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Telescoping Fault

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 “fault.”

by Alexandra Orbuch, Daniel Vergara, Daniel Viorica, Emily Yang, Jane Castleman, Mollika Jai Singh, Otto Eiben, Peyton Smith on December 4, 2022

Names for a blackened stove

Hear it this evening, rusted lace fingers and remnants of dirty flame. It has a    large mouth, though never eyes on that gaping   face. Sings with empty room voices: oil and metal,   dustrag fumes, wood polish shallows. … Read More

by Daniel Viorica on February 28, 2025March 2, 2025

Prufrock’s Letters

Mente mia, che presaga de’ tuoi damni, Al tempo lieto già pensosa e trista, Sí ‘ntentamente ne l’amata vista Requie cercavi de’ futuri afanni   1. Let us go now, til it be that all you and I can see … Read More

by Daniel Viorica on March 5, 2023

Telescoping Cavity

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, four Nass writers telescope the word “cavity.”   Charlie Nuermberger (cn0260) CW: … Read More

by Alexandra Orbuch, Beth Villaruz, Charlie Nuermberger, Daniel Viorica on April 23, 2023

Voyage

“Yesterday evening, / life coalesced in rain: dripping streetlights, storefronts reflected / onto glossy black pavement. Liquid incandescence.”

by Daniel Viorica on November 7, 2021November 6, 2021

Lost Valley

Lost manuscripts recovered from a cairn in New Mexico.

by Daniel Viorica on March 1, 2024March 24, 2024

Cardboard, White Tears, and the Inevitability of the British: The Jungle at St. Ann’s Warehouse

A play that claims to portray the authentic refugee experience . . . for fifty-two dollars.

by Daniel Viorica on April 16, 2023

Bicker Ivy: You Just Might Like It

On the transformational psychology of bicker.

by Daniel Viorica on February 26, 2023

A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape

“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”

by Daniel Viorica on October 5, 2023October 5, 2023

Rumination

“I think often about this evening, and what my friend as trying to tell me. Something about appearances, how things seldom are how they seem? But this is too banal, and she is clever.”

by Daniel Viorica on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

Yesterday’s Coffee

“The first time I saw the house for itself—not as the house two doors down, but as the house that could be parent’s—was the estate sale. Here, the relics of a life.”

by Daniel Viorica on September 26, 2024October 6, 2024

Nass Dispatch: Rowing Camp Chronicles

A Nass editor abroad reflects on a decidedly unNass-like pastime.

by Daniel Viorica on April 18, 2024April 18, 2024


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