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Rumpus Original Fiction: Ojalá

  • Hala Alyan
  • January 15, 2020
There is an irony that sometimes rings Mona like a bell.
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Love Story as Case Study: A Conversation with Rheea Mukherjee

  • Martha Grover
  • November 27, 2019
Rheea Mukherjee discusses her debut novel, THE BODY MYTH.
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Voices on Addiction: War Hero

  • Karie Fugett
  • December 18, 2018
A seagull plummeted into the wounded water.
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War Narratives #8: Flashes of War by Katey Schultz

  • Caleb Cage
  • February 6, 2017
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

  • Michelle Miller
  • December 20, 2016
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

  • Hilary Collins
  • March 20, 2016
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

  • Anjanette Delgado
  • March 15, 2016
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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