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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Morgan Jerkins

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • January 31, 2018
Morgan Jerkins discusses This Will Be My Undoing, getting her start on the Internet, and why her collection of linked personal essays isn’t just another Millennial read.
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Rivers of Babylon: The Story of a Third-Trimester Abortion

  • T.S. Mendola
  • January 30, 2018
She said something to me, then, that has been a great comfort. “You had a choice,” she said, “but you did not have free will.” A choice that was no choice at all.
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My Nanny’s Nanny

  • Diksha Basu
  • January 22, 2018
I have become the nanny. I hope my nanny is getting some good writing done.
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Voices on Addiction: Dead Eyes and Bob Barker Crocs

  • Janine Canty
  • January 18, 2018
Broken people are drawn to other broken people. Comparing scars. Laying belly to belly. Two similar pieces of different puzzles.
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After the Telling

  • Cindy House
  • January 16, 2018
We want to protect our children from everything, even sometimes ourselves.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Earthworms

  • Alexandra Ford
  • January 10, 2018
In one dream, I was naked and they crawled inside my belly button. I felt them wiggling inside my stomach. When I woke up, the place between my legs was damp.
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It’s Fine, It’s Good, It’s Beautiful

  • A.D. Carr
  • December 22, 2017
And the trees—each positioned in corner windows in the front of the house—they will be the talk of the neighborhood. This is how a house becomes a home.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Seasonal Work

  • Laura Lippman
  • December 13, 2017
[T]he thing about Gary was that he could believe what he needed to believed when he needed to believe it. So, technically, he never lied.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: Ways of Being Seen

  • Marissa Korbel
  • December 12, 2017
Can you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.
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Disease Cloaked in Ambition: Gorilla and the Bird by Zack McDermott

  • Scott McNeight
  • December 6, 2017
Gorilla and the Bird is an important resource for anyone impacted by the scope of bipolar disorder, as well as those who want to learn more about it.
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Our Own Bodies: A Conversation with JoAnna Novak

  • Eileen G'Sell
  • December 4, 2017
JoAnna Novak discusses her novel, I Must Have You, eating disorders, and writing characters that challenge our expectations of how women should behave.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: City of Foundlings

  • Douglas Silver
  • November 29, 2017
What makes him think she’s in any less pain? Because hers isn’t prolonged by uncertainly, isn’t moored by hope.
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