When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by D. A. Powell
“Mrs. Forrester chatted to Niel with her face turned toward him, holding her muff up to break the wind.” —from…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ben Spivey
And when the pains finally grew sharp I thought that death should come like that—like childbirth, into the birth of…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ted Pelton
“I had a drunk on like seven Swedes.” —Raymond Chandler Have been trying off and on for two weeks…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lily Hoang
“A man went to knock at the king’s door and said, Give me a boat.” —from Jose Saramago’s Tale of…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by John Domini
“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…