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a literary magazine publishing single-sentence prose since 2020 completesentencelit.com

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 11h

"We bought the stage coach wagon to replace a Volvo station wagon that was leaking oil and dreams..." -@amygcb.bsky.social, on what we pack with us and what gets ditched along the center median en route to our new lives. www.completesentencelit.com/post/things-...

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Things You Can Buy Off Facebook Marketplace

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Megan Glionna @the-megan-dance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Honored to have this piece published at @completesentence.bsky.social. Thank you to the editors and Thomas for the perfect photo. ❤️

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Thank you long ago beautiful boy who found me sitting in that dusty backyard at my first college party in Tucson, Arizona in 1995..." @the-megan-dance.bsky.social, on the ecstasy & agony of loving so hard it almost kills you. This one's fucking IMMERSIVE www.completesentencelit.com/post/long-ag...

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Long Ago Beautiful Boy

By Megan Glionna

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"...we are not touching because I don’t have AC and the night is too hot and still for contact, there’s a sweat at every brush, there will always be a sweat. Dev Murphy distills a sticky summer in the lonesome crowded city into a single sentence.

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"When the hurricane came, I watched my childhood street rearrange itself into a map of everywhere I’d ever wanted to escape, mailboxes floating past like lost punctuation..." Bethany Bruno, on the water that thrums within us and without. www.completesentencelit.com/post/the-oce...

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The Ocean Never Really Leaves You

By Bethany O'Brien

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JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thanks to the team at the Wigleaf Top 50 for longlisting "Sockeye," published in @completesentence.bsky.social! The work that goes into this list is immense and I'm honored to be a part of it, alongside so many writers I admire.

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"...I would like to love someone close, a tall person with laughter that climbs trees and eyes that change color with the sky, who wears shoes too big and leaves them at the door..." @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social conjures the magical thinking of longing to love & be loved. tinyurl.com/3snudr56

Without Ever Reaching the Horizon

By Sarp Sozdinler

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Timothy C Goodwin @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Y’all: I got *two* stories that made it into the @wigleaf.bsky.social long list! One’s from @completesentence.bsky.social, the other from Twin Pies Lit. So so so so thankful to those mags for taking my stuff in, and to Wigleafers @sudhab.bsky.social and @andrewporter01.bsky.social!

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T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"she’s been having headaches that wake her in the night and, once... a dizzy spell so bad she had to lean against the display case for support, the little wheels of camembert looming up through the glass," @completesentence.bsky.social www.completesentencelit.com/post/jour-de...

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By Katie Shireen Assef

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"...you’re just milk, and then, bam, you get spilled and you’re going all over the place: running along the tabletop every which way..." @supernaturalfeat.com conjures chaos, asks us to examine the order inherent in our unhinged universe. www.completesentencelit.com/post/spilled...

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Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com · 24/06/2026

I have a sentence (and an art) out at @completesentence.bsky.social. www.completesentencelit.com/post/spilled...

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Carlos belts me into the harness, its fabric straps reeking from a decade of skunky tourist sweat so pungent that I can’t smell the Guatemalan forest’s musk anymore..." Ania Payne, on the stench we leave when searching out the wonders beyond our world. www.completesentencelit.com/post/plantig...

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Plantigrade in Atitlan Nature Reserve

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"...is seeing cold stars spill on still dark water; is looking up and asking how can this be my one same life..." @livabegglen.bsky.social meditates on perpetual rebirth, a life that quiets to smoldering coal before blazing up into unexpected, new forms. www.completesentencelit.com/post/being-t...

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By Liv Abegglen

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Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

An entire compelling world of a sentence in @completesentence.bsky.social illustrated with one of @kawalker.bsky.social's splendid works of art! ✨

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Liv Abegglen @livabegglen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thank you @completesentence.bsky.social for featuring my debut poem “Being Twenty”. Young adulthood is a rebirth—on your own terms, this time. Read it here: www.completesentencelit.com/post/being-t...

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By Liv Abegglen

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"...you drink; you meet, you cling, you cleave, you meet, you yearn, you spurn, you split, you meet, you date, you greet, you detonate..." Stephen Bush sketches an entire life in a single sentence. www.completesentencelit.com/post/you-live

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By Stephen J. Bush

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Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I have a couple other CS pieces (it's a fantastic magazine, always putting out really great stuff that I love reading!!) that IMO also fall into the "spiral into madness" category.

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"...there’s more Jeffs being born each minute, and more Jeffs dying too, dying from car accidents, cancers..." @joeyhedger.bsky.social spirals into madness, squinting hard into the self-forged lens we view others through & the world beyond www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

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Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My guy “Jeff” is up. Come meet him. Much thanks to @completesentence.bsky.social for being the best and pubbing this one!! www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"From the middle outwards, or from a semi-vacated center where oceans never roll or signal, it moves towards the periphery like a spot of scum on the bathtub that everyone avoids..." -Robert Speiser, on the toxic religion poisoning our well. #EarthDay

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By Robert M. Speiser

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"My bi-annual check-up on my elementary school crush goes how I expect it to, with me frowning at the scraggly mustache that sprouts from his lip and the American traditional tattoos sleeving his arms..." Dee Mohammed, on how our fixations settle, shift. www.completesentencelit.com/post/ritual-...

