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Rumpus Original Fiction: How to Become a Tiger

October 28th, 2016

Tigers are bigger than my comprehension. That’s what I want. I want to be bigger than I am, so big I can’t even imagine it, so real I can’t ever be misinterpreted.

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The Last Book I Loved: Krabat

By Chris Kubica

September 27th, 2014

1982 was a shitty year. I was 9 years old and in the 4th grade in Appleton, Wisconsin. My parents were going through a nasty divorce, the kind of thing you see on Jerry Springer.

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There was no getting around the fact that a writer had to know who he was in relation to guns. He had to pick them up or not pick them up, but if he was going to not pick them up, he had to all the way not pick them up.

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Defining

By Robin McCarthy

January 14th, 2014

She warns me not to speak any of these words out loud. They are so terrible, she explains, that good girls like me, and good women like her, never say them.

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