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Rumpus Exclusive: “Danny”

  • Jen Fawkes
  • August 23, 2021
Allow her to bewitch you as she bewitches all who cross her path.
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TORCH: Blood Trauma

  • Nadia Owusu
  • May 8, 2017
But still: A pattern. The trauma had been diluted by time. But, it was still present, still discernible, in my blood.
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Go Boldly, Dear Dreamer

  • M.K. Hall
  • May 11, 2016
And while I understand the secrecy surrounding miscarriage—it is hard to quantify what’s been lost—because people don’t talk about it, I am lonely.
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A Letter to My Father That He Will Never Read

  • Lauren Almeida
  • April 1, 2016
What would I even say if I was to answer that long-awaited phone call? Would the light of forgiveness carry me fearlessly into tomorrow?
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Orphans in Literature

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • October 6, 2015
At The New Inquiry, Alison Kinney examines the use of orphanhood in literature and what attracts readers to this narrative. She goes on to discuss the similarities and differences between orphans…
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The Rumpus Interview with Christopher Bollen

  • Will Chancellor
  • September 16, 2015
Author Christopher Bollen talks about his sophomore novel, Orient, secrets and privacy, sexual orientation in fiction, and the lost art of the whodunit mystery.
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