From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: No Good
The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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Join NOW!The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
...moreAmid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
...moreRobert L. Shuster discusses his debut novel, TO ZENZI.
...moreAt the beginning of the trip, we couldn’t wait to reach the end of the world.
...moreI’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
...moreThe ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
...moreIt took them almost two weeks to walk to Seoul, such was their pace.
...moreKapka Kassabova discusses her latest book, TO THE LAKE.
...moreAria Aber discusses her debut poetry collection, HARD DAMAGE.
...more“Ultimately art is about making sense of our brief lives on earth.”
...moreMary-Kim Arnold discusses her new poetry collection, THE FISH & THE DOVE.
...moreThere is no real freedom to create art, only the obligation to wealth.
...moreI see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
...moreThere is an irony that sometimes rings Mona like a bell.
...moreSurvival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
...morePoet Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE.
...moreAyşe Papatya Bucak discusses her debut story collection, THE TROJAN WAR MUSEUM.
...moreWe drive out, shedding tears inside, only for ourselves, only for the beauty.
...moreThe speaker in Hard Damage, it seems, is writing herself to life.
...moreReveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
...moreIndividual soldiers become a formless mass. War becomes an end in itself.
...moreGolnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde discusses her second novel, WHAT WE OWE.
...moreWhat happens when we play along with something not real—does it become real?
...moreIrina Reyn discusses her new novel, MOTHER COUNTRY.
...moreThere is no escape from the cradle of this shame.
...moreRahna Reiko Rizzuto discusses her newest book, SHADOW CHILD.
...moreSpeech seemed like an irreverence, as if the empty schools were tombs.
...moreAlaska attracts those looking to be free from the constraints of society.
...moreCrystal Hana Kim discusses her debut novel, IF YOU LEAVE ME.
...moreIngrid Rojas Contreras discusses her debut novel, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE.
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