"...we are not touching because I don’t have AC and the night is too hot and still for contact, there’s a sweat at every brush, there will always be a sweat. Dev Murphy distills a sticky summer in the lonesome crowded city into a single sentence.

Heat

By Dev Murphy

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"When the hurricane came, I watched my childhood street rearrange itself into a map of everywhere I’d ever wanted to escape, mailboxes floating past like lost punctuation..." Bethany Bruno, on the water that thrums within us and without. www.completesentencelit.com/post/the-oce...

The Ocean Never Really Leaves You

By Bethany O'Brien

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Thanks to the team at the Wigleaf Top 50 for longlisting "Sockeye," published in @completesentence.bsky.social! The work that goes into this list is immense and I'm honored to be a part of it, alongside so many writers I admire.

"...I would like to love someone close, a tall person with laughter that climbs trees and eyes that change color with the sky, who wears shoes too big and leaves them at the door..." @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social conjures the magical thinking of longing to love & be loved. tinyurl.com/3snudr56

Without Ever Reaching the Horizon

By Sarp Sozdinler

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Y’all: I got *two* stories that made it into the @wigleaf.bsky.social long list! One’s from @completesentence.bsky.social, the other from Twin Pies Lit. So so so so thankful to those mags for taking my stuff in, and to Wigleafers @sudhab.bsky.social and @andrewporter01.bsky.social!

Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

"she’s been having headaches that wake her in the night and, once... a dizzy spell so bad she had to lean against the display case for support, the little wheels of camembert looming up through the glass," @completesentence.bsky.social www.completesentencelit.com/post/jour-de...

Jour de Repos

By Katie Shireen Assef

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"...you’re just milk, and then, bam, you get spilled and you’re going all over the place: running along the tabletop every which way..." @supernaturalfeat.com conjures chaos, asks us to examine the order inherent in our unhinged universe. www.completesentencelit.com/post/spilled...

Spilled Milk

By Dan Weaver

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I have a sentence (and an art) out at @completesentence.bsky.social. www.completesentencelit.com/post/spilled...

Spilled Milk

By Dan Weaver

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"Carlos belts me into the harness, its fabric straps reeking from a decade of skunky tourist sweat so pungent that I can’t smell the Guatemalan forest’s musk anymore..." Ania Payne, on the stench we leave when searching out the wonders beyond our world. www.completesentencelit.com/post/plantig...

Plantigrade in Atitlan Nature Reserve

By Ania Payne

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"...is seeing cold stars spill on still dark water; is looking up and asking how can this be my one same life..." @livabegglen.bsky.social meditates on perpetual rebirth, a life that quiets to smoldering coal before blazing up into unexpected, new forms. www.completesentencelit.com/post/being-t...

Being Twenty

By Liv Abegglen

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An entire compelling world of a sentence in @completesentence.bsky.social illustrated with one of @kawalker.bsky.social's splendid works of art! ✨

Complete Sentence@completesentence.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sometimes we absolutely nail the art paring. This is one of those times. @kawalker.bsky.social's line work echoes the intricacy, the intimacy of Bush's sentence, depicting how our faces wear the lives we've survived. www.completesentencelit.com/post/you-live

Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for featuring my debut poem “Being Twenty”. Young adulthood is a rebirth—on your own terms, this time. Read it here: www.completesentencelit.com/post/being-t...

Being Twenty

By Liv Abegglen

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"...you drink; you meet, you cling, you cleave, you meet, you yearn, you spurn, you split, you meet, you date, you greet, you detonate..." Stephen Bush sketches an entire life in a single sentence. www.completesentencelit.com/post/you-live

You Live

By Stephen J. Bush

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I have a couple other CS pieces (it's a fantastic magazine, always putting out really great stuff that I love reading!!) that IMO also fall into the "spiral into madness" category.

