Maureen O’Leary

Much of Eddie’s own life felt like that, a botched and risky present that the future dragged into a pattern.
#sundaysentence
#mercy
#joansilber
#counterpointpress
#netgalley

Humiliation and I got up together every morning, brushed our teeth side by side in my bathroom mirror, and went off to the grocery store for inspiration.

THE PAYBACK
By Kashana Cauley
#SundaySentence

She no longer possessed the brazen, desperate courage of herself at seventeen. THE BOG WIFE by
@kaychronister.bsky.social

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Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! "Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again!" buff.ly/7Ol5DQu

Donate to Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, organized by Matthew Kressel Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative-fiction reading seri… Matthew Kressel needs your support for Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar

@matthewkressel.net and I are raising funds to keep this venerable institution alive. Info here: www.gofundme.com/f/fantastic-...

"...stepping out into the caesious morning light, trying to make sense of this new city, with gables on all the doorways, and serpentine streets with peculiar names..." Andrew Bertaina, The Body is a Temporary Gathering Place (2024)
#SundaySentence (Or fragment, but too good to not feature caesious)

Great turn of phrase by R. F. Kuang's The Burning God:
"Let them think of us as dirt, Rin thought. She was dirt. Her army was dirt. But dirt was common, ubiquitous, and patient, and necessary. The soil gave life to the country."
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Two thousand more years of snail cream and you will see a woman’s brain through her face.

THE COIN by Yasmin Zaher #sundaysentence @catapultbooks.bsky.social

The tree doesn’t shudder before

lightning strikes it—not even the tallest pine sees that fire coming

“Childhood Confession for Zagajewski’s ‘Illustrious Caesura’”

MY HERESIES

@alinaetc.bsky.social #sundaysentence

He was the one who needed it--he needed to work, to avoid living at all costs. I don't blame him. Work is easier than life.
- Luiza Sauma, Flesh and Bone and Water

#SundaySentence

The cover of Night Beast by Ruth Joffre. It has a red background and a shadowy black and white figure of a woman with abstract tentacle things coming out of her head in an art deco style (it actually is an art deco print from like the 1920s). The vibe is spooky sexy

I’m told I’m supposed to promote my writing here?? not just post pictures of my dog??? idk seems wrong but I’ll try it

my story collection Night Beast is for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado

it has: gay sex, sleepwalking, slime molds, soulmate timers & more

bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...

And when the capacity for love expands, so does life itself.

SEE: LOSS. SEE ALSO: LOVE. by Yukiko Tominaga #SundaySentence

My Son's Love Life Is None of My Business, Except It Is - Electric Literature “I Heard My Son Kissing a Girl” from SEE: LOSS. SEE ALSO: LOVE. by Yukiko Tominaga, recommended by Weike Wang

"I Heard My Son Kissing a Girl" by Yukiko Tominaga

electricliterature.com/i-heard-my-s...

Oh my gosh. I love all of you.

I love this guy.

Now, look, I’ve been accused of a “literary Rickroll” here, but the truth is that after leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country beco

Still Waters - F(r)iction In Still Waters, Abigail Kemske explores a post-apocalyptic flooded world where two people forage to live and seek a new home.

It's new story day! My stilt walking, mushroom hunting, found family story set in a post-apocalyptic flooded cityscape is published in F(r)iction! Purchase ⬇️ or at Barnes & Noble. There's a little preview of my story here: frictionlit.org/still-waters/

Jordan Harper’s books are full of them!

#SundaySentence

Thunder can intuit, and her action is the music caused by lightning.

heart berries
~Terese Marie Mailhot

The morning sun baptizes both sinner and saint alike.

S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes #sundaysentence #booksky #books

🎵 Pair with: Wait For It 🎵

Life grabs you in its jaws like a bear and all the flailing around and the screaming you do while it eats you, that’s what we call free will.

THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA by Jordan Harper #SundaySentence

"You don’t get ghosts from a past you don’t care about."

Brandy Shillace, ‪
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
“The Framed Women of Ardemore House”
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"For all of us, the moment will come when we will realize that none of the things we achieved by looking the other way and keeping quiet mattered...Live not by lies."

- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (1976 - 2024), a quote found in a Substack post by David Dark

#SundaySentence

Not everything was so close to extinction. “Mother’s Wolves” from HAUNTED ECOLOGIES by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social #sundaysentence

Donald Trump just signed a bill into law that'll kick 17 million people off their health care and make it harder for families to put food on the table.

Republicans sold you out so billionaires can get even richer.

We won't let them forget.

I am such a fan of you.

I love this!!

I am such a fan of you. Everyone should read this, your latest collection.

Thank you, wonderful Maureen, for this! And I can't wait for your new novel!!!!!!

Oh thank you!