The Bent Hourglass: Living in Crip Time
This is how to be sick, or hurt: give up on fast time.
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Posts Tagged: relationships
Voices on Addiction: Fault Lines
After, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
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Mixed Feelings: A Better Version of Love
You are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
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A Gentle Reckoning: Blas Falconer’s Forgive the Body This Failure
If there is distance in this collection, it originates with our own discomfort with its subject matter.
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Navigating by the Right Stars: A Conversation with Briallen Hopper
Briallen Hopper discusses her debut collection, HARD TO LOVE: ESSAYS AND CONFESSIONS.
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Be Like the Woman
And this is all like. The cloud is going around me.
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Redefining Manhood: A Conversation with James Hornor
James Hornor discusses his new novel, VICTORIA FALLS.
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ENOUGH: Original Fiction: Tom’s Photos
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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My Dream about Loving White
My blackness, like my gender, was a sin.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Rebecca Hannigan
Imagine a man looking at the artist looking at the art at the party.
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If Love Were Water
Can I be blamed for my relief? My anger?
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Language of Love
Speaking other languages can save your life. It can give you a new life.
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Marriage of a Different Kind
I will marry and find love, because this is the closest I have felt in a long time to giving it another try.
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Ablutions: A Triptych
I am twenty the first time I turn the water red.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Man from Washington
They had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
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Life after Death: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley discusses her newest novel, LATE IN THE DAY.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Lifers
We were beginning to exist on the periphery of our own lives.
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Heartbreak and Hair Dye: Talking with Amy Feltman
Amy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man
This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.
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The Algorithm of Love
The life I had doesn’t flash like I see in movies. The life I want is what stares ahead.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Beginnings
It is often a curse, this imagination of mine. Life pales in comparison.
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Mixed Feelings: Two Roads Diverged at a Picket Fence
Here we are standing the woods. Which path should we take?
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Love, Marriage, and the Bicultural Identity: Talking with Huda Al-Marashi
Huda Al-Marashi discusses her new memoir, FIRST COMES MARRIAGE.
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Between Floors
“Never just stand there,” the video said.
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What Sustains Me
In my marriage, food was love. And control. And coercion. And apologies.
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A Haunted Reality: Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It
The narration isn’t dispassionate, but there’s a distance.
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A Façade of a Woman: R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries
It is incredible to crack open an American novel and wince upon seeing parts of yourself reflected back so strikingly.
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Mixed Feelings: The Power and Limits of Labels
Maybe I’m not bisexual. What am I?
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