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My Kyiv

  • Dewaine Farria
  • May 4, 2020
It’s funny what ends up feeling like home.
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Marine Base Alchemy

  • Annie Connole
  • September 10, 2019
We drive out, shedding tears inside, only for ourselves, only for the beauty.
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The Constituent Parts

  • torrin a. greathouse
  • January 29, 2019
I was seven the first time I fired a gun.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Iron Heart”

  • Jason Arment
  • August 23, 2018
Speech seemed like an irreverence, as if the empty schools were tombs.
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On the Front Lines

  • Alcy Leyva
  • July 3, 2017
When you pick up a pen instead of a rifle, you’re fighting an entirely different battle. This is my duty. This is my patriotism.
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Said Not Said by Fred Marchant

  • Barbara Berman
  • March 10, 2017
We have met the enemy on a raft of our own dead, and the enemy is us. Is it any wonder so many poets and others engaged with the arts are also devoted to exploring science?
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War Narratives #8: Flashes of War by Katey Schultz

  • Caleb Cage
  • February 6, 2017
Schultz enables readers to see past their own perspectives and empathize with both the Afghan child and the American war widow.
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War Narratives #6: The Rumpus Interview with Phil Klay

  • Caleb Cage
  • April 6, 2016
When you’re writing fiction, you can follow your own ignorance. You can write something and realize how flawed you are.
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Rapid Fire

  • Mike Kubista
  • April 27, 2015
Stanton re-gathered himself, still wearing a smile after being shot in the face, and went back to work.
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