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The Price of Acceptance

  • A. Wiggin
  • October 8, 2020
I knew my mother would be surprised. I didn’t know she’d be horrified.
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A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay

  • Jessica Fu
  • August 7, 2020
Salt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”

  • Alden Jones
  • July 13, 2020
I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”

  • Natalie Bakopoulos
  • July 2, 2020
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Marital Piss

  • Cory Albertson
  • June 25, 2020
My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker

  • Tahirah Alexander Green
  • May 19, 2020
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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We Do Not Belong Everywhere

  • Max Delsohn
  • May 11, 2020
It is an unimaginable gift until you’ve done it, shaving off a self.
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Queer Logic: Females and My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

  • Amelia Possanza
  • April 22, 2020
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” A provocation. An invitation.
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Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland

  • Liz Button
  • March 13, 2020
Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenn Shapland

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 19, 2020
Jenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector

  • Leigh Hopkins
  • February 11, 2020
I needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
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Great Pain, Great Pleasure: Here All Night, Nightshade, and Blazons

  • Julie R. Enszer
  • February 7, 2020
All three remind readers that what is imagined is not always real and the world is not as expected.
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