dennis scharnberg

After forty miles of silence, Alex punched on the radio, muttering “I could sink my teeth into some Billy Joel right about now.”

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

“Can you see the general in the specific, Carla? Can you? Can you?”

Dickinson Holmes, The Book of Shoes.

The entire apparatus of the theologian rejects the notion that the answer could be simple.

Chalmers van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.

It rained all day.

And it rained all night.

The water ran heavy

in the creek with spite.

And the morning came back

with a timid light.

[from “The Wolverton Ballyhoo”]

Miles Bantry, ed., Mr. Roode’s Rustic Tales.

“There are so many ways to say no, Ellen. So very many ways. Choose one.”

Burnham Woode, A Circle of Radiance.