Sunday Sentence


In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

But then, almost overnight, it seemed perfectly acceptable, just as most everything in my life that had ever made me inconveniently queasy (i.e.: my parents’ grisly divorce, my absurd broken engagement in college, my temp-job career) had swiftly morphed into perfectly acceptable.

Source: Susan Perabo, “Why They Run the Way They Do” (the title story in her latest collection)

2 thoughts on “Sunday Sentence

  1. Leah Hughes says:

    I think I may have to read that….

    1. Erika Dreifus says:

      You must! Have you read the first collection? You should know/be forewarned that dogs are a recurring presence in her stories. Not always in happy ways….

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