Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope, the Surprise Pregnancy, Conception
“You’re a bomb,” Biswell says to Hope.
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Posts Tagged: divorce
ENOUGH: Trapped
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Teddy Ruxpin
There’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector
I needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
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A Soul-Satisfying Crunch: Kitchen Sink Granola Bars
Following Sunday services, everyone had gathered for a potluck meal.
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ENOUGH: Give Me the Biggest Piece You Have
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Voices on Addiction: Chicken Marsala and Meth
As it turned out, though, it was he who would surprise me that evening.
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Doesn’t It Keep You Up at Night?
The dark holds me as long as I will let it.
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Laying Bare Our Truths: A Conversation with Marika Lindholm
Marika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
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Everyone You Love Is Broke: The Not Wives by Carley Moore
How do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar
“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Change Your Name in Indiana
I don’t even know what planet I’m on!
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Softest Part
We sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
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Pig on a Stick
My Filipino father refused to be upstaged by a white man’s lechon.
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The Mentor Series: Maggie Smith and Kathy Fagan
Poet Maggie Smith interviews her mentor, Kathy Fagan.
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The Supplicant Undertaker
Is it too much to ask: a girl to want her father to keep his feet firmly in the soil of the living?
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Voices on Addiction: All the Ways to Save Your Life
But we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
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When Our Inner Voices Speak: Reema Zaman’s I Am Yours
Reema’s book teems with gorgeous metaphors.
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Be Like the Woman
And this is all like. The cloud is going around me.
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Redefining Manhood: A Conversation with James Hornor
James Hornor discusses his new novel, VICTORIA FALLS.
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Voices on Addiction: One More Conversation
That’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #164: Sarah McColl
“What do you do when everything falls apart? Anything you want.”
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The Language of What Happened to Us
“We knew things were wrong then,” she says, “but we didn’t know how, or why.”
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Telling Our Truths: A Conversation with Shaindel Beers
Shaindel Beers discusses her third collection, SECURE YOUR OWN MASK.
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Good Enough: Foraging for Answers with Mary Oliver
Creation begets death which begets more creation.
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Life after Death: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley discusses her newest novel, LATE IN THE DAY.
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