Nassau Weekly
  • Issues
  • Verbatim
  • Crosswords
  • About
  • Donate

Byline: Rachel Stone

  • New
  • Old
  • Random

Our Angry Vaginas

For as long as women feel weird talking about their periods, The Vagina Monologues will still be relevant. I hope it won’t continue to be. For as long as there is violence against women, the Vagina Monologues will still be relevant.

by Rachel Stone on February 28, 2016

Urban Rituals

If you get off the N train at 8th street, walk past the tattoo parlors and bright storefronts of St. Mark’s Place, you’ll find the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant next to a corner of other Ukrainian bakeries.

by Rachel Stone on October 4, 2015October 17, 2015

The Art of Dying

Meeting the end, onstage.

by Rachel Stone on October 11, 2015October 17, 2015

Chicago

It is October in Chicago and somewhere in the Susquehanna River a salmon is preparing to die. It has spent the last few years in perpetual transit, wandering the yawning expanse of the Atlantic and its arctic abyssal plains, upstream through currents and wave crests and darkness of unimaginable depth.

by Rachel Stone on February 22, 2014September 22, 2017

A Short and False History of Bowling

The wind in the west blows across the Sioux prairieland, bending the wheat stalks at their waists. Nelson Elling lies beneath the swaying stalks, and from where he’s sprawled the wheat fields are dusted in a purpling haze.

by Rachel Stone on October 18, 2014July 21, 2017

Peer Review

Since the beginning of time, editors at The Nassau Weekly have taken their pens to each other’s Common Application Essays. And yes, The Nassau Weekly has been around since the beginning of time. Here, in the billionth incarnation of this … Read More

by Joshua Leifer, Rachel Stone on April 26, 2015May 4, 2015

Competitive Lit

When I was in eighth grade, a girl two grades up from me was writing a novel. I didn’t know much about her aside from her name, the fact that she was my classmate’s older sister, and that she was in the finishing stages of creating a work of fiction, but I wanted to become her, cut my hair short and type importantly on my laptop in my small school’s even smaller library.

by Rachel Stone on April 26, 2014April 27, 2014

Rules for When You Plan on Educating Your Future Children about Mortality

Tell them they will never die because they are too young to understand object permanence. Avoid their questions. You do not own any pets.

by Rachel Stone on November 23, 2014November 23, 2014

The Trials of Princeton

It was the first night without my parents in some hotel on US Route 1. I was alone and somewhere near East Pyne, brimming with the feeling of being lost and alone in a new city, juggling the oversized, color-coded freshman orientation specialty map that a volunteer organizer had gravely slipped into my purse.

by Rachel Stone on September 28, 2013September 28, 2013

Honor Killings

There is a stain on our wall in Wilson and we haven’t spoken about it for a few days, my roommate and I. Streaked and coarse, a stain ground into the whitewash like graphite. It’s not visible if you don’t look for it, not something Building Services would fine us for. A stain, the length of two bobby pins held end to end. The diameter of a champagne grape. It doesn’t come out with Windex or Seventh Generation dish soap or OxiClean, left instead as a perpetual effigy of my fury and my guilt.

by Rachel Stone on November 7, 2013July 21, 2017

Food Diary

The dining hall lurches with athletes. You sit down next to your friend’s maybe-roommate and she looks down at her own plate. “Wow,” she says, “you’re eating so little.”

by Emily Lever, Rachel Stone on March 30, 2014April 6, 2014

Telescoping Place

places you have lived, places you know better than anyone else, places in your mind, places you could inhabit, what it means to exist within a place

by Camila Legaspi, Conor Stonesifer, Elliott Eglash, Isabel Henderson, Katie Duggan, Rachel Stone, Sigrid Luth, Tamar Willis on November 21, 2015December 6, 2015


  • Next

Submit a Verbatim

    Recent Posts

    • Letter from the Editors
    • Avatarotica 2: The Way of Wetter: Full Design
    • Telescoping Fault
    • Behind the VHS, Betacam, and GoPro: Ivar Murd and his Production of Cult Music Documentary u.Q.
    • My Sweet Galatea

    Popular Posts

    • 127 Unclaimed Rap Names
    • The Journey from Pornhub to OnlyFans… And Why it Matters
    • The Problem with Calling Something “Aesthetic”
    • "Push, Push, in the Bush"
    • We Added 200 Strangers on BeReal, and We’re Never Opening the App Again

    Navigation

    • Home
    • Articles
    • Issues
    • Verbatim
    • Contact
    • Donate

    Categories

    • Campus
    • Reflections
    • Poetry
    • Podcasts
    • Fiction
    • Lists

    Join Us

    • About
    • Privacy Policy
    • Submit an article
    • Submit a verbatim

    © Nassau Weekly 2020 · All Rights Reserved

     

    Loading Comments...