Rumpus Original Fiction: Additional Skills Include
Patience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
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Posts Tagged: short stories
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus
“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
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
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
The beach was shrinking. That was how we thought of it at first.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Mike Alberti
“I think about loss as echoes or circular structures.”
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Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos
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
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
Dantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk
She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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History as a Bridge to Belonging: A Conversation with Caroline Kim
Caroline Kim discusses her debut collection, THE PRINCE OF MOURNFUL THOUGHTS AND OTHER STORIES.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Beth Alvarado
Beth Alvarado discusses her new story collection, JILLIAN IN THE BORDERLANDS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Footnotes on a love story
Before they were married, they met in a photograph.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Fictions by Kelsey Norris
It was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
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No Unnecessary Touching: A Conversation with C. Kubasta
C. Kubasta discusses her new collection, ABJECTIFICATION: STORIES & TRUTHS.
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Always the Story First: A Conversation with Jenny Bhatt
Jenny Bhatt discusses her debut story collection, EACH OF US KILLERS.
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Cutting to the Core: A Conversation with Tara Isabel Zambrano
Tara Isabel Zambrano discusses DEATH, DESIRE, AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Seoul”
It took them almost two weeks to walk to Seoul, such was their pace.
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A Little Bit Irreverent, a Little Bit Truthful: Talking with Megan Cummins
Megan Cummins discusses her debut story collection, IF THE BODY ALLOWS IT.
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Homage as Provocation: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Sansei and Sensibility
Pretend you are Austen. Enact an Austen novel. And what will happen?
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Flight of the Businessman”
I had to admit that for a businessman, he was flexible.
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This Off-Kilter Triangle: A Conversation with Leah Hampton
Leah Hampton discusses her debut collection, F*CKFACE AND OTHER STORIES.
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Until Democracy Falls: Talking with Matthew Baker
Matthew Baker discusses his new story collection, WHY VISIT AMERICA.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Of Separation
But in that same instant, as she turned, his smile froze.
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