Sunday Sentence #11

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David Abrams, debut novels, Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar, Southern literature, Sunday Sentence, Women writers

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

Because life should be as simple as a bucket of fish caught a few miles offshore and a van full of produce bought at a roadside stand; It should be as sweet as a cube of melon the color of your heart.

SOURCE:Natalie Baszile‘s debut novel Queen Sugar 

 

Sunday Sentence #10

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David Abrams, Florida writers, Karen Russell, magical realism, short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Sunday Sentence, Women writers, Z.Z.'s Sleep Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

I was expecting some ineffable girl smell, dewy and secret, an eau.

SOURCE:Karen Russell‘s short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves  (from “Z.Z.’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers“)

 

Sunday Sentence #9

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A Festival of Poets, Bill Moyers, David Abrams, Lucille Clifton, PBS, Poetry began quote, poets of color, Sunday Sentence, The Language of Life, women poets

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

Poetry began when somebody walked off a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ah-h-h!”

SOURCE:Lucille Clifton in conversation with Bill Moyers (part of his compilation of conversations with 34 poets from the PBS TV Series) in The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets

Sunday Sentence #8

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Alice Walker, David Abrams, Life Takes Its Own Sweet Time, New Press, poets of color, Sunday Sentence, The World Will Follow Joy, women poets

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

Life takes
its own
sweet time
to configure
just the wound
to stagger us:
so we may never forget
who runs the show
in these territories.

SOURCE:Alice Walker‘s poetry collection The World Will Follow Joy (quote is from poem titled “Life Takes Its Own Sweet Time”)

Sunday Sentence #7

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Art Escapes, art journaling, creativity, David Abrams, Dory Kanter, Sunday Sentence

Another contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Life is full of situations where it is easy to feel creatively trapped.

SOURCE:Dory Kanter‘s non-fiction book Art Escapes.

Sunday Sentence #6

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Hachette Book Group, New York fiction, Sunday Sentence, Susan Jane Gilman, The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, Women writers

Another contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

It was like love: No sooner had I finished it than a devastating sense of loss always set in.

SOURCE:Susan Jane Gilman‘s novel The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

Sunday Sentence #5

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Big World, David Abrams, Mary Miller, short story collection, Southern literature, Sunday Sentence, Women writers

Another contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

It was just the two of us and things had been difficult since I’d grown breasts, they came between us.

SOURCE:Mary Miller’s short story collection Big World (quote is from “Leak”)

Sunday Sentence #4

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Australian memoir, David Abrams, indigenous women writers, My Place, Sally Morgan, Sunday Sentence

Another contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

I never had much, just a few pieces of coloured Easter egg paper and a one-legged teddy that I had hidden in my clothes and stolen from Babyland.

SOURCE: Sally Morgan‘s memoir My Place: An Aborigine’s Stubborn Quest for Her Truth

Sunday Sentence #3

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David Abrams, Diana Gabaldon, Sunday Sentence, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Another contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Mrs. Figg was smoothly spherical, gleamingly black, and inclined to glide silently up behind one like a menacing ball bearing.

SOURCE: Diana Gabaldon‘s novel Written in My Own Heart’s Blood

Sunday Sentence #2

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Adrian McKinty, David Abrams, Sunday Sentence, The Cold Cold Ground

Second contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife.

SOURCE:Adrian McKinty’s novel The Cold, Cold Ground.