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Rumpus Original Fiction: Obliquity

  • Chloe N. Clark
  • November 4, 2024
Andrea tells me her hallucinations are getting worse, more frequent, more frightening, though she doesn’t elaborate on how.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Application for Admission [DRAFFFFT] from Kaylee River King

  • Mary Margaret Alvarado
  • October 28, 2024
Dear Committee, Please consider my application for admission under your new Charles Schwab Playing Field Initiative, which I believe I qualify for in double spades.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Iqra Khan

  • Iqra Khan
  • October 24, 2024
here/ my uncle is in service of thirty-three / guava trees/ he asks us to gather what the storm / has coaxed to the ground
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Voices on Addiction: Badfish, Don’t Bother Me 

  • Lizz Dawson
  • October 22, 2024
Probably, then and there on the wraparound porch, I should have known to turn around, should have left it all to someone else—the missing key an omen. But I was always going to find it. 
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A Search for Country and Identity in Ayokunle Falomo’s Autobiomythography Of

  • Timi Sanni
  • October 16, 2024
It is Falomo’s legacy of rebirth, in rich, outstanding text, that there are things which must burn in order to be birthed anew
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“Simply tell the story”: A VOA Mini-interview with Nikkya Hargrove

  • Sarah Rosenthal
  • October 11, 2024
...family relationships can and do change, and those we feel “kin” to can also change.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by juj e lepe

  • juj e lepe
  • October 10, 2024
Never mind strange dogs / down murder-hornet ridge, water / nipping at your bones; I will find you
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ENOUGH: Ulcers Like Men’s Eyes

  • Laura Mota-Juang
  • October 8, 2024
a womb becomes a form to be convicted
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy Moms

  • Sanjana Thakur
  • October 7, 2024
It’s nice of the Baptists to let us use this space––though of course, we know they’re trying to convert us. We’re okay with that. It feels good to be wooed.
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We Are More: Three Poems by Marlin M. Jenkins

  • Marlin M. Jenkins
  • October 3, 2024
Because sometimes the gravity / of care is too strong for you to walk.
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Slant Panes of Light: Emilie Menzel’s The Girl Who Became a Rabbit

  • Gina Thayer
  • October 2, 2024
Meaning is fleeting. Meaning is self-made.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: orange is thirsty

  • Angélica Pina Lèbre
  • September 30, 2024
Vultures don't touch the orange. They touch the white.
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