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  • Voices on Addiction

Voices on Addiction: A Small, Dry Place

  • Julie FitzGerald
  • May 27, 2025
My earliest impressions of my father are like the negatives in a reel of over-exposed 35mm film, the kind of images that were returned from the photo lab with quality control stickers, marked “light damaged.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Dead Man Sink

  • Mae Juniper Stokes
  • May 26, 2025
Bennie knew her mother wasn’t beautiful. She knew this because her mother wouldn’t swim.
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  • We Are More

We Are More: Ghazal of my Childhood

  • Rayya Liebich
  • May 22, 2025
I remember being told Onsi was a poor artist barely able to feed his family, and my mother, an admirer of his art and a lover of nature, bought all his paintings.
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Contrast, Rumination, and Metamorphosis: Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster

  • Aiden Hunt
  • May 21, 2025
As in her debut, Antigua heads off any feelings of confessional monotony by mixing her diary poems with an elegant variety of lesser confessional, more expositional poems.
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  • Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Find Me in the Light

  • Priyanka Bose
  • May 19, 2025
I can never figure out the right rhythm and I’m always off beat—interrupting at the wrong moment, letting the silence hang for far too long.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Casserole

  • Katie McIvor
  • May 16, 2025
He trusted her. He loved her. He was waiting for her to provide.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Katherine Tunning

  • Katherine Tunning
  • May 15, 2025
Thoughts well up like that sometimes. / Brief pleasure in watching them blossom, / cutting them off. Today is slow. / I expect tomorrow will be also.
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  • ENOUGH

ENOUGH: The Last Beautiful Day

  • Jen Shepherd
  • May 13, 2025
The day holds so much promise.
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  • Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: The Sun Never Sets on the Sunrise Highway

  • Connor White
  • May 12, 2025
With so little going on, we get to talking. Talk about the past, chitchat to pass the time.
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  • Funny Women

Funny Women: Advice for Midlife Lady Writers

  • Jody Callahan
  • May 9, 2025
Do not use a frowny face when forwarding your manuscript to an editor. Do not write “frowny face” either.
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Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress

  • Robert Manaster
  • May 7, 2025
Bige as an in-your-face activist-poet resists the colonizer through a poetry they themselves appropriate and transform mainly via language play and voice into an indigenous poetry of personal redemption.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Twinsies

  • Megan Howell
  • May 5, 2025
Whatever happened to that one secretary from your job? The one who likes talking about murders instead of doing any work? I bet she already knows more about Aida than I do.
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