Flood

March 28, 2025

Middle of Nowhere, Zen New Jersey

It’s all alphabet soup
in 12-pt font,
bitter black bleeding into vegetable stock —
A poem or two or three, falling into one another like bodies in orbit

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Flood: Full Design

The Nass is coming. Find a nice comfy ark and kick your feet up – it’s gonna be a while. Find an issue around campus, or look through the full design below.  

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Letter from the Editor

This week, the Nass reflects on movement and the conditions that govern it. We like to imagine written words dancing on the page: in flux, unrestricted, and active, a magazine whose words destabilize but don’t displace.  As demonstrated in this … Read More

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Betwixt and Between

Borders, mobility and friendship in Spain’s North African enclave.

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No Other Land

Documenting dispossession in Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham’s latest film.

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Pieta

Print. for Mickey  a spluttering birth.  matter and hope, all  poison or ponzu – all recycled.        polished clone.  Crown,          knoll. seasoned  with milky weed. skin,  ours. sin,    Everyone is.   Prrint. worm, … Read More

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Ground Rules

A renowned Princeton developer wants to fight the housing crisis. But at what cost?

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Signs of Damage

“He looked nice, shy. She didn’t say hello, or smile, because despite her costume—a lace trimmed slip and her grandmother’s pearl choker—she didn’t care much that day.”

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Je me uh regrette

Surviving a summer of France, and worse, adolescence.

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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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Será tu nombre

Vals peruano

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Verbatim

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Overheard before lecture.

Misinformed Historian: I hate the Irish. I'll never forgive the Irish for starting the potato famine.

Overheard in Terrace.

Girl With Beautiful Hair: I don’t think she’s ever experienced discomfort in her life. Well, except for when I caused her discomfort.

Overheard in passing.

Old woman, excitedly: Any opioids…I'm in!! Count me in!! 

Overheard over English Breakfast.

Freshly Back From A Trip Abroad: No one wanted us there…but they were friendly. 

Overheard on International Women’s Day.

A Hater: I love hating. I love so many things honestly too, but I think it's really hard to get a reputation as a lover. 

Overheard on WhatsApp.

Likes to Mix It Up: The three kinds of music I’m always listening to are harsh noise, jazz, and Midwest emo.

Overheard in a living room.

Bored Mom, about NYT Spelling Bee: I got genius once and then I was hooked, like drugs.

Overheard in an Astrophysics textbook.

Chapter 5: What are the properties of a hairless hole?

Overheard in the Architecture Library.

Humanities Student: I don’t think I’ve ever had to study for an exam.

Overheard in an SLA class.

Professor: There was once a time, and I know you guys don’t remember this, where if you wanted something to turn on you flipped a switch.

Overheard in Office Hours.

Bored Professor: Grad student encounters. They’re always so memorable.

Overheard in Cap and Gown.

Striped-shirt straight guy: I’ve never met a bisexual guy I didn’t find annoying.