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Rumpus Original Fiction: New Build

  • Jillian Grant
  • September 15, 2021
“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Greener

  • Alex Watson
  • August 25, 2021
I can tell he knows exactly what kind of trouble I like.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hatch

  • Christy Stillwell
  • August 11, 2021
What did it matter? It was June and the salmonfly hatch had begun.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Barong

  • E. P. Tuazon
  • July 28, 2021
Appearance aside, my boss took his work seriously.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Daddies and Sons

  • Kim Coleman Foote
  • July 14, 2021
When Jeb was old enough to have a family of his own, he hardly ever laid hands on his boys.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight

  • Davon Loeb
  • June 30, 2021
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Purity Party

  • Bailey Cunningham
  • June 16, 2021
I used to be able to teach sex without thinking about sex.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Poor People Disappear

  • Ira Sukrungruang
  • May 26, 2021
Nothing is not right. There is no indication there has ever been a house.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sin Miedo

  • Marcela Fuentes
  • May 12, 2021
Just the two of us. Daddy and me. Charro and escaramuza.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Notes Toward the End of the World

  • Thaisa Frank
  • April 27, 2021
At the beginning of the trip, we couldn’t wait to reach the end of the world.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Additional Skills Include

  • Katerina Ivanov Prado
  • April 13, 2021
Patience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams

  • Maria Kuznetsova
  • March 31, 2021
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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