From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Even the Moon
When you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?
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Join NOW!When you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?
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...moreNneka M. Okona discusses her new book, SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF.
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...more“Was it vodka?” Mama said. Her voice had cracks in it. Why ask? She knew.
...moreAndrés Cerpa discusses his new poetry collection, THE VAULT.
...moreThe body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once.
...moreGrief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreAddiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.
...moreIn deep grief, we rotate inside of a funhouse.
...moreI lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
...moreShe introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
...moreStill, Smith’s sadness does not serve to disintegrate her zeal for living.
...moreMeredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.
...moreFor Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
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...moreI searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreSuzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
...moreMy defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...moreVictoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
...more“I am the salt; the stories are the food.”
...moreIt’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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