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I think back and then here, where I can only think of beasts with stains: oil and blood. They have become as familiar as an oil-stained cloth in a garage, or the things we ignore, just there in the light.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jane Alison

Jane Alison discusses her autobiographical novel, Nine Island, the value of truth in fiction, and unsubscribing from romantic love.

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The Wharf: Three True Stories

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Rumpus Original

Salt

Now, nothing is ever quite salty enough for you. You have been caught shaking salt onto your bread at fancy restaurants, tonguing the rim of your margarita in order not to waste even a grain.

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The Pool

You want to scream but keep your chin lifted. Pretend nothing has happened. You’re good at this. Marriage has that effect.

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Water and Wanting

Writing about a water shortage is handy for a writer like me who loves, when reading, to be swept away in plot but whose characters seem to prefer to sit…

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Features & Reviews

Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #4: Water, Water, Everywhere

It’s hard to escape news about water these days. Drought on the West Coast, hurricane season raging on the East Coast, and NASA found water on Mars. No matter where…

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The Drinkable Book

It sounds like a Shel Silverstein poem, but The Drinkable Book is an educational text about safe water that doubles as a water filter. Each page is impregnated with silver nanoparticles…

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Rumpus Original

On the Rocks

There was a lightness to the way the waves batted me around on the stones, the lightness of a cat playing with a mouse it was about to kill.

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Jeffrey Rotter and the Politics of Paranoia

Jeffrey Rotter’s debut novel The Unknown Knowns concerns a pasty comic book collector whose inability to distinguish between the real and the fantastic leads to terrible consequences.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Woman at Standing Rock

The Rumpus Interview with Jane Alison

The Wharf: Three True Stories

Salt

The Pool

Water and Wanting

Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #4: Water, Water, Everywhere

The Drinkable Book

On the Rocks

Jeffrey Rotter and the Politics of Paranoia

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