From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: No Good
The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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Join NOW!The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
...moreBefore my father killed her, my mother spent her evenings telling me the story of how she came to America. Every night, the way she started was with something new.
...more& yes, my family did raise me right. Yes, / they cleaned their bones & cracked them clean / open to suck. Would fight over cartilage & knuckle/Sip the marrow’s nectar from urn. .
...moreHow does one come to feel American in the eyes of others?
...moreTo be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
...moreLeonora Simonovis discusses her debut collection, STUDY OF THE RAFT.
...moreAmid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
...moreIt was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
...moreJocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
...moreAll the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
...moreTo brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.
...moreAnna Qu discusses her debut memoir, MADE IN CHINA.
...moreTo say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
...moreSuchitra Vijayan discusses her new book, MIDNIGHT’S BORDERS.
...morePik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
...moreMusa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
...moreThe characters of Motherland might be displaced, but they are never alone.
...moreI grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
...moreDespite growing up in a predominately white suburb, my family never had a white dentist.
...moreCeleste Mohammed discusses her debut novel-in-stories, PLEASANTVIEW.
...moreAnjali Enjeti discusses SOUTHBOUND and THE PARTED EARTH.
...moreSergio Troncoso discusses his new anthology, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS.
...moreI’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
...moreGabriela Garcia discusses her debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT.
...more“The difference with memorializing my story is that I have invited others to live it, for a moment.”
...moreTranscendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
...moreAnd if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
...moreAhmed Naji discusses his new memoir, ROTTEN EVIDENCE.
...moreEverything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
...moreIt comes down to this: I feel the need to prove I belong here.
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