by TNSF | Aug 14, 2019 | Stories, Vol. 2, Issue 20
She felt the draft as soon as her husband opened the front door. Hot air whirred through the ducts, the ticking sound they’d worried about even louder than usual, over-matched by a cold blast that continued even with the door closed. The foyer felt almost as frigid as...
by TNSF | Aug 14, 2019 | Nonfiction, Vol. 2, Issue 20
When I moved to Charlottesville a year after the deadly Unite the Right Rally, I was entirely uncertain about if, and how, my multicultural family could belong there. My husband (a Muslim Berliner), my child, and I (a Jewish New Yorker) were relocating from New Haven,...
by TNSF | Aug 7, 2019 | Wherey'at?
ATLANTA, Ga. (August 5, 2019) — When Matthew Duffus’s daughter was born he and his wife decided that he should be a stay-at-home dad. The couple’s nonconformist approach to parenting served as the catalyst for his debut novel, Swapping Purples for Yellows, to be...
by TNSF | Jul 31, 2019 | Poems, Vol. 2, Issue 19
Cultivation Why do our bodies make things they do not need? Seeds from a fast food kids’ meal in a backyard whiskey barrel make juicy little red globes on the vine. Replication is supposed to be a highly regulated routine, a pageant of proteins and cytoskeletal...
by TNSF | Jul 17, 2019 | Nonfiction, Vol. 2, Issue 18
She was born a Pisces, the fish sign. It fit her, she loved the water. When her family moved to Garden Grove, California, they had to buy a house with a pool. She swam in it every day. She wasn’t for fancy swimsuits; she liked practical black. Her husband made...
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