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Triple Bill

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No Other Options

I always imagined that if I had to dig through the remnants of my childhood, it would be before a funeral or after a fire. Instead, I sifted through my dad’s stuff, as he lay in a hospital broke and...

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The Storming Bohemian #34: Descent into the Underworld

The last time I punked the muse, I wrote of the summer solstice, a meditation into the heart of the sun. My goal was to leave behind the ever-more-depressing news cycle, and touch some place deep down...

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Voices on Addiction: The Honeybee

It was no place like home, but it was a place for families. They sat on metal benches in the processing room, waiting for their loved ones, hoping the next face would be the one they’d longed to see....

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Rumpus Original Fiction: All Good Things Come to an End

That summer began with Samuel Clay leading me to the alley behind Fran’s Hamburger’s. It was the last day of sixth grade and Sam had been smiling at me since February. We used a pocket knife to scratch...

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Love in the Belly of Beginning

Some moths have no mouths: Luna, Polyphemus, Atlas, Promethea, Cecropia. A moon, a cyclops, a burden of sky, an invisible sister to the one who brings fire, and a first king—all face and tail. If we...

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #198: Rene Denfeld

In her latest personal essay, “The Green River Killer And Me,” Portland-based author Rene Denfeld shares scenes from her own life as a homeless child. Having escaped an abusive household, she says, “On...

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Where to Find Him

The Range Rover is cherry-red, so shiny it almost looks wet. The Harper kids are strapped into their car seats, the suitcases are stacked in the trunk. The sweating water bottles have been retrieved...

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Voices on Addiction: The Economics of Gentrified Vice

On a dark night last spring I discovered how accustomed I had grown to my nighttime view, drowned out by Amante’s pulsating pizza ad. Its vibrant hum syncopating with the corner’s streetlight:...

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alexis Ivy

In the 1960s, Alexis Ivy would have been in San Francisco wearing a flower in her hair. In the 1940s, you might have found her on the road with Jack Kerouac and friends. And she still does spend time...

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