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a literary magazine publishing single-sentence prose since 2020 https://completesentencelit.com/

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 7h

"After my last round of chemo, I at last showed myself the courtesy of being my true self, of shirking my duties as a member of the society, of not being polite..."

@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing

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By Sarp Sozdinler

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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · Sep 2

I've got a new one-sentence micro about electrocuting oysters up at @completesentence.bsky.social

and if you like when I write stories about electrocuting things, stay tuned 🤫 www.completesentencelit.com/post/edison-...

Edison's Oyster

By John Waddy Bullion

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Timothy C Goodwin @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Dream. Come. TRUE. Acceptance from @completesentence.bsky.social!

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 22

"There is 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..."

@jekwriter.bsky.social lets go of everything, melts into the carseat.

The Falling Game

By Jessica Klimesh

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 21

"...they ask me, at a dinner party (this only happens on the coasts because in Minnesota no one inquires about your personal life), and I say I work in a psychiatric hospital..."

Rebecca Grossman-Kahn kills the vibe--& this essay on mental health

By Rebecca Grossman-Kahn

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 20

"on the phone with Grandma, we talk in circles—how are you, I'm good, how are you, I'm good—due to the shortage, the interruption in what was the extended chord of her mind..."

Margaux Williamson explores the brain, short circuited.

By Margaux Williamson

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 19

"My mother’s hands are coated with darkroom fluid or melted carob, I can’t tell which, but one is caustic and one is healthy and she forces both on me..."

@amygcb.bsky.social, on what–and who–color our world

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 18

"...echoes from the firecrackers we once set off under the grocery’s red awning, which ended badly (for the store, the seagulls in the parking lot, all our stupid vows)..."

Thomas Mixon's story resides in the parentheticals (within the parentheticals)

This ends (tonight

By Thomas Mixon

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 15

"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

The Shopping List She Left on the Counter

By Matthew Merson

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 14

"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.bsky.social, on the artifacts that tether us to our culture: past, present, future.

By Neema Avashia

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Panic grips the birthday magician's face as the rope of scarves coming from his mouth shows no sign of stopping..."

Andrew Cothren mines the terror inherent in the magic we conjure, all within a short story you can read in a single breath.

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Before We Even Light the Candles

By Andrew Cothren

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Jul 25

"She calls the same hospital that sometimes dials her in to interpret for tourists with pink eye or bronchitis or allergic reactions to the mustard in everything..."

Katie Shireen Assef translates all the misshapen words suspended in our fear.

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By Katie Shireen Assef

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Jul 4

"...a bald eagle divebombed the blue, still-topped lake—but, instead of rising majestically from the splash with his catch, he bobbed and flapped the surface in a panicked distress of his own making..."

Scott T. Hutchison wrestles a wild & violent symbol

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America the Beautiful

By Scott T. Hutchison

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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · Jun 30

‘…somehow already on the verge of tears in that stupid, brightly-lit store…’

Wow! What a breathless sentence from @charnewbpoet.bsky.social in @completesentence.bsky.social, included in this year’s @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 🪚

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Some Assembly Required

By Charlotte Newbury

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charlotte newbury @charnewbpoet.bsky.social · Jun 30

So excited that Some Assembly Required made the @wigleaf.bsky.social top 50 this year! Thank you @samanito.bsky.social for picking her out of a crowded field of wonderful work, and @completesentence.bsky.social for being both her inspiration and home 💖 www.completesentencelit.com/post/some-as...

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · May 29

"...my grandmother tells me to imagine I'm staring at a dark hole, and so I do: one cavernous mass settled just inside the fleshy part of my throat that swallows Swedish..."

Hannah Olsson grasps for the eel-slick words that swim just beyond reach.

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By Hannah Olsson

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · May 15

"An eel-man follows me out of the sushi restaurant asking where I am delivering the oversized platter of unakyu rolls..."

The holy trinity of betrayal, spite & shame bubble beneath slabs of unagi in @clinforth.bsky.social breathless & surreal breakup story.

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By Christopher Linforth

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Christopher Linforth @clinforth.bsky.social · May 10

A new flash in Complete Sentence! www.completesentencelit.com/post/eelfare

By Christopher Linforth

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thedrevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks so much to the beautiful folks @completesentence.bsky.social for publishing my little piece about my childhood nightmares and the joys of M*A*S*H. Would be very appreciative if y'all'd give a looksy.

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Apr 30

"...every time I get up to click the TV off, my brother starts moan-talking in his sleep again and I’m afraid he really is turning into a zombie..."

@thedrevlow.bsky.social conjures the fantastical terrors sown in the boredom of childhood.

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By Benjamin K. Drevlow

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Apr 30

"...every time I get up to click the TV off, my brother starts moan-talking in his sleep again and I’m afraid he really is turning into a zombie..."

@thedrevlow.bsky.social conjures the fantastical terrors sown in the boredom of childhood.

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By Benjamin K. Drevlow

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Mar 31

"I will wake up and discover that my husband has died in his sleep beside me some time in the night..."

Molly Gaudry's single-sentence, speculative essay imagines the destruction lurking, and the constellation of past traumas that steel us.

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Thirty Years From Now

By Molly Gaudry

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Mar 29

"...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...

Brittney Uecker, on the ember of self-destruction glowing in our guts.

You Were Going to Ask Reddit Something, But I Don't Remember What

By Brittney Uecker

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Mar 28

"...you drop your apple in the sand and she’s still gone, ants crawl out of the outlets and still, gone, you buy a veil, and something blue, and none of this makes her un-gone..."

Natalie Warther unravels the myth of closure, of grief resolved.

Mother of the Bride

By Natalie Warther

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Mar 27

"sometimes i wonder what was in the water in the town i grew up in, because most of us turned out real fucking weird..."

@chickentenders.bsky.social mulls Mulaney, anxiety & the ominous shit strangers tell us, unearthing 'the body of who (he) once was.'

By Nick Riccardo

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · Mar 26

"...he tells me you weren’t the type to kill bugs before, and my fear has made me violent, a bad dog like the one I have in my chest, wet and shower-shiny..."

Rabbitfeet, on the fear & shame that keeps us safe.

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