Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
...moreThe ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
...moreAhmed Naji discusses his new memoir, ROTTEN EVIDENCE.
...moreWho am I and where do I go from here?
...moreYou could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
...moreThese are not poems of self-pity. Far from it.
...moreI’d love to prove that I can sell windows.
...moreNo Good Very Bad Asian is a letter to the future, to a reality that has begun taking shape in Maryann but has yet to be fully realized.
...moreOliver de la Paz discusses his newest collection, THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH.
...moreChris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
...moreRion Amilcar Scott discusses his new story collection, THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
...moreThe human animal was at war with itself. It was a cosmic joke with no teller.
...moreMaybe you have come to save us. From what? From ourselves.
...moreThrough drill, artists have a means of exploring and challenging the political marginalization of their voices.
...moreI was supposed to be a girl, they said. But the Lord works in mysterious ways, doesn’t He?
...moreWe were beginning to exist on the periphery of our own lives.
...more2018 began interlaced with a double helix of joy and fear.
...moreAnd in order to hope, I have to once more believe—in the midst of unrelenting dark—that light exists even if I cannot see it.
...moreWhat I know and don’t know about men matters. What men know and don’t know about themselves matters more.
...more“Nothing is ever one thing.”
...moreDavid Hicks discusses his debut novel, White Plains, how much truth resides in a work of fiction, and becoming a full-time fiction writer.
...moreShe never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
...moreLove of country, some argue. With their boots firmly planted in my chest as I struggle to protest. No, that is not love, but blindness.
...moreI think we need to listen closer for the stories that shake us up the most … and then share them and talk about them with the people we love. And the people we don’t.
...moreJune is an ambivalent month for me. As a child it meant the start of summer vacation, and weeks spent at my grandparent’s beautiful beach home in Hyannisport. This was wonderful because it meant spending time with my siblings and seven cousins, a houseful of children of all ages, and loving—even adoring—grandparents, aunts, and uncles. […]
...moreOctavio is tired, tired of trying to separate what he remembers so vividly from the memories he can barely make out in the fog.
...moreMychal Denzel Smith discusses his debut nonfiction book Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, how the activist space has changed in recent years, and who he is writing for.
...moreI knew that just as the country was reverting, so was I. Every face now seemed a potential enemy and these were feelings I had not felt in almost twenty years.
...moreJoshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens, writing for his daughter, and why he values art that trusts its audience.
...moreJon Day discusses his memoir, Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier, the bicycle as a symbol of gentrification, and the city as “a technology for living.”
...moreJason Diamond discusses his memoir Searching for John Hughes, confronting his childhood abuse, avoiding his parents, and writing about all of it.
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