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New Year’s Eve

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Too Close to Home

  • Ali Black
  • March 2, 2020
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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This Is What I Get for Wanting

  • Jenni Miller
  • February 14, 2018
When I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • December 30, 2016
Tomorrow night, we denizens of planet Earth will gather with friends and family, or with complete strangers at a bar somewhere, or with a mob of people in an over-crowded…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: 69 Love Songs

  • Ben Wirth
  • June 11, 2016
Everywhere people are shoving things into the ground—time capsules not to be opened until the year 2100, the more optimistic postmarked for 3000—letters to the future in the language of the now.
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Preservation

  • Chelsea Rathburn
  • April 27, 2016
I remember my husband, when I asked once why things couldn’t be easy, the way they used to be, saying, bitterly and through clenched teeth, “It was never easy.”
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Are We All Our Own Vanishing

  • Robyn Russell
  • February 19, 2016
We will never be an exclamation point, an ellipses, a question mark. We must all leave with this: a period—solid, and utterly irrefutable.
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Readers Report: Impossible Resolutions

  • Susan Clements
  • January 29, 2016
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Impossible Resolutions.”
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  • Music

MØ Performs at Nobel Prize Concert

  • Liz Wood
  • December 14, 2015
The Nobel Peace Prize Concert took place this weekend in Oslo, its prize going to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which is the association of the Tunisian General Labour Union,…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: There Will Be Blood

  • Ben Tanzer
  • June 21, 2015
It is 1980, I am twelve years old, and there is so much blood.
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The Shittiest New Year’s Eve Ever

  • Cassie J. Sneider
  • December 31, 2012
As we ring in 2013, Cassie J. Sneider brings us an on-the-road tale from the New Year's Eve archives.
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  • Sex

How Men Fight for Their Lives

  • Saeed Jones
  • July 17, 2012
The memory of that night hurts more than the actual punches.
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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/27-1/2

  • Melissa Tan
  • December 27, 2010
This week in San Francisco: Whether this is your adopted home or you’ve lived here all your life, re-discover the city as you begin another year of living here.  Let’s…
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