Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk
She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
...moreShe wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
...moreSecrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
...moreThe hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
...moreHealing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
...moreHow do people function without the false promises of pressure?
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreThey had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
...moreThis time? This time we decided to sleep-train the baby.
...moreCivility only works on the civil. Decorum is for the deserving.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...more“If the door doesn’t open, it’s okay to walk away, give your poor head a rest. And try again later.”
...moreA weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreTo the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.
...moreA weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreAbout 173,000 people work for federal agencies in this Washington DC, and let’s be absolutely clear from the get-go: the mood among them is grim.
...more[Still photos] grab what otherwise might feel too foreign to understand.
...moreIt was as if I could hear the whole country breathing softly, softly, together. Finally, the sleepless eye had closed.
...moreAnd then one guy on his team yells, “You have to touch the bases, buddy! This is still America!” That is all it takes. For one guy on the other side to put country over party.
...moreI just remember when I first started playing that set how beautiful and perfect it was. Having a real instrument really made a difference. I started really playing!
...moreWhen you live in a political football it’s hard to ignore getting kicked.
...more[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
...moreThere should be no forgetting, much less forgiveness, of what happened during the Vietnam War.
...moreBookstore sales continue to grow. In the wake of the presidential election, bookstores are becoming more than just shops and are serving their communities as impromptu community centers. More independent bookstores are becoming publishers. Bushwick Brooklyn’s Molasses Books has started fundraising for good causes following Trump’s election. Bridgeside Books in Waterbury is trying to make Black […]
...moreHe only knew that the Blazer, like the green card, was something he wanted my brother and me to have, so that we knew we deserved things, things like America.
...moreWhy do you think God gave you those narrow hips, if not for wearing blue suit pants?
...moreThe thing I want to talk about is something I’m not in possession of anymore, but of all the things I’ve lost it’s the thing I think about the most.
...morePaula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.
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