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The Saddest Story I’ve Ever Read

  • Stephen Elliott
  • March 21, 2014
"She began to nod. She was holding onto a carton of milk. It would spill. Like diarrhea-in-the-bed all over again. Another mess. The daughter tried to take the carton of milk away. She… held on defiantly." - From I Want To Live by Thom Jones
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The 52/52 Project: Detours off the Cul-de-sac

  • Sherry Stanfa-Stanley
  • November 5, 2013
When I chose belly dancing classes as the first of my fifty-two new experiences in the year I would turn fifty-two, I knew looking sexy was a long shot.
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On Loving and Leaving New York: Home

  • Melissa Febos
  • October 14, 2013
Driving down Second Avenue, we saw the usuals: skater kids and college students, queens and models and junkies. My heart hurt more and more. The landmarks of my most troubled memories now filled my heart with longing. I even missed my ghosts.
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On Loving And Leaving New York: Currency

  • Elisa Albert
  • October 14, 2013
Maybe you’ll be an actress. Maybe you’ll do stand up. Maybe you’ll suck dick for money.
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826 VALENCIA DAYS

  • Tom Kealey
  • September 20, 2013
The school year has begun, and this essay from Tom Kealey illustrates an afternoon-in-the-life of a volunteer at the San Francisco tutoring center 826 Valencia
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The Rumpus Interview with Audrey Petty

  • Stephen Elliott
  • September 17, 2013
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises.
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Three Breaths

  • Lily O'Delia
  • July 24, 2013
On some of my lowest days, she lets me into her office, and I submerge myself in the world of her wild past and how she overcame it
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Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Chester Brown

  • David Henry Sterry
  • June 19, 2013
Chester Brown is an award-winning Toronto cartoonist who wrote the graphic memoir Paying For It
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An Oyster Named Dan

  • Jack Pendarvis
  • June 12, 2013
In the following story, excerpted from Lucky Peach, one man meets a very special oyster, and together they embark on a fateful homeward journey.
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Jokes Taught Me About Sex

  • Andrew Hudgins
  • June 7, 2013
This is what my parents told me about sex: nothing. Not one word. Ever.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Color, Brain Cancer, and the Possibility I am Already Dead

  • Davis Schneiderman
  • June 2, 2013
When the author discovers that even his "favorite color" isn't safe from reinvention, he sets out to explore what it means to maintain a fixed identity over time.
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A Peek Inside Mermaid in Chelsea Creek

  • Jason Polan
  • May 24, 2013
We wade into Michelle Tea’s new novel, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, with a collection of enticing excerpted illustrations by Jason Polan.
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