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Rumpus Original Fiction: Birthday at Newkirk Plaza
The woman asks CK if he has a bodega cat. He says no, even though there’s a cat sleeping on a bread box in back.
Funny Women: Now Open for Submissions
Ultimately, we’ll determine your eligibility based on vibes.
A Palestinian Voice in Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha’s Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Here, the will to survive outlasts destruction. Here, Palestinians in Gaza coalesce with the land and its resilient growth and beauty.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Alexa Luborsky
Girl A maintains the story of Girl B about a brother, a father, a tree, and
a kiss. / The story became the thirst for a story, while the river watched.
Voices on Addiction: Learning to Steal
My clothes hung, though, I called it draping. I called it fashion.
Rumpus Original Fiction: We Are the Titanic
We float in the pool and stare at the clouds. My sister says Jack. I say Rose, like a weird game of Marco Polo.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Stories by Mandira Pattnaik
During the Festival, we’re forbidden to eat anything except fruits.
Let it tremble in riotous beauty: Ana Portnoy Brimmer’s To Love an Island
Our love should make us quake, quake like a storm, a storm that tears down “the whole blood-marbled edifice.”
Rumpus Original Fiction: Counting
It’s not the first time you do it, but it is the first time you get caught.
Voices on Addiction: Triggers and Warnings
This is the longest time my brother spends on the ground. I rarely see him, but he’s with me like an invisible second skin. I wear him everywhere.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Photograph
Over time, I detested how the woman jealously occupied his heart so that no other woman ever stepped into our lives or our house.