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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side)

  • Joseph Santaella Vidal
  • January 16, 2023
“What’s a six-letter word for ignoring truth,” she might say, without looking up from the puzzle.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hatch

  • Christy Stillwell
  • August 11, 2021
What did it matter? It was June and the salmonfly hatch had begun.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sin Miedo

  • Marcela Fuentes
  • May 12, 2021
Just the two of us. Daddy and me. Charro and escaramuza.
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My Grandmother Glitches the Machine

  • Tan Tuck Ming
  • March 29, 2021
It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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This Frozen Life

  • Susan V. Meyers
  • March 22, 2021
As soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
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Voices on Addiction: Memories of My Daddy and Me(th)

  • Elara Elizabeth Cáceres
  • January 25, 2021
For years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
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The Joypain of Parenting: Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State

  • Kyle Winkler
  • April 29, 2020
This is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Clockwork

  • Leah Schnelbach
  • March 11, 2020
Turn the corner, let the darkness swallow you, and you’re in the stacks.
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Teddy Ruxpin

  • M.M. Carrigan
  • March 4, 2020
There’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
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On Tragedy and Strength: Making Space for Our Stories

  • Hillary Leftwich
  • February 18, 2020
I love that—working towards not having regret, in art and in life.
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Bounty

  • T.S. Mendola
  • December 17, 2019
The pleasure comes from the bounty itself, the viewing of it, knowing that she doesn’t have to eat it but that she could.
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Laying Bare Our Truths: A Conversation with Marika Lindholm

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • October 2, 2019
Marika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
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