Complete Sentence@completesentence.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"...there’s more Jeffs being born each minute, and more Jeffs dying too, dying from car accidents, cancers..." @joeyhedger.bsky.social spirals into madness, squinting hard into the self-forged lens we view others through & the world beyond www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

"...there’s more Jeffs being born each minute, and more Jeffs dying too, dying from car accidents, cancers..." @joeyhedger.bsky.social spirals into madness, squinting hard into the self-forged lens we view others through & the world beyond www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

Jeff

By Joey Hedger

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My guy “Jeff” is up. Come meet him. Much thanks to @completesentence.bsky.social for being the best and pubbing this one!! www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

Jeff

By Joey Hedger

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"From the middle outwards, or from a semi-vacated center where oceans never roll or signal, it moves towards the periphery like a spot of scum on the bathtub that everyone avoids..." -Robert Speiser, on the toxic religion poisoning our well. #EarthDay

Terra Nova

By Robert M. Speiser

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"My bi-annual check-up on my elementary school crush goes how I expect it to, with me frowning at the scraggly mustache that sprouts from his lip and the American traditional tattoos sleeving his arms..." Dee Mohammed, on how our fixations settle, shift. www.completesentencelit.com/post/ritual-...

Ritual / Habit

By Dee Mohammed

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"...lean out and let the city have you, because screaming here makes you prey, to cops, to strangers, to time, to anything that doesn’t look like you... -Oleg Olizev, on everything in the city waiting to tear you apart, bring you to your knees. www.completesentencelit.com/post/new-york

New York

By Oleg Olizev

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*raised hand emoji We publish single-sentence fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and anything that skulks between the this holy trinity.

Emily Rinkema@emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Now that @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon is all wrapped up, let's get a list going of journals looking for micros! Anyone?

I didn't start a magazine of single-sentence prose 5 years ago to help me win @marchxness.bsky.social, but right now my essay on "Glycerine" is down against "Brick." If you're part of the Comp Sent hive, VOTE my essay and "Glycerine" SADDEST! Polls close 9am PST marchxness.com#/elite8-fold...

March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Last night I shot a music video on the blacked-out beach for my synth'd out "Glycerine" cover. Big thanks to Dave Rosman for the violin, big thanks to YOU for voting Bush on to the Final Four of @marchxness.bsky.social! youtu.be/E1DOPrrgCgg

Glycerine (March Sadness)

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One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

The Rumpus - El Alboroto

El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...

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My @marchxness.bsky.social essay on how a shirtless Gavin Rossdale saved my life faces off against Paula Cole and all of her furry sons. @erindorney.bsky.social nails the sadness of heteronormativity and I'm shaking in my (decidedly not cowboy) boots. marchxness.com#/2ndround-co...

March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Don’t let the days go by without reading my @marchxness.bsky.social essay on life as a ‘90s sad boy, aching to be beautiful and charismatic Gavin Rossdale, crooning “Glycerine” shirtless in the rain as a sea of sweaty MTV Spring Breakers sing along to yr heartbreak. marchxness.com#/1stround-bu...

March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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"...separated from her group, she ended up in a second-story bedroom filled with ceramic pigs and origami pigs and pig dolls with round pink pig faces and pigtails for hair..." Brendan Todt, on the creatures that unsettle us most. www.completesentencelit.com/post/the-bas...

The basement of the old gym is a good one

By Brenden Todt

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"There should be a word for when you’re walking through your parents’ subdivision at dusk and the sky is lavender and peach and sweat is dripping down your neck..." Maria Hardin explores how the quiet unrest in our gut colors the world we witness.

The Summer She Was in Hospice

By Maria Hardin

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"...we worked solitary tasks at a distance from one another...ragged breezes sweeping by, cooling our sweat like ghosts passing through us..." Robert Erle Barham's haunting sentence searches for comfort in the familiar phantoms that follow us.

Homeplace

By Robert Erle Barham

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"...or perhaps it was hearing Mariah Carrey’s “All I want for Christmas is You” from November through February, over and over and over and over, on the jukebox..." Sophie Amado, on the grind of tending bar, passed down through generations.

The Bartender

By Sophie Amado

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"..he told me he’d endured 14 ex-boyfriends, two of whom had died of drug overdoses, he said 'I really know how to pick them,' which I think was the boy’s only effective joke.." Edmario Lesi on misconnections & pissing on the frozen lake beneath our feet www.completesentencelit.com/post/what-ki...

What Kind of Body of Water are You?

By Edmario Lesi

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