TSA

  • Rumpus Original Fiction: Bob and Dave

    Rumpus Original Fiction: Bob and Dave

    The threat of perfunctory conversation looms. Raza reaches for his headphones, but it is too late. The man is already talking to him.

  • Poems for Airports

    In his relatable poem in Hunger Mountain, “Observations at the Security Checkpoint,” Joel Brouwer gently explores traveling life under our TSA overlords: Now our gestures grow both more hurried and more delicate, we stand on one foot to remove a…

  • TSA Employee Reveals Airport Security Secrets

    …one of the officers in our class asked him to tell us, off the record, what he really thought about the machines. “They’re shit,” he said, shrugging. He said we wouldn’t be able to distinguish plastic explosives from body fat…