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/
"...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
www.completesentencelit.com
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
www.completesentencelit.com
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
www.completesentencelit.com
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.
"My mother’s hands are coated with darkroom fluid or melted carob, I can’t tell which, but one is caustic and one is healthy and she forces both on me..."
@amygcb.bsky.social, on what–and who–color our world
@amygcb.bsky.social, on what–and who–color our world
Say Chocolate
By Amy Barnes
www.completesentencelit.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"My mother’s hands are coated with darkroom fluid or melted carob, I can’t tell which, but one is caustic and one is healthy and she forces both on me..."
@amygcb.bsky.social, on what–and who–color our world
@amygcb.bsky.social, on what–and who–color our world
"...echoes from the firecrackers we once set off under the grocery’s red awning, which ended badly (for the store, the seagulls in the parking lot, all our stupid vows)..."
Thomas Mixon's story resides in the parentheticals (within the parentheticals)
Thomas Mixon's story resides in the parentheticals (within the parentheticals)
This ends (tonight
By Thomas Mixon
www.completesentencelit.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"...echoes from the firecrackers we once set off under the grocery’s red awning, which ended badly (for the store, the seagulls in the parking lot, all our stupid vows)..."
Thomas Mixon's story resides in the parentheticals (within the parentheticals)
Thomas Mixon's story resides in the parentheticals (within the parentheticals)
"Since your mom is visiting after the funeral, please pick up while you’re out: Laundry Soap; Candles; One dozen eggs..."
Matthew Merson's hermit crab essay shapeshifts from shopping list to intimate map of the mundane & the transcendent moments shared
Matthew Merson's hermit crab essay shapeshifts from shopping list to intimate map of the mundane & the transcendent moments shared
The Shopping List She Left on the Counter
By Matthew Merson
www.completesentencelit.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Since your mom is visiting after the funeral, please pick up while you’re out: Laundry Soap; Candles; One dozen eggs..."
Matthew Merson's hermit crab essay shapeshifts from shopping list to intimate map of the mundane & the transcendent moments shared
Matthew Merson's hermit crab essay shapeshifts from shopping list to intimate map of the mundane & the transcendent moments shared
"Baby writhes on the changing table, furious at this momentary loss of bodily control, until she catches sight of the bangles glimmering on my wrists..."
@avashianeema.bsky.social, on the artifacts that tether us to our culture: past, present, future.
@avashianeema.bsky.social, on the artifacts that tether us to our culture: past, present, future.
Bangles
By Neema Avashia
www.completesentencelit.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Baby writhes on the changing table, furious at this momentary loss of bodily control, until she catches sight of the bangles glimmering on my wrists..."
@avashianeema.bsky.social, on the artifacts that tether us to our culture: past, present, future.
@avashianeema.bsky.social, on the artifacts that tether us to our culture: past, present, future.
"Panic grips the birthday magician's face as the rope of scarves coming from his mouth shows no sign of stopping..."
Andrew Cothren mines the terror inherent in the magic we conjure, all within a short story you can read in a single breath.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/before-...
Andrew Cothren mines the terror inherent in the magic we conjure, all within a short story you can read in a single breath.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/before-...
Before We Even Light the Candles
By Andrew Cothren
www.completesentencelit.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Panic grips the birthday magician's face as the rope of scarves coming from his mouth shows no sign of stopping..."
Andrew Cothren mines the terror inherent in the magic we conjure, all within a short story you can read in a single breath.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/before-...
Andrew Cothren mines the terror inherent in the magic we conjure, all within a short story you can read in a single breath.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/before-...
"She calls the same hospital that sometimes dials her in to interpret for tourists with pink eye or bronchitis or allergic reactions to the mustard in everything..."
Katie Shireen Assef translates all the misshapen words suspended in our fear.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/jour-de...
Katie Shireen Assef translates all the misshapen words suspended in our fear.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/jour-de...
Jour de Repos
By Katie Shireen Assef
www.completesentencelit.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"She calls the same hospital that sometimes dials her in to interpret for tourists with pink eye or bronchitis or allergic reactions to the mustard in everything..."
Katie Shireen Assef translates all the misshapen words suspended in our fear.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/jour-de...
Katie Shireen Assef translates all the misshapen words suspended in our fear.
www.completesentencelit.com/post/jour-de...
"...a bald eagle divebombed the blue, still-topped lake—but, instead of rising majestically from the splash with his catch, he bobbed and flapped the surface in a panicked distress of his own making..."
Scott T. Hutchison wrestles a wild & violent symbol
www.completesentencelit.com/post/america...
Scott T. Hutchison wrestles a wild & violent symbol
www.completesentencelit.com/post/america...
America the Beautiful
By Scott T. Hutchison
www.completesentencelit.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"...a bald eagle divebombed the blue, still-topped lake—but, instead of rising majestically from the splash with his catch, he bobbed and flapped the surface in a panicked distress of his own making..."
Scott T. Hutchison wrestles a wild & violent symbol
www.completesentencelit.com/post/america...
Scott T. Hutchison wrestles a wild & violent symbol
www.completesentencelit.com/post/america...
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‘…somehow already on the verge of tears in that stupid, brightly-lit store…’
Wow! What a breathless sentence from @charnewbpoet.bsky.social in @completesentence.bsky.social, included in this year’s @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 🪚
www.completesentencelit.com/post/some-as...
Wow! What a breathless sentence from @charnewbpoet.bsky.social in @completesentence.bsky.social, included in this year’s @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 🪚
www.completesentencelit.com/post/some-as...
Some Assembly Required
By Charlotte Newbury
www.completesentencelit.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
‘…somehow already on the verge of tears in that stupid, brightly-lit store…’
Wow! What a breathless sentence from @charnewbpoet.bsky.social in @completesentence.bsky.social, included in this year’s @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 🪚
www.completesentencelit.com/post/some-as...
Wow! What a breathless sentence from @charnewbpoet.bsky.social in @completesentence.bsky.social, included in this year’s @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 🪚
www.completesentencelit.com/post/some-as...