Overheard at an ice cream social.

Migueleo

Apr 9, 2026

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Mariana Castillo

in Fiction

“Xiomara turned to face him. Her face was so pale that it glowed in the darkness of the living room. On the mantle to her right, by the television stand, the clock read five in the morning.”
The Moving Musician

Apr 9, 2026

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Willa Mack

in Second Look

Olivier Tarpaga brings Afrobeat to Princeton.
I run into the red

Apr 9, 2026

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Eojin Park

in Poetry

Let’s bundle up this longing to know another / fling curtains over doors / we need more blindness. I gawk at compasses / hallucinate edged circles / stop their revelatory revolutions. A matador’s calculations are never constant / I was formulated for distance. I run into the red, and the cloth is your palm. The…
Blessed Jamie

Apr 9, 2026

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Olivia Romano

in Fiction

“Jamie’s ghost pervaded every corner of our home like cobwebs. All of my flaws were seen through the lens of his perfection, even though we had never actually met.”
19/91

Apr 9, 2026

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Michelle Hernandez

in Essays

On loss at nineteen and ninety-one—to move on, and, one day, forget.
Nana para la Montaña

Apr 9, 2026

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Luna Ramirez Castellanos

in Poetry

Cómo se enluta la montaña, Agazapada en el cándido recontar de mi nona, Cómo la pinta de cruda al tornarse cansada la luna, Cómo vacían tus calles, y callan las cunas, y cierran las puertas… al compás de la marcha. Calle que calla, Tumba que tumba, Bota que bota, al son de…
Once Upon a Time, There Was a Mountain – Part 2: The Persimmons

Apr 9, 2026

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Alpha Zhang

in Fiction

“In 1966, some children came, a line of red dots ascending the trail. Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old. They called themselves Red Guards. They came up the mountain with crowbars and red armbands, and they smashed the altar and broke the bell and tore the books and cut the persimmon trees.”
i beg to be built again

Apr 9, 2026

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Alba Mastromatteo

in Fiction

“i wonder what it’s like to have a body that doesn’t feel like an afterthought hacked together with whatever spare parts god could find as he ran out of time to get me down to earth.”
Freud’s Eternal Apartment

Apr 9, 2026

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Sol Seo Choi

in Essays

A Nass writer wonders how the past and present can coexist in space, applying Freud’s own concept of the Eternal City to Berggasse 19.
Nass Recommends

Apr 9, 2026

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Claire Beeli, Elena Eiss, Ted Myers

in Nass Recommends

We think you should try out interviewing people who love the movie Coherence in Pittsburgh.
Ache

Apr 9, 2026

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Roya Reese

in Fiction

“Tom walks to the window. He stares out of it for a moment—at the trees, the light, the coffee shop across the street, what Mona must see when she sits and writes. He wonders briefly if she thinks of what she’s looking at, or if her mind is always elsewhere, crafting a story.”
Inside Baseball: Full Design

Apr 2, 2026

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nassauweekly

in Full Designs

Pick up a copy around campus, or view the full design here!
Letter From The Editor

Apr 2, 2026

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Sasha Rotko

in Letter from Editor

Dear friends, Once, I took a wheel throwing class. I was there for two hours and in all that time I didn’t make anything. I tried my best to mold the clay on the wheel into something that looked nice or, at the very least, would hold up in the kiln, but I walked…
YéYe’s Razor Clams

Apr 2, 2026

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Ariel Chen

in Second Look

Fujianese people are a people of the ocean. After six decades of political turmoil and unprecedented developments, has that changed?
Once Upon a Time, There Was a Mountain – Pt 1: The Butterfly

Apr 2, 2026

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Alpha Zhang

in Fiction

‘“Tell me a story,” the little monk piped up. “Ma always told me a story before bed.” The old monk gave him the simplest one he knew, which was also the only one he knew.’