Rumpus Original Fiction: Organ Donor
“How did you decide to make this donation?” the reporter asked.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Paul Hlava Ceballos
Ay chiquitín, I think but do not say— / the language and tone feel / of another world.
One Can Be Alive Again: Madeleine Cravens’s Pleasure Principle
Cravens’s reliance on and loyalty to the image become a propulsive, vibrating force—this is a poetics of presence, of that which is tangible....
Voices on Addiction: Tender
Words can’t capture a personality like numbers can’t capture a person.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Leaves of a Cypress Tree
You had to knock thrice slowly on the door’s edge, said Grandma, and if she didn’t reply, that meant she didn’t want you to come inside.
ENOUGH: Three Poems
I spoke of Love as they speak of God in court, / distant and hypothetical. Something I might bow to / if you could prove it to me.
We Are More: Two Poems by Nur Turkmani
Some afternoons are soft / this way. We miss them as they are happening. / How did we begin to cry?
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by P. Scott Cunningham
I love to yuck a yum, if it can be done safely / and in communion with someone I love.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Nocturnal
There is, however, an urgency. And, urgently, she tells you stories.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Sun-Up
“You know what I mean. It really just makes you think about the shortness of life and shit.”
Funny Women: If Editors Rejected Me How Men Break Up with Me
“This magazine just needs to be alone right now.”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Hayun Cho
My task is to open the small Styrofoam containers / of rice, to make sure the woman next to me / can reach what her appetite longs for.