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Swimming

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Marco Polo

  • Christine Mi
  • January 19, 2023
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Space to Breathe

  • Krista Lee Hanson
  • December 6, 2022
We inhale when we’re born, then breathe and breathe and breathe until one day we exhale our final breath.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Genesis

  • Patricia García Luján
  • August 15, 2022
The speed boat moves fast and Genesis notices Kayla’s hair keeps getting into her eyes. She laughs, as do all the others, who bounce up and down and let out…
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Forms of Narrowing: Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers

  • Hilary Sun
  • July 26, 2022
After the memorials, the funerals, the endless influx of flowers and casserole dishes and well-meaning texts, the collective retreats back into their lives and all that is left is the individual, grieving for months and years and perhaps even the rest of their own life.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • September 15, 2021
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Every Day

  • Jonathan Morrow
  • March 10, 2021
I tell him, I come out every day. It’s a thought I’ve had but never shared.
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Spines of the Finwomen

  • Lidia Yuknavitch
  • October 31, 2019
This may be a reclamation story.
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The Water Goddess

  • Melissa Wiley
  • May 4, 2017
To exist solely now on land is to live always waiting to reenter the water—to feel soothed even by the sound of it falling. To live a life on land is to feel the loss of our former lives within our very faces.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Less Than I Hope For

  • Louise LeBourgeois
  • October 2, 2016
If we want to talk about desire, a gnawing ache for something we don’t yet have, or for something we’ve lost, we can say that we yearn for the transformation that the satisfaction of our desire will bring.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Distance Devotion

  • Edward Helfers
  • August 21, 2016
If I understood the difference between good and great in that moment, it would be years before I came to accept it.
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Colorama

  • Andrea L. Volpe
  • August 2, 2016
How does one scene impress itself on us, so that we remember it better than we should if we were in it? Or rest, just below the surface, present, but unnoticed?
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The Wharf: Three True Stories

  • Brandon Hicks
  • June 12, 2016
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