dennis scharnberg

…thoughts as black as the ink they were set down with.

Silas Burbage, The Adventurous Half-Life of Buddy Boyo.

Psychology:  a powerful antidote to common sense.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

Surely what appears in the rubble will be shining and good….

Agatha Vox, When Everything Was Singing.

Life is fair.

Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.

—You must realize that Roderick is bitterly contemptuous of architects.  All architects.

—A bit of an easy target, aren’t they?

—Well, yes.  Of course.

Philip Cavendish, Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

Burglary is just microscopic voyeurism.

Gwen Tunder, The Soda Pop Murders.

When someone shows me that he has not written a novel, I want to pat him on the head.

Hill Boothby, Essays on Disappointment Management.

Internet:  The ignominious end of all things preceding it; the radiant beginning of all things future.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

Even the least sentence is the product of centuries of accumulated experience.

Paul Uccelo,  The Enigma of the Box.

Christina again exhibited her ability to completely forget an insurmountable opposing argument in mere seconds.

                                        Burdyce Goode, Philosophy of Vegetables.