Complete Sentence

an online magazine publishing single-sentence prose. tweets by editor-in-chief @thejasonthayer.

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"...I can’t forget the little one, like the splinter, that burrowed much deeper in the wrong place, and how I cried when they took her out of me, promising me relief would come..."

-Rachel Holbrook, on what sticks with us.

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We've finally reached escape velocity. See ya'll on Bluesky (@completesentence.bsky.social).

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"...he found the weed in the Jim’s Steakout parking lot in a gasoline rainbow and he makes me smell it...

@justin_karcher, on the highs that lie just beyond our sight lines.

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We're taking a short break from publishing to catch our breath while the world burns––see ya'll in January 2025.

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"...Joe stayed even after she got pregnant by someone who wasn’t him, he stayed until he moved us, and not much is known after that so I’ll tell you about it..."

Shannon Waite sketches a Jesus as unsettled as he is unsettling.

CW: gun violence
https://t.co/E5bDtUEHhz

[Jason Schwartzman @jdschwartzman]

Very happy to have this short piece in @complete_sent, a journal I've long admired where every piece & story is made from a single (generally epic) sentence. Thanks to @thejasonthayer for seeing something in "Cinnamon Roll." This one's close to my heart.

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"I fucked up, okay, and I ate the whole jumbo-sized cinnamon roll, which was apparently not meant for me..."

-@jdschwartzman, on how the stories we devour mutate, change shape inside our stomachs over time.

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"an old woman meets my pace as i’m walking along a road in Taiwan (a country where i was born but not where i was raised) and starts speaking to me..."

-@junnotjune, on living in that liminal space between two cultures

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[T.L. States @epmornsesh]

After that, a longish sentence that I wrote last year, and @complete_sent was good enough to publish. Lydia Davis, internet friends, etc. This one has it all!

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[Amy Barnes @amygcb]

Honored to have LL pieces from wonderful journals: @susurrusmag, @complete_sent & @ScrawlPlace. Thanks to @laughingyeti & the @wigleaf team! Seeing stories from other writers & at sites I work with like @gonelawn, @FracturedLit, @CraftLiterary & @LiteraryRuby thrills my ❤️too!

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"...more profound than mere culinary skill, a lesson in embracing slowness in a breakneck world..."

-Huina Zheng, on the culture of simmering that "old fire soup."

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[charlotte newbury @charnewbpoet]

That existential realisation that if life sucks rn, that's not the end. You have the power to build a more beautiful one 🌱🪚🌱

One of my faves up in @complete_sent!! 👇

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featuring cosmic visuals by the singular & celestial, @tom_foe

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"...she held up just one finger and laughed (like the sound of a train brake screeching a whole town away) and I knew she’d already understood..."

@charnewbpoet meets God at the hardware store.

https://t.co/o1XfIJ7aEp

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accompanied by the always stunning, often jarring art of @tom_foe

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"...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..."

@rabbitfeetpoem, on the fear & shame that keeps us safe.

https://t.co/RERlfeZFwE

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

@nickriccardo mulls @mulaney, anxiety & the ominous shit strangers tell us, while unearthing 'the body of who (he) once was.'

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[Nick Riccardo @nickriccardo]

I have a new piece of writing (& photo!) up at @complete_sent today! It's called "John Mulaney." (It's named after John Mulaney.)

https://t.co/cA6dQMCniX

[Neema Avashia @AvashiaNeema]

New words from this new identity as Ammi-writer. Hope you’ll give ‘em a read!

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

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