Jason Thayer

Editor-in-Chief @complete_sent | Essays and Stories in the Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Essay Daily, Hobart, & Others

[Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer]

My dad died of a heart attack when he was 36 years & 1 day old. Today I am 36 years & 2 days old. I fucking made it.

[Complete Sentence @complete_sent]

"...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..."

@warther_natalie unravels the myth of closure, of grief resolved.

https://t.co/ugHCfRA2GE

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Our inaugural incomplete sentence runs tomorrow, with a few more already slated for this series.

Submit your incomplete sentence that breaks convention, refuses us the closure we crave, via our web portal or email us at [email protected]. 3/3

https://t.co/R03ohvtsBV

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We want your run-ons that run out of steam—or run off the road, careen through the guardrail into the hungry ravine. We want your disregard for flow, for syntax, for tidy closure. We want your mess. We want your incomplete sentences. 2/3

[Complete Sentence @complete_sent]

In 3 and a half years we’ve published 143 complete sentences—stories, essays, and comics that expand or contract, that find closure within the confines of a capital and a period. Now we want to read those broken sentences, stories, musings you can’t shoe goo together. 1/3

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In celebration of #TransDayOfVisibility, a thread of recently published single-sentence stunners, written by trans writers:

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No booth this year, but we’ll be roaming the book fair, fixing our hair under our mask straps, tryna solicit sentences from ya’ll at #awp2023

[rhymes with creepshow @adriennecrezo]

My first poem of 2023 is live @complete_sent. I wrote this last winter, but it's true every year that I watch Orion at night when SAD tells my brain to stop sleeping. Thanks, as ever, to @thejasonthayer. What an incredible surprise after a long week. 🌌 https://t.co/1QSK4JqBWX

[Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer]

@kylerseibel @havehadhavehad Aww @kylerseibel yr too kind. Thanks for reading and repping my sentence!

[kyle r seibel @kylerseibel]

Playing the @havehadhavehad random game this morning—RANDOM!—and was treated to this emotional scene from the sentence king himself, @thejasonthayer. Perfect elegy for the end of summer.

https://t.co/tr1cpptW3u

[T.L. States @epmornsesh]

Big thanks to @thejasonthayer & Complete Sentence for putting this one out there 👀👇

[Matt Leibel @matt_leibel]

I have a new one-sentence story, about sentences in multiple senses, up at @complete_sent illustrated awesomely by my friend @lizworthy. Thanks to
@thejasonthayer for publishing this! https://t.co/v29UEszDsw

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"...come and take the corn syrup, the bulletproof backpacks, the active shooter drills for kindergartners, a flag at perpetual half mast..."

-@c_g_whitney, on all we pledge allegiance to this 4th of July.

https://t.co/Tioi8msMH8

[Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer]

Can a sentence be too long? I did a lil interview the other day for Six Questions, and weighed in on this pressing lit world debate.

https://t.co/x5T1SbOG4I

[Suzanne Richardson 🦾🦀🫀🖤 @oozannesay]

New flash nonfiction work up @complete_sent today. Special thanks to CNY artist Jamie Santos for collaborating and designing the gorgeous artwork for this piece. Thanks to @thejasonthayer for accepting this quirky piece.
https://t.co/1QEVIfSCQx

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Today we published our 100th sentence.

Thanks to all the writers we commissioned in summer 2020, who believed in our idea.

Thanks to all who submit, who trust us with their work.

Thanks to all who read, share, & help our magazine grow like a long-winded, cumulative sentence.

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Just accepted our first single-sentence comic/graphic nonfiction. So it's a thing now. Send us all of your single-sentence comics plz.

[rhymes with creepshow @adriennecrezo]

Amped to have another long sentence going up at @complete_sent soon. Thanks a million to @thejasonthayer for taking my *nonfiction* one-sentence prose poem, "Ride or Die (Orion)." It's got everything: a constellation, a freeze, seasonal affective disorder, scorpions and trees. 🌠

[Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer]

I'm working on a memoir about the weight of absence, about addiction & heart disease & singing sad songs in low-ceilinged basements. Stoked to be around to see this thing through to the end.

[Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer]

My dad died of a heart attack when he was 36 years & 1 day old. Today I am 36 years & 2 days old. I fucking made it.