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A Donne for Our Times: on Deed by torrin a. greathouse

  • Kat Matson
  • June 27, 2025
Worlds cannot be built from scratch, though, and many of greathouse’s poems find building blocks in existing works. These uses go beyond mere reference and reveal new resonances in even the most familiar sources
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Red Zone

  • Jennifer Galvão
  • June 26, 2025
That night, when I confessed to never having used a tampon before, not having a mom around to explain it, Cami locked us both into a bathroom stall and showed me how.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Megan Pinto

  • Megan Pinto
  • June 25, 2025
The Doe Because of the rain, the meadowis empty. How quickly the trainvanishes this view. I press my ear to blank paper, hopingto hear you, waiting for a break in…
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The Rumpus Prize in Fiction, First Place: Aimee LaBrie

  • Aimee LaBrie
  • June 16, 2025
The first part went as expected: the countback with the anesthesiologist, the prepping of the surgical area, the instruments arranged just so.
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We Are More: Crossing at Allenby

  • Farah Alhaddad
  • June 16, 2025
While deception had always been a feature of warfare, the emergence of radio communication, ciphers, and submarines created a new theater for subterfuge in the ‘Great War.’
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Ronny James

  • Anthony Koranda
  • June 9, 2025
“What is that?” your mother said, taking another drag from her cigarette.
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Funny Women: A Notice for Library Patrons

  • Sara Masciola
  • June 6, 2025
Questions? Comments? Too bad.
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The Rumpus Prize in Poetry, First Place: Georgio Russell

  • Georgio Russell
  • June 5, 2025
"Ode to the Black Man Nod"
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Second of April

  • Preeti Vangani
  • June 2, 2025
On the third fools’ day, Ma was shrinking downward and I was floating upward.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Brian Gyamfi

  • Brian Gyamfi
  • May 29, 2025
Soon after the rain, no sound is heard. / No fluttering of wings. / Just a silent house in a city / and father, haunted with visions / of barely and fire.
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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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