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Rumpus Exclusive: “Field Medicine”

  • Claire Rudy Foster
  • October 7, 2019
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”

  • Katya Cengel
  • September 30, 2019
The missionaries seemed concerned. I figured it was too late for that.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Some Poetry about Socialism”

  • J. Kasper Kramer
  • September 23, 2019
My stomach fluttered. My cheeks flushed. They never said no.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Pirate Radio, Like Desire”

  • Melissa Matthewson
  • September 9, 2019
Always I want to be seen. Always to burn.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Bye, Baby”

  • Melissa Febos
  • August 26, 2019
Kimmy’s house is filled with men. Her fridge is full of popsicles and orange cheese.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sisters”

  • Carolyn Kirby
  • March 5, 2019
Language became not words but a glance or the turn of a head.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “First Amendment (in the moment, grotesquely exotic)”

  • Wendy Willis
  • February 5, 2019
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

  • Sarah McCoy
  • October 23, 2018
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”

  • Will McGrath
  • October 9, 2018
Our experience has not been curated; we make of it what we want.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Too Sexy”

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
  • October 3, 2018
I am not coked out of my mind, I’m coked into my mind.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from Tiny Crimes

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  • May 21, 2018
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

  • Rivers Solomon
  • September 26, 2017
But Aster was all there. She felt herself existing.
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