Category: Fiction

How Prophecy was Invented

“In another town, she was a storyteller, but the children had spit back her stories wrong, turning the characters into parodies of themselves.”

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A Winter’s Loan

“Hidden deep within his heart, he knew this was not his home, and that the cabin’s true owner would inevitably come in the summer once the flowers were in full-bloom.”

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Rabbit-hearted, Spring Will Come

“I wish for nothing more than sunlight and steady dreaming – I promise that one of these days we’ll be barefoot and sundazed.”

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The Interview

A Nass writer interviews Rupert Birkin, a central character of D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love.

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The Crybaby

“She never quite found the words to explain it, but her tears didn’t come from a place of empathy—rather, they reflected something missing inside her.”

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Soft Spots

“He wondered if this was the closest he would ever get to her and if that was such a terrible thing.”

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A Short Story

“I belong in dusty boots. Our bed is too soft.”

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Cheesy

Livia Shneider and The Nassau Weekly are anything but cheesy.

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Metamodernism

“You stare at that tan bag with odd patches and watch the puddle forming around it slowly grow, spreading out across the hardwood floors.”

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Babushka’s Angel

“The angel flew first on her golden wings to the yelka.”

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The Lobby Prince

“No price is listed on the website. I’m reminded of one of my mother’s more pessimistic maxims: sometimes, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

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Partir C’est Mourir un Peu

“Her grandmother had taken her to a psychiatrist once. She was seven years old at the time, and it had been the first Monday of the school year.”

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