dennis scharnberg

on a toot

Sex as honesty.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

through a glass

Kevin tried to sound pretentious.  He tried and tried.  All the summer long.  He referred to this as “aiming.”

Jonathan Steed,  Down Under.

seat of pants

be leaving

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

kick that block

Modernist art has always been all or nothing.  That is the proposition, for artist and viewer alike.

Gunnar Grimes,  The Persistence of Vision.

annoying paint spatter

Reggie is a ne’er-do-well, don’t you see?  A ne’er-do-well of Dickensian proportions.

Sebastian Sleeve,  The Random Walk and Other Stories.

candles for sale

All eyes on her.  An admiring audience.  A dream come true it is.  Until it becomes tiresome.

Tate LaBianca,  Four and Twenty Blackbirds.

shiny new thing

Because of dusk, neither day nor night can exist.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

tweedledum and tweedledee

“You’re getting it all wrong, Tom,”  laughed Mr. Mullinax.  “What future was ever foreseeable?”

Michael Margate,  The Shadow Path.

wild and wooly

“Was that a logical argument?” Ted wondered.  “Or an episode of taunting?”

Devona Twilly,  Shallowness, a Novel.

the wild side

Jayne is a model, you see.  Her eyebrows are the largest thing about her.

Diana Moone,  Living Well.