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From the Archive: Why Writing Matters in the Age of Despair
This essay was first published in The Rumpus on July 31, 2018. For twelve years of my life, I kept losing things. The first was a book titled The Conversation Piece, which I bought for my boyfriend at...
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From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Jade Sharma
This was originally published at The Rumpus on February 1, 2017. Jade Sharma’s debut novel is like a blister: It hurts, but I’m obsessed with it. Problems is the first print title published by Emily...
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Mustard Seeds
This was originally published at The Rumpus on June 12, 2017. When Ben left Miri, for real and forever, he left her heart in the kitchen sink, along with the dirty dishes. It was her day to do...
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Footnotes on a love story
This was originally published at The Rumpus on November 11, 2020. Before they were married, they met in a photograph. They stood on opposite ends of it, and beached between them was a dead sea lion,...
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man
This was originally published at The Rumpus on December 12, 2018 It’s late July, and you’re sitting on a stoop covered in faint cracks. The scorching brownstone beneath your thighs is crossing slowly...
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From the Archive: The Saturday Rumpus Essay: DNA
This was originally published at The Rumpus on June 4, 2016. It’s just dinner. It’s just the Lumberyard, a beer pub. It’s just the last day of the semester. I want a glass of wine. Erik wants a beer....
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on...
This was originally published at The Rumpus on September 13, 2017. No. It’s my mother’s favorite word lately. Did they feed you? No. Are you happy here? No. Do you love me? No. It’s a Sunday at...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Any Good Wife
This was originally published at The Rumpus on September 26, 2018, and is included in Ada Zhang‘s debut THE SORROWS OF OTHERS out in May 2023 from A Public Space. Ping looked up from his papers to...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Bad Kind of Puppy
This was originally published at The Rumpus on October 14, 2020. One morning, after her husband had left for work, Clara noticed a ticking in her house. She mentally retraced their steps that morning...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Lera
This was originally published at The Rumpus on August 14, 2015. Lera knew something was wrong when she saw the door. It bent into the hallway like a dislocated finger. Behind it, a line of white light...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Prescriptions
This was originally published at The Rumpus on November 15, 2017. Two hours before closing, and I could tell that at least one of them would end up in my emergency room. I knew things. In high school,...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Anniversary
This was originally published at The Rumpus on April 24, 2017. By mid-morning, it was so hot her breath felt as if it were being drawn back into her. She took the tin washbasin out to the front yard,...
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Mustard Seeds
This was originally published at The Rumpus on June 12, 2017. When Ben left Miri, for real and forever, he left her heart in the kitchen sink, along with the dirty dishes. It was her day to do...
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From the Archive: The Saturday Rumpus Essay: DNA
This was originally published at The Rumpus on June 4, 2016. It’s just dinner. It’s just the Lumberyard, a beer pub. It’s just the last day of the semester. I want a glass of wine. Erik wants a beer....
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on...
This was originally published at The Rumpus on September 13, 2017. No. It’s my mother’s favorite word lately. Did they feed you? No. Are you happy here? No. Do you love me? No. It’s a Sunday at...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Any Good Wife
This was originally published at The Rumpus on September 26, 2018, and is included in Ada Zhang‘s debut THE SORROWS OF OTHERS out in May 2023 from A Public Space. Ping looked up from his papers to...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Lera
This was originally published at The Rumpus on August 14, 2015. Lera knew something was wrong when she saw the door. It bent into the hallway like a dislocated finger. Behind it, a line of white light...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Prescriptions
This was originally published at The Rumpus on November 15, 2017. Two hours before closing, and I could tell that at least one of them would end up in my emergency room. I knew things. In high school,...
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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: The Anniversary
This was originally published at The Rumpus on April 24, 2017. By mid-morning, it was so hot her breath felt as if it were being drawn back into her. She took the tin washbasin out to the front yard,...
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