weekly rumpus fiction
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Amaris Ketcham
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Amaris Ketcham. Here’s an excerpt: We rode in silence, drinking and looking past our reflections out the windows. It occurred to me that she never asked where I was headed, but I was…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Josiane Curtis
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Josiane Curtis. Here’s an excerpt: I imagined that sometime down the road, a teenager might appear at my door wanting to know why she smiled crooked or threw her head back when she…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Jeff Albers
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Jeff Albers. Here’s an excerpt: These parties normally had a certain rhythm that suited Frank’s style, so relaxed and casual as to lead him to coin his own time signature, Loesserando, which, he…
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Rumpus Weekly Fiction: Rebecca Gummere
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Rebecca Gummere. Here’s an excerpt: Swing your arms, stretch a little. Keep walking and untie the sweater. Think about how much you hate it, how the shade makes you look like you are…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Ursula Villarreal-Moura. Here’s an excerpt: Within a month of knowing her, Irina had turned me on to shoplifting. I was hooked on the thrill of procuring ordinary and exquisite items. From grocery stores,…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Sonja Vitow
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Sonja Vitow. Here’s an excerpt: It used to bother me and Connor a little that Rachel kept the photos from the wallets we stole. At the end of the day I don’t particularly want…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Jill Hanley
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Jill Hanley. Here’s an excerpt: Lola stepped into the kitchen to find her mother standing at the sink, showing no signs of tears. She could still remember how hard, loud, and ugly her mother’s…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Johnny Alfi
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Johnny Alfi. Here’s an excerpt: She once gave me her number outside Abbot’s Habit Coffeehouse. She once proposed that she and Nora get matching tattoos of peaches on their ass cheeks. Instead, she…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Valerie Geary
The next Weekly Rumpus features flash fiction from Valerie Geary. Here’s an excerpt: We left our mark in a square of wet cement outside your garage. Your parents were putting in a new step after the old one cracked during…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Ian Bassingthwaighte
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Ian Bassingthwaighte. Here’s an excerpt: I spend all night thinking about bopping Karen ASAP like that would prove she’s right for me. Then immediately before sunup I sneak out of my cabin with the…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: N. Michelle AuBuchon
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from N. Michelle AuBuchon. Here’s an excerpt: The more you take away, the more the world opens up. This is a poetic way of saying that Lakshmi was living vicariously through the amputation and…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Christopher Kennedy
The next Weekly Rumpus features flash fiction from Christopher Kennedy. Here’s an excerpt: What are the odds that a fantastic one could ever lose to an ordinary asshole? Good, you think. The fantastic ones are always losing, mistaken for ordinary assholes,…