From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Prescriptions
I wore sobriety like a shirt that was too tight in the shoulders, and everyone around me knew it.
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Lunch Money
Out here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.
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From the Archives: Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit
I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
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Voices on Addiction: Motherless in Albertsons
I am sick with grief, triggered by my mother’s death, in turn triggered by Chardonnay.
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Voices on Addiction: System Failure
“Was it vodka?” Mama said. Her voice had cracks in it. Why ask? She knew.
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Voices on Addiction: Safety in a Blue Light
Television babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
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Voices on Addiction: Semillas
I grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
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Voices on Addiction: Searching for Lilacs
It hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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A Holiday in Hell: Lauren Tivey’s Moroccan Holiday
If you’re going to Hell, bring a good guide.
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Survival Soup
You could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
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Voices on Addiction: Fallen
There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erica C. Barnett
Erica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
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Voices on Addiction: We Love Our Sons, We Raise Our Daughters
Drunk women are targets. Drunk men can be anything.
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Voices on Addiction: Jack and the Boss
My sobriety is still a mystery to me. Forty years this December.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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Uncomfortable Truths: The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
Making it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Emily Arnason Casey
Emily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
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Voices on Addiction: How to Stay
Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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Magic Numbers: A Story of Wanting in Pairs
Find and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber van de Bunt
Amber van de Bunt discusses her debut memoir, OVERCOME.
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Wanted/Need/Loved: Moby’s 30 Rock
It really was art imitating life imitating art imitating life.
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Voices on Addiction: They Call It Spirits
Why was he so broken? And why did his broken make me feel broken, too?
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Voices on Addiction: All the Ways to Save Your Life
But we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
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Both Hard and Soft: Talking with Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera discusses her new novel, DEALING IN DREAMS.
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Voices on Addiction: One More Conversation
That’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #163: Padma Venkatraman
“Stories have a power science doesn’t.”
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Voices on Addiction: Duet
I trust, nowadays. I have to keep at it
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