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Rumpus Original Fiction: Poor People Disappear

  • Ira Sukrungruang
  • May 26, 2021
Nothing is not right. There is no indication there has ever been a house.
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Writing Through: You Are No Longer in Trouble by Nicole Stellon O’Donnell

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • February 21, 2020
There are no line breaks here because there are no breaks here.
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  • Brandon Hicks
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Mother & Son

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 5, 2018
"So go! Go forth into the world!"
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In Situ: The After Schoolers

  • Deb Lucke
  • April 29, 2018
"You're headed for victory."
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  • Brandon Hicks
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Three Misunderstood Kids

  • Brandon Hicks
  • December 10, 2017
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The Wacked-Out Deer

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 28, 2017
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Victim Story, a Mix CD

  • Joshua Bohnsack
  • May 21, 2017
All the cruelty of the past seasons washed away with the new layer of snow. I thought your streak was over. I thought we could be friends.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 2

  • David Treuer
  • April 8, 2017
There isn’t even a discussion. There aren’t any words. You just start swinging—the building is a fence, your cousins are a fence. The two of you are surrounded. There’s no escape for either of you.
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Scarecrow

  • David Sellers
  • January 9, 2017
My future grew dimmer. Just moments after computing in my head that I was gay, my mom stomped down the stairs.
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Hallow Again

  • Brandon Hicks
  • October 30, 2016
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The Rumpus Interview with Nina Stibbe

  • Catherine Cusick
  • August 22, 2016
Author Nina Stibbe discusses her new novel Paradise Lodge, our obsession with character likeability, and how she more than flirts with feminism.
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Remnants

  • Amy Robillard
  • August 15, 2016
There were six people under the same roof, surviving but not living. Because living requires stories.
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