Older Stories
And Old News from Rumble
- A Ballerina Upstairs by
Donna Gagnon
Angry sound swirls behind Bonita as she walks home. It's harsh music that doesn't match the rhythm of her heart or the way she believes her feet sound on the sidewalk... -
After Your Big Sister Calls You an Immature Nuisance
by Shellie Zacharia
Use her lip gloss on the dog and deny it, even when she points out the dog hair stuck to it. Wear her eyeliner. Make Cleopatra eyes, bat your eyelashes and say, "What? What?" when she shouts... - Author Signing by Bob Thurber
Not counting store personnel, nine people attended. After the reading, only one member of the audience purchased my novel... - Cake by Dawn Corrigan
Everyone knows the world runs on cake. Carrot cake is very popular because people think it sounds healthy. I like chocolate cake and you don't like cake at all... - Coo Nahhen by A.S. Morgan
His mind was a vivisectionist's, stealing Autumns with serrated ivory teeth... - Love Story by Bill Winter
Liesl was in love with her professor, but he was a man who loved birds... - Matchbook Bag by A.S. Morgan
Brass-stained fingers are flickering trees in a premature night. A train, like an eclipse, black. Sack, metal, wood and hinge, broken plastic frames with glass shards feel alike beneath the pulse of an atrophied hand... - Night Time in the Open by
Amelia Shackelford
It was Friday night. Outside small men in gray jumpsuits were welding crude appendages on the zeppelin. Inside the drunks and miners had quarantined themselves to waste away out of the spitting, sputtering rain. Joe behind the bar tinkered with an antique portable radio, trying for the news... - Proof by Donna Gagnon
There is you and me and her. Right? Okay. So let's examine this intelligently... - Stone Roses by Peter Wild
It started out as a bit of a joke... - The Ghost of the Harvest Madonna by
Craig Perez
Every people, every age has its favorite woman character... - The Psychiatrist by
Rebecca Lu Kiernan
This angelic tenderness is too much. Your office, too burgundy, too leather. Your desk is too cherrywood. You have gone overboard in decoration. I am sick of your x-ray vision... - Wolverines by Donald Illich
It's difficult teaching a wolverine to fight... - Author Biographies
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News
January 2007
Hello again after a long break! Our host has moved to new servers so you may have experienced some down time if you have tried to reach the site in the last two weeks or so.
Best Of Rumble e-book published last year. Congratulations, Bob! Visit his weblog.
November 2006
Cover of Paul Lynch's new book title A Miscellany. Contains the story The Separate Light published in Rumble's February 2005 issue. The Separate Light was also chosen for Rumble Anthology. Congratulations to Mr. Lynch, a fine author. More information coming soon.
October 2006
A review of Reverse Negative, the new Flash and Micro Fiction collection by Nathan Leslie.
It's finally here! The free Rumble Anthology e-book is ready for you to download. It features a collection of 10 stories and 4 poems chosen by our editorial staff after much heavy deliberation. Basically a Best Of from the first two years of Rumble. There is also a Lite Version without embedded fonts. The headline font used in the embedded version is Viper Nora.
News
September 2006
The new short story collection by Julie Ann Shapiro called Flashes of the Other World is now available from Pulp Bits. Her short story Fever, first published in Rumble, appears in the collection. Congratulations, Julie!