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masks 2017

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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Whole World Is Desert

  • Lori Sambol Brody
  • October 11, 2017
This is what I want him to think of me. The girl poised to surf a wave under the heaviness of the full moon, the ocean around her radiant with light.
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Spotlight: “The Killers” by Dasha Zibrova

  • Dasha Ziborova
  • October 10, 2017
My own cat Moorka, with whom I have long and fruitful but complicated relationship, inspired this comic strip.
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Readers Report: Masks and Disguises

  • Susan Clements
  • October 9, 2017
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Masks and Disguises.”
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Supermom

  • Lauren LeFranc
  • October 5, 2017
I knew glasses and vases could break, even toys. But I didn’t know mothers could.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Hala Alyan

  • Hala Alyan
  • October 5, 2017
Nothing’s Freudian anymore. A cigar’s a cigar. I want to love something. / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don’t tell.
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Black Ops for Jesus

  • Sherry Mayle
  • October 4, 2017
Ruby knew this story and what it said about Mom's threshold for domestic abuse, perhaps better than anyone else since her driveway was practically adjoined to our own. She called anyway.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje

  • Eman Quotah
  • October 3, 2017
How different the world of the poem was from Saudi culture, which draped me in black and insisted, it often seemed, on One Truth.
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Voices on Addiction: Zombie Nation

  • Alanna Bailey
  • October 3, 2017
Sometimes life is so big and so loud and being a human being in the world is so much I feel overwhelmed and need a cocoon.
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Everyone Loves the Pope

  • Julianne Neely
  • October 2, 2017
My lover became the Pope. It was the twenty-tens and the Catholic Church wanted to rebrand with Newport cigarettes and Hermes chiseled calves.
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Looking Behind Our Masks

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 2, 2017
In order to stop being scared, we have to see horror for what it is. We have to look behind the mask.
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