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Like a Kid Again

  • Brandon Hicks
  • October 4, 2020
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Endless Preparation: Apples and Women’s Work

  • Lyz Lenz
  • November 13, 2017
It makes sense to me that Johnny Appleseed, a man, would travel God's earth spreading his profligate seed. And then women are doomed to their lives trying to make that seed into something useful.
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Spotlight: “Nuts: A True Story” by Peter Witte

  • Peter Witte
  • May 10, 2016
It’s more likely, though, that someone saw everything and felt sympathy that, in the moment, they just didn't communicate.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Fall

  • David L. Ulin
  • March 1, 2015
We are always falling, all the time, under the sway of one another, in and out of love.
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Gandolf Would Not Imbibe Pumpkin Spice

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 2, 2014
According to Pobst, who worked on the Xbox version of 2002′s The Fellowship of the Ring adventure game, initially there were going to be pumpkin patches in the Shire and…
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Readers Report: My Summer’s End

  • Susan Clements
  • September 26, 2013
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “My Summer's End.”
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