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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side)

  • Joseph Santaella Vidal
  • January 16, 2023
“What’s a six-letter word for ignoring truth,” she might say, without looking up from the puzzle.
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary

  • Jade Jones
  • July 4, 2022
The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.
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Pine Street

  • Amanda Oliver
  • October 7, 2021
Did you see an animal? Did you see a bird? What did you see when you looked at me?
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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me

  • Edgar Gomez
  • December 1, 2020
There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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Heartbreak and Hair Dye: Talking with Amy Feltman

  • Crystal Hana Kim
  • January 7, 2019
Amy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
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You Are Nowhere

  • Emily Lackey
  • October 17, 2017
Didn’t he see what I saw: how a person could survive the unthinkable and still be broken by something as soft and uncertain as loneliness?
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Rapture of the Deep

  • Melynda Fuller
  • June 10, 2016
The point is not to lose yourself to that landscape, and to not become fearful of new landscapes.
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The Cure - Disintegration | Rumpus Music
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Albums of Our Lives: The Cure’s Disintegration

  • Jonathan Kime
  • December 10, 2015
The end is always tragic. I’d known that from the start. What kind of sucker would expect to hold on to a girl named Misty Hayes?
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • January 5, 2015
First, Julie Marie Wade reviews the “solar system” of Kimberly Burwick’s poetry collection, Good Night Brother. The son—or “sun”—in the title “burns everyone and everything it touches.” He/it “has gone…
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