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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy

  • Rita Chang-Eppig
  • April 17, 2023
That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side)

  • Joseph Santaella Vidal
  • January 16, 2023
“What’s a six-letter word for ignoring truth,” she might say, without looking up from the puzzle.
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Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker

  • Elizabeth Barber
  • October 13, 2021
The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

  • Kimberly Grey
  • June 15, 2021
I hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.
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Cooped

  • Natalie Ponte
  • February 22, 2021
I picture anxiety as an arrow. I picture it as a mallet.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dirty Little Secrets”

  • Tiffany Cates
  • January 4, 2021
They were alone, and in his apartment, but not in the way he’d imagined it to be.
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People You May Know

  • Heather A. McDonald
  • September 24, 2018
Staring at that profile picture, I couldn’t not click.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Name Is Jean-Pierre and I Am Still an End Table

  • Dana Schwartz
  • October 25, 2017
I am glad to be free of that tyrant, even if it means I am an end table waddling inch-by-inch down this path on a foolish mission that might prove impossible. I may be an end table, but at least I am free.
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Reinventing Motherhood and Re-Dreaming Reality: Talking with Ariel Gore

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • September 29, 2017
Ariel Gore discusses her new novel We Were Witches, why capitalism and the banking system are the real enemies, and finding the limits between memoir and fiction.
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Mixed Feelings: Happy Wife, Happy Life

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • August 22, 2017
Ending a relationship is hard, but it’s not as hard as quitting an institution. And the thing we often forget about marriage is that it is an institution.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Real Evan

  • Evan Lavender-Smith
  • October 29, 2016
Character Evan is pretty impressive; real Evan, not so much—can it be as simple as that?
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Carol

  • Sean Donovan
  • December 26, 2015
Carol is a powerful woman with enviable self-knowledge, effortlessly creating an erotic, sensual ideal of herself as a covert spectacle for queer midcentury women.
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