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On Saviors and Superheroes: A Conversation with Adam Nemett
We Can Save Us All is many things. It’s a climate change apocalypse novel. It’s a love story—or, more specifically, a love triangle story. It’s a fabricated history of drug-addled college students who...
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The Attic
You could say I was an atticist— In college, I lived in an attic—in a house behind a house—part of an expansive cooperative of twenty-five undergrads, hippies, and drifters. The attic was like most...
View ArticleENOUGH: Rules
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View ArticleNot a Blueprint: Casey Gerald’s There Will Be No Miracles Here
On the first day of the new millennium, R&B singer D’Angelo released the music video for his song, “Untitled (How Does it Feel?),” a four-and-a-half-minute-long shot of himself, shirtless and...
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A Body Is a Bill to Pay
My identity changed when I opened that envelope. I stood in my dusty kitchen, pantries bare, blinded by all those zeroes in the sum I owed. I’d already sworn off using the window air conditioning unit...
View ArticleENOUGH: Original Fiction: Tom’s Photos
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View ArticleENOUGH: The Face of Zero
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Katie Alice Greer’s Found Magazine
When I was in college, I switched majors a few times, and ended up getting my degree in political science. I thought maybe I’d be a senator one day or something, but once I got up close to that world...
View ArticleENOUGH: The Quartering Act
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Magic Numbers: A Story of Wanting in Pairs
At my first twelve-step meeting—for my eating disorder, two days after Roz made me promise to go—seven women sitting in a church multi-purpose room greeted me with unguarded smiles. There was no coffee...
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Scripture and Ebony: A Love Story
Stillness. A breeze, a gentle tickle, like a soft kiss on the back of the neck. The roads are empty. Parking lots, empty. Over here, an abandoned ten-speed bicycle. Over here, vacant picnic tables....
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Christmas Party
When I meet Georgia at the subway station she pretends not to see me, and when I wave in her face she glances up with a look of practiced surprise, as if I hadn’t agreed to meet her here before we walk...
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Butcher Knives at the Ready
When I moved to the East Coast from Los Angeles for college and encountered large numbers of white people for the first time, I learned that there are people who do not eat pork—not for health or...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Erin McKeown’s Dress
From 1998-2001, I was a resident artist at this amazing, visionary community arts organization in Providence called AS220. I was still in college, but I was living in the communal residency studios and...
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The Thread: Lacuna
Lacuna (n.): a blank or missing portion of a manuscript, from Latin lacuna “hole, pit,” figuratively “a gap, void, want,” diminutive of lacus “pond, lake; hollow, opening. I was in love with the...
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Within the Scope
In August, I disappear into a fairy-tale woodland for a week with other women writers. I set aside my responsibilities as a book publisher and a mother and a school board member for this one golden,...
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Alive and Slippery: Talking with Megan Giddings
Megan Giddings’s Lakewood is a fever dream of a book, one that rings in the mind and sticks in the craw. This debut novel opens innocuously enough: Lena, a young black woman, finds herself strapped for...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: First Love
I met my first love in college. He wore beat-up windbreaker jackets, spoke with a Boston accent despite being from Detroit, and wanted to be an engineer and build bridges. We went to a large public...
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Inevitable Uncertainties: A Conversation with Joyce Hinnefeld
Joyce Hinnefeld and I met in Pennsylvania, when we were both teaching college there, and we would often discuss writing, politics, and life. I have long admired the power, grace, and intelligence of...
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Voices on Addiction: A Body Full of Ghosts
When you grow up in a conservative Christian household it feels like the world is always ending. We really started going to church after my dad got sober. We went to church in other church basements,...
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