Rumpus Original Fiction: New Build
“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
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Posts Tagged: relationships
ENOUGH: Sequence
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Greener
I can tell he knows exactly what kind of trouble I like.
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An Imperfect Plan
In that moment of quiet, I screamed, as loud as I could, “I’m bisexual.”
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The Ugly Side of Ambition: A Conversation with Joy Lanzendorfer
Joy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
I hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.
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A Love That Leaves Scars: With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
Reading Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth is like taking an afternoon drive down the I-4 of my memory.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Notes Toward the End of the World
At the beginning of the trip, we couldn’t wait to reach the end of the world.
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The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact
Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
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Claiming Our Untold Stories: Talking with Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Additional Skills Include
Patience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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Always in Flux: A Conversation with Shy Watson
Shy Watson discusses her new collection, HORROR VACUI: POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Maria Cichosz
“Thinking about blurring those lines got me closer to the truth of the clichés.”
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Encouraging Messiness: A Conversation with Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder discusses her new novel, MILK FED.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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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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