Complete Sentence
@completesentence.bsky.social
a literary magazine publishing single-sentence prose since 2020
twitter refugee since 2025
https://completesentencelit.com/
twitter refugee since 2025
https://completesentencelit.com/
"You ask me what you are worth...it is easy enough to calculate...your body, deconstructed, contains approximately $129 worth of oxygen, $384 of carbon, $7.20 of Nitrogen..."
Andi Myles crunches the numbers on what we are and are not worth to each other.
Andi Myles crunches the numbers on what we are and are not worth to each other.
A Touch of Desperation
By Andi Myles
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January 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"You ask me what you are worth...it is easy enough to calculate...your body, deconstructed, contains approximately $129 worth of oxygen, $384 of carbon, $7.20 of Nitrogen..."
Andi Myles crunches the numbers on what we are and are not worth to each other.
Andi Myles crunches the numbers on what we are and are not worth to each other.
"...nineteen, disowned for my exposed desires and all alone, soothed myself to sleep with think of the money, the money, the money...
So much story lurks in negative space in Candace Walsh's deep dive into the mind of a surrogate.
So much story lurks in negative space in Candace Walsh's deep dive into the mind of a surrogate.
Thoughts Leading Up to My Successful Au Pair Application
By Candace Walsh
www.completesentencelit.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"...nineteen, disowned for my exposed desires and all alone, soothed myself to sleep with think of the money, the money, the money...
So much story lurks in negative space in Candace Walsh's deep dive into the mind of a surrogate.
So much story lurks in negative space in Candace Walsh's deep dive into the mind of a surrogate.
"..I didn’t know yet that in my twenties, I would become dry everywhere—dry knuckles in the winter: peeling, bleeding, cutting, blood dripping onto my laptop..."
@rubyprosenthal.bsky.social on the skin we shed, scratch free from & the new bodies we reveal
www.completesentencelit.com/post/dry-mai...
@rubyprosenthal.bsky.social on the skin we shed, scratch free from & the new bodies we reveal
www.completesentencelit.com/post/dry-mai...
Dry Maintenance
By Ruby Rosenthal
www.completesentencelit.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:37 PM
"..I didn’t know yet that in my twenties, I would become dry everywhere—dry knuckles in the winter: peeling, bleeding, cutting, blood dripping onto my laptop..."
@rubyprosenthal.bsky.social on the skin we shed, scratch free from & the new bodies we reveal
www.completesentencelit.com/post/dry-mai...
@rubyprosenthal.bsky.social on the skin we shed, scratch free from & the new bodies we reveal
www.completesentencelit.com/post/dry-mai...
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I'm in Complete Sentence Lit today! Have been a fan of this journal since I was in college and am quite grateful to be in it.
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Dry Maintenance
By Ruby Rosenthal
www.completesentencelit.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I'm in Complete Sentence Lit today! Have been a fan of this journal since I was in college and am quite grateful to be in it.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/dry-mai...
www.completesentencelit.com/post/dry-mai...
"I had a vision of Jesus once— yes, a vision of Jesus and my deceased grandfather and also my deceased twin..."
@isabelh8.bsky.social, on the meaning we unearth from the images that crystalize in us, and how their resonance shifts in timbre with time
@isabelh8.bsky.social, on the meaning we unearth from the images that crystalize in us, and how their resonance shifts in timbre with time
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"I had a vision of Jesus once— yes, a vision of Jesus and my deceased grandfather and also my deceased twin..."
@isabelh8.bsky.social, on the meaning we unearth from the images that crystalize in us, and how their resonance shifts in timbre with time
@isabelh8.bsky.social, on the meaning we unearth from the images that crystalize in us, and how their resonance shifts in timbre with time
"Six muscled litter carriers deposit my sister’s soul-slipping body in her Happy Place of soft bedding, motivational quotes, and perfectly picked wall colors..."
-MaxieJane Frazier, on the surreality of death and the elephantine weight of grief.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/elephan...
-MaxieJane Frazier, on the surreality of death and the elephantine weight of grief.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/elephan...
