an online magazine publishing single-sentence prose. tweets by editor-in-chief @thejasonthayer.
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Very happy to have this short piece in @complete_sent, a journal I've long admired where every piece & story is made from a single (generally epic) sentence. Thanks to @thejasonthayer for seeing something in "Cinnamon Roll." This one's close to my heart.
"I fucked up, okay, and I ate the whole jumbo-sized cinnamon roll, which was apparently not meant for me..."
-@jdschwartzman, on how the stories we devour mutate, change shape inside our stomachs over time.
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After that, a longish sentence that I wrote last year, and @complete_sent was good enough to publish. Lydia Davis, internet friends, etc. This one has it all!
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Honored to have LL pieces from wonderful journals: @susurrusmag, @complete_sent & @ScrawlPlace. Thanks to @laughingyeti & the @wigleaf team! Seeing stories from other writers & at sites I work with like @gonelawn, @FracturedLit, @CraftLiterary & @LiteraryRuby thrills my ❤️too!
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That existential realisation that if life sucks rn, that's not the end. You have the power to build a more beautiful one 🌱🪚🌱
One of my faves up in @complete_sent!! 👇
"...she held up just one finger and laughed (like the sound of a train brake screeching a whole town away) and I knew she’d already understood..."
@charnewbpoet meets God at the hardware store.
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I have a new piece of writing (& photo!) up at @complete_sent today! It's called "John Mulaney." (It's named after John Mulaney.)
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New words from this new identity as Ammi-writer. Hope you’ll give ‘em a read!
"Baby writhes on the changing table, furious at this momentary loss of bodily control, until she catches sight of the bangles glimmering on my wrists..."
-@AvashiaNeema on the artifacts that tether us to our culture: past, present, future.
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I’ve got some early words in this new project up at the fave, @complete_sent, today. Give ‘em a (1 minute) read if you can! Grateful to Jason and crew for helping me find my way back to the page. completesentencelit.com/post…
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Oh my stars. This poem. – at South Carolina, USA
"Since your mom is visiting after the funeral, please pick up while you’re out: Laundry Soap; Candles; One dozen eggs..."
Matthew Merson's hermit crab essay shapeshifts from shopping list, to intimate map of the mundane & the transcendent moments shared.
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Kind kind words 🙏 it's a real joy to offer up visuals to such great work and collaborate across mediums with good company 💚
Editors, find yourself an artist like @tom_foe who will craft the most striking collages to pair with the words your journal publishes.
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Thanks to @complete_sent for publishing my one-sentence story!
"There is only one rule: when the car turns, stops, or starts again, no matter how gently, no matter how jackrabbit hard, you are to let your body fall as though you were a rag doll..."
@JEK_Writer lets go of everything, melts into the carseat.
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do you have a piece that is (or COULD be??) a single sentence?) @complete_sent is one of my fave journals I discovered as a side effect of HAD.
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:D fish story is out. read it rn or else
"...I care about you, fossil fish, so much that only I can be the one to smash the mallet down on the base of your skull and flip you over and slice you open..."
There's a tender brutality in @amberuhh's 1-sentence story on sturgeon.
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This one is a big deal. Thanks @complete_sent and @thejasonthayer for giving this a home.
"...afterward, we dress unceremoniously and go back out for another smoke, where the sun has set and the mosquitos are rabid, where I scratch angry, bleeding welts into my legs...
-@BonesAndBeer, on the ember of self-destruction glowing in our guts.
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So honored to be longlisted! Thanks to the Wigleaf team & @complete_sent. I might be even more thrilled to see stories from journals I work with: Gone Lawn, Fractured & CRAFT. By nature, it's a small list from all the wonderful things published - congrats & hugs to writers today.
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ICYMI — check out my one-sentence essay about loneliness and asparagus and asteroids in the wonderful @complete_sent (and while you’re at it read the other amazing work they publish)
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So excited to have a short essay in the incredible @complete_sent. It’s a good sentence!
"...it’s when, in an hour or so, I’ll watch a collision 6 million miles away from earth over a bowl of leftover pasta..."
@JacobGinsberg1 meditates on those lingering hollow moments.
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Love this so much! 😍Thank you @WWoolfitt for sharing my wacky little story w/your students -- in the company of @AvashiaNeema & to @complete_sent for publishing it to begin with. Having my writing shared w/students thrills me every time. completesentencelit.com/post…
My students enjoyed discussing @complete_sent stories today--"The day the assembly line jammed at the Blue Nun Bottling Plant" by @amygcb and "Puzzle Rules" by @AvashiaNeema completesentencelit.com/post…
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My students enjoyed discussing @complete_sent stories today--"The day the assembly line jammed at the Blue Nun Bottling Plant" by @amygcb and "Puzzle Rules" by @AvashiaNeema completesentencelit.com/post…
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So happy @complete_sent picked this one up - nice little surrealistic train of thought piece partially inspired by hours on public transportation while living in a big city. And double thanks to them for the #TransVisibilityDay shout out!
@clem_flowers on nodding off into the distorted world that flashes beyond train windows
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Xo, @complete_sent. I’m embarrassed to report there’s only one primo sentence in this whole stinkin’ book: p. 202, graf 3, sentence 3.
and the newest from linguistic gymnast & friend of all ferrets @Law_Is_Len, expertly weaving the personal into environmental writing on @UGAPress