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By Dee Mohammed

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"...lean out and let the city have you, because screaming here makes you prey, to cops, to strangers, to time, to anything that doesn’t look like you... -Oleg Olizev, on everything in the city waiting to tear you apart, bring you to your knees. www.completesentencelit.com/post/new-york

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

*raised hand emoji We publish single-sentence fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and anything that skulks between the this holy trinity.

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I didn't start a magazine of single-sentence prose 5 years ago to help me win @marchxness.bsky.social, but right now my essay on "Glycerine" is down against "Brick." If you're part of the Comp Sent hive, VOTE my essay and "Glycerine" SADDEST! Polls close 9am PST marchxness.com#/elite8-fold...

March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Last night I shot a music video on the blacked-out beach for my synth'd out "Glycerine" cover. Big thanks to Dave Rosman for the violin, big thanks to YOU for voting Bush on to the Final Four of @marchxness.bsky.social! youtu.be/E1DOPrrgCgg

Glycerine (March Sadness)

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

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The Rumpus - El Alboroto

El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizás no encajan en publicaciones más tradicionales. Nos interesa e...

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My @marchxness.bsky.social essay on how a shirtless Gavin Rossdale saved my life faces off against Paula Cole and all of her furry sons. @erindorney.bsky.social nails the sadness of heteronormativity and I'm shaking in my (decidedly not cowboy) boots. marchxness.com#/2ndround-co...

March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Don’t let the days go by without reading my @marchxness.bsky.social essay on life as a ‘90s sad boy, aching to be beautiful and charismatic Gavin Rossdale, crooning “Glycerine” shirtless in the rain as a sea of sweaty MTV Spring Breakers sing along to yr heartbreak. marchxness.com#/1stround-bu...

March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"...separated from her group, she ended up in a second-story bedroom filled with ceramic pigs and origami pigs and pig dolls with round pink pig faces and pigtails for hair..." Brendan Todt, on the creatures that unsettle us most. www.completesentencelit.com/post/the-bas...

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The basement of the old gym is a good one

By Brenden Todt

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"There should be a word for when you’re walking through your parents’ subdivision at dusk and the sky is lavender and peach and sweat is dripping down your neck..." Maria Hardin explores how the quiet unrest in our gut colors the world we witness.

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The Summer She Was in Hospice

By Maria Hardin

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"...we worked solitary tasks at a distance from one another...ragged breezes sweeping by, cooling our sweat like ghosts passing through us..." Robert Erle Barham's haunting sentence searches for comfort in the familiar phantoms that follow us.

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By Robert Erle Barham

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"...or perhaps it was hearing Mariah Carrey’s “All I want for Christmas is You” from November through February, over and over and over and over, on the jukebox..." Sophie Amado, on the grind of tending bar, passed down through generations.

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By Sophie Amado

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"..he told me he’d endured 14 ex-boyfriends, two of whom had died of drug overdoses, he said 'I really know how to pick them,' which I think was the boy’s only effective joke.." Edmario Lesi on misconnections & pissing on the frozen lake beneath our feet www.completesentencelit.com/post/what-ki...

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What Kind of Body of Water are You?

By Edmario Lesi

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"...I’ve pretend-twisted the key over my lips and activated the pulley, jerking the ladle that rolls a golf ball down the plank and into the hole igniting the flame that burns the photo of us..." @kiklodge.bsky.social on breaking up, Rube Goldberg-style

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The Cause and Effect of Fifteen Years

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"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.

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A Touch of Desperation

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"...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.

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Thoughts Leading Up to My Successful Au Pair Application

By Candace Walsh

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"..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...

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Dry Maintenance

By Ruby Rosenthal

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Ruby Rosenthal @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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...

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Dry Maintenance

By Ruby Rosenthal

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"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

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"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...

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Elephant on My Back

By MaxieJane Frazier

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

"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...

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Indiana Jones and the Giant Pit of Consequences

By Timothy C. Goodwin

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Timothy C Goodwin @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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...

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Indiana Jones and the Giant Pit of Consequences

By Timothy C. Goodwin

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

"...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

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By Andrew Maynard

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Andrew Maynard @andrew-maynard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

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By Andrew Maynard

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"...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-...

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My Own Haunted Apartment

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"...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...

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Exposure Therapy

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"...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

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By William Zheng-Kang Hassett

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Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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.

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"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

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By Madison Trowbridge

Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

"...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

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My Therapist Asked If There Are Moments When I Feel Most Lonely

By Jacob Ginsberg

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