Rumpus Original Fiction: Sin Miedo
Just the two of us. Daddy and me. Charro and escaramuza.
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Posts Tagged: childhood
Finding Home in a Cult’s Aftermath: Talking with Ronit Plank
Ronit Plank discusses her new memoir, WHEN SHE COMES BACK.
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Depths of Story: Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White
The inherited wounds cut so deep one wonders if they can ever be fully healed.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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Finding Healing in Gospel Music
I wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: David Biespiel
“In the act of writing about it and revising it, I’m still having the experience.”
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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton
Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
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Doublethink: A Conversation with Cortney Lamar Charleston
Cortney Lamar Charleston discusses his new poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER.
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Sleeping with Myself
I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
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Voices on Addiction: Memories of My Daddy and Me(th)
For years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
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To Account for a Life: Talking with Jameson Fitzpatrick
Jameson Fitzpatrick discusses their debut full-length poetry collection, PRICKS IN THE TAPESTRY.
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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu
Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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Making It Through: A Conversation with Kelly J. Baker
Kelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
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Wingtips and Shell-Toes
There was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
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Spotlight: “My Grandmother’s Pancake Recipe”
My grandmother, Frankie L. Baker, was born 72 years before me.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “A Kind of Fairy Tale”
Happiness never seemed to linger. She often wondered why.
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Community Destroyed, Memories Reconstructed: A Conversation with Vivian Gibson
Vivian Gibson discusses her debut memoir, THE LAST CHILDREN OF MILL CREEK.
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Survival Soup
You could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin
Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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Too Earnest for Twitter: A Conversation with Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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My Father’s Guide to Field Dressing an Elk
Around here, we don’t waste meat, and we don’t waste life.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Alice Bag’s Queen’s Quilt
My parents told me, “This is a special one for the queen.”
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán discusses their debut collection, CATRACHOS.
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