An online magazine of single-sentence prose. We champion punchy and poignant work that celebrates syntactical exploration—narratives that expand or contract within a single sentence.

Jason Thayer

Complete Sentence

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A single-sentence stream of eco-anxious consciousness. 

The Endless Cycle of Tiny Cuts and Bloody Underwear

A Mashup of Jobs You Could Have Had Growing Up in South Central Pennsylvania

A micro-fiction piece in one sentence, accompanied with art of my own design.

"a robbery"

Pigeons

A flash fiction/CNF sentence, on love and attraction in the Venn diagram of daydream and reality.

Intuition On Earth

…everything has sprung up in the places where almonds and asparagus used to grow, where grass and grains grew before that, where the bowling alley was, the bar that smelled like cigarettes and feet but not in that order…

Home, which is far better

"I’ll make you a little something to eat, just finish what’s on your plate and then brush your teeth, no, don’t lick your fingers, that’s obscene, use your napkin, please, would you stop picking your nose, and if you keep biting that lip it might..."

Mother Says

In harvesting her eggs, a sturgeon is sliced from jaw to tail, her pink and full organs are splayed out on the wrong side of her grey skin onto the reflective silver table;

Sympathy Pains

I watch Arrival and wonder if I’d like to have known that you were going to die, with The Before, During, and After imprinted into my memory entirely non-sequentially, like it had always been there and my only duty was to experience it,

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