dennis scharnberg

spreading the emptiness

Anna just assumed that she sounded collected and reasonable.  But it was whining, pure and simple.

Sebastian Sleeve,  The Random Walk and Other Tales.

complete and total

By the end of the conference, Kellen had come to feel that he was now inextricably bound to String Theory.

Cedric Plumm,  My Name Is Cynthia.

code of silence

I think, therefore I might be.

Tuc d’Audubert,  Into the Swirling World.

upon the waters

Gloucester had it wrong.  The gods don’t kill us for their sport.  They give us reason and will for their sport.

Lawrence Rittle,  The Fundamentals of Confusion.

using words loosely

A new definition of “modernism”:  the avoidance of certain questions.

Melanie Kay Hingle,  Truth and Consequences.

alles oder nichts

Will we hate ourselves?  Or will we find a way to dog along in a culture of slop?

Axel Porphyrie,  Doing Without Knowing.

another scurvy tune

Can’t we say that to blame oneself is to adore oneself?

Daniel Brasso,  The Infinite Regress.

but doth suffer

Irony:  just one of the many ways of lying that are currently available to us.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

into the box

What would it mean to predict that the laws of fluid dynamics will remain unchanged?

Dalmo Etters,  The Management of Uncertainty.

wild blue yonder

Glenda’s story was one of increasingly poor decisions.

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Tooth and Claw.