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The Gnome

  • Brandon Hicks
  • March 14, 2021
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals

  • Ren Weber
  • May 27, 2020
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Split Chins, Open Coats

  • Anna Leigh Knowles
  • July 10, 2019
My whistle was useless. Using it felt like an insult.
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First and Last Songs: The Extinct Song of the Kaua‘i ‘Ö‘ö

  • Ben Shattuck
  • July 2, 2018
I wanted to talk to someone who might have heard the last animal at the end of its species’ five-million-year run on earth.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse #28: Let’s Do Dinner

  • Charles Kruger
  • May 12, 2017
Dinner party! Now that the garden is starting to look nice, and the cats are becoming less feral and more civilized, and Klopnik has begun to change (occasionally) out of…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #27: Spring Is Sprung

  • Charles Kruger
  • May 5, 2017
It is springtime for sure in the house of The Storming Bohemian and Argyle C. Klopnik. All day, every day, Klopnik digs his garden. Our once-chaotic backyard is now a…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • April 14, 2015
Space sex! The science of being twitterpated. iPads can’t fix everything. The religion of technology. Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.
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In the Art Rags

  • Ari Messer
  • April 3, 2009
Despite–or maybe to spite–bitter winds, spring is in the air. The art world and its rags are responding in kind. In Oslo, rabbits are about to do funny things with…
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