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Readers Report: My Summer’s End
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “My Summer’s End.”Edited by Susan Clements.***I’m thirteen years old, arriving in Newport with my uncle in his Toyota...
View ArticleGandolf Would Not Imbibe Pumpkin Spice
According to Pobst, who worked on the Xbox version of 2002′s The Fellowship of the Ring adventure game, initially there were going to be pumpkin patches in the Shire and “the Tolkien Enterprises people...
View ArticleThe Sunday Rumpus Essay: Fall
December 11, 2014Fall. It is my last day in the desert, last day of teaching, and I am on my way from a discussion of a book by a poet about his dead son, a book with which I identified so strongly...
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Spotlight: “Nuts: A True Story” by Peter Witte
Two events inspired “Nuts: A True Story.” The first happened years ago. I was rushing through a busy train station when I tripped, fell, and took a nosedive, landing belly down. For a moment I laid...
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Endless Preparation: Apples and Women’s Work
To pick the best apples, I have to stand on the back seat of the four-wheeler and stretch the claw-arm of the apple picker up to the highest branches. The apple picker is a wooden rod, and at the very...
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