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

Category: Fiction

  • New
  • Old
  • Random

My Own Personal Joady

July 2, 2009 Lithe and blonde and a hundred pounds, she sinks her toes into the smooth, silver stones. I watch her. Slipping on her big brown sunglasses, which remind me of fly’s eyes, she sits down next to me … Read More

by Felipe Cabrera on April 28, 2010March 17, 2013

First, Nothing

“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”

by Lara Katz on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

The Day

“Dad, there’s something in the pool.”

by Oscar Mahoney on April 24, 2016

In the Glow of this Candle

“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”

by Peter Taylor on February 16, 2020February 18, 2020

Jackal at the Shrine

Fiction, on raising the dead.

by AC Gray on October 10, 2016

Eugene

“I don’t think he would have been a loving father. He didn’t have it in him. I think he would have been too scared.”

by Alex Jacobson on March 10, 2019March 9, 2019

The Story about a War and Some Other Things

“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”

by Lara Katz on February 14, 2021February 13, 2021

Schrödinger’s Lottery

“Maybe it was the cheap thrill of furiously scratching them with a quarter, and seeing all those shimmery silver shavings pile up.”

by Katie Duggan on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017

Sol in the Evening

The sky looked like a bowl of discarded mussel shells. Tom thought this must have been the kind of dusk his grandfather fought and died under.

by Evan Coles on November 8, 2014November 9, 2014

Bonsai

The first stone was one I knew. Flaking and grey and dusty. A driveway stone – from my driveway. Who breaks a person’s dining room window with a stone from that same person’s driveway?

by Paul Schorin on July 23, 2017September 4, 2017

Dolores, Part I

Doña Dolores was a wretched woman.

by Oscar Mahoney on October 2, 2016October 2, 2016

Manifest Destiny

The best choice Mitt Romney ever made.

by Giri Nathan on November 7, 2012March 22, 2013


  • Next

Submit a Verbatim

    Recent Posts

    • Cruzing Away – Full Design
    • Saturday Afternoon
    • Letter from the Editor on Fossil Fuel Divestment
    • On Trains
    • Vines, Pt. 2

    Popular Posts

    • 127 Unclaimed Rap Names
    • Why Kidz Bop Has to Stop
    • The Problem with Calling Something “Aesthetic”
    • Thirty-One Years in the Making: The Story of the Menendez Brothers
    • Nass-strology: SCOR-A-HOPE (if you’re lucky) Edition

    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