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Swallowing the Darkness: Gag Reflex by Elle Nash

  • Matthew James Pucci
  • July 12, 2022
““i’m soft-skinned but my bones have hardened calcium deposited cartilage, the fat around my heart lithified with the carnage of constrictors around tiny mice ribs, squeezed till it removes the soft mealy insides. sucked out by standards i will never reach. by these industry snakes."
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Parallax

  • Alanna Weissman
  • January 24, 2022
Summer was ending, and my sister was shrinking. I first noticed when we were sitting on the dock near the lake at our summer camp; as she stretched her bare…
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Felt Space

  • Lee Anderson
  • September 23, 2021
If I were to stare into a mirror, I’m not sure I would see anything back.
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion

  • Patrycja Humienik
  • May 27, 2021
With Gabrielle Bates, I.S. Jones, and Erin Marie Lynch.
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Fields of Light

  • Vanessa Nirode
  • May 18, 2020
Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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Pursuing the Unattainable: A Conversation with Zaina Arafat

  • Emily Stochl
  • May 13, 2020
Zaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
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Small Breeds

  • Jackie Connelly
  • March 17, 2020
How do people function without the false promises of pressure?
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Everything Tastes Better in Winter

  • Lucia Iglesias
  • October 29, 2019
Perfection over pasta. Beauty over bread. The more it hurt, the better.
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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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When Our Inner Voices Speak: Reema Zaman’s I Am Yours

  • Julie Moon
  • March 6, 2019
Reema’s book teems with gorgeous metaphors.
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Reclaiming Our Power: A Conversation with Reema Zaman

  • Raz Tal
  • February 13, 2019
Reema Zaman discusses her debut memoir, I AM YOURS.
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Smoke Screen

  • A. Martine
  • January 3, 2019
I am an oracle who, while dispensing answers to all those who seek them, cannot predict my own future.
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