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Rumpus Exclusive: “Field Medicine”
I didn’t belong on this planet. This kind of place could not be my home.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Journalists Invade Former Soviet Union”
The missionaries seemed concerned. I figured it was too late for that.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Some Poetry about Socialism”
My stomach fluttered. My cheeks flushed. They never said no.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Bye, Baby”
Kimmy’s house is filled with men. Her fridge is full of popsicles and orange cheese.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “First Amendment (in the moment, grotesquely exotic)”
I am not certain where I was when I first heard about the marketplace of ideas.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Marilla of Green Gables
Marilla frowned. She was not versed in theatrics, nor did she wish to be.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “In the Realm of Vanished Beasts”
Our experience has not been curated; we make of it what we want.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from Tiny Crimes
Three exclusive excerpts from the anthology Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, forthcoming on June 5!
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from River Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts
But Aster was all there. She felt herself existing.
