Wear Your Book’s Emotions!
Move over, e-books—there’s a new innovation in reading technology! The folks over at MIT have developed a wearable book that lets the reader experience the character’s emotions while they read.…
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Ashley Perez
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Ashley Perez lives, writes, and causes trouble in Los Angeles. She has a strong affinity for tattoos, otters, cat mystery books, and actual cats, but has mixed feelings about pants. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She runs the literary site Arts Collide and does work of all varieties for Women Who Submit, Entropy, Jaded Ibis Press, and Why There Are Words. You can find her on Twitter at @ArtsCollide.
On Apologizing and Forgiveness
It has been several years since all this went down, and from an outsider’s perspective I’ve mostly gotten over it. For a while it put a halt on everything good…
All We Need Is A Hand
“This morning, I carried my packages down to the parking lot, still slick from the rain, and loaded them into the car. When I closed the trunk, I saw the…
Mexican Pain Pills and Butterflies
Rumpus managing editor Zoë Ruiz has a new essay at Ohio Edit. She talks about pain management, sex, friendship, and visions. “On Tuesday night, I drive to a bar on Spring Street…
Is the comma going the way of the Dodo?
Much is being said of the Oxford comma recently and if it is really needed but what if the comma is going the way of the Dodo bird? Is the…
Live like Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin had a rigid schedule and something must have been right, he was instrumental in developing our country and a savvy businessman. Tim Goessling at the Good Men Project…
The Meaning of Family Roles
I choose to believe the label “godmother” means something. I was connected to my godmother by the ceremony, and the birthday cards, and the word itself. She wanted to be…
Love and Mark Ruffalo
Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz has an essay at The Nervous Breakdown about the two times she saw Mark Ruffalo and why she couldn’t talk about the first time for…
Happiness is Overrated
Critical theorist Mari Ruti writes about how humans may not be built for happiness: “If all of that isn’t enough to make you suspicious of the cultural injunction to be…
The Gender Identity Talk
The “parts” that are covered up by our underpants are private. It’s no one’s business to ask about them or talk about them. (That goes for the parents, too!) If…
A Failing Writer’s Perspective on Taking Risks
Yuvi Zalkow, author of A Brilliant Novel in the Works, has a hilarious series on his site called, “I’m A Failed Writer”. In the 15th installment in the series, Yuvi…
When can online comments help?
We have written about the dangers of reading the comments before online. There are times however when it can be beneficial. Simone Supekar writes over at The Atlantic about how…