dennis scharnberg

one dreadful abyss

“I am, therefore I think,” urged a certain Mr. Bob Sawyer.

Agatha Vox, When Everything Was Singing.

dollars and scents

I sink, therefore I swam.

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

fold spindle mutilate

Colton’s “radical rebellion” consisted of little more than being morose and uncooperative.

Darko Rivenbark,  Snapshots.

do not fold

“No, Alice, you’re wrong.  You are completely wrong.  They don’t think you’re crazy.  They think you are vapid.”

Gladys Huizinga, Hard-Luck Dennis.

high eastward hill

“You sound like an actor, acting,” said Hugh, briefly.  “Congratulations.  It’s quite an accomplishment.”

Trent Bendix,  The Dejected Bird.

no rough magic

Juvenal delinquent

Tacit us

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

concerning door hinges

“Here,” stated Dalton, “we have diagenetically consolidated sedimentary facies.  Commonly referred to as a rock.”

Mildred Cummings, Murder and Poetry.

carthago delenda est

“One simply cannot prevent people thinking things,” answered Brenda.  And there was an unmistakable note of exhaustion in that voice.

Myrtle Mawby,  Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

the wheeling birds

“If this is the job you really want to have, then you are quite unsuitable for it.”  Monica was desperate to find just the right sentence to open the How-To book she hoped to write.

Jason Starling, ed.,  Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

know yew terns

Your doubt is not an ongoing state of mind.  It is a decision you made.

Nicholas J. Pascoe,  Pedestrians of Regency London.