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Rumpus Original Fiction: Breaking Through

I read somewhere that sounds don’t stop, they keep going all the way into deep space, reflecting off whatever might be in the way and speeding infinitely on. My head feels like deep space, and those voices haven’t even begun to wind down in there.

I Am No One’s Graveyard: An Interview With No‘u Revilla

Sometimes a poem is a rock, and sometimes rocks turn into flowers. And no matter how many poems I write about aloha and decolonial futures, they may still try to kill me

Sketch Book Reviews: Birds and Us by Tim Birkhead

THE BIRDS AND US, written by Tim Birkhead and released August 2022 from Princeton Review Press, is atheist perfect mix of history, narrative, and science with a dash of cool illustrations. Throughout the book, readers will learn about everything from bird cave paintings, to birdwatching, and everything in between.

From the Archive: Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Morgan Parker

I am only as lonely / as anybody else, I say / at lunch downtown, examining / my worth.

Late Night Ruminations of an Imagined Therapy Session

We Are More: The Bad Ones

"My father says he's sorry about the noise, but he wants you to know that we wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for 1953 and the American overthrow of Iran's democracy."

You Don’t See the Whole Young Man until the Very End: An Interview with Douglas Stuart

The amount of pressure on young men still to get on with it and to bottle it up and to be strong and be certain is overwhelming. And it shows in the UK. The suicide rates for men are so high. It’s a mental health issue. We don’t allow men to express themselves or talk about their vulnerability, and we blame them for a lot; we get to that phrase “toxic masculinity” really quickly. I don’t believe masculinity is always toxic, I just think sometimes it’s very unhealthy and we need to examine it and open it up.

Resonance

The first thing a baby learns is silence.

A Sultry Register: Nichole Perkins’s Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be

In early May I was scrolling through Twitter when I came across a post from author Nichole Perkins that piqued my interest. It was a sexy tweet—in a string of…

Feeling Comfortable Enough to Be Funny Is What Makes Me Want to Write Fiction: A Conversation with Megan Giddings

There was a long stretch where I tried actively not to make things I wrote funny because of a disastrous undergrad fiction workshop where I spent thirty minutes just listening to people complain that a story had jokes. And wouldn’t it have been so much better if the author had let us pay attention to the emotions? Lol.

Rumpus Original Fiction: Genesis

The speed boat moves fast and Genesis notices Kayla’s hair keeps getting into her eyes. She laughs, as do all the others, who bounce up and down and let out…

ENOUGH: Survivor Sisterhood

“We both survived him,” I said.

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