Voices on Addiction: Washed Clean
That’s when I noticed John the Baptist standing chest-high in the middle of the narrow, easy-moving river.
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Posts Tagged: alcoholism
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: The Gray Area
The unspoken family sentiment: If everyone worked hard and the bills were paid, that was all that mattered. There was no room for emotions.
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Voices on Addiction: The Neighbor
I wanted to write about opioids because I didn’t have an opioid problem.
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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: Vessel
We both can disappear in our own ways, can’t we?
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Voices on Addiction: Keep It Simple, Sweetheart
Finding joy in the now, even as death and difficulty mark the days, is possible, a choice, and a practice.
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The Isolation of Millennial Life: Ancco’s Nineteen
Nineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
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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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Poetry as Incantation: Talking with Andrea Actis
Andrea Actis discusses her debut book, GREY ALL OVER.
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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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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Kayleb Rae Candrilli discusses their new poetry collection, WATER I WON’T TOUCH.
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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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Fool Me Once
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
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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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Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Voices on Addiction: A Body Full of Ghosts
I’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
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The Harder, Truer Thing: Talking with Chelsea Bieker
Chelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
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Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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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: The Opposite of Hallelujah
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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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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