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Rumpus Original Fiction: Earthworms

  • Alexandra Ford
  • January 10, 2018
In one dream, I was naked and they crawled inside my belly button. I felt them wiggling inside my stomach. When I woke up, the place between my legs was damp.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Grace

  • Brandon Taylor
  • July 10, 2017
After the anger came a deep, resigned sadness, as if her cruise were canceled at the last minute. She’s stuck on the shore of her life, watching everyone she loves sail into the distance.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Red Whole

  • Casandra López
  • November 26, 2016
I’ve become an abridged version of myself—made half-done and meager. Made hungry for answers.
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Are We All Our Own Vanishing

  • Robyn Russell
  • February 19, 2016
We will never be an exclamation point, an ellipses, a question mark. We must all leave with this: a period—solid, and utterly irrefutable.
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Song of the Day: “Ramblin’ Man”

  • Max Gray
  • February 4, 2016
The Allman Brothers have had a long and tumultuous run since their formation in 1971 around a core group including Duane and Gregg Allman. The death of Duane in a…
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