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A Time and a Place: Talking with Faylita Hicks

  • Saaret E. Yoseph
  • December 30, 2019
Faylita Hicks discusses her debut poetry collection, HOODWITCH.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope, Christmas: A Story in Four Epiphanies

  • Julianna Baggott
  • December 24, 2019
She can really throw herself into a stoning.
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Days Since Last Workplace Injury

  • Clancy Tripp
  • December 16, 2019
It feels like a luxury to have just enough.
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Imagine a River of Milk

  • Rebekah Denison Hewitt
  • December 12, 2019
What does a newborn’s swallow sound like?
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To the Moon: Talking with Heather Christle

  • Dan Sinykin
  • December 9, 2019
Heather Christle discusses her debut work of nonfiction, THE CRYING BOOK.
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Strip District Meats

  • Sheila Squillante
  • December 2, 2019
Already, at nine, my son knows that eating makes me happy.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Terms & Conditions of Your Egg Freezing Groupon

  • Casey Rand
  • November 20, 2019
Must be eighteen or older, or Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend.
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Between Sex and Death: Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets

  • Elizabeth Knapp
  • November 15, 2019
Survival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
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Parallel Planes: The Ghosts of Mothers and Daughters

  • Becky Fine-Firesheets
  • November 14, 2019
I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
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A New Season

  • Amy Orazio
  • November 11, 2019
“He’s slipping from me,” I said, and I knew I was crying about more than this.
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The Crack-Up

  • Bethany Maile
  • October 31, 2019
If I slept... All night, I stayed awake.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Fictions by Andrea Passwater

  • Andrea Passwater
  • October 30, 2019
Could scars be daughters? The hands don’t understand why I am asking this.
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