Author: nassauweekly

Denial: Full Design

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LOST DOG.

“She imagined the dalmatian loved humans more than he loved dogs. She imagined him to be obsessed with fetch, to be the sort of dog who’d pause dinnertime to pick up a tennis ball. She imagined him to be sweet, to love scratches behind the ear and to snore when he slept.”

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Pecan Pie Latte

Students review Sakrid Coffee Roaster’s curious Pecan Pie Latte: Delectable or disgusting?

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Threefold Repetition Doesn’t Hold, Not Even A Stalemate

“The longest recorded chess match was two hundred and sixty-nine moves, over twenty hours. Mine has drawn on for three fraught years now, and it still persists.”

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Sitting in Awkwardness: Translating Olga Ravn’s “De Ansatte”

Aboard the Six Thousand Ship, employee testimonies put the question of humanity on the forefront, disguising this philosophical inquiry within the mundane bureaucracy of workplace testimonials.

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She is such a sad girl I don’t know what to do with her

In my dream I was making you pasta & nothing bad had happened to us yet you smiled and told me you would take these multivitamins & forget me.   In my dream I booked a flight to wherever you … Read More

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True Vision

“Their next destination, they believe, will uncover something staggering: a single place where the tides have converged the bulk of humanity’s discarded waste. They are determined to expose the truth.”

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Yellow Bike

Going everywhere on that little yellow bike. To the base of mountains and looking up at the boundary where snow becomes rain. Retreat just below treeline on account of distant thunder. On the downhill a pebble could mean disaster, but … Read More

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Letter from the Editor

Dear reader, For the sake of self-preservation we often seek ways to evade burdensome truths. We paint over prickly facts and banish their stubborn consequences from view. What more effective place to encourage denial than a university, where to advance … Read More

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God, I Love My Happy Family: Full Design

Check out the full design of our newest issue below!

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An Atheist Guide to Grief

“Life had been returned to her—the one she squeezed every drop of, the one she did and redid in her stories when it was just the two of us in the living room of our first house.”

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Nass Recommends: Masquerade

6:50 pm. Thursday night. July 31. The sun slowly emerges after a day of sultry rainfall.   60 or so people, all draped in formal and cocktail attire — tuxedos, white tie and tails, ball gowns — all matching a … Read More

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