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Sunday Sentence: On Such a Full Sea

January 26, 2014

on such a full sea

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.     Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

December 29, 2013

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   There was a time I thought Ellen would always understand. But, at some point, she let  go. And once I really started drowning, she became increasingly angry with me for not being able to swim.   ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: The Apartment

December 22, 2013

apartment

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   But now I’m going on about something I don’t want to think about. Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges.  ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: This is Between Us

December 15, 2013

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   You got quietly sullen for a while. I could always tell your sullen quiet from your normal quiet—your sullen quiet had a buzz to it, like a television showing a tornado tearing houses apart but with the volume turned down.  ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Want Not

December 1, 2013

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. Could memories be like works of art, the great ones hung beneath metal halide lighting on stark museum walls, for daily straightening and dusting, while the shoddy ones were abandoned to attics, yard sales, to that unheeded space above ... Read More...

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Sunday Sentence: Plainsong

November 24, 2013

Plainsong

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.   But let me tell you. A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose. ... Read More...

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