Things Left Out in the Sun

August 2, 2025

what do you get a man for his birthday

what do you get a man for his birthday “what is your love language?” father hugged me mother kissed me that is what you say when you don’t know how to love. I never had my room four eyes blinked … Read More

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Dispatches from Immigration Court

From the frontlines of mass deportation.

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Sira

“I poured my back into the solid wood and floated. I let the water stain my face. Let a wave engulf me on this bitter board of wood, let my elbows sink into the ocean that you loved so much.”

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Big Vape Never Dies

The times are trying. Up is down, wrong is right, protein is in everything and we’re all CONFUSED ABOUT IT. Luckily, some of the Nassau Weekly’s readership has found the solution to fascism taking hold: vaping. Nearly two years ago, … Read More

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воскресенье

the sun sets its sorry self behind the dining hall & the clouds above the roof are pink like gently-used gauze. i close my eyes and try to remember how it feels when things are beautiful. on the widow’s walk … Read More

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The Deads

Tracing creeping, tangling, choking vines swallowing cities whole.

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Nass Recommends: Harvester (1996)

The year is 1996, and video games are turning the children into serial killers, Satanists, and sexual deviants. Enter Harvester, an obscure FMV title developed by DigiFX, which joins a long list of defunct adventure game studios from the 90s. … Read More

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Sun-Drunk on the Terrace, Thinking of Éric

An afternoon of nothing and everything at once.

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Things Left Out in the Sun: Full Design

This week, the Nass forgot it’s sunscreen at home, but we’re fine to shrivel and burn.

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Double Shot

Two friends walk into a café…

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All crows are murdered when the sun goes down

A laptop, a screen door, a sunset, and everything that is.

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Finding God at 35

“She was looking for something not entirely visible, not entirely tangible, not entirely a glow-in-the-dark beetle whose bum lit up, but some kind of reminder that the strange and ephemeral can manifest as physical, biological.”

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Letter from the Editor

Dear reader, As we scatter across the world, some of our writers find peace in the warmth of summer sun, or vitality in the glow of a languid, multicolored evening sky. Others yearn for the relationships that only time and … Read More

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Verbatim

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Overheard Walking up the Frist Hill

Walker: “I think that I’m lowkey a Sisyphus kinnie.”

Overheard en route to American Statesmanship

Reactionary centrist: “The ideal amount of woke is very clearly non-zero.”

Overheard at Terrace

Terrace Officer: “You look like you run a closed Blockbuster.”

Overheard in Cafe

Customer: “I can’t have caffeine too late or else I won’t be able to fall asleep.”

Overheard in Paris

French receptionist: “Bonjour.”

An earnest tourist: “bun-gor.”

French receptionist: *sighs*” What can I do for you today?”

Overheard at Disneyland.

25-year-old man, standing over somebody’s lost ID: “This is something you would see on the show, ‘What Would You Do’.”

Overheard at USC.

Blonde: “What school are you from?”

Exchange Student:  “北京University.”

Blonde: “Is that in California?”

Overheard in San Francisco.

Korean-American Berkeley Student: “I’m descended from farmers so I’m from a farm. I’m a farmer too. It makes sense in Korean.”

Overheard at the beach.

Girl on a date, playing dumb: “Isn’t rain salty? I thought it was salt water.”

Overheard on Bleecker.

Teen 1: “Where would the tattoo be?”

Teen 2: “In the tattoo parlor.”

Teen 1: “Like, where on your body?”

Overheard at Sephora.

16-year old, while stealing, to an associate: “My concealer shade is 34D.”