Rumpus Original Fiction: The Witch House
What was I now? A witness? A victim? A mother? A suspect?
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Posts Tagged: family
Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Stay Free: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Cha constructs a Los Angeles sharply different from most representations of the city.
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Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Ojalá
There is an irony that sometimes rings Mona like a bell.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #203: Molly Spencer
“I would say the primary role of speech in these poems is to attempt something. To try.”
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Sentence by Sentence: Talking with Nicholas Mancusi
Nick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
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Geography of Peaks and Dips and Lights
I looked out the window again, and there it still was.
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A Soul-Satisfying Crunch: Kitchen Sink Granola Bars
Following Sunday services, everyone had gathered for a potluck meal.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope, Christmas: A Story in Four Epiphanies
She can really throw herself into a stoning.
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Days Since Last Workplace Injury
It feels like a luxury to have just enough.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Mr. Burley
My favorite was usually the smallest, the most alive.
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Butcher Knives at the Ready
For many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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Rice Cake Love
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
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ENOUGH: Give Me the Biggest Piece You Have
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Strip District Meats
Already, at nine, my son knows that eating makes me happy.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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The Image-Maker: A Conversation with Sam Brown
Artist Sam Brown discusses the highs and lows of big artistic dreams.
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Afrofuturist Triptych for My Mother
This is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Christmas Party
I laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.
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Voices on Addiction: Chicken Marsala and Meth
As it turned out, though, it was he who would surprise me that evening.
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Otherwordly: Talking with Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new collection, TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS.
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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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Spines of the Finwomen
This may be a reclamation story.
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A Pinpoint Perspective: Talking with Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg discusses her newest novel, ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS.
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Aswang as a Second Language
She holds me. We hold each other.
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