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.”
Nothing like a bloody coup, she and her sister would try to joke, to teach you who your friends were.
Source: Geeta Kothari, “Missing Men,” in I Brake for Moose.
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.”
In the codex of sins, plain cheese pizza is a misdemeanor, not a felony.
Source: Tova Mirvis, “Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza” (The New York Times)
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 we do not have to chance it; baby boy is our safety, the lifeline that holds us together.
Source: Hope Wabuke, “The Animal in the Yard” (Creative Nonfiction)
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.”
She’d hold these beautiful soft days in her as the years slowly moved from terrible to bearable to better, and she would feel herself growing, sharpening.
Source: Lauren Groff, “Dogs Go Wolf” (The New Yorker)
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.”
Before they die, before they disappear into the opaque mist of history, the last Americans to fight Nazi Germany have to face one more blast of something they thought they’d eliminated in the bloodiest war of all time.
Source: Timothy Egan, “The Real American History and Heritage” (The New York Times)