Rumpus Exclusive: “Dark Girls”
When I was born I came out looking just like them.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”
I have come to the desert in search of bones.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Music and Me”
Music has haunted me my whole life.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sisters”
Language became not words but a glance or the turn of a head.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from A Student of History
It was both daunting and thrilling, all the more surreal because it happened in a place I knew.
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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: “Too Sexy”
I am not coked out of my mind, I’m coked into my mind.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Compulsion”
It’s like a record skipping inside.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Iron Heart”
Speech seemed like an irreverence, as if the empty schools were tombs.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Moscow at Midnight
As if he had just made a decision, Max said, “Drop me at Red Square.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Wisdom”
“The devil has made a fool of you, but do you know Wisdom is at work, too?”
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Confessions of the Fox
I liked the skeptical way she looked at me. I liked the way the air in the house felt with her in it.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Guy in Your MFA: An Origin Story“
A Rumpus exclusive excerpt from Dana Schwartz’s memoir, Choose Your Own Disaster, out today from Grand Central Publishing!
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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: “Research Notes”
My mother says that I was born with my eyes open, and that I was looking at her.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Pigeon Manifesto”
The revolution will begin at your curb, in the shallow pool of shade that is your gutter.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman
Sometimes a story suddenly changes.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Last Civilized House” by Lee Martin
Once upon a time, there was a man and a wife and a child that the wife decided she didn’t want.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Julia Stoops’s Parts Per Million
Kashan stares out at the crowd. “Saddam was hard. This is also hard.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Passing as Privileged”
I don’t feel ashamed of my history, I feel ashamed of letting it be erased.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Lucy Hughes-Hallet’s Peculiar Ground
Off what did Humpty Dumpty fall?
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from AFTERWORDS
Three exclusive excerpts from …AFTERWORDS, a new series of distinctive commentaries on great works of contemporary literature from our friends at Fiction Advocate!
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Gayle Brandeis’s The Art of Misdiagnosis
After my mom hangs herself, I become Nancy Drew. I am looking for clues, for evidence. Answers.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from I, Parrot
An exclusive excerpt from I, Parrot, by Deb Olin Unferth & Elizabeth Haidle, forthcoming from Catapult and Black Balloon on November 1.
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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.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Matthew Gallaway’s #gods
Matthew Gallaway’s new novel, #gods, is out this month from Fiction Advocate.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Jessie Chaffee’s Florence in Ecstasy
He is a bird, he and that silver scull, a bird. Would I ever have that grace?
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Danielle Trussoni’s The Fortress
Danielle Trussoni’s new novel, The Fortress: A Love Story, is out today from Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow Publishers.
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