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Rumpus Original Fiction: Lifers

  • David Aloi
  • January 9, 2019
We were beginning to exist on the periphery of our own lives.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Flap

  • Marlin M. Jenkins
  • December 26, 2018
A flap to determine entry, or deny it. A flap whose failure determines choking.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Beginnings

  • Shelly Oria
  • November 28, 2018
It is often a curse, this imagination of mine. Life pales in comparison.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Maggie Cooper

  • Maggie Cooper
  • November 14, 2018
Will you join us? When you are ready, lie down to rest.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Lavaliere

  • MH Rowe
  • October 31, 2018
Every monster has a history with another monster.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement

  • Adrienne Celt
  • October 17, 2018
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Love Is That?

  • Elizabeth Gonzalez James
  • September 12, 2018
Nothing in Texas came easy.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: New Hallways, New Doors

  • Alison Wisdom
  • August 29, 2018
Now it is nearly fall, and the baby is small and pink.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: All Good Things Come to an End

  • Colleen Mayo
  • August 15, 2018
I didn’t feel bad about lying because the truth would have hurt her.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Marnie Marie Lit a Match

  • Catherine Mitchell
  • July 25, 2018
The only way to guarantee a secret is for the only person to know about it be you.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Earth Revolves around the Sun

  • Vanessa Cuti
  • July 11, 2018
I imagined myself from the outside: the picture of a woman waiting.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Lacking World

  • Mehdi M. Kashani
  • June 13, 2018
I acted childishly. But, in my defense, it was childish only if we actually lived in a world where Shakespeare had never existed.
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