Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
...moreMy job was to help people suspend disbelief.
...more“I think about loss as echoes or circular structures.”
...moreElle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
...moreIt’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
...moreTe-Ping Chen discusses her debut story collection, LAND OF BIG NUMBERS.
...moreDantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
...moreThe ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
...moreShe wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
...moreEverything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
...moreTo be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
...moreCaroline Kim discusses her debut collection, THE PRINCE OF MOURNFUL THOUGHTS AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreIt was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
...moreThat was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
...moreThe hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
...moreBut in that same instant, as she turned, his smile froze.
...moreThere is pleasure in his eyes that is not just good acting.
...moreI searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
...moreHe barks at Coco. Coco barks back.
...moreI’d love to prove that I can sell windows.
...more“You’re a bomb,” Biswell says to Hope.
...moreWe met in a dorm hallway, half past midnight.
...moreTurn the corner, let the darkness swallow you, and you’re in the stacks.
...moreIt was a Friday morning at 9:34 a.m. when the Rapture occurred.
...moreWhat was I now? A witness? A victim? A mother? A suspect?
...moreThis is what happens when I listen. I react.
...moreThere is an irony that sometimes rings Mona like a bell.
...moreMy favorite was usually the smallest, the most alive.
...moreIt felt like the sun beating down on closed eyelids.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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