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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dirty Little Secrets”

  • Tiffany Cates
  • January 4, 2021
They were alone, and in his apartment, but not in the way he’d imagined it to be.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Chop Money”

  • Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  • November 9, 2020
Mal’ Atta attacked with a slew of sensory assaults.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “A Kind of Fairy Tale”

  • Kelly J. Baker
  • October 26, 2020
Happiness never seemed to linger. She often wondered why.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Neither Wicked Witch nor Fairy Godmother”

  • Ruth O. Saxton
  • August 24, 2020
[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”

  • Natalie Bakopoulos
  • July 2, 2020
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Crumbs of Life”

  • Kim Adrian
  • June 29, 2020
I understand this impulse to tighten and make resistant.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”

  • Marcia Trahan
  • June 8, 2020
It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Arrogance of Style”

  • Patrick Madden
  • March 23, 2020
Dickens and the Brontës did it; so can you!
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Ada Bloom Finds the Windmill”

  • Martine Murray
  • March 16, 2020
Ada followed her song deeper into the bush, until the windmill loomed up before her.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Lisbon, the Truncated City”

  • Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
  • February 24, 2020
Our love of the superfluous is helpful in better understanding ourselves.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Factory Is Anointed”

  • Dave Housley
  • January 13, 2020
He wonders at how fast it all changed.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Call It Courage”

  • Colin Hamilton
  • November 4, 2019
She was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
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