Elephant on My Back
By MaxieJane Frazier
www.completesentencelit.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
"Six muscled litter carriers deposit my sister’s soul-slipping body in her Happy Place of soft bedding, motivational quotes, and perfectly picked wall colors..."
-MaxieJane Frazier, on the surreality of death and the elephantine weight of grief.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/elephan...
-MaxieJane Frazier, on the surreality of death and the elephantine weight of grief.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/elephan...
"In hindsight, my hat looked nothing like a fedora, and the mustache my best friend Charley taped to his lip looked nothing like Hitler's..."
@timothycgoodwin.bsky.social conjures a child-world that expands within a sentence, collapsing just as quick
www.completesentencelit.com/post/indiana...
@timothycgoodwin.bsky.social conjures a child-world that expands within a sentence, collapsing just as quick
www.completesentencelit.com/post/indiana...
Indiana Jones and the Giant Pit of Consequences
By Timothy C. Goodwin
www.completesentencelit.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"In hindsight, my hat looked nothing like a fedora, and the mustache my best friend Charley taped to his lip looked nothing like Hitler's..."
@timothycgoodwin.bsky.social conjures a child-world that expands within a sentence, collapsing just as quick
www.completesentencelit.com/post/indiana...
@timothycgoodwin.bsky.social conjures a child-world that expands within a sentence, collapsing just as quick
www.completesentencelit.com/post/indiana...
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New piece out today with @completesentence.bsky.social! I’m so happy to be in one of my fave lit mags. And—bonus!—my dad painted the artwork! www.completesentencelit.com/post/indiana...
Indiana Jones and the Giant Pit of Consequences
By Timothy C. Goodwin
www.completesentencelit.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New piece out today with @completesentence.bsky.social! I’m so happy to be in one of my fave lit mags. And—bonus!—my dad painted the artwork! www.completesentencelit.com/post/indiana...
"...Kyle and Annie both understand that the heart is a spider web capable of trapping and feasting on small, beautiful joys..."
It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
Carbs
By Andrew Maynard
www.completesentencelit.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"...Kyle and Annie both understand that the heart is a spider web capable of trapping and feasting on small, beautiful joys..."
It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
It's tricky shifting close 3rd Person POV mid-story, damn near impossible mid-sentence. Yet, @andrew-maynard.bsky.social nails it.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
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Set out to create the most literary one-sentence story ever written about the intersection of hand jobs and the Olive Garden. Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. And my nephew for making the art. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
Carbs
By Andrew Maynard
www.completesentencelit.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Set out to create the most literary one-sentence story ever written about the intersection of hand jobs and the Olive Garden. Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. And my nephew for making the art. www.completesentencelit.com/post/carbs
"...that doesn’t stop me from being a heroine on the brink of madness, it doesn’t stop me from knowing that ghosts, guilt, and grief are so often the same thing..."
Who is the terrorizer and whom the terrorized in Jade Braden's spooky 1-sentence essay?
www.completesentencelit.com/post/my-own-...
Who is the terrorizer and whom the terrorized in Jade Braden's spooky 1-sentence essay?
www.completesentencelit.com/post/my-own-...
My Own Haunted Apartment
By Jade Braden
www.completesentencelit.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"...that doesn’t stop me from being a heroine on the brink of madness, it doesn’t stop me from knowing that ghosts, guilt, and grief are so often the same thing..."
Who is the terrorizer and whom the terrorized in Jade Braden's spooky 1-sentence essay?
www.completesentencelit.com/post/my-own-...
Who is the terrorizer and whom the terrorized in Jade Braden's spooky 1-sentence essay?
www.completesentencelit.com/post/my-own-...
"...Sharon had mastered the art of functional dissociation, a skill she employed during dinner dates, but also job interviews, missionary sex, and instructor-led exercise..."
Anyu Ching's tightly coiled story unfurls, a slap bracelet before snapping back
www.completesentencelit.com/post/exposur...
Anyu Ching's tightly coiled story unfurls, a slap bracelet before snapping back
www.completesentencelit.com/post/exposur...
