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Insinuative Curvilinearities: A Conversation with Garielle Lutz

  • Crow Jonah Norlander
  • April 21, 2021
Garielle Lutz discusses her new story collection, WORSTED.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Additional Skills Include

  • Katerina Ivanov Prado
  • April 13, 2021
Patience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus

  • Elanor Broker
  • April 8, 2021
“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams

  • Maria Kuznetsova
  • March 31, 2021
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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Writing Down the Shadows: Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror

  • A. Poythress
  • March 24, 2021
We get to devour our horror from the top of the head down to the tips of the toes.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Sea

  • Anna Hundert
  • March 17, 2021
The beach was shrinking. That was how we thought of it at first.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn

  • Ariel Gore
  • February 24, 2021
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Mike Alberti

  • Jennifer Bowen
  • February 18, 2021
“I think about loss as echoes or circular structures.”
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Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash

  • Danielle Chelosky
  • February 12, 2021
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos

  • ire’ne lara silva
  • February 10, 2021
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Upending the Scene: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen

  • Greg Mania
  • February 8, 2021
Te-Ping Chen discusses her debut story collection, LAND OF BIG NUMBERS.
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Why We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz

  • Mike Jeffrey
  • February 3, 2021
Dantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
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