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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Posts Tagged: love
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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Language Is Material: A Conversation with Simon(e) van Saarloos
Simon(e) van Saarloos discusses PLAYING MONOGAMY.
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The Precipice of Possibility: Leslie Jamison’s Make It Scream, Make It Burn
This thrill that comes with being on the precipice of possibility runs rampant throughout Make It Scream, Make It Burn.
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Love under Capitalism: Sally Rooney’s Normal People
[I]n Normal People love acts as a school.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Softest Part
We sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath
There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.
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Voices on Addiction: Fault Lines
After, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
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Mixed Feelings: A Better Version of Love
You are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
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Navigating by the Right Stars: A Conversation with Briallen Hopper
Briallen Hopper discusses her debut collection, HARD TO LOVE: ESSAYS AND CONFESSIONS.
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Be Like the Woman
And this is all like. The cloud is going around me.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Orientation
The human animal was at war with itself. It was a cosmic joke with no teller.
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