Rumpus Exclusive: The Intro to PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018
But there is freedom and possibility in not knowing.
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Posts Tagged: Celeste Mohammed
What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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For The New Inquiry, Nehal El-Hadi questions whether we will ever see technology that opens up the preservation of black life rather than simply documenting black death. Mina Hamedi chases the Northern Lights over at Arcturus. Here at the Rumpus, Celeste Mohammed explores her conflicted feelings toward a white artist painting black Caribbean farmers.
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When a White Man Paints Black People
[H]ere comes this white boy, Asher Mains. Red-haired too, and bearded, like the pirates that once rummaged Grenada’s coves.
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Hard to Kill
Now everything finally made sense. I had practically died and woken up, resurrected. That’s why everyone was looking at me funny. Like its cousin Death, Near-Death leaves a stench that makes people uncomfortable.
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