Rumpus Exclusive: “Dirty Little Secrets”
They were alone, and in his apartment, but not in the way he’d imagined it to be.
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Join NOW!They were alone, and in his apartment, but not in the way he’d imagined it to be.
...moreDeesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
...moreI had my first affair when I was twenty and didn’t own a lot of nice clothes yet. I have a photo he took of me, sitting on a plastic chair outside an abandoned steel mill. In it, I’m wearing a coat with some kind of gray weave, something smaller than houndstooth. It fit me but didn’t; I wasn’t old enough to know how to wear it.
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