Rumpus Original Fiction: Additional Skills Include
Patience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
...morePatience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
...moreI am making progress, but progress is slow.
...moreRanda Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
...moreI exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
...moreViolence can be turned around, turned into pleasure, or an act of freedom, or an act of defiance.
...moreDestiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
...moreMaggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
...moreAngie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
...moreSumita Chakraborty discusses her debut collection, ARROW.
...moreAll anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
...moreLaura Bogart discusses her debut novel, DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
...moreLauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.
...moreIn this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
...moreIt was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
...more“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreI love that—working towards not having regret, in art and in life.
...moreWhile my friends write their truths in nearby cabins, I wear my silence like a bulletproof vest.
...moreWe all will have lost something in the forgetting.
...moreAs the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
...moreMiranda Popkey discusses her debut novel, TOPICS OF CONVERSATION.
...moreI needed this book. Maybe you will, too.
...moreIt felt like the sun beating down on closed eyelids.
...moreGhosts, like women as people, are just a theory.
...more[T]his is a book in direct conversation with literary tradition.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreAfter all, isn’t this often the truth of loss? What once was home becomes a graveyard.
...moreJami Attenberg discusses her newest novel, ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS.
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