From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Niyah Morris
The lasso was a gaping mouth that opened wide enough, we hoped, to swallow the cloud.
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Join NOW!The lasso was a gaping mouth that opened wide enough, we hoped, to swallow the cloud.
...moreThis sparse book, “an essay on pregnancy and earthquakes,” deals with the author’s dueling fears of recent and future earthquakes and her impending childbirth.
...moreRemember us, the characters seem to beg of the reader, imagined mirrors of the real lives lost and mourned.
...moreThis is what happens when I listen. I react.
...moreHuman beings like to make myths out of things we don’t understand.
...moreI will marry and find love, because this is the closest I have felt in a long time to giving it another try.
...moreThe ocean is deep, unfathomably so. And one can stay on the surface or keep on plumbing the depths.
...moreBut I didn’t understand, then, how important memory is, for how do we know who we are without memory? How does anyone else know who we are, but for their memories of us?
...moreSometimes, thick clouds roll in like doubts, and the god-like giants are obscured to the point where I almost swear they never existed. Other days, there’s no questioning their presence.
...moreThis bit of vital truth to the story of how I came to be came like a puncture—strong, sharp, and sudden.
...moreAs I worked, filing reports every night from a hotel room, the details nagged at me. Her mother, Japa Tamang, was living in an open-sided shed once used to store grain, in hills still shuddering from aftershocks. My husband had the idea of giving her a ride back to Kathmandu and a plane ticket to […]
...moreHere’s a famous photo of San Francisco taken after the 1906 earthquake. You can zoom in and explore the city. The picture was captured from a kite flying 2,000 feet over the Bay.
...moreThat East Coast earthquake happened yesterday and after all the panic and subsequent relief and immediate tweeting, it is now an appropriate time to discuss what would cause such an unlikely occurrence. Also, it’s a good time to explain what disaster could have resulted if the magnitude of the quake had been just a little […]
...moreThe East Coast just experienced an earthquake of 5.8 magnitude, which is mild in geological terms but shocking otherwise. All of us here living too far to experience the effects of the earthquake hope all you east coasters are safe and sound and that the reports that no damage has occurred are true. That being […]
...moreI’m not going to try to bring you breaking news on this story–the situation is too fluid, and you don’t come to The Rumpus for that sort of story anyway, at least I don’t think you do. Instead I’m going to try to link to more peripheral stories. Japan has more experience with earthquakes and […]
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