I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

November 21, 2024

The Ripple Effect: Yue Yin’s Eras of Creation

A Nass writer reconsiders the classical recounts her experience working with a celebrated choreographer at the Princeton Dance Festival

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I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight: Full Design

The sun is setting, and the Nass is getting out of here. We still have a few tricks up our sleeve. 

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Babushka’s Angel

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

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Having a Childhood Dog May Improve Your Health

A Nass writer works out how early interspecies contact might improve immune system development

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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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At the movies

Tissue paper face held over a match. Night dangles from rafters, perfume   chemicals burn. Daylight burns like faces on the screen skin-soft, bleached   and bloody. Picture this: grey background, rose buds flailing. Narrow angles   abstract and brief … Read More

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Lag Time Blues

The week before the United States general election, we solicited short-form narrative nonfiction submissions from the Nassau Weekly community. We hoped to gather and serialize scenes, images, and glimpses from Election Day and the following week. We asked writers to … Read More

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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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Sacramento, 2018

The sidewalk outside is wet. So is my swing hanging from the orange tree branches, and my pink boots by the door that hurt.  I like to draw the same picture over and over, a different bedroom from mine scratched … Read More

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it is late october and i thought i was falling in love three weeks ago

(There’s something off about this moment, a beauty mark on the day. I’m feeling small and alone, far away from home and homesick for my car.)   it is late october and a discarded napkin  swirls in the wind, imitating … Read More

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Teeth

Meditations on Didion, Rooney, Shakespeare, and tooth extraction

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Sentence Starters

We haven’t learned the right tense: the cliché of red leaves falling, your choice  of hazelnut cold  foam atop my cold brew, that dead squirrel we mourned for because despite the newborn tents we couldn’t have brought her back. Why … Read More

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Verbatim

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Overheard during morning-after debrief

Gay-passing pedant: You called Chris’s biceps “glistening”? 

Woman: What word would you use? 

Gay-passing pedant: Bulging, gargantuan, varicose, veiny.

Overheard over text

Free spirit: I had ice-cream twice today.

Zero-sugar, can deadlift 425 lbs: I might have to McCosh you if this behavior continues…

Overheard in WhigClio

Overthinker: We were the problem. 

Underthinker: No, because we were the majority.

Overheard in girl dorm

Hysterical: My PMS is getting to my ears.

Overheard in girl dorm

Has hyper-flexible elbows: Women are so understudied. We have no idea what kind of weird muscles we might have.

Overheard at Roma D-Hall

Homoerotic BSE major: Would you rather be gay or die alone? That's the question in front of me right now.

Overheard in one of those study booths where you lock yourself in alone

Not-ready: A child is a time bomb!

Overheard on a Tuesday

Medievalist, sniffling: My illnesses are vanquishing me.

Overheard in sleeping structure

French AB: Can I disassociate with you? 

COS BSE: I have school.

Overheard in Engineering Library

Fault-finder: She’s so riddled with religious guilt.

Overheard at Terrace

Curly-haired Ableist: My cousin is 16, and she's really picky. At that point it's like, grow up! She's not autistic, she doesn't have ARFID…

Overheard in frat house

BDE-BSE house-husband: Since we don’t run the heat, I have to cook and clean to keep the house warm.