“And more than once, in their middle years, she and King Shahryar had pretended in bed that her life was…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Tim Horvath
“In Africa, you want more, I think.” —from Norman Rush’s Mating As sentences go, it’s not much, really—doesn’t plunge…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Alexandra Chasin
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” How is the question posed by any simile,…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Michael Kimball
“If he is awake early enough the boy sees the men walk past the farmhouse down First Lake Road.” —Michael…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Christopher Higgs
“Every word was once an animal.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Because it serves as epigraph to one of the…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Matt Bell
“It was like looking at a rock pile and trying to imagine an avalanche.” —from Guide, by Dennis Cooper …
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Zoe Zolbrod
“I didn’t, couldn’t, catch Sils’s eye—she was standing over with the sopranos—but it didn’t matter, I didn’t have to, because…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Roy Kesey
“A sentence is a length of awareness.” —William H. Gass, “Culture, Self and Style,” Habitations of the Word The…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ken Sparling
“There was a wall.” This is the first sentence of THE DISPOSSESED by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the…