One Sentence Poems

Scott Hughes Death of a Song As I drive, a bird flies under my tire, and I feel its bones shatter and wonder what songs it was meant to sing. Scott Hughes has a book, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read, forthcoming from Weasel Press. https://www.writescott.com/

Scott Hughes Schrödinger’s Rejection Letter When I find a new email in my inbox from a journal I submitted to, I wait to open it because in that moment my writing is simultaneously rejected and accepted. Scott Hughes has an upcoming chapbook titled The Last Book You’ll Ever Read and a website: writescott.com.    

Scott Hughes Will  You died two years ago, but since you don’t have a gravesite, I find myself still leaving you messages on social media, digital prayers that I hope reach you through the code of zeroes and ones. Scott Hughes wants you to read some of his other writing at https://www.writescott.com/

Scott Hughes Visitation My brother sits across from me in the prison visiting room, his jumpsuit the color of coffee-stained teeth, and says, “Keep the letters coming. Whenever I read them, I’m free.” Scott Hughes typically writes fiction much longer than one sentence. https://www.writescott.com/

Scott Hughes Old Plot  My father drives me around his new property, a tract slicing into the Okefenokee Swamp, and points out the grotesquely twisted pines, the spot where a B-29 fireballed to earth in ‘48, and the nearly toppling house where Seminoles led by Billy Bowlegs slaughtered an entire family, and he says, “One […]