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CALL FOR ENTRIES

For a few months now I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a Twitter feed to showcase great sentences that would otherwise never see the light of day.  That one brilliant line in an otherwise dust-covered and drawer-bound story.  An impeccable rejoinder tossed off in conversation, and never used again.  The little things we forget, though we want to remember.  If the idea can stay with me and appeal to me for so long, I think it’s time I stop talking about it and start scouting material for the Twitter Home for Abandoned Sentences.  There are few guidelines, but there is taste.

The link above goes directly to my new Twitter account: lilorphanaxiom.  For those of you not on Twitter (yet) that means no logging in, no new accounts to open, no need to claim another section of the internet in your name.  And if you are on Twitter, start following me—it’s about to get good!  I want this Twitter to have an editorial voice, and as such, I would ideally like to stock an arsenal before starting to tweet in full force.  That means messaging material rather than just @-ing me, at least for right now.  Though I think eventually it will work more like that.

I know that high standards for literary merit and the nature of Twitter are not exactly complementary concepts.  But it’s the re-imagining of something banal into something beautiful that motivates me in the first place.  I have very few guidelines.  The 140-character limit is a given, and open to subversion.  It will be a creative challenge to see how longer sentiments might be best presented. Only please refrain from abbreviations that Sarah Palin might use: consider the artistic value they add, or subtract, as the case may be. There are very few guidelines; there is taste.