Senior girl #1: “Yeah, I don’t want to live out of my parents’ basement.”
Senior girl #2: “Your parents made you live in the basement!?”
Overheard in Firestone, discussing post-grad plans
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Where the River Runs
A speculative fiction piece exploring a world after patriarchy and life beside a river made of metal.
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Will Be Gone
In this fiction piece, a daughter navigates her family’s grief and theater production after the death of her brother.
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A Cup Can Be a Bowl: Lessons from Outdoor Action
A curated list of hard-earned life lessons from one writer’s OA excursion.
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Tagaloa’s Odyssey
“The girl rifles through her thoughts, grasping for the reason behind the aching in her heart. And then there it is again, Tagaloa’s steady voice. “Come home.”
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Music for the 2020s: Nass Recommends DECIDE by Djo
Discover Joe Keery’s new album that encapsulates the absurdity, anxieties, and joys of Gen Z.
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Cold Spell
“an indecisive sea that steeps, stains / my shoes, once white, gore-aged / too far gone.”
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Passage in Enchanted Land: an Irish Travel Diary
“Infinite hues of green. A single bird. The gloaming sky. This country, a land with such quiet confidence in its magic.”
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The Septumber Issue: Full Design
In the first issue of the semester, the Nass investigates sectoral bargaining, keeps a promise to a demon, and travels into the heart of Ireland’s magic.
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Covid on a Post-Covid Campus?
“Now that the University is not monitoring the pandemic as closely through testing, Covid is a silent landmine, invisible and creeping. No matter how lightly I tread, its threat looms just beyond the visible realm.”
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“Fighting for Everyone”: From California to Pittsburgh, Sectoral Bargaining is Building Worker Power
A writer investigates a new thread in the fight for worker justice.
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In Too Deep
In a supernatural cafe, a student must keep a promise to a demon before closing for the night.
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A Dish Window of One’s Own
“…upon closer inspection you realize it’s not paper, it’s a full hand of press-on nails pressed into the strawberry ice cream pressed into the bowl. It’s a bridge too far.”