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Voices on Addiction: What We Forget, What We Remember

  • Emily James
  • February 26, 2018
I don’t remember when [my brother] ran away; I just remember him being gone more often than not.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: One of Them Dies

  • Carl Napolitano
  • January 31, 2018
We seldom forget when people promise to give us something, whether we need or want that thing or not. I promise you death, you want a death.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #113: Tom Stern

  • Pamela Ribon
  • December 7, 2017
"[T]his admittedly bizarre idea just came into focus for me that Walter was actually pregnant with his own twin brother who would be obsessed with getting his MBA."
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Come Together through Bodies: Jennifer Colville’s Elegies for Uncanny Girls

  • Nicole Walker
  • November 22, 2017
The female body here is as palpable as image. As the images and objects transform, so does the female’s body.
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Voices on Addiction: The Honeybee

  • Michele Leavitt
  • August 7, 2017
She never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jessica Berger Gross

  • Sari Botton
  • July 12, 2017
Jessica Berger Gross discusses her new memoir, Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home, walking away from her parents age of twenty-eight, and the importance of boundaries.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Straw House

  • Becky Mandelbaum
  • May 10, 2017
“It’s not healthy, how you live. People aren’t meant to sleep all day. We need the sun. We’re meant to live in the sun.”
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 2

  • David Treuer
  • April 8, 2017
There isn’t even a discussion. There aren’t any words. You just start swinging—the building is a fence, your cousins are a fence. The two of you are surrounded. There’s no escape for either of you.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Pet the Dog

  • Peggy Shinner
  • January 1, 2017
It would be simple to say that she is missing the internal formulation that makes one enthusiastic about dogs. And that would be true, partially. Was she, as their mother once said, a cold fish?
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Letter to Jim

  • Melissa Stephenson
  • December 30, 2016
Many days I couldn’t see the way forward, but I kept going, the way you had. It was you, after all, who taught me how to stay.
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Fitting Characters and Scripts

  • Victor Yang
  • December 5, 2016
Unwittingly, my mother teaches me in this conversation her generation’s word for gay: 同性恋. I look it up in an online dictionary, three characters in my mother’s tongue. Same, sex, and love.
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An Open Letter to My Brother, A Trump Supporter

  • Sarah McClung
  • November 30, 2016
Dear John, I, like so many other Americans, spent the past weeks worrying, crying, and searching for the people around me that I loved so they could be beacons when…
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