New Slang is a theme-based online publication.

In these pages, you will find articles dealing with First Times, Belief Systems, Intimacy, and many other things that we felt were important and needed to get off our chests (in 1,200 words, or more). We’ve lasted for almost two years, with extended breaks here and there. Since you’re already here, know that we couldn’t have done it without you.

If you’re interested in submitting a story, feel free to contact us. This space will continue to exist as long as there’s something to see here, so keep the submissions coming.

Email us at: newslangteam [at] gmail [dot] com

New Slang is managed by Alice Sarmiento and Marla Darwin. Here they are, both looking anxious. (Photo by Brendan Goco)

Alice is an instructor at a national university. She eats a lot of greens, spends all her money shopping on eBay on her cats, and recommends traveling by train. She keeps an archive of affinities here and writes long, uncomfortably intimate journal entries here.

Marla is a recovering wild child—recovering in this case from her cloistered, fundamentalist Catholic upbringing—who thinks she finally found a balance between the two extremes (but not really). She is everywhere and nowhere, sometimes laughing, sometimes stuffing her face, and sometimes jotting down mental notes for the next story she can spin out of the world’s inanity. She also loves hearing her friends speak in fake German accents.

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