I Needed Love Poems For Myself: A Conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate

  • Gabrielle Grace Hogan
  • May 19, 2025
I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up physical space in the poems and the pages.
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The allure of elsewhere
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Prince Edward Island

  • Karen Babine
  • May 16, 2025
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

  • Katie McIvor
  • May 16, 2025
He trusted her. He loved her. He was waiting for her to provide.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Katherine Tunning

  • Katherine Tunning
  • May 15, 2025
Thoughts well up like that sometimes. / Brief pleasure in watching them blossom, / cutting them off. Today is slow. / I expect tomorrow will be also.
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The First Book: Veena Dinavahi

  • Veena Dinavahi
  • May 14, 2025
Make your own meaning. It sounds cliché, but I’ve come to accept it as a survival skill.
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ENOUGH: The Last Beautiful Day

  • Jen Shepherd
  • May 13, 2025
The day holds so much promise.
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“Three Initiates”: On Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L

  • Erin Vachon
  • May 13, 2025
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.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Sun Never Sets on the Sunrise Highway

  • Connor White
  • May 12, 2025
With so little going on, we get to talking. Talk about the past, chitchat to pass the time.
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The Tightrope Walk of Making Comics: A Conversation with María Medem

  • Eliza Harris
  • May 12, 2025
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.
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