Rumpus Original Fiction: The Christmas Party
I laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.
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Posts Tagged: short fiction
The Spot You’re Standing In: A Conversation with Chris Dennis
Chris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
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Friction Wherever You Go: A Conversation with Kate Wisel
Kate Wisel discusses her debut story collection, DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN.
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The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #196: Cathy Ulrich
“I hope it will mean as much to readers as it does to me.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Last Day, the Ancestors Came
If this were the end, May needed to see.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Field Medicine”
I didn’t belong on this planet. This kind of place could not be my home.
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A Kind of Cartography: Talking with Elizabeth Geoghegan
Elizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
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Attracted to the Dark: A Conversation with Emily W. Pease
Emily W. Pease discusses her debut story collection, LET ME OUT HERE.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Shelter in Place
I tell Kurinda I’d lie flat on the floor under a pile of jackets.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Ayşe Papatya Bucak
Ayşe Papatya Bucak discusses her debut story collection, THE TROJAN WAR MUSEUM.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Em
For her twenty-first birthday, Kiều’s younger siblings set fire to her bed.
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Subtle Connections: A Conversation with Gregory Spatz
Gregory Spatz discusses his newest book, WHAT COULD BE SAVED.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Someone Will Come and Get Us
It always feels like I’m making a mistake on purpose.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #190: R.L. Maizes
“We all fail to do the right thing some of the time.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: The Intro to PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019
A list like this will probably mean more to you once you’ve read the book.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Gauri Kalyanam
Her heartbeat is a history folded into a vessel.
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Modern Lives We Lived: Xuan Juliana Wang’s Home Remedies
Social and economic forces are always pressing on the characters in Wang’s work.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Softest Part
We sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
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This Thing of Existence: Talking with Rion Amilcar Scott
Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his new story collection, THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath
There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sardines
The house, for the first time this weekend, is quiet.
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The Mystery Tugs: Talking with Joel Mowdy
Joel Mowdy discusses his debut story collection, FLOYD HARBOR.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Habitat
The airless bubble expanding over their yard now included him. He could hardly breathe.
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Writing and Making: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett discusses her new novel, MOSTLY DEAD THINGS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Forty-Six
Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
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Telling a Good Story: A Conversation with Lisa Lenzo
Lisa Lenzo discusses her new story collection, UNBLINKING.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Niyah Morris
The lasso was a gaping mouth that opened wide enough, we hoped, to swallow the cloud.
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Making Space at the Center: Talking with Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajardo-Anstine discusses her debut story collection, SABRINA & CORINA.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: A World in a Box
Saturday is a desert in a motel.
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Submit to the Pigeon Pages Fiction Contest!
A fiction contest judged by author Laura Sims!
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