D. A. Hosek

Asides

  • Beautiful sentences

    I’m trying to say that you have to risk being scared again. Isn’t that what you told that room full of wannabe writers the day we met? That writing wasn’t for the faint of heart? That it was scary and it hurt and it welled up from the most dangerous and injured placed in our…

  • Beautiful Sentences

    Flotsam consists in all natural matter that floats upon the ocean. Jetsam consists in all manmade matter that floats upon the ocean. What then is a human corpse? And were I to slip myself over the side of the ship, would I possess the courage to let myself drown as flotsam drowns—nature blissfully sinking into…

  • Beautiful sentences

    Why do the spaces look smaller than the words that used to fill them? Abby Frucht, Polly’s Ghost.

  • Beautiful sentences

    In the woods, bewildered, in a peck of troubles, at a loss. To ascend a pulpit, to cant, to remove one’s vestments with one’s teeth, to chase foxes at clicked in a hedge, to stand stooped in a pillory, cunny-thumbed, one who has eaten shame and drank a dram after it. Lawrence Sutin, When to go…

  • Beautiful sentences

    Did lifeguards look like lifeguards only after they‘d saved somebody? And what if they failed? What did they look like then? Abby Frucht, Polly’s Ghost.

  • Beautiful sentences

    I want to do everything I haven’t yet dared to do, and to escape everything I’ve already done. I want to die in a cataclysm of my own making, not in a world war fashioned by great nations. And I want to leave a written record of my passage across this earth, so that others…

  • Beautiful sentences

    I wanted to believe him and he wanted to be believed, and I guess that’s the beginning of hope anyway, a tiny seed you hold real careful in the palm of your hand. Robert Vivian, The Mover of Bones.

  • Beautiful sentences

    Hector liked the saints best in the early paragraphs of their lives when they were still being tempted. Lawrence Sutin, When to go into the Water.

  • Beautiful sentences

    So what people think makes you special is just the disappointment of their own lives. Robert Vivian, The Mover of Bones.