From the Archive: The Saturday Rumpus Essay: I Left My Heart in Taos
You might gasp. You might gasp and your heart slips out. You whisper and let red willows drift toward the river.
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Posts Tagged: love
Rumpus Original Fiction: Wherever, Anyplace
For a while, at least, we were safe. The end is the beginning, the beginning is the end.
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ENOUGH: Thawing a Dream
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath
There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.
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Voices on Addiction: The Road Less Traveled By
Then the road less traveled by diverged in a wood and took him in the night.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Christine No
“Balance is its own beautiful practice.”
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The Last Poem I Loved: “In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden” by Matthea Harvey
I read poetry for enjoyment now, to feel seen, and to see the world differently.
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Pine Street
Did you see an animal? Did you see a bird? What did you see when you looked at me?
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The Resumes of Identity We Present to Strangers: A Conversation with Dolly Alderton
Dolly Alderton discusses her new novel, GHOSTS.
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What to Read When You Have a Passion for Eclectic Stories
Joe Okonkwo shares a reading list to celebrate KISS THE SCARS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Maria Cichosz
“Thinking about blurring those lines got me closer to the truth of the clichés.”
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The Lure of the Process: Talking with Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel, MY YEAR ABROAD.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Voices on Addiction: The Monster’s Matchstick Mistress
I want to see myself as a whole person.
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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me
There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Footnotes on a love story
Before they were married, they met in a photograph.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Of Separation
But in that same instant, as she turned, his smile froze.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope, the Surprise Pregnancy, Conception
“You’re a bomb,” Biswell says to Hope.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: First Love
We met in a dorm hallway, half past midnight.
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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Turning the Tide: A Conversation with Tope Folarin
Tope Folarin discusses his debut novel, A PARTICULAR KIND OF BLACK MAN.
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SquareRoot of Love: A Wine and Words Dinner
This food as love repairs, protects, and grows the heart and soul.
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Mixed Feelings: How to Make Friends after Thirty
The problem is we tend to let romantic love eclipse all else.
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Deleting Your Photos in a Poppy Field
It took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
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