Exposure Therapy
By Anyu Ching
www.completesentencelit.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"...Sharon had mastered the art of functional dissociation, a skill she employed during dinner dates, but also job interviews, missionary sex, and instructor-led exercise..."
Anyu Ching's tightly coiled story unfurls, a slap bracelet before snapping back
www.completesentencelit.com/post/exposur...
Anyu Ching's tightly coiled story unfurls, a slap bracelet before snapping back
www.completesentencelit.com/post/exposur...
"...in search of the untranslatable, in an airless chase or a desperate dying expression, some lucky few find themselves translated, unable to return to that object they were previously..."
-William Zheng-Kang Hassett, on how words define, translate us
-William Zheng-Kang Hassett, on how words define, translate us
In Translation
By William Zheng-Kang Hassett
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October 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"...in search of the untranslatable, in an airless chase or a desperate dying expression, some lucky few find themselves translated, unable to return to that object they were previously..."
-William Zheng-Kang Hassett, on how words define, translate us
-William Zheng-Kang Hassett, on how words define, translate us
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Got a new one-sentence story that has first given seed in a hospital waiting room, then progressed in the SmokeLong Fitness (@smokelong.bsky.social), and found its final shape on Complete Sentence (@completesentence.bsky.social) today. Hope you enjoy.
"After my last round of chemo, I at last showed myself the courtesy of being my true self, of shirking my duties as a member of the society, of not being polite..."
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
Deathselves
By Sarp Sozdinler
www.completesentencelit.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Got a new one-sentence story that has first given seed in a hospital waiting room, then progressed in the SmokeLong Fitness (@smokelong.bsky.social), and found its final shape on Complete Sentence (@completesentence.bsky.social) today. Hope you enjoy.
"When I was in high school and I’d fall into another deep depression, my father would knock on my bedroom door, stepping into my bog..."
Madison Trowbridge reaches from ancient muck, lingering on the tender ways parents struggle to rescue kids from the rot
Madison Trowbridge reaches from ancient muck, lingering on the tender ways parents struggle to rescue kids from the rot
Rot
By Madison Trowbridge
www.completesentencelit.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"When I was in high school and I’d fall into another deep depression, my father would knock on my bedroom door, stepping into my bog..."
Madison Trowbridge reaches from ancient muck, lingering on the tender ways parents struggle to rescue kids from the rot
Madison Trowbridge reaches from ancient muck, lingering on the tender ways parents struggle to rescue kids from the rot
"...it’s when, in an hour or so, I’ll watch a collision 6 million miles away from earth over a bowl of leftover pasta..."
Jacob Ginsberg meditates on those lingering hollow moments
Jacob Ginsberg meditates on those lingering hollow moments
My Therapist Asked If There Are Moments When I Feel Most Lonely
By Jacob Ginsberg
www.completesentencelit.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"...it’s when, in an hour or so, I’ll watch a collision 6 million miles away from earth over a bowl of leftover pasta..."
Jacob Ginsberg meditates on those lingering hollow moments
Jacob Ginsberg meditates on those lingering hollow moments
"...a serpentining of copper-colored and swiftly-flowing water clotted with sticks and dead leaves, and the carcass of one swollen-bellied beaver, a boy steps into the ankle-high water..."
DS Levy's tightly coiled story strikes at the last moment
DS Levy's tightly coiled story strikes at the last moment
On the Edge of the Mining Town
By DS Levy
www.completesentencelit.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"...a serpentining of copper-colored and swiftly-flowing water clotted with sticks and dead leaves, and the carcass of one swollen-bellied beaver, a boy steps into the ankle-high water..."
DS Levy's tightly coiled story strikes at the last moment
DS Levy's tightly coiled story strikes at the last moment
"...I care about you, fossil fish, so much that only I can be the one to smash the mallet down on the base of your skull and flip you over and slice you open..."
There's a tender brutality in @amberwn.bsky.social 's 1-sentence story on sturgeon.
There's a tender brutality in @amberwn.bsky.social 's 1-sentence story on sturgeon.
