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The Day the FBI Tapped Our Phones
I remember the young wife with a vivid clarity that only comes in those “change of life” moments, as they like to call them on health insurance forms. Outside it was the height of summer, but you’d...
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Allowing a Female to Own Her Genius: Talking with Alana Massey
I was introduced to Alana Massey’s writing via her 2014 essay, “You’re Right, I Didn’t Eat That,” a meditation on her compulsive pursuit of thinness and the emotional and physical toll it exacts on...
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The Sled
I used to have a crush on the man who hugs me and whispers, “I’m sorry.” We stand at the edge of a sanctuary that holds my father’s ashes. This man, who has driven five hours to attend the funeral, was...
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Voices on Addiction: What We Forget, What We Remember
I don’t remember the types of guns he had lining the windows. The way he would pace, back and forth inside his house, during days and nights that must have merged into one murky color. At that point,...
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What Did You Expect, Though?
This spring the gland in my throat that sets the speed of change of every cell in my body started to fail. I shifted by the day, grew cheeks, lost memory, went dry and slick, lost hair where I wanted,...
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People You May Know
In a 300 x 300 pixel square, a metal mask covered with what looked like the pelt of a small mammal—perhaps a mink—stared back at me. The animal’s face and teeth were preserved, wide-eyed, crazed. The...
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Open Letter to Our Body
The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. There...
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Our next Letter in the Mail comes from author, editor, and publisher Janice Lee! Janice sends us a contemplative letter about birds, inherited trauma, and ways to find hope amid violence and pain. To...
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From the Archive: What Burns in the Pit
This was originally published at The Rumpus on April 16, 2012. During the month of June 2022, we’re highlighting some of our favorite work from The Rumpus archives to show readers how the magazine has...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Chicken
On the island, the sun was a stray, limping the horizon at night; we ate chicken in the fevered light, always too late to be eating dinner, but eating dinner nonetheless. At night Sam said he was...
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