dennis scharnberg

no strings attached

In a mere seven pages, Tildy had found a way to use the word “vivid” twelve damned times!

Quentin Drabb, Ebenezer’s Untold Tales.

toast and tea

“And what is Jennifer doing?” asked Brenda.

“I assume she’s staring at her phone,” Gerald quipped, with that bitter smirk on display.

Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing After Another.

wild and wooly

Deborah despaired that she might never succeed in working the word “Proustian” into a sentence.

Stephanie Biggers, Cat Farming in Nigeria.

impartial differential equations

Angry young women with chopped blue hair, nose rings, and angular tattoos shouting shouting shouting shouting shouting….

Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.

peas porridge cold

…advocating social organization that is based on fantasy.

Anthony Scowling, The Beat Paradigm.

sleep and waking

Gwen persisted in nagging Philip about the van Dyke beard.  And he kept saying, “You leave it alone and it will leave you alone.”

Trent Bendix, Grieving for Margaret.

sweat of brow

The illusion of inexhaustible resources leads inevitably to moral giantism.

Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.

lugging iron chests

Now, using your thumbs, key in the following words:  “I am not an idiot.”

Griffin Poindexter, Particle Swarm Theory: More Stories.

taking a tumble

At some point, Mr. Alwyn came to believe that he could talk reality into existence.

Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing After Another.

tossing a stool

“In Diana’s case,” said Watson, “being factually correct is strictly an accident.”

Carla Marks, The Murder Matter.