Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope Get a Dog, A Story in Three Epiphanies
He barks at Coco. Coco barks back.
...moreHe barks at Coco. Coco barks back.
...moreI’d love to prove that I can sell windows.
...more“You’re a bomb,” Biswell says to Hope.
...moreMichele Filgate discusses her forthcoming anthology, WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT.
...moreI reached out to her, and she reached back. A hug I’ll never forget.
...moreTrump is on the ballot; we don’t need weapons to repudiate him, but the Blackshirts are marching in our streets.
...moreWhat the hell do I have to lose in this country? Honestly, I don’t know where to begin.
...moreYou see, when a man believes he has the power to grant a woman personhood by admiring her looks or her body’s use to him… he also believes he has the power to take it away. Trump believes he has this power.
...moreSo my No-Trump Vote is for all the grown kids of single mothers, in the hope that they come to value—before it’s too late—the person who more closely resembles our sacrificing moms than our dodgy deadbeat dads.
...moreIs it that she is an immigrant to the US and was an immigrant to Canada before that, a brown woman on both sides of the border, viewed with suspicion that sometimes gets explicit?
...moreAmy Pence reviews Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott today in Rumpus Books.
...moreJulianna Baggott’s Pure is about a post-apocalyptic world where the responsibility for changing and saving civilization lies with children.
...more“What are the best books? The answer is always subjective, and I’m not a literary arbiter. But the message I received from this year’s lists was painfully familiar. It forced me to explain to my students — the next generation of writers — that the men in the class have double if not five times […]
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