dennis scharnberg

taking the ticket

The World Wide Web is a handful of beads.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

clap your hands

The manifest also mentioned this odd bit of cargo—nine large casks of broken statues.

Talbot Smalls, Barnacle Bill in Macao.

paid to smile

Mr. Gandolf sought answers to all the old metaphysical mysteries by looking into the fleeting images of The Black Coin and Daredevils of the Red Circle.

Roone Giddings, An Arrangement of Particles.

devoured by savages

starling silver

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

wicked number magic

Tired of the same old values? Try inverting them.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

era of devices

For years he dwelled in the village of Pangbourne, near the market town of Franklin, in the valley of the river Sutton. There he raised his daughter Una and his son Ogden. There also he pursued a fitful career as a crank and as the author of “legends”, known today as The Beefsteak Tales.

Ernest Pinkerton, Boondoggling.

oh thou pluckest

Time is everywhere.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

styles of lying

Perhaps Kant had a theory about what the sea looks like.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

color me barbara

“We are afraid, sir, that we can provide you with only an estimate of how very sorry we are.”

J. Haviland Hunter III, The History of Miss Judy and James.

cold penetrating gaze

Mr. Gulden’s room was untidy, his clothing was untidy, his thinking was untidy.

Anson Trimm, Carlos the Forgetful.