Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy Rita Chang-EppigApril 17, 2023 That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Lunch Money Gabrielle RuckerFebruary 20, 2023 Out here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.Read
Read Rumpus Original Voices on Addiction From the Archives: Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit Sheree L. GreerJanuary 27, 2023 I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side) Joseph Santaella VidalJanuary 16, 2023 “What’s a six-letter word for ignoring truth,” she might say, without looking up from the puzzle.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: Breaking Through Rebecca GodwinAugust 22, 2022 I read somewhere that sounds don’t stop, they keep going all the way into deep space, reflecting off whatever might be in the way and speeding infinitely on. My head feels like deep space, and those voices haven’t even begun to wind down in there.Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary Jade JonesJuly 4, 2022 The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.Read
Essays Rumpus Original From the Archive: Explicit Violence Lidia YuknavitchJune 28, 2022 Afterward, there was dead silence in the kitchen. I know because I held my breath. Even air molecules seemed to still.Read
Read Features & Reviews Interviews Rumpus Original From the Archive: What It Is to Be Human: Talking with Ottessa Moshfegh Maria AndersonJune 17, 2022 Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION.Read
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: Thawing a Dream The RumpusMarch 11, 2022 A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Read Rumpus Original Voices on Addiction Voices on Addiction: Motherless in Albertsons Melissa StephensonJanuary 21, 2022 I am sick with grief, triggered by my mother’s death, in turn triggered by Chardonnay.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Dewi Oka The Rumpus Book ClubDecember 28, 2021 Cynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Carribean Fragoza Janet RodriguezDecember 21, 2021 “I always try to locate stories deep inside myself, physically and emotionally.”Read