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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Forty-Six

  • Amy Neswald
  • September 5, 2022
Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Footnotes on a love story

  • K-Ming Chang
  • August 8, 2022
Before they were married, they met in a photograph.
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Today, You’re a Black Revolutionary

  • Jade Jones
  • July 4, 2022
The important thing to remember when climbing a pole, a rope, a mountain is to not look down.
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Last Day, the Ancestors Came

  • Tyrese L. Coleman
  • February 28, 2022
If this were the end, May needed to see.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rumpus Original Fiction: Sabbath

  • Arielle K. Jones
  • February 14, 2022
There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction—The Christmas Party

  • Mina Seçkin
  • January 10, 2022
I laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Self-Possession

  • Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
  • December 29, 2021
The words blur, become meaningless. You need them to be meaningless.
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A Fundamental Sense of Mystery: Talking with Cara Blue Adams

  • Kate Finegan
  • December 23, 2021
Cara Blue Adams discusses her debut story collection, YOU NEVER GET IT BACK.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Christopher Gonzalez

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  • December 22, 2021
Christopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Carribean Fragoza

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • December 21, 2021
“I always try to locate stories deep inside myself, physically and emotionally.”
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The Moment Moves On: A Conversation with Wendy J. Fox

  • Caleb Thompson
  • December 17, 2021
Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Mother Fires Guns

  • Timothy Laurence Marsh
  • December 15, 2021
You are never really at peace with what you haven’t gotten.
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