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romance

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How We Break

  • Annalise Mabe
  • July 6, 2016
There is breaking, and there is breaking free from the broken.
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Romancing the Cure

  • Michelle Vider
  • March 7, 2016
Homer understood in the 8th century BCE what modernity has yet to accept—love can be an addiction, and when it is, we need substantial outside help. Angela Chen writes for…
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Swans and Other Lies

  • Anita Felicelli
  • February 26, 2016
As she presses against Patterson, she feels her feet softening, losing gravity. He’s embracing her, willing her to disappear, swallowing her.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • February 12, 2016
Valentine’s Day, the annual celebration of romance, named after a martyred saint who doesn’t have anything to do with love, is almost here. In recognition of the holiday, The Cut…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • February 5, 2016
When you think of romance, you probably think Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, Gone With the Wind, Wuthering Heights—or anything by Nicholas Sparks if you’re into more modern fare.…
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One Hundred Thousand Miles

  • Christopher Ross
  • January 22, 2016
No one cares, of course, if you’re still capable at forty-four of being bad, or if you think you’ve got to be bad sometimes just to know you’re alive.
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The Double Date

  • Brandon Hicks
  • January 10, 2016
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FUNNY WOMEN #134: We Want to Make Your Feminist Action Thriller into a Blockbuster Hit!

  • Hannah Murphy
  • January 5, 2016
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The Last Book I Loved: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York

  • Emily Meg Weinstein
  • November 12, 2015
But when my loneliness feels as vast—and capable of drowning me—as the sea, this book about self-destruction comforts me more than any self-help.
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Diana Athill, the Other Woman

  • Guia Cortassa
  • November 10, 2015
The role that seems to me most comfortable is not that of Wife, but that of the Other Woman. And in that role I am good, because I have never…
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Choice or Fate in Romance

  • Michelle Vider
  • October 26, 2015
For Aeon, Polina Aronson writes on the different “romantic regimes” of the world, with “regime” defined as the cultural, economic, and sociological systems behind how we engage in relationships. Aronson…
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Little Minnie at the Movies

  • Melissa Carroll
  • September 12, 2015
Being a teenager sucks. It’s not pretty or nice or sweet or kind.
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