dennis scharnberg

types of drawers

“Harvene was an unusual girl, you know.”

“How do you mean unusual?”

“Well, thoughts mostly. But also clothing. Her garments.”

Lana Dowling, The Mystery of the Dull Parcels.

golden glowing world

“I thought seed-cake was for weddings,” quipped Tom. “Or for funerals. Or both.”

Leighton Johns, My Uncle Toby.

surviving the psyop

Lost in mountains

praying for rain

crunch of cheeto

howl of wolf.

Ann Sensabaugh, The Faulty Haiku.

history of labor

“The one who did have good English was the sort of fellow who didn’t talk much. Just my luck.”

Lawton Trumbull, The Three Days.

duchess of malfi

“I might occasionally do a little juggling. Is that okay?”

Georgina Hickes, An Ornamental Murder.

another dreary apparatus

Atoms are the basis for all of our stories.

Godfrey Daniel, Inspecting the Time Domain.

looking askance at

“I have become aware of the fact that I think,” whispered Adrian. “Therefore, I am.”

Ford Blasey, The Perplexity of the Two Green Doors.

pillaging the ancients

“Incoherence is the goal, sir.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

mediocrity and vapidity

“Did you try to say mew or meow to it? Sometimes that works.”

Otto Klegg, The Ellipse of Uncertainty.

the poetical trade

whirled without end

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.