Rumpus Exclusive: “Crumbs of Life”
I understand this impulse to tighten and make resistant.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”
It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Arrogance of Style”
Dickens and the Brontës did it; so can you!
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Ada Bloom Finds the Windmill”
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”
Our love of the superfluous is helpful in better understanding ourselves.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Giant Possums of the Promised Land”
La vida es dura, Tata always said. Life is hard, girlfriend.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Lover to Lover”
It’s the atmosphere. The temperature. What lies between thee and me.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “We Were Alive”
They say she bathed in our blood.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Factory Is Anointed”
He wonders at how fast it all changed.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Call It Courage”
She was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Hunger”
White Castle or McDonald’s? Death always made her hungry.
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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: Cover Reveal and Excerpt from Home Making
An exclusive cover reveal + excerpt from Lee Matalone’s debut, HOME MAKING.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Pirate Radio, Like Desire”
Always I want to be seen. Always to burn.
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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: “Dear Miss Lily”
Your picture pricked and bruised me.
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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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