From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Even the Moon
When you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?
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Join NOW!When you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?
...moreOut here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.
...moreAfterward, there was dead silence in the kitchen. I know because I held my breath. Even air molecules seemed to still.
...moreThis book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
...moreJennifer Fliss discusses her debut story collection, THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreIn particular, Graff’s river is numinous. It’s the center of everything.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreAnna Qu discusses her debut memoir, MADE IN CHINA.
...moreIn this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
...moreDonika Kelly discusses her new poetry collection, THE RENUNCIATIONS.
...moreWhen Jeb was old enough to have a family of his own, he hardly ever laid hands on his boys.
...moreSonora Jha discusses her new book, HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON.
...moreMorowa Yejidé discusses her new novel, CREATURES OF PASSAGE.
...moreJeannine Ouelette discusses her debut memoir, THE PART THAT BURNS.
...moreI am making progress, but progress is slow.
...moreI exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
...moreFor years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
...moreKelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
...moreThere is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
...moreSalt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.
...moreLaura Bogart discusses her debut novel, DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
...more“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
...moreThere is pleasure in his eyes that is not just good acting.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...more“Our memories are always in flux.”
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...more“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
...moreI see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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