14 CONSECUTIVE LIFE SENTENCES
by Carrie Berry

A few of our contributors were hanging out together in various states of dishabille and the conversation turned to comparing lengths (as they so often do).

Someone brought up Jonathan Coe's novel /The Rotters Club/ which contains a sentence with 13,955 words, surpassing the previously held record in English Literature (a 4,391 word sentence from Molly's soliloquy in Joyce’s Ulysses).

Having nothing better to do, they decided to have a go themselves creating works contained in only one sentence. Nothing for the Guinness Book of World Records here (the total length of all the works is under 6,000 words) but they had fun, anyway.

I give you LIFE SENTENCES, an intriguing selection of flash fiction and poetry, each of which has been pronounced a solitary sentence by a jury of the author’s peers.

And for good behavior, you also get some advice from our flash wrangler, Gary Cadwallader, a column on writing space by Gabriel Orgrease and a Book review by Tera and J. K. Mason.

Enjoy!

Carrie

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