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You May Read a Book
Why live in the moment when you can start planning your 2016 reading list now? Next spring, Rumpus contributor Paula Whyman will release her debut linked story collection “You May See a Stranger.” One of its stories was featured in the late Weekly Rumpus app back in the day, which should make for a fine […]
...moreWeekly 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 feeling drunk and warm and didn’t care. It was nice going somewhere without walking, as […]
...moreWeekly 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 laughed. I would invite her in. That I came to terms with the full weight […]
...moreWeekly 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 explained, should fall somewhere between the slow walking pace of andante moderato and the reduced […]
...moreRumpus 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 recovering from flu. Green was never your color. It amazes you all over again that […]
...moreWeekly 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, we lifted packages of string cheese, sprinkled donuts, lipsticks, index cards, disposable cameras, and collars […]
...moreWeekly 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 tears had been at Lola’s aunt’s funeral; when Asher had put the Saint Anthony medal […]
...moreWeekly 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 relocation of her body parts. To an outsider she looked like a stump in a […]
...moreWeekly 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, and the ordinary assholes are preening about disguised as the fantastic ones. This is the […]
...moreWeekly Rumpus Fiction: Caitlin McGuire
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Caitlin McGuire. Here’s an excerpt: For a while after he came back, Annie’s mom wouldn’t let him out of the house. When she finally gave him permission to go outside, he was only allowed in the backyard, and only after dark. But that was okay because if there […]
...moreWeekly Rumpus Fiction: Sandra Gail Lambert
The next Weekly Rumpus brings you fiction from Sandra Gail Lambert! Here’s an excerpt: Running didn’t help. It just turned you into prey. Ruth Ann knew the exact moment she learned this. She had started taking a bookbinding class on Wednesday nights. She saw the car advance, idle, and then creep forward as it hunted […]
...moreWeekly Rumpus Fiction: Bryan VanDyke
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Bryan Van Dyke! Here’s an excerpt! Head down, hands in pockets, I am almost past the first surveillance cameras when I run into my sister. She jumps up and down and squeals with delight. So much for being inconspicuous, I think. She’s leaving the mall. I’m headed inside. […]
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