dennis scharnberg

puzzling little selfhood

Nigel’s first collection of short stories included Being Looked at by a Cat and the critically acclaimed Maidens Incorporated.

Benedict Elder,  A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

the dotted line

Try chopping your thoughts in half.  Exactly in half.  Each one.  Of course, you must find them first.

Titus Musgrave,  The Mystery of Sleep.

six white horses

If Winston can’t be admired—and admired widely—then he just doesn’t care anymore.

Christine Rubb,  The Awful Puzzle.

at the gates

Skepticism eludes skepticism.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed.,  The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

jittery and thievish

The more Julia expounded, the more evident it became that what she was urging was not true.

Jonathan Dollar,  The Murky Mayhew Matter.

depth of field

Isn’t it possible that all words are hurtful?  Shouldn’t we scrap our written language completely and revert to crude symbols scratched into the earth?

Paul Uccelo,  The Enigma of the Box.

the sealed box

“I will not hesitate to design something,” said Devlin with great confidence.

“Oh good!”  thought Sondra.  “Good, good, good.”

Philip Cavendish,  Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

climbing the stairs

Ours is a culture of short-cuts.  Modernist art, therefore, should come as no surprise.  And allow me to suggest that nobody is surprised.

Aleister Wainwright,  A Game of Skittles.

pointless pallid moon

The cthonic can only ever be shallow.

Addison Quayle,  The Ontology of Destruction.

ardor of magnitude

I thing, therefore I am.

Clifford O. Mounce,  A Portable Darkness.