Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Nap 2.7
    Nap 2.7
    Nap 2.7
    Ebook41 pages13 minutes

    Nap 2.7

    By NAP BOOKS

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    POETRY & FICTION BY SHANITA BIGELOW, GILLIAN DEVEREUX, CHRIS EMSLIE, ZACK HABER, SIMON JACOBS, SARAH LEVINE, PETER TIERYAS LIU, BEN SEGAL, & MARK WALTERS.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNAP BOOKS
    Release dateJun 17, 2012
    Nap 2.7
    Author

    NAP BOOKS

    NAP is an online magazine of the short and in-between.

    Read more from Nap Books

    Related to Nap 2.7

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Penny

      Jul 2, 2020

      Penny
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Family Plot

      May 7, 2020

      The Family Plot
      10 min read

    • Article

      Daisy’s Day In The Sun

      Jul 12, 2022

      Daisy’s Day In The Sun
      8 min read

    • Article

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

      Jun 10, 2020

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
      6 min read

    • Article

      Australia Reads At Home

      May 18, 2020

      Australia Reads At Home
      7 min read

    • Article

      ‘Out With The Bins’

      Mar 5, 2023

      ‘Out With The Bins’
      5 min read

    • Article

      Where is THE LOVE?

      May 12, 2019

      Where is THE LOVE?
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Sublime Poetics of Linda Gregg

      Nov 16, 2023

      Linda Gregg was looking to model truth, that finicky thing impossible to hold in its entirety. The post The Sublime Poetics of Linda Gregg appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Sophia Shalmiyev

      Dec 20, 2019

      Let us begin at the natural home of all the white-men-are-garbage controversies and go right to the crotch area. The post A Year in Reading: Sophia Shalmiyev appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      After “The End”

      Oct 10, 2022

      I walked down the road with a hunched back and a wet cigarette in my mouth—the fire had died a while back. My hands were tucked into the pockets of my jacket, and my hair fell over my face, limiting my sight. But I wasn’t really seeing where I was go

      10 min read

    • Article

      Heave’s Whisky

      Feb 27, 2024

      Heave’s Whisky
      7 min read

    • Article

      Sigrid Nunez

      Sep 15, 2017

      During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. The women were all war refugees. Before fleeing their homeland, they had witnessed the atrocities for which the Khme

      23 min read

    • Article

      That Particular Sunday

      Jul 6, 2023

      That Particular Sunday
      26 min read

    • Article

      Announcing The winners Of Our FLASH CONTEST

      Feb 29, 2020

      I sever the first two fingers of my left hand on a Tuesday. They fall to the ground at my feet, causing a momentary confusion as I wonder what tree has dropped this odd fruit. Then I see the crescent scar left behind by a fish hook and know that thes

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Last Friend on Earth

      May 4, 2023

      It was as if Doreen Saunders had been waiting for me, passing the time until my arrival. She might as well have been sitting in a rocking chair, knitting needles clicking, jam tarts cooling on the side, the door wide open, waiting for the next visito

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Duplex

      Jun 9, 2020

      I moved to Los Angeles to sing. When was this? August? June? I was twenty-nine, and those were shapeless months, when the days blended together and I refused to pull them apart. My landlord was unusually close to her adult son. His name was Jeffrey,

      21 min read

    • Article

      My Audience

      Dec 1, 2022

      THEY LIVE in Texas and work supervising immigrant landscapers, live on farms with their extended families. Their patriarchs committed suicide after years of drinking so much that they disappeared for days on end. They hid their booze bottles in the b

      4 min read

    • Article

      Amanda Prowse

      Jul 1, 2021

      ‘Waiting To Begin, my current book, is Bessie’s story and focuses on two days in her life. On her sixteenth birthday, she is looking forward to a golden future. This day is set against the glorious backdrop of the 1980s where neon leg warmers and dan

      5 min read

    • Article

      Clutter, Be Gone!

      Dec 28, 2020

      Clutter, Be Gone!
      4 min read

    • Article

      Ann Beattie

      Sep 15, 2017

      I’d started to visit Olivia more often because it was obvious she was lonely. The ALS lady who’d been moved to Hopkins had been Aunt Olivia’s closest friend, leaving aside Merton Hillstead, who actually went home. Even the friendly paperboy who somet

      23 min read

    • Article

      100-WORD-STORY COMPETITION Winners

      Aug 16, 2022

      We’ve been delighted by the huge response to our 100-word-story competition. The entries have flooded in thick and fast during the past few months, but while we’ve enjoyed reading every story, only a few can come out on top! You, our readers, voted t

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Silence of Witches

      Dec 10, 2019

      The Silence of Witches
      6 min read

    • Article

      How Postcards From My Mother Helped Me Survive Childhood

      Mar 3, 2017

      For years, my mother wrote to me every day. I’d been sent away to boarding school and for the first weeks was forbidden to call home­. I was eleven. This was just before mobile phones came beeping and clicking into the lives of everyday people. I di

      4 min read

    • Article

      Meet the Writer

      May 27, 2023

      Meet the Writer
      4 min read

    • Article

      It’s All Relative

      Aug 1, 2021

      It’s All Relative
      9 min read

    • Article

      Foxes

      Jun 15, 2019

      What’s worth happening happens in deep woods. Or so my daughter tells me. Her plotlines: In the deep woods someone is chasing, someone else is getting hacked. Hatchets are lifted, brought downdowndown. Men stutter blood onto snow. A cast of animals—s

      17 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Nap 2.7

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Nap 2.7 - NAP BOOKS

      NAP 2.7

      Fiction: J. Bradley

      Poetry: Diana Salier

      Custodian: Chad Redden

      Copyright 2012 NAP Literary Magazine and Books

      naplitmag.com

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the contributing authors.

      SHANITA BIGELOW

      GILLIAN DEVEREUX

      CHRIS EMSLIE

      ZACK HABER

      SIMON JACOBS

      SARAH LEVINE

      PETER TIERYAS LIU

      BEN SEGAL

      MARK WALTERS

      COVER BY A. BILL MILLER

      SHANITA BIGELOW

      YOU’LL NEVER SEE ME CRY

      She said she’d rather be a clown because clowns knew stuff and pretended not to. Her mom asked, Why not an astronaut or civil engineer or break dancer or doctor? She didn’t know what

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1