Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side) Joseph Santaella VidalJanuary 16, 2023 “What’s a six-letter word for ignoring truth,” she might say, without looking up from the puzzle.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary Jade JonesJuly 4, 2022 The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.Read
Read Rumpus Original Pine Street Amanda OliverOctober 7, 2021 Did you see an animal? Did you see a bird? What did you see when you looked at me?Read
Read Rumpus Original My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me Edgar GomezDecember 1, 2020 There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Heartbreak and Hair Dye: Talking with Amy Feltman Crystal Hana KimJanuary 7, 2019 Amy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.Read
Read Rumpus Original Television You Are Nowhere Emily LackeyOctober 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?Read
Read Rumpus Original Rapture of the Deep Melynda FullerJune 10, 2016 The point is not to lose yourself to that landscape, and to not become fearful of new landscapes.Read
Read Music Rumpus Original Albums of Our Lives: The Cure’s Disintegration Jonathan KimeDecember 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?Read
Other Weekend Rumpus Roundup Max GrayJanuary 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…Read