Byline: Daniel Viorica

A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape

“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”

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Telescoping Cavity

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, four Nass writers telescope the word “cavity.”   Charlie Nuermberger (cn0260) CW: … Read More

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Cardboard, White Tears, and the Inevitability of the British: The Jungle at St. Ann’s Warehouse

A play that claims to portray the authentic refugee experience . . . for fifty-two dollars.

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Fun Fact: Rocky/Mathey Trivia is Downright Cutthroat

Tensions run high at the Wednesday-night event.

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Prufrock’s Letters

Mente mia, che presaga de’ tuoi damni, Al tempo lieto già pensosa e trista, Sí ‘ntentamente ne l’amata vista Requie cercavi de’ futuri afanni   1. Let us go now, til it be that all you and I can see … Read More

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Bicker Ivy: You Just Might Like It

On the transformational psychology of bicker.

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Telescoping Fault

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, eight Nass writers telescope the word “fault.”

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Rumination

“I think often about this evening, and what my friend as trying to tell me. Something about appearances, how things seldom are how they seem? But this is too banal, and she is clever.”

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Voyage

“Yesterday evening, / life coalesced in rain: dripping streetlights, storefronts reflected / onto glossy black pavement. Liquid incandescence.”

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