The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Motel Ecstasy
Alia Volz's artist, expat mom needed to leave Mexico and go back to the United States for a heavy-duty chemo treatment, which meant it was time for a mother-daugther road trip.
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Tessa Torgeson is a social worker by day and writer by night in Denver. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Star Tribune, The Fix, Filter Mag, Manifest-Station, Brevity Blog, and elsewhere. She is an MFA dropout, but still hard at work on a memoir and novel. You can read more of her work here.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Processing Children
The courtroom smells of talcum powder. On this afternoon's docket, we have thirty-four children. Thirty-four out of 35,000 or 57,000 or 90,000 kids who have crossed our borders without permission since last October, depending on which source you trust to make sense of what doesn't.