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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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Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Sea

  • Anna Hundert
  • March 17, 2021
The beach was shrinking. That was how we thought of it at first.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn

  • Ariel Gore
  • February 24, 2021
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos

  • ire’ne lara silva
  • February 10, 2021
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness

  • Amir Ahmadi Arian
  • January 27, 2021
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk

  • Diana Veiga
  • December 30, 2020
She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?

  • Nadia Shahbaz
  • December 16, 2020
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook

  • Ashley Lopez
  • November 25, 2020
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Fictions by Kelsey Norris

  • Kelsey Norris
  • October 28, 2020
It was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
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