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Voices on Addiction: Thief in the Night

  • Heather Stokes
  • February 16, 2021
Addiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.
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My Blockbuster

  • Colleen Morrissey
  • May 30, 2019
Time has put those lovely nostalgia lenses in front of our eyes, and I am not immune.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Wisdom”

  • Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  • July 16, 2018
“The devil has made a fool of you, but do you know Wisdom is at work, too?”
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How to Steal a Frozen Burrito

  • Roberto José Andrade Franco
  • June 28, 2018
If you ask me why I did it, I can’t give you a proper answer. I was hungry and didn’t have much money, but it wasn’t like I was homeless or went to sleep starving.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Seasonal Work

  • Laura Lippman
  • December 13, 2017
[T]he thing about Gary was that he could believe what he needed to believed when he needed to believe it. So, technically, he never lied.
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A Love Letter to Fuckhead

  • Justin Carroll-Allan
  • June 5, 2017
If you’re judging your characters, you’re not doing it right. I’ll always be grateful to [Denis] Johnson for teaching me that.
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Looking for Russia in America

  • Zhanna Slor
  • March 15, 2017
Everyone around us is speaking Russian, and I feel like we are in Russia, the old one, before the wall came down. For a moment, I even feel like I belong.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Lucy Dacus’s Journals

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • October 13, 2016
What I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
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Self-Publishing Leads to Plagiarism

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 8, 2016
Self-publishing has never been easier, and that means plagiarism has never been easier. Thieves are using self-publishing services like Amazon to republish back catalog or out-of-print books to sell for a…
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Safety Rope

  • Garrard Conley
  • May 2, 2016
No touching unless he touches you. No touching where people can see. No touching unless dared to touch. Brad makes the rules, but never says them aloud.
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Used-Car Salesman

  • Michael Lowenthal
  • April 15, 2016
I wondered if he understood my joke, or its evasion, but surely he knew a used-car salesman always fudged his story. In fact, the car had been in my possession all of three weeks. Also, it didn’t exactly belong to me.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Theft

  • Toni Nealie
  • March 27, 2016
Maybe this is what compelled Stella to plunder goods without paying. Her mother had been taken, her heart song snatched away. The stealing became her mourning.
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