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Rumpus Original Fiction: Being the Baby’s Heart

  • Carly Rae Zent
  • October 27, 2021
I took a deep breath. A long one. And I started rocking again.
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This Frozen Life

  • Susan V. Meyers
  • March 22, 2021
As soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
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Sunflower Sick

  • Sara Heise Graybeal
  • March 15, 2021
Maybe this pandemic will make us a family.
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney

  • Ethel Rohan
  • February 10, 2021
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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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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Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Fictions by Kelsey Norris

  • Kelsey Norris
  • October 28, 2020
It was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
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A Photographer’s Wife

  • Rachel Somerstein
  • October 7, 2020
It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope, Christmas: A Story in Four Epiphanies

  • Julianna Baggott
  • December 24, 2019
She can really throw herself into a stoning.
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Love in the Belly of Beginning

  • Cassie Mannes Murray
  • September 5, 2019
I think this is what love is, critical and enduring.
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Homebodies: Kindly Use, Part 1

  • Arwen Donahue
  • October 19, 2017
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A Place with Teeth

  • Megan Donnelly
  • March 13, 2017
It will be fine, I had told them. It will be an adventure. I was in love. Love is an eternal optimist.
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What Pregnant Women Read

  • Katie O'Brien
  • January 22, 2016
At Lit Hub, Yardenne Greenspan discusses the solace she found in parenting books during pregnancy: Now that I was in this completely new and foreign scenario, my body doing things…
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