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  • Split
    Fiction
    Sian M. Jones
    Aug 21, 2026

    Split

    It was appropriate to laugh. She laughed. He seemed younger than that to her, somehow, and also older. During the first date, when he’d slipped off his hat at one point and turned so his legs extended out from under…

  • Cover Reveal: Oppo by Christopher Beha
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    The Rumpus
    Aug 20, 2026

    Cover Reveal: Oppo by Christopher Beha

    We are happy to reveal the cover of Christopher Beha’s novel Oppo, coming from Tin House on May 18, 2027. From the publisher: “From National Book Award–longlisted Christopher Beha, a gripping, twisty novel that pulls back the curtain on who…

  • The War with Pigs and Dogs
    Fiction
    Hossam Belal
    Aug 20, 2026

    The War with Pigs and Dogs

    Greed and malice gleamed in the eyes of the attendees; some wanted their brother’s possessions, others wanted to kill their fathers, brothers, and everyone else to enjoy the earth’s riches alone. So all the attendees said in unison: “Give us…

  • Girl on Girl (Week Three): Lust Without Equity Is Desperation, Regardless of the Story We Tell Ourselves
    Culture
    Rebecca Woolf
    Aug 20, 2026

    Girl on Girl (Week Three): Lust Without Equity Is Desperation, Regardless of the Story We Tell Ourselves

    When a woman identifies with a man’s needs over her own, she has enabled her own abandonment.

  • On the Question of My Typographical Intentions Running across a White Page or A Brief Undercurrent, if You Will, on Messaging within US-American Popular Culture: A Haibun
    Essays
    Chaun Ballard
    Aug 20, 2026

    On the Question of My Typographical Intentions Running across a White Page or A Brief Undercurrent, if You Will, on Messaging within US-American Popular Culture: A Haibun

    My maternal grandmother, born & raised in Mississippi, birthed at least two of my aunts & two of my uncles within the state, but I have never lived there myself, so my understandings of place are limited by what I…

  • Trying to Be a Better Listener: A Conversation with Jenny Browne
    Interviews
    Burgin Streetman
    Aug 19, 2026

    Trying to Be a Better Listener: A Conversation with Jenny Browne

    “The border between what we want and what we risk feels so much more fragile and permeable than I want to admit. Because it’s terrifying and no fun to think about losing what you love, but working on that inside…

  • The Still Point
    Poetry
    Jemma Leigh Roe
    Aug 19, 2026

    The Still Point

    No lines or curves to mimic the alphabet of the body. Her hand here, then gone left a nameless eye

  • You Think That’s Bad
    Fiction
    J.T. Townley
    Aug 19, 2026

    You Think That’s Bad

    In the desert of Turkmenistan, the temperature inside the Derweze Crater can reach more than 1,800° Fahrenheit. Locals dub the fire pit the Door to Hell. But maybe they’re missing something important, Aries. Maybe everyone is—fire is not only a…

  • Gravity
    Essays
    Diana Anaya
    Aug 18, 2026

    Gravity

    Poverty is like being inside a black hole, or what I imagine a black hole to be. Like swimming through a thick dark that reaches up to your neck, and all you feel is the slimy cold, clenching your throat…

  • The Dream State of Metafiction & Wild Freedom of Short Stories: An Interview with Jess Row
    Interviews
    Kim Weldin
    Aug 18, 2026

    The Dream State of Metafiction & Wild Freedom of Short Stories: An Interview with Jess Row

    “I wanted to do something very different. Something more explicitly political, more deeply experimental in the sense of using metafiction, not just as a clever way of reminding the reader that they’re reading a construct, but metafiction that really digs…

  • The Space We Make for Each Other
    Comics
    Allison Cole
    Aug 18, 2026

    The Space We Make for Each Other

    My son taught me that the way someone moves through the world isn’t a problem to solve. It’s a measure of how much room we are willing to make.

  • Amelia
    El Alboroto, Fiction
    Andrea Villa Franco
    Aug 18, 2026

    Amelia

    No era apenas que ella estuviese perdiendo de vista a las personas y las cosas. Más bien parecía como si todo se estuviera disolviendo. Incluso las memorias estaban perdiendo sus contornos. La playa, la muchedumbre sobre la arena, sus primas…

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