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Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita

  • John Manuel Arias
  • September 30, 2020
The hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
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Milked

  • Veena Dinavahi
  • August 4, 2020
I mourn for my body, for the toll the world has taken on it.
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What It Means to Be a Human: Talking with Maggie Downs

  • Amy Reardon
  • May 1, 2020
Maggie Downs discusses her debut memoir, BRAVER THAN YOU THINK.
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Too Close to Home

  • Ali Black
  • March 2, 2020
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Witch House

  • Ariel Gore
  • February 12, 2020
What was I now? A witness? A victim? A mother? A suspect?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Mother We Share

  • Ilana Masad
  • January 29, 2020
This is what happens when I listen. I react.
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A Political Pregnancy

  • Jennifer Case
  • January 28, 2020
Are my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
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Voices on Addiction: Chicken Marsala and Meth

  • June Sylvester Saraceno
  • November 12, 2019
As it turned out, though, it was he who would surprise me that evening.
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Voices on Addiction: The Promises

  • Cameron Dezen Hammon
  • October 22, 2019
In my secret mind I saw him; I spoke to him every day.
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The Myth of the Lazy Mothers

  • Ukamaka Olisakwe
  • September 24, 2019
I worried that I no longer knew myself.
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Day Trip

  • Sophia Moskalenko
  • August 13, 2019
I used to cry on this drive. Now I don’t. I don’t seethe anymore, either.
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I Am the Ignition

  • Diana Odasso
  • August 6, 2019
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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