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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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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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Basura
[T]erms like “white trash” and basura most accurately reveal those who are doing the defining. Consider what we throw away, and why. Look at what we throw away. Think about the reasons why.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: My Souls Are Out A-Wandering
What is marriage but another form of colonization? A renaming? A power taken, a power taken away?
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Post-Election Dispatch: Charleston, SC
Right now as I write this, smoke from fires in the southeastern Appalachian Mountains haze the morning. We’re under orange alert—the air quality bad enough that schoolchildren will stay indoors today. This morning the coastal flooding is up again thanks…
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Grow
I look like springtime, everyone agrees. Soon I’ve added a pair of gloves, brand new, but stomped in the dirt for authenticity’s sake.
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Something to Do with Evolution
I used to be younger than I am now. I used to live in a charming, rundown little house, and now I don’t.
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On Loving and Leaving New York: Home
Driving down Second Avenue, we saw the usuals: skater kids and college students, queens and models and junkies. My heart hurt more and more. The landmarks of my most troubled memories now filled my heart with longing. I even missed…
