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One of her personalities had decided she’d had enough, and had starved one of the others to death. Schizophrenic rivalry. from Grammar Architect by Chris Eaton Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
Tengo hambre de tu boca, de tu voz, de tu pelo / y por las calles voy sin nutrirme, callado, / no me sostiene el pan, el alba me desquicia, / busco el sonido líquido de tus pies en el día. from Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda English translation by Stephen Tapscott: I crave your mouth, your voice, your…
No librarian likes to have his or her authority as librarian undermined. It’s not a power issue, rather a simple fact that policy has been disturbed and you don’t mess with library policy and get away with it. From Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out…
Nunca quise mariposas clavadas en un cartón; busco una ecología poética, atisbarme y a veces reconocerme, desde mundos diferentes, desde cosas que solo los poemas no habían olvidado y me guardaban como viejas fotografías fieles . from Save Twilight by Julio Cortàzar I never wanted butterflies pinned to a board. I’m looking for a poetic ecology, to observe…
It never ended because there was no end to reach. It was a contest in hyperbole and carried on for no other reason. from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
hat film is a debate between me and Caleb, who always wanted to become an artist but over-committed to life; he’s a stay-at-home dad to three young girls. I always wanted to become a human being, but I overcommitted to art. Taken from the poem “Letter to James Franco” by David Shields. Sunday Sentence: The…
…kid,” he said, “I’ve slept longer than you’ve lived. Taken from the poem “too soon” in the compilation what matters most is how well you walk through the fire by Charles Bukowski. Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
Indeed, the most thrilling moments in writing are when the author is veritably un-safe and takes a leap – in plot, character, logic, language or whatever – and reveals something (perhaps, even, our own selves). Published in The Stinging Fly Issue 29 Volume 2 (Editorial by Thomas Morris) Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week,…
Peter feels as though this trip to the palace by himself might be a defining moment in his later life. He arrived at being the person he is when he was approximately thirty seven years old, a year after meeting his second wife, and has remained steadfastly that way ever since, with little disrupting his mild…
Now when I see my own arm, the tattoo that on my eighteenth birthday marked my freedom, I think only of the tattoo that marked her servitude. Through this ink, I feel the connectivity of flesh. From the short story Vision by Tiffany Briere (published in Tin House Magazine Vol. 15 No. 3.) Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that…