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French Kissing

  • EG Shields
  • June 15, 2023
I needed to start over.
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From the Archives: The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Bad Blood

  • Edgar Gomez
  • March 21, 2023
To give blood in the United States today is like joining an elite, profoundly uncool, hyper-exclusive club.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: All This Will Be Underwater

  • Erin Gravley
  • March 6, 2023
I typed, Are you aging? Are you tired and worn? Do you spend all your time fretting about the fine lines on your face and how they foretell the slow and steady march toward death or, worse, that moment when the world will turn its eyes from your old & unbeautiful face?
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Boys and Oil: Taylor Brorby on Making Space for Queer Stories on the Great Plains

  • Adam Swanson
  • December 5, 2022
I developed two books. One I called “The Gay Book,” and one I called “The North Dakota Book.” Well, those are the same book, as you can imagine.
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man

  • Alejandro Varela
  • October 10, 2022
This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.
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Honey

  • Amanda Oliver
  • April 19, 2022
That cafe smelled like fresh-baked bread and cookies, and the baristas were all women with warm, soft hands who called everyone — the Senator, the mothers, the babies, the businessmen — Honey. So many…
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Turning the Lights On

  • Tyler Anne Whichard
  • December 8, 2021
I feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
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Filling in the Missing Patchwork: A Conversation with Steven Reigns

  • Diane Gottlieb
  • December 1, 2021
Steven Reigns discusses his newest poetry collection, A QUILT FOR DAVID.
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On Ghosting

  • Aidan Forster
  • November 9, 2021
To ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.
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Haunted, Beloved: A Conversation with Jacques Rancourt

  • Michael Colbert
  • September 15, 2021
Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
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The Tragedy of Hope: Talking with Willa C. Richards

  • Alex Madison
  • August 18, 2021
Willa C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Barong

  • E. P. Tuazon
  • July 28, 2021
Appearance aside, my boss took his work seriously.
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