dennis scharnberg

out of tune

heel on earth

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

around the corner

The postmodernist wants to peel away all the layers, in order to penetrate to the very surface of things.

Hester Stills,  The New Academy.

knock a nail

How will the artist ever come to regard the art gallery as the mere historical gesture that it is?

Stacie Hughes,  The Slumber of Conceptual Art.

curve of instability

Lawrence listened to the woman attentively.  Foolishly.

Allison Cowling,  Night of the Detective.

chunks of stuff

Fiction:  the use of words.

Clive Morrow,  A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

something that happened

In the oldest Puntecan texts—which exist only as fragments—there is repeated mention of mingata wellensi.  This has been translated roughly as “music of wonders”.  Of course, we have no idea what this phrase refers to.

Bradford Kinsella,  Resurrection of Language.

wear and tear

In Algorithms We Trust

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

quiver and thrill

“I want to be good at something.  Isn’t there some way I can just buy that?”  Sean was keen to get on in life.

Darko Rivenbark,  Snapshots.

one swift cloud

121.  Sometimes, it serves one well to make a list of things one cannot bear.  And leave nothing off.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

the astral plane

“But they are not pursuing happiness,” whispered Brenda.  “They are pursuing abject misery.”

Priscilla Onkers,  All About Edward.