A SENTENCE BY SHIRLEY JACKSON

July 21, 2012

As the bus started up again they slipped back into the darkness and only the thin thread of light along the ceiling of the bus held them together, brought the back of the bus where she sat along with the front of the bus where the driver sat and the people sitting there so far […]

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TAHOE

July 8, 2012

Up to Tahoe goes the loon for just a week. He’ll be back soon.

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A SENTENCE BY PHILIP K. DICK

July 7, 2012

“Yes, sir,” a nattily dressed new animal salesman said to him chattily as he stood gaping with a sort of glazed, meek need at the displays. Phil selects nattily and chattily for use in this sentence from his future noir tale, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

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4TH OF JULY (FLORAL FIREWORKS DAY)

July 4, 2012
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A SENTENCE BY BERNARD BECKETT

June 30, 2012

The panel was made up of three Examiners, just as the regulations had promised. From the cerebral futuristic scifi deal, GENESIS.

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PURPLE

June 25, 2012
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A SENTENCE BY STEPHEN AMBROSE

June 23, 2012

The Great Plains of North America, on a cloudless day, stretch out forever under an infinity of bright blue sky. Thus openeth CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER, another gem by Ambrose, the non-boring historian.

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A SENTENCE BY ELIZABETH GASKELL

June 17, 2012

And with a swimming curtsey Miss Betty Barker took her leave. A delightful sentence from the delightful CRANFORD.

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BLOOMSDAY TOAST – 2012

June 16, 2012

BLOOMSDAY TOAST Here’s to – Nora the barnacle goose – Skin-the-Goat – the giggle fit of bronze by gold – the blind stripling piano tuner tap tap tapping along – Stephen deep in thought strolling on Sandymount Strand – socks with skyblue clocks, jaunty – Plumtree’s Potted Meats, which can make of each home an […]

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A SENTENCE BY JEDEDIAH SMITH

June 9, 2012

Mr. McCoy and J Palmer killed a large Grizly Bear in tolerable order and on opening him found nearly in the center of the lights a stone Arrow head together with about 3 inches of the Shaft attached to it. Mountain man writing in his journal in 1828 while camping near the Sacramento River in […]

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