Rumpus Exclusive: “Iron Heart”
Speech seemed like an irreverence, as if the empty schools were tombs.
...moreSpeech seemed like an irreverence, as if the empty schools were tombs.
...moreBut there is freedom and possibility in not knowing.
...moreBehind DOOR NUMBER ONE / is a hammer, to break the wings off angels.
...moreAs if he had just made a decision, Max said, “Drop me at Red Square.”
...more“The devil has made a fool of you, but do you know Wisdom is at work, too?”
...moreI liked the skeptical way she looked at me. I liked the way the air in the house felt with her in it.
...moreA Rumpus exclusive excerpt from Dana Schwartz’s memoir, Choose Your Own Disaster, out today from Grand Central Publishing!
...moreThree exclusive excerpts from the anthology Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, forthcoming on June 5!
...moreMy mother says that I was born with my eyes open, and that I was looking at her.
...moreThe revolution will begin at your curb, in the shallow pool of shade that is your gutter.
...moreSometimes a story suddenly changes.
...moreOnce upon a time, there was a man and a wife and a child that the wife decided she didn’t want.
...morePreview Myriam Gurba’s forward to this forthcoming Sapphic Classics reprint, and an original poem from the collection by tatiana de la tierra!
...moreKashan stares out at the crowd. “Saddam was hard. This is also hard.”
...moreI don’t feel ashamed of my history, I feel ashamed of letting it be erased.
...moreOn certain nights, if I’m lucky, wisps of the shore begin to glow blue, an unearthly electric color, like someone in the sea has a flashlight and is shining it upward.
...moreWomen grooming their daughters to be good housewives teach them how to cook, no? A woman grooming her daughter to be something else in the world would keep her out of the kitchen.
...moreOff what did Humpty Dumpty fall?
...moreThree exclusive excerpts from …AFTERWORDS, a new series of distinctive commentaries on great works of contemporary literature from our friends at Fiction Advocate!
...moreAfter my mom hangs herself, I become Nancy Drew. I am looking for clues, for evidence. Answers.
...moreAn exclusive excerpt from I, Parrot, by Deb Olin Unferth & Elizabeth Haidle, forthcoming from Catapult and Black Balloon on November 1.
...moreBut Aster was all there. She felt herself existing.
...moreIn the last moment, the bird swerved away to the right. It soared high, wheeled in a circle, and dove again. This time, it pulled itself directly upward. Gold plumes flashed as it rose, wings churning as it turned.
...moreHis goal was to erase me.
...moreMatthew Gallaway’s new novel, #gods, is out this month from Fiction Advocate.
...moreHe is a bird, he and that silver scull, a bird. Would I ever have that grace?
...moreAn exclusive excerpt from The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People, out today from Plume, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
...moreRick Moody talks with Abraham Burickson, Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, a San Francisco-based theater company whose works are designed for an audience of one.
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