Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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Posts Tagged: relationships
The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Spotlight: “Five Pandemic Date Night Ideas”
Enjoy a cozy evening at home… and another one… and another one.
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If My Body Were a House
Where my masculinity dwells, I am in control.
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Sleeping with Myself
I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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Life Gets in the Way: Talking with Emily Hashimoto
Emily Hashimoto discusses her debut novel, A WORLD BETWEEN.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dirty Little Secrets”
They were alone, and in his apartment, but not in the way he’d imagined it to be.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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Reality Is Changeable: Talking with Rachel Genn
Rachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.
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Touching What Once Was: A Conversation with Meredith Clark
Meredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.
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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me
There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Footnotes on a love story
Before they were married, they met in a photograph.
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Identity Politics and the English Language: Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times
Who “owns” the English language?
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Where Words Often Fail: Talking with Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington discusses his new novel, MEMORIAL.
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Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women
I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy
That was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
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Acclimation
Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.
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Varied States of Breaking
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Of Separation
But in that same instant, as she turned, his smile froze.
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Outsiders Looking In: Subduction by Kristen Millares Young
Central to Subduction is the question of cultural ownership, namely in story.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Spotlight: “Dentist Dad”
A young woman stays with her boyfriend’s parents. It will be her last visit.
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Radical Enough
I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope Get a Dog, A Story in Three Epiphanies
He barks at Coco. Coco barks back.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope and the Job, A Story in Five Epiphanies
I’d love to prove that I can sell windows.
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