FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath
There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.
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...moreI feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
...moreIn particular, Graff’s river is numinous. It’s the center of everything.
...moreKendra Allen discusses her debut poetry collection, THE COLLECTION PLATE.
...moreI wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.
...moreTranscendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
...moreI exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
...moreShe introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
...moreDeesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
...moreTeresa Carmody discusses her debut novel, THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE.
...moreJacinta V. White discusses her collection of poetry, RESURRECTING THE BONES.
...moreWe are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
...moreMarianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
...moreI searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
...moreI’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
...moreChelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
...moreIt was a Friday morning at 9:34 a.m. when the Rapture occurred.
...moreR. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.
...moreCameron Dezen Hammon discusses her debut memoir, THIS IS MY BODY.
...moreCo-editors Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal discuss their new anthology, EMPTY THE PEWS.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...moreShe holds me. We hold each other.
...moreIn my secret mind I saw him; I spoke to him every day.
...moreLyz Lenz discusses her debut book, GOD LAND.
...moreNicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
...moreMy blackness, like my gender, was a sin.
...moreThe entire collection is suffused by an aching awareness of absence and an obsession with the indelible markings of the past.
...more“They are poems before sonnets.”
...moreMichael Arceneaux discusses his new memoir, I CAN’T DATE JESUS.
...moreI praise everyone I can still touch, their warmth a violent protest against the cold weapons of death.
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