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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: No Good

  • Hala Alyan
  • December 26, 2022
The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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Uncomfortable Truths: The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan

  • Anne Graue
  • September 27, 2019
Making it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
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TORCH: Blood Trauma

  • Nadia Owusu
  • May 8, 2017
But still: A pattern. The trauma had been diluted by time. But, it was still present, still discernible, in my blood.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #13: Such Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

  • Charles Kruger
  • December 30, 2016
Do you keep a dream journal? I started as a teenager, and continue on-and-off. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between a dream and a memory. Does this happen to…
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Leaving Aleppo: Crossing Syria’s Most Dangerous Checkpoints

  • Raluca Albu and Raad Rahman
  • September 19, 2016
After four years of ceaseless bombing and brutality, the security of life itself has been reduced in Aleppo to horror, terror, and scarcity of basic human resources.
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