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From the Archive: Unbound

  • Lauren Kayes
  • January 18, 2022
It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.
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When the Healing Place Exploded

  • Zeina Hashem Beck
  • September 1, 2020
Clothes, plants, and broken aluminum doors on balconies—all was inside out.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey

  • Lenny DellaRocca
  • April 23, 2020
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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Voices on Addiction: They Call It Spirits

  • Connie Pertuz-Meza
  • April 22, 2019
Why was he so broken? And why did his broken make me feel broken, too?
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I Will Not Die for You

  • Kristine Langley Mahler
  • September 20, 2017
Each bug in the water is one less bug on my fruit, I tell myself, ignoring the truth: under the soil, another is born.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Barbecue

  • Aiden Arata
  • July 19, 2017
Up close, the beach was disgusting and tragic. A million tiny pieces of plastic were heaped on the shore like confetti from a hundred parades, or like the real sand on the beach threw up.
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The Middle Season

  • Lee Martin
  • September 7, 2016
My doctor told me to begin with adding five minutes to my morning walk. During those five minutes, I recalled the life I’d once had—that intense life that ambition gave me—and the man I’d once been.
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Meditation

  • Mike Wilson
  • August 29, 2016
We looked up as we moved. A handful of stars watched us behind a ripped black canvas of clouds. It started to rain as we all got to our cars. The skies poured down globs of heavy rain that burst out like tiny bombs around us.
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The Mortgage Arrangement

  • Janis Cooke Newman
  • August 26, 2016
It’s true that real estate can’t save a marriage. But it might be equally true that it can save a relationship.
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My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade | Rumpus Music
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Albums of Our Lives: My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade

  • Nicky MacWhorter
  • August 4, 2016
The summer before my final year at college, my fear started to manifest as an anxiety disorder specializing in sickness and disease.
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Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia | Rumpus Music
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My Life with Annie Lennox: A Christmas Cornucopia

  • Abby Higgs
  • July 28, 2016
Perhaps part of what prompted me to get clean and sober was the fact I kept making myself uncomfortable.
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Past the Break

  • Ana N. June
  • July 20, 2016
Past the break lies motherhood as I understand it: the rawest life that lifts and falls and crashes against beauty, and the eternal potential for heartbreak.
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