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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree

  • Kristin Gourlay
  • March 9, 2021
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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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 Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness

  • Amir Ahmadi Arian
  • January 27, 2021
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam

  • Josh English
  • January 20, 2021
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.
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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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Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk

  • Diana Veiga
  • December 30, 2020
She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
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Winter Baby

  • Marissa Landrigan
  • December 21, 2020
Something new in the dead darkness. Short days and shimmers of light.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?

  • Nadia Shahbaz
  • December 16, 2020
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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A Holiday in Hell: Lauren Tivey’s Moroccan Holiday

  • Patrick Armstrong
  • November 27, 2020
If you’re going to Hell, bring a good guide.
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The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery

  • Mary Christine Delea
  • November 6, 2020
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
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For Now

  • Jessica Wahlstrom
  • November 5, 2020
If I get sick again and I can’t get better, my heart will break too intensely.
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A Photographer’s Wife

  • Rachel Somerstein
  • October 7, 2020
It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
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