November 2nd, 2009 / 8:37 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Blake Butler—
Free copy of Scorch Atlas for someone who comments with a sentence they like from the current issue of Lamination Colony. Winner will be selected at random from all entrants by Wednesday afternoon.
I wore the light around my neck in wreaths.
wait…
I wore the light around my neck in wreaths.
wait…
I had a thousand empty hands.
I had a thousand empty hands.
O death, o train.
O death, o train.
The boy is dead.
The boy is dead.
Digest my moose kidneyish skull, part tulip.
or mebbe–
She fell like a new form of old rain.
Digest my moose kidneyish skull, part tulip.
or mebbe–
She fell like a new form of old rain.
“Now everyone, big smiles, cheese.”
“Now everyone, big smiles, cheese.”
“I was thinking of taking a nap and just curling up on the ground and letting a good stiff breeze blow me on upstairs.”
“I was thinking of taking a nap and just curling up on the ground and letting a good stiff breeze blow me on upstairs.”
Can you whine us why the raining bodies curve into the blood of our lady’s eyes?
Can you whine us why the raining bodies curve into the blood of our lady’s eyes?
A jelly man packed and sent.
A jelly man packed and sent.
I have my own tricks that involve the high school teacher’s haircut and her curriculum on the violent sexual fetishization of hand puppets
I have my own tricks that involve the high school teacher’s haircut and her curriculum on the violent sexual fetishization of hand puppets
Don’t kiss me, I’m rhetorical.
Don’t kiss me, I’m rhetorical.
The noise of wheels is in the breath of the female rat.
The noise of wheels is in the breath of the female rat.
“Skillful premonitions towards a dubious orchestra.”
“Skillful premonitions towards a dubious orchestra.”
“Digest my moose kidneyish skull, part tulip.”
“Digest my moose kidneyish skull, part tulip.”
“I could drag a pillow down the hallway like a cavewoman by the hair, a pillow cavewoman with pillowcase hair.”
“I could drag a pillow down the hallway like a cavewoman by the hair, a pillow cavewoman with pillowcase hair.”
Jelly men, jelly women, all properly hooded, all looking skyward in the correct and humble manner
Jelly men, jelly women, all properly hooded, all looking skyward in the correct and humble manner
“She let me grace her hand with a mock-up of my genitalia.”
“She let me grace her hand with a mock-up of my genitalia.”
“Take your pants off, let me get a look at your gorgeous grammar.”
“Take your pants off, let me get a look at your gorgeous grammar.”
“I had the feeling that this was another old routine of theirs, one they’d rehearsed many times – that perhaps I had even been present during these rehearsals, perhaps even, in some distant past, I leaned in close (though only once or twice) to offer notes on their performance – but it was all so perfectly played; what notes could I have offered?”
“I had the feeling that this was another old routine of theirs, one they’d rehearsed many times – that perhaps I had even been present during these rehearsals, perhaps even, in some distant past, I leaned in close (though only once or twice) to offer notes on their performance – but it was all so perfectly played; what notes could I have offered?”
“Then I missed her.”
“Then I missed her.”
“It said Out here folks do what they want.”
“It said Out here folks do what they want.”
“I folded her into an airplane and sent her on her way. “
“I folded her into an airplane and sent her on her way. “
“If I had the time now to set down for you our vaudeville – two chained chimps stacking their banana crates higher in the dark… “
“If I had the time now to set down for you our vaudeville – two chained chimps stacking their banana crates higher in the dark… “
“We’re visited every hour by the creator of everything, tricks can’t impress us.”
“We’re visited every hour by the creator of everything, tricks can’t impress us.”
I couldn’t say pillow yet, but I could hear it.
I couldn’t say pillow yet, but I could hear it.
“Her dangled uvula earrings smelled like furr.”
“Her dangled uvula earrings smelled like furr.”
We love your indifference.
We love your indifference.
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