Posts Tagged: dating

From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Even the Moon

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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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ENOUGH: Thawing a Dream

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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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On Ghosting

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To ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.

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The Last Poem I Loved: “In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden” by Matthea Harvey

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I read poetry for enjoyment now, to feel seen, and to see the world differently.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Sight

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You stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.

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The Resumes of Identity We Present to Strangers: A Conversation with Dolly Alderton

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Dolly Alderton discusses her new novel, GHOSTS.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod

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“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”

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I’m Cold, Please Touch Me: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Sycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.

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If My Body Were a House

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Where my masculinity dwells, I am in control.

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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me

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There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.

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Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women

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I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.

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Acclimation

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Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.

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My Kyiv

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It’s funny what ends up feeling like home.

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FUNNY WOMEN: Bumble Profiles of Literature’s Famous Ladies

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Are you wealthy? If so, heyyy.

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