dennis scharnberg

Regardless of subject, digital photos always end up looking like ads.

Roger Hedgecook,  Stolen and Sold for Parts.

What is most difficult?  To shake oneself free from something one has read.

Clifford O. Mounce,  A Portable Darkness.

Opinion:  a waste of everyone’s time.

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

Even at its best—and I am at a loss for examples—Criticism is a con game.

Daniel Brasso,  The Infinite Regress.

Are you sleeping, or just feigning sleep?

Gaddis Gann,  Essays on the Pre-Socratics.

Lastingness is now over.  For the fiction of today—or the visual art—there is no posterity.

Linda Talbotting,  The Long List of Complaint.

How can one know if one really cares?  How do we chop through all the theatricality?

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

If you want solitude, you call yourself Mr. Jones, not Baron Litvikoff.

Cooper W. Barthelme,  A Systems Approach to Advice.

The reader is on his own.  I cannot help him.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

There is no longer any need for the word “decorum.”  It refers to nothing that could possibly exist.

Rollin Mungo,  Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.