Sympathy Pains
By Amber Nuyens
www.completesentencelit.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"...I care about you, fossil fish, so much that only I can be the one to smash the mallet down on the base of your skull and flip you over and slice you open..."
There's a tender brutality in @amberwn.bsky.social 's 1-sentence story on sturgeon.
There's a tender brutality in @amberwn.bsky.social 's 1-sentence story on sturgeon.
"...my daughter’s got my number, and the way she looks at me sometimes fills me with shame because I wear my love like a costume and at night I crawl out of it and into bed, exhausted by the play I’m in called motherhood.."
-@equitation.bsky.social
-@equitation.bsky.social
Dead Shark
By Lesley Jenike
www.completesentencelit.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"...my daughter’s got my number, and the way she looks at me sometimes fills me with shame because I wear my love like a costume and at night I crawl out of it and into bed, exhausted by the play I’m in called motherhood.."
-@equitation.bsky.social
-@equitation.bsky.social
"After my last round of chemo, I at last showed myself the courtesy of being my true self, of shirking my duties as a member of the society, of not being polite..."
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
Deathselves
By Sarp Sozdinler
www.completesentencelit.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"After my last round of chemo, I at last showed myself the courtesy of being my true self, of shirking my duties as a member of the society, of not being polite..."
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's fiction maps a body on fire that has stopped apologizing
www.completesentencelit.com/post/deathse...
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I've got a new one-sentence micro about electrocuting oysters up at @completesentence.bsky.social
and if you like when I write stories about electrocuting things, stay tuned 🤫 www.completesentencelit.com/post/edison-...
and if you like when I write stories about electrocuting things, stay tuned 🤫 www.completesentencelit.com/post/edison-...
Edison's Oyster
By John Waddy Bullion
www.completesentencelit.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I've got a new one-sentence micro about electrocuting oysters up at @completesentence.bsky.social
and if you like when I write stories about electrocuting things, stay tuned 🤫 www.completesentencelit.com/post/edison-...
and if you like when I write stories about electrocuting things, stay tuned 🤫 www.completesentencelit.com/post/edison-...
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Dream. Come. TRUE. Acceptance from @completesentence.bsky.social!
September 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dream. Come. TRUE. Acceptance from @completesentence.bsky.social!
"There is one rule: when the car turns, stops, or starts again, no matter how gently, no matter how jackrabbit hard, you are to let your body fall as though you were a rag doll..."
@jekwriter.bsky.social lets go of everything, melts into the carseat.
@jekwriter.bsky.social lets go of everything, melts into the carseat.
The Falling Game
By Jessica Klimesh
www.completesentencelit.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"There is one rule: when the car turns, stops, or starts again, no matter how gently, no matter how jackrabbit hard, you are to let your body fall as though you were a rag doll..."
@jekwriter.bsky.social lets go of everything, melts into the carseat.
@jekwriter.bsky.social lets go of everything, melts into the carseat.
"...they ask me, at a dinner party (this only happens on the coasts because in Minnesota no one inquires about your personal life), and I say I work in a psychiatric hospital..."
Rebecca Grossman-Kahn kills the vibe--& this essay on mental health
Rebecca Grossman-Kahn kills the vibe--& this essay on mental health
Dinner Party
By Rebecca Grossman-Kahn
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August 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"...they ask me, at a dinner party (this only happens on the coasts because in Minnesota no one inquires about your personal life), and I say I work in a psychiatric hospital..."
Rebecca Grossman-Kahn kills the vibe--& this essay on mental health
Rebecca Grossman-Kahn kills the vibe--& this essay on mental health
"on the phone with Grandma, we talk in circles—how are you, I'm good, how are you, I'm good—due to the shortage, the interruption in what was the extended chord of her mind..."
Margaux Williamson explores the brain, short circuited.
Margaux Williamson explores the brain, short circuited.
Circuitous
By Margaux Williamson
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August 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"on the phone with Grandma, we talk in circles—how are you, I'm good, how are you, I'm good—due to the shortage, the interruption in what was the extended chord of her mind..."
Margaux Williamson explores the brain, short circuited.
Margaux Williamson explores the brain, short circuited.