Read Rumpus Original Sleeping with Myself Eve EttingerFebruary 2, 2021 I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.Read
Read Rumpus Original Winter Baby Marissa LandriganDecember 21, 2020 Something new in the dead darkness. Short days and shimmers of light.Read
Read Film Rumpus Original If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now Robin JenningsSeptember 15, 2020 I’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.Read
Read Rumpus Original Small Breeds Jackie ConnellyMarch 17, 2020 How do people function without the false promises of pressure?Read
Read Fiction Rumpus Original Rumpus Original Fiction: The Mother We Share Ilana MasadJanuary 29, 2020 This is what happens when I listen. I react.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Scientific, Healing Magic: How to Know the Flowers by Jessica Smith Cynthia Arrieu-KingJanuary 10, 2020 A poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.Read
Read Rumpus Original The Crack-Up Bethany MaileOctober 31, 2019 If I slept... All night, I stayed awake.Read
Read Rumpus Original Splintered Doors Vanessa MártirMay 21, 2018 This journey is ongoing. But I know this: my daughter will never have to break down a door.Read
Read Rumpus Original Run for Her Life Britney DavisSeptember 12, 2017 Maybe you didn’t remember to get out of his way while pretending to be brave. It’s hard to be brave when you think a man is about to kill you.Read
Read Rumpus Original The Evolution of a Trigger Whitney EgstadMarch 27, 2017 Perhaps they are really saying: This will not happen to me. I will be prepared. And, in hoisting that hypothetical gun, they feel they are made safe from the appalling vulnerability of living.Read
Read Music Rumpus Original Albums of Our Lives: Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight Whitney Van LaninghamFebruary 9, 2017 Something about the twangy banjo and the melancholy vocals just made me feel less alone. And I hated being alone.Read
Read Rumpus Original The Saturday Rumpus Essay: No Wound Shamala GallagherDecember 31, 2016 Maybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.Read