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Posts Tagged: origin story

A Historic/Linguistic Lithostratigraphic Exploration of How David Conquered Jerusalem

By Robbie Maakestad

December 2nd, 2016

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Tags: Bible, biblical, Charles Warren, City of David, David, gaza, hebrew, history, israel, Israelite, Jebusite, Jerusalem, Joab, King David, King Mesha, lithostratigraphic, old testament, origin story, outline, Phoenician, Robbie Maakestad, Solomon, Solomon's Temple, Warren's Shaft

Rumpus Original Fiction: Service Area

By Matthew Kirkpatrick

May 6th, 2016

Even though the summer customers were the worst, always impatient on their way west to the places of her dreams, she envied them.

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Tags: babies, California, Cleveland, Dumpster, Gary, gas station, glory hole, highway, Hollywood, Matthew Kirkpatrick, morality play, origin story, Rumpus Original Fiction, running away, service area, short fiction, short story, Toledo

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The (Online) Stories We Tell

By Amanda Miska

February 28th, 2015

Sometimes you want to dream about the life you didn’t get to have. Sometimes you want to see the life you were lucky to escape.

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Tags: Amanda Miska, carrie & lowell, children, Cyber-stalking, divorce, Facebook, Intimacy, love, marriage, motherhood, narrative, Online, origin story, parenting, Sarah Polley, Sex, single mother, stalking, Stories We Tell, storytelling, sufjan stevens, the Internet, twitter

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