Rumpus Original Fiction: Ojalá
There is an irony that sometimes rings Mona like a bell.
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Posts Tagged: widow
Love Story as Case Study: A Conversation with Rheea Mukherjee
Rheea Mukherjee discusses her debut novel, THE BODY MYTH.
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Voices on Addiction: War Hero
A seagull plummeted into the wounded water.
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War Narratives #8: Flashes of War by Katey Schultz
Schultz enables readers to see past their own perspectives and empathize with both the Afghan child and the American war widow.
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Not a Widow
I want to think of him as inhuman and selfish instead of an admirable man who eventually succumbed to a brain chemistry he had no control over.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Widow
If he had died in the Civil War, the extent of my mourning would have been a scandal. He was not my husband, my fiancé, my father, or my brother.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Loss of All Lost Things
I recognize something in the stories… It’s the culture of “I made it” versus the culture of staying behind, the culture of achievement versus the culture of guilt.
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