dennis scharnberg

If only something that happened had not happened then.

Myrtle Mawby,  Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

What HPB really invented was that unique dimension of modernity:  boredom with the material well-being of the age.

Teresa Ravens,  The Lives of Helena Blavatsky.

“Murder is stupid, Inspector.  That, and that alone, is my alibi.”

Hilary Fewkes,  The Banality Killings.

Ambrose avoided being intentionally meaningless.  But just barely.

Rubina Malcolm,  The Black Box.

Making complexities seem to be clear isn’t the only thing worth doing.

Roger Sensabaugh,  A Short History of Boredom.

Platitudes are not to be multiplied without necessity.

Octavius Kinder,  A Sustainable Unhappiness.

“I didn’t pay attention.  I didn’t feel like it.  Not this time.  Maybe next time.”  Hollis, you see,  liked to demonstrate how easy it is just to glide along.

Myrtle Mawby,  Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

He did not mock the TV.  Nor did he shout at it.  Instead, Colin taunted the TV.  In a cruel and hateful fashion.

Lawrence Bird,  Make It So.

Our novels do not capture the world, or describe it.  They merely add stuff to the world.  More novels added.

Pamela Hrothgar,  No Stone Unturned.

Ignore Anything

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.