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Telescoping Echo

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, eight Nass writers telescope the word “echo” (echo, echo). Lucia Brown At … Read More

by Alexandra Orbuch, Amaya Dressler, Audrey Zhang, Kate Lee, Lara Katz, Lucia Brown, Sierra Stern, Tommy Goulding on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

Family Bones

A fiction piece reflecting on how to cope with impending loss.

by Sierra Stern on April 3, 2022April 3, 2022

Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation

“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”

by Sierra Stern on February 20, 2022February 22, 2022

At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon

“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”

by Sierra Stern on November 20, 2021November 20, 2021

Monkey See

“They probably thought Evan just smelled like that: nauseatingly floral like Katie Levi-Moretti, the first girl in his high school class to discover perfume and, therefore, the last person everybody wanted to sit next to at assembly.”

by Sierra Stern on November 14, 2021

Prayer to the Stratosphere

“The chunks of Amie’s life were too insignificant to be measured in Christ or Common Era. Even her birthdays seemed an inaccurate measurement of the passage of time.”

by Sierra Stern on September 19, 2021September 18, 2021

Losing a City

“Regardless, an aquiline parasite lived inside me, compelling me violently with its bald-eagle talons to wage psychological Revolutionary Warfare against my own best friend.”

by Sierra Stern on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

A Mysterious De-Personing

“More than a few miles from home, I conclude this first sliver of college convinced of the notion that I’m more fiction than fact. Now more than ever, I feel like a character, and not a good one.”

by Sierra Stern on April 25, 2021April 24, 2021

Nass Remembrances

Three Nass writers reflect on what it means to know someone after they’re gone.

by Ash Hyun, Sam Bisno, Sierra Stern on April 11, 2021April 10, 2021

Telescoping Space

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”

by Lara Katz, Olivia Zhang, Peter Taylor, Sam Bisno, Sierra Stern on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021

Lincoln

“He wouldn’t have taken it normally, but there was a girl at Lincoln’s shoulder, a fiber science major who kept touching his button-down to inspect the weave, and he couldn’t tell afterwards whether she’d only kissed him because it was 100% cotton.”

by Sierra Stern on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan

“His favorite food was jellybeans because they helped him fend off the desire to smoke. We eat none and smoke none, and congratulate ourselves.”

by Sierra Stern on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021


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