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#Betrayal: On Instagram, Is Hell Other Women?

  • MJ Corey
  • October 20, 2016
Instagram: an app powerful enough to blow a million Think Pieces to smithereens in everything it says about female relations.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: State Facts for the New Age

  • Amy Sauber
  • September 2, 2016
“I’m a shock absorber for tragedy,” I say, not really knowing what I mean. “Maybe I should just move to Hawaii. I hear that’s a happy place to live.”
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PJ Harvey - Stories from the City | The Rumpus
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Sound Takes: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

  • Stephen Akey
  • August 18, 2016
At once soothing and horrifying, it became for me the soundtrack of grief and hope for my wounded city and country.
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How We Break

  • Annalise Mabe
  • July 6, 2016
There is breaking, and there is breaking free from the broken.
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Odysseus at Telepylos

  • Mike Broida
  • November 18, 2015
Jason had his dragon at Colchis, Theseus had his Minotaur on Crete, Odysseus had his cannibals in their city of Telepylos, and you will have found your own monsters in Philadelphia.
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