The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Are Not Dead
"The wants and desires of dead people, the one’s they didn’t get to fulfill—that’s what slays me...What if they wanted more? What if they didn’t want to leave behind the things they left behind?"
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Jennifer Pastiloff
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Mika Yamamoto is a creative writing master’s student at Central Michigan University. She is most famous amongst her cohorts for her obsession with food and business that is none of her own. Her short stories and essays have been published in Noon, Nimrod Journal, Wet: A Journal in Proper Bathing, Karamu, North Dakota Quarterly, Palo Alto Review, Lake Effect, Compass Rose, Red Wheelbarrow, Talking River, Rambler, and others. She currently lives in Midland, MI with her husband, four children, and no plants.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ruptured
I think about that night a lot, how I knew the ambulance was coming for us. Call me Magic, if you want. I won’t object. Who doesn’t want to be called Magic? Was it magic or do we always know before we know?
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Possession
A bad play; a lover whose name has slipped forever into the cracks of history; a crash on a deserted highway in the middle of the night...Jennifer Pastiloff remembers the ingredients of jealousy, shame, regret, and the transformational power of the stories we tell ourselves.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ghost Lives
"Here’s what you do when that pile starts talking. You light a match. Light it all on fire and watch it burn with a combination of sadness and elation."
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Getting Made (in honor of Ronan Louis and Emily Rapp)
The Rumpus joins yoga teacher Jennifer Pastiloff in remembering Emily Rapp's son, Ronan Louis, whose brief, remarkable life ended in the early morning hours on February 15.