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Rumpus Original Fiction: Red Cedar

  • Colleen Morrissey
  • May 29, 2023
A living tree is a dare.
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Pickled Tree Cookie

  • Taneum Bambrick
  • October 4, 2021
A fossil. A body. A message from a recovered life.
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Malus Domestica

  • Angie Romines
  • July 26, 2021
Apples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
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For Now

  • Jessica Wahlstrom
  • November 5, 2020
If I get sick again and I can’t get better, my heart will break too intensely.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Ada Bloom Finds the Windmill”

  • Martine Murray
  • March 16, 2020
Ada followed her song deeper into the bush, until the windmill loomed up before her.
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Metamorphoses: The Uninhabitable Earth and The Overstory

  • Harrison Hill
  • January 15, 2020
And then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
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The Election and the Ash Borer

  • Rachel McKenny
  • July 12, 2017
Does it matter what words a sign says when a symbol says so much more? A white X. A carved swastika. Things get torn down from less.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • February 2, 2016
Opening the doors of Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture. The Internet’s deep rift. Facebook, but for trees. Remembering Dawkins.
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If Trees Could Touch-Type

  • Jeannie Yoon
  • July 30, 2015
Just when you thought long-form communication was dead. The city of Melbourne gave email addresses to trees, which has incurred an outpouring of love letters and even exchanges between people…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 28, 2015
Computers are judging you. Sexy robot story! Sexy robot story! “Trolls of mine, so undivine…” A wasteland of bodies. If it’s between money and trees, take the trees.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 7, 2014
Are video games the new social commentary? Are we ready to give them the weight of other media? The Internet is fomenting another revolution. Librarians: bespectacled superheroes for your rights.…
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Frankenstein, The Tree with Forty Fruit

  • Casey Dayan
  • July 25, 2014
Miraculous, and not a flaming sword near it—Sam Van Aken’s project marries sculpture and agriculture and genetics and a little bit of wonder. I was able to see the grafting…
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