dennis scharnberg

walking by moonshine

The acid-test for actors is sincerity.  If you can fake that successfully, you’re in.

Nigel Swarbrick, A Bootful of Nails.

apologizing yet again

“If you could find it covered in the New York Times Food section, then it was worth eating.”

Allison Terew, The Shining Shifting Things.

bad it was

“A contradiction is found,” laughed Devlin.  “Now everything must change.”

Michael Margate,  The Shadow Path.

more hilarity ensued

Almost punished.  That is the state in which Bradley found himself on the day after.

Myrtle Mawby, Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

hate comes easy

pans and noodles

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

throw away lines

“Judith could not have known that unfairness was about the only thing I was still willing to respect.”

Kiefer Sythe, The Detective Club.

after the fact

“Principles? Bollocks!” sneered Fanshawe.  “It’s aesthetics.  It’s the worst thing of all—smudgy aesthetics.”

Allison Terew, The Shining Shifting Things.

vicious feedback loop

My first question on the matter: Did Freud and Kinsey and the rest foresee that sexual freedom would be the source of misery and not the cure of it?

Addison West,  The Ontology of Destruction.

rhyme or reason

“Where there are two,” said Peter, “there are always three.”

Christina Rubb, The Awful Puzzle.

in search of

Schaden Freudian

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.