Rumpus Original Fiction: Barong
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...moreRanda Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
...moreIt’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
...moreYou could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
...moreSuch distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.
...more“I work slowly, from sentence to sentence, and attempt to stay attuned to opportunity.”
...moreHe barks at Coco. Coco barks back.
...moreMy defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...moreIn this sense, [the dogs] are a perfect foil for the conflicted young author.
...moreHow do people function without the false promises of pressure?
...moreCameron Awkward-Rich discusses his new collection, DISPATCH.
...moreIt isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
...more“We all fail to do the right thing some of the time.”
...moreCats are creatures of habit. Once they learn a trick, they will perform it perfectly every time.
...moreMary Miller discusses her new novel, BILOXI.
...moreIf you like Owen’s haikus, and even if you don’t, you’ll really love his album.
...moreMy devotion to the cats was not an imitation of human motherhood. To confuse the two, I thought, was an insult to both.
...more[T]he one thing I wake up next to, that I couldn’t imagine living without, isn’t an object at all. It’s a dog.
...moreDeb Olin Unferth discusses Wait Till You See Me Dance and I, Parrot, her work with prisoners, and how she ended up with a pet dog.
...moreAn exclusive excerpt from I, Parrot, by Deb Olin Unferth & Elizabeth Haidle, forthcoming from Catapult and Black Balloon on November 1.
...morewhen to survive this day and the next/four years’ worth will require many/more small, nourishing acts of/self-indulgence and sweet defiance.
...moreBronwen Dickey discusses Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, her examination of one of the most feared dog breeds, how the media changes perceptions, and what Eliza Doolittle might have to say about this.
...moreAt The Establishment, Laura Bogart writes a heartwarming ode to her the special type of love that exists only between human and canine—the kind of love she says she’s always been searching for: Together, we built a life from endless repetitions of “sit, stay, come, good”; from my coaching her into a calmer, more confident […]
...moreAuthor Nina Stibbe discusses her new novel Paradise Lodge, our obsession with character likeability, and how she more than flirts with feminism.
...moreThis is a story about memory. About neurons misfiring, about the strange space between dream and awake, that feeling, when I’m falling asleep, of falling backwards, swinging my arms up to catch myself.
...moreWhat I want/need/love most is to be with my family.
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