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We Are More: The Docent and the Novelist

  • Chris McCormick
  • April 6, 2021
I’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
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My Grandmother Glitches the Machine

  • Tan Tuck Ming
  • March 29, 2021
It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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A Space of Sanctuary: Mother Country by Elana Bell

  • Holly Mason
  • March 26, 2021
The body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once.
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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree

  • Kristin Gourlay
  • March 9, 2021
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • February 19, 2021
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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True Detective and a Greyhound: On Imagination and Survival

  • Kate Branca
  • February 15, 2021
It’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos

  • ire’ne lara silva
  • February 10, 2021
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Unprepared Blue Birds

  • Hannah Paige
  • February 3, 2021
In deep grief, we rotate inside of a funhouse.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness

  • Amir Ahmadi Arian
  • January 27, 2021
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck

  • Cameron Gorman
  • January 12, 2021
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”

  • Jessica Lind Peterson
  • January 11, 2021
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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Out-of-Body Recognition: A Conversation with JinJin Xu

  • Sasha Burshteyn
  • January 8, 2021
JinJin Xu discusses her debut chapbook, THERE IS STILL SINGING IN THE AFTERLIFE.
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