From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Prescriptions
I wore sobriety like a shirt that was too tight in the shoulders, and everyone around me knew it.
...more
Posts Tagged: sisters
From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Forty-Six
Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
...more
From the Archive: The Dark All Around Us
There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.
...more
Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for How You Grow Wings
An exclusive look at the cover of Rimma Onoseta’s forthcoming novel, HOW YOU GROW WINGS.
...more
ENOUGH: Sequence
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...more
Taking Care: A Conversation with Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin discusses her new story collection, WE WANT WHAT WE WANT.
...more
The Tragedy of Hope: Talking with Willa C. Richards
Willa C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
...more
ENOUGH: The Color of the Cast
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...more
The Legality of Love
I remember when I learned there is a syntax to love.
...more
Rumpus Original Fiction: Purity Party
I used to be able to teach sex without thinking about sex.
...more
Hypocrisy Is Ripe for Stories: Talking with Melissa Scholes Young
Melissa Scholes Young discusses her new novel, THE HIVE.
...more
Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Sea
The beach was shrinking. That was how we thought of it at first.
...more
Unprepared Blue Birds
In deep grief, we rotate inside of a funhouse.
...more
Why We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
...more
Voices on Addiction: Primary Source
Anything we write now is a primary source.
...more
Flesh and Blood: A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko discusses her story collection, YOUR AD COULD GO HERE.
...more
Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
...more
It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...more
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
...more
On Anger, Autism, and Blackness
The rage and frustration overwhelmed all rational thought.
...more
Voices on Addiction: Katie Calls
I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
...more
Rumpus Original Fiction: Clockwork
Turn the corner, let the darkness swallow you, and you’re in the stacks.
...more
Seaweed Soup (Miyuk Gook
미역국)
This is my mother’s soup. This is what I aim for.
...more
Teddy Ruxpin
There’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
...more
Between Illusion and Reality: A Conversation with Erin Pringle
Erin Pringle discusses her debut novel, HEZADA! I MISS YOU.
...more
Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
...more
Afrofuturist Triptych for My Mother
This is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
...more
Voices on Addiction: Chicken Marsala and Meth
As it turned out, though, it was he who would surprise me that evening.
...more
Spines of the Finwomen
This may be a reclamation story.
...more
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #198: Rene Denfeld
“Healing is a process you must actively engage in.”
...more