This must be our constant betrayal, to know now that the lyric is not as valuable as the polemic.
"Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi in Protean Magazine
—you would have said, "this peat is as salty as a day's honest work, and as sweet as the first sip of vodka past my lips at sundown"
A weird instagram meme on someone's stories, provenance unknown
This is the problem with collecting perfect sentences via screenshots.
Their heads are wide, and their eyes are lidless.
the Wikipedia entry for axolotls
Via a lot of memes about the Wikipedia page, first seen by me on Today in Tabs. Rusty has a good eye for sentences.
The Twitter CEO was sporting a black beanie, a nose ring, and a long beard the approximate texture and weight of a tumbleweed.
"Extremely Softcore", Zoe Schiffer for The Verge
A lovelorn stance—and a devotion to cruising, drifting, errancy—engendered his interpretive perspicacity, his ability to find nuance in unlikely places.
My 1980s and Other Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum
Physics moves with a kind of aloof austerity, and while she's not as fetted [sic] as she once was, people move aside when she comes into the room.
Mastodon post by Michael T. Bacon
It’s as if the sea star is completely missing a trunk and is best described as just a head crawling along the seafloor.
"Starfish are Heads—Just Heads", Lori Youmshajekian for Scientific American
Submitted by Keith.
I had hoped to wait for a resolution to this story before telling it, but sometimes the world does not operate at our pace, and we must cede our hopes to the trickling sands of time.
"Hmmm...Something is Not Right Here", Kelsey McKinney for Defector
Submitted by Wesley.
Somehow, inert matter had organized itself into something so convoluted and delicate and whimsical and cruel.
Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman
Not finished with this novel so it might come up next week. Runner-up sentence: