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Awake to the World: Talking with Tyler Barton
Tyler Barton’s short story collection Eternal Night at the Nature Museum, just released from Sarabande Books, crackles with unbridled energy as characters seek home in unlikely places: a demolition...
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Stained with Autobiography: Talking with Christopher Gonzalez
Christopher Gonzalez was one of the first literary editors I worked with, and his kind manner and thoughtful guidance immediately put me at ease and invited me to view my work through a wider lens....
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Christopher Gonzalez
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Christopher Gonzalez about his debut story collection, I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat (Santa Fe Writers Project, December 2021), his love for writing second-person...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Scale
With my first blood, a scale appears, hard and iridescent in the soft skin below my arm. In bathroom mirror light, elbow raised, I press and prod, fingertips rusted from menstrual discovery. They trace...
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The Pressure and Pursuit of Desires: Talking Flash Fiction with Tommy Dean
An award-winning writer, editor, workshop leader, and teacher of flash fiction, Tommy Dean is known throughout the literary community as someone who understands and elevates the flash fiction form, as...
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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Mr. Burley
This was originally published at The Rumpus on December 11, 2011. When I was still a crawling thing, and for some time after, I kidnapped lobsters. There were years my family gathered every Sunday...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Niyah Morris
This was originally published at The Rumpus on May 15, 2019. Lowcountry We were not unreasonable, the people of Lowcountry. We knew storms passed along the coast. We knew their names and welcomed...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Country People Work
Irving Campbell became a dentist. When he graduated from the University of the West Indies, his mother attended the ceremony. She wore her best church hat, and her scented powder had the essence of...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Litany of Invisible Things
Sleepless, you have started thinking of the little shop at the end of Dhamijah Street. For five hundred dollars, its slender wall-propped mirror reveals—what do they say the wizened shop owner calls...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Fictions by Nathan Xie
Sprezzatura The problem is I watch too much porn. Because any kind suffices; it only matters that as I work from home, my second monitor keeps the private browser open. Because I admire the male...
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