Grant

Rather than create a conventional beginning-to-end narrative, Grant decided to compose 31 individual sentences that were self-contained and free-standing. While he succeeded in doing this, the sentences create a collective sense of a moment in time. When not ruminating about life one sentence at a time, Grant is a creative tinkerer and web developer.


  1. That was then, and this is now; but some things still don’t change.

  2. Just as I’m beginning to get it together, the whole world goes to shit. Figures.

  3. Her eyes were abyssal pools, and I never was much for holding my breath.

  4. Speaking is effortless, being heard is nigh impossible.

  5. We’ll deep-sea dive in January and we’ll ski the slopes in mid-July, and no one can tell us otherwise.

  6. Anyone who doesn’t believe in magic hasn’t been paying attention.

  7. I would totally become a vampire if given the chance.

  8. Everyone was enjoying the party until the floor finally collapsed.

  9. If a rising tide lifts all ships, just imagine what the flood will do.

  10. In school we’re taught to never steal or cheat, and then we grow up and learn that that’s the only thing left to do.

  11. The slow march of time progresses us further, and it turns the path to mud.

  12. The antique orange glow seeped through the curtains, and for a moment he forgot what time it was.

  13. She wandered and drifted, never quite satisfied and always disappointed in herself.

  14. “It’s always so sunny here,” he groaned, pulling his Oakleys over his eyes. I’d never before heard someone complain about perfect weather.

  15. The low end frequencies spread through the crowd, infecting us one by one like a nodding, itching metronome.

  16. “Men and women, boys and girls, people of all ages” is so trite, yet oddly optimistic.

  17. Little did she know, that single sentence was a hand grenade.

  18. Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of lines of code.

  19. All about the bleeps and bloops.

  20. Our parents had three channels of television, we have three levels of pulp in our orange juice.

  21. Ten thousand hours… or you could just luck into it.

  22. A thousand years ago sugar was a currency, today we sip it liquefied all day long.

  23. Sometimes you should stop and smell the roses… and then eat a sandwich and a cookie and take a nap beneath the rose bush.

  24. Did we invent math or discover it?

  25. Einstein said “God doesn’t play dice.” Did he ever consider that God is the dice?

  26. Korean snack churros.

  27. I want to have Muppets as friends.

  28. Learn learn money money money money money money joy money money money death.

  29. “You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

  30. A sentence a day keeps the [insert occupation here] away.


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