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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dark Girls”

  • Kendra Allen
  • April 2, 2019
When I was born I came out looking just like them.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”

  • Quintan Ana Wikswo
  • March 19, 2019
I have come to the desert in search of bones.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Music and Me”

  • Dmitry Samarov
  • March 12, 2019
Music has haunted me my whole life.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sisters”

  • Carolyn Kirby
  • March 5, 2019
Language became not words but a glance or the turn of a head.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from A Student of History

  • Nina Revoyr
  • February 19, 2019
It was both daunting and thrilling, all the more surreal because it happened in a place I knew.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “First Amendment (in the moment, grotesquely exotic)”

  • Wendy Willis
  • February 5, 2019
I am not certain where I was when I first heard about the marketplace of ideas.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Marilla of Green Gables

  • Sarah McCoy
  • October 23, 2018
Marilla frowned. She was not versed in theatrics, nor did she wish to be.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Too Sexy”

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
  • October 3, 2018
I am not coked out of my mind, I’m coked into my mind.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Moscow at Midnight

  • Sally McGrane
  • July 19, 2018
As if he had just made a decision, Max said, “Drop me at Red Square.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Guy in Your MFA: An Origin Story“

  • Dana Schwartz
  • June 19, 2018
A Rumpus exclusive excerpt from Dana Schwartz's memoir, Choose Your Own Disaster, out today from Grand Central Publishing!
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Research Notes”

  • Alicia Kopf
  • May 17, 2018
My mother says that I was born with my eyes open, and that I was looking at her.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Julia Stoops’s Parts Per Million

  • Julia Stoops
  • March 15, 2018
Kashan stares out at the crowd. “Saddam was hard. This is also hard.”
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