“I know I only show up once every five meetings, but that doesn’t mean you have to lose your personality around me.”
Overheard during conversation about club meetings
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Another Episode
“Anne liked Lola’s toes and when she was born, the doctor said they were the most beautiful baby toes. Anne liked when other people told her what was beautiful. This was the beginning.”
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Skeeter Peter
“Woodstock incubates the mosquitoes in the garage, which is uninsulated and hot in the summer. It’s recycling day, and he pours allotments of pond water into empty gallon jugs.”
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Minivan
tilted, perfectly the globe sat undisturbed on its axis the sound of stillness spoke to me being young was being free? Babi drove the minivan. Babi said it was easy un-split ends curly hair arranged itself across the glass. chills tossed my wisps into the freckled night. silly…
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In Search of an American Original in Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp
A pair of Nass writers look for the Original across a pair of movies that have more than a dozen sequels between them
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Bloodbath (The Halloween Issue): Full Design
Boo! You should’ve seen your face. The Nass’s first ever Halloween issue inside.
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Chronicles of a Scary Movie Convert
A Nass writer lauds the transcendent, self-escaping qualities of horror movies
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A Finance Horror Story
A Nass writer probes at some of the more proximate fears of Princeton kids these days
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Said, softly
Said, softly October crushes down, squeezing the juice of summer and all the faces are new fresh new Mouths fallen heaps of gloss and lips Sit. Sleep. October crushes, and leaves curl on asphalt like fingers. The leaves hurt, and the new new fresh new faces. The air stings pleasantly, like mint, like…
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Spooky Mysteries I May or May Not Be Able to Clear up for You
Documenting some of the spookier mysteries that psychically afflict this Nass writer
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Banana Man
“He wondered if his body felt cold when she touched him. If she could sense the disconnect of his skin. If she could tell that even with her hands on his chest and her legs between his, they weren’t really touching.”
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P(erturbing) M(onstrous) S(ickening): On Periods
Essays, interviews, and scary movies about the horror of menstruation
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To Build a Monster
TO BUILD A MONSTER Synthetic taste, algorithmic broth, and neural-net nuggets stitched together. No human input required—just sit back and let the bots cook up something… alive? INGREDIENTS 4 Full skeletal remains 2 Embalmed corpses with all organs attached 1 Bucket of slaughterhouse animal parts Alligator clip wires OBJECTIVE Despite technological advancements in…
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Sigmund Freud Would’ve Loved AnimeCon
An invocation of the psychoanalyst’s “uncanny” to take a hard look at costume-wearing beyond Halloween