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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Anniversary

  • Cathy Mellett
  • July 3, 2023
There lay her gift, basking in the sunlight. A gray-green lizard the size of a shoe. It stood so still she thought it was fake.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • March 24, 2017
This week, a woman mysteriously becomes pregnant with a lizard egg in a short story at Guernica that is weird, funny, and surprisingly sweet. By Benjamin Schaefer, Prose Editor of…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • January 10, 2017
Lizard brain, meet the one-sentence novel. Sea slugs: the key to why you’ll remember this article. Are millenials “empty inside”? New books reveal the truth!
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • November 8, 2016
Fan fiction writers, rejoice: the future of TV is yours. Yoda-like lizard extracts water from sand without moving a muscle. Holy relics, bacteria, and the Ivy League reveal how to…
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  • Fae Myenne Ng
  • December 22, 2015
Here’s how not to get eaten by a gecko. Stand on the gecko’s head. I’ve learned that this applies to many situations.
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Maakies: Lizard

  • Tony Millionaire
  • August 8, 2013
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