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Sleeping with Myself

  • Eve Ettinger
  • February 2, 2021
I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
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Winter Baby

  • Marissa Landrigan
  • December 21, 2020
Something new in the dead darkness. Short days and shimmers of light.
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If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now

  • Robin Jennings
  • September 15, 2020
I’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.
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Small Breeds

  • Jackie Connelly
  • March 17, 2020
How do people function without the false promises of pressure?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Mother We Share

  • Ilana Masad
  • January 29, 2020
This is what happens when I listen. I react.
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Scientific, Healing Magic: How to Know the Flowers by Jessica Smith

  • Cynthia Arrieu-King
  • January 10, 2020
A poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.
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The Crack-Up

  • Bethany Maile
  • October 31, 2019
If I slept... All night, I stayed awake.
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Splintered Doors

  • Vanessa Mártir
  • May 21, 2018
This journey is ongoing. But I know this: my daughter will never have to break down a door.
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Run for Her Life

  • Britney Davis
  • September 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.
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The Evolution of a Trigger

  • Whitney Egstad
  • March 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.
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Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight | Rumpus Music
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Albums of Our Lives: Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight

  • Whitney Van Laningham
  • February 9, 2017
Something about the twangy banjo and the melancholy vocals just made me feel less alone. And I hated being alone.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: No Wound

  • Shamala Gallagher
  • December 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.
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