The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Theft
Maybe this is what compelled Stella to plunder goods without paying. Her mother had been taken, her heart song snatched away. The stealing became her mourning.
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Posts Tagged: Grieving
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A New and Magical Life
When she becomes pregnant while grieving her newly dead father, Amy Monticello rejects the comforting notions she’s offered about completing the cycle of life.
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Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn has a heartbreaking and beautiful essay at Buzzfeed about how she is learning to grieve for her nephew who was stillborn and how to use that process going forward: “I’m reminded of a gospel that personifies Death: Death, this being that rides a pale white horse, the clomps and gallops leaving a […]
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