A Holiday in Hell: Lauren Tivey’s Moroccan Holiday
If you’re going to Hell, bring a good guide.
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Posts Tagged: marriage
Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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American, Not Blonde
I was finally going to fit in in this foreign country.
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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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Wingtips and Shell-Toes
There was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
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The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
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Owning Your Piles: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Fictions by Kelsey Norris
It was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy
That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
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A Photographer’s Wife
It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita
The hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
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Diaspora, Reconstructed
Some people say dreams are a glimpse into an alternate reality.
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Against Respectability: A Conversation with Raven Leilani
Raven Leilani discusses her debut novel, LUSTER.
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A Story That Won’t Behave: Talking with Molly Wizenberg
Molly Wizenberg discusses her new memoir, THE FIXED STARS.
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Silence Is the Fertile Field: Talking with Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
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Marital Piss
My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
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The Mentor Series: Cynthia Newberry Martin and Pam Houston
Cynthia Newberry Martin interviews her mentor, Pam Houston.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope Get a Dog, A Story in Three Epiphanies
He barks at Coco. Coco barks back.
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ENOUGH: Beautiful Teeth
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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What It Means to Be a Human: Talking with Maggie Downs
Maggie Downs discusses her debut memoir, BRAVER THAN YOU THINK.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope and the Job, A Story in Five Epiphanies
I’d love to prove that I can sell windows.
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The Joypain of Parenting: Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State
This is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
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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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ENOUGH: Trapped
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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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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Too Close to Home
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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