Thinks in emotions: I don’t know if we’re dating or anything…
Thinks in numbers: The amount of square footage you’ve covered does not say friendship.

“Hidden deep within his heart, he knew this was not his home, and that the cabin’s true owner would inevitably come in the summer once the flowers were in full-bloom.”

A Nass writer recommends new coffee shop concoctions, to spice up your life

“I wish for nothing more than sunlight and steady dreaming – I promise that one of these days we’ll be barefoot and sundazed.”

A Nass writer interviews Rupert Birkin, a central character of D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love.

“My grief ties my tongue. It makes me incapable of much more than sitting on a bench outside my dorm and crying, my hand curled around a mini cupcake. In Persian we say delam tangete. My heart is tight in your absence.”

Hear it this evening, rusted lace fingers and remnants of dirty flame. It has a large mouth, though never eyes on that gaping face. Sings with empty room voices: oil and metal, dustrag fumes, wood polish shallows. Groan when the rain starts, red weeds itch behind the house. A voice…

This week the Nass is on the lookout, and there’s nowhere to hide. Grab a print copy somewhere on campus, or check out the full design below!
Reading these pages, know that the dividing-line between reader and writer is increasingly thin. Maybe this year your resolution can be stepping over.

“She never quite found the words to explain it, but her tears didn’t come from a place of empathy—rather, they reflected something missing inside her.”

“He wondered if this was the closest he would ever get to her and if that was such a terrible thing.”

The warm glow of lamplight flickered across the wine-colored walls of Kenneth Roth’s New York City apartment as students trickled in, their gazes landing on the framed sketches lining the living room. Unlike typical works of art, these drawings—etched in crayon on simple white paper—painted a tragic yet powerful report. Sudanese children, displaced by war,…


As my pearly whites crunch into the powdered sugar, chew it like thick, hot sand, as my tongue melts it to stained glass, as I pray to baby Jesus sucking on his lollipop, as his first molar waits to come in it looks around the gums and sees sheep, wise old men, myrrh, screams, as…

Thinks in emotions: I don’t know if we’re dating or anything…
Thinks in numbers: The amount of square footage you’ve covered does not say friendship.