One Sentence
One Sentence is a web site where you write one sentence and submit it. It's good because you have to go through the entire submission process, plus your one sentence may or may not be accepted. The only condition is that it has to be a true story from your life.
Below are My Submissions:
Toilet Paper — Published!
Learning to Type — Published!
Rubik's Cube — Published!
Remember — Published!
Marzena — Published!
Beer Pong — Published!
My Submissions
| That Young |
| Submitted: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Status: Pending I wanted to be that young again once, but not anymore. |
| Little Happy Birthday |
| Submitted: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Status: Pending It's amazing how effective a simple little "happy birthday" text message can be. |
| Thistles |
| Submitted: Friday, February 24, 2012
Status: Pending When I was very young, my siblings thought it great fun to have me sit on thistles and hear me cry. |
| I'm Here |
| Submitted: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Status: Pending I'm here, but I'm just taking up space. |
| Waxing |
| Submitted: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Status: Pending Every week I wax my wife's underarms and every week she thanks me for inflicting that much pain upon her. |
| Forgotten Coffee |
| Submitted: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Status: Pending The last cup of coffee is sitting forgotten in the microwave; again. |
| I Love You |
| Submitted: Friday, January 27, 2012
Status: Pending I came home from taking our daughter to school this morning and found that my wife had written "I love you" in red lipstick on the bathroom mirror. |
| Kindle Version |
| Submitted: Saturday, October 16, 2011
Status: Pending It's hard to go to the book signing when all you have is the Kindle version. |
| My Blood |
| Submitted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Status: Pending Unfortunately I see my own blood too often. |
| My Martinis |
| Submitted: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Status: Pending I want to teach my 15-year-old daughter how to make my martinis, but I'm too afraid to give her unrestricted access to the alcohol. |
| Just as Coppery |
| Submitted: Saturday, August 27, 2011
Status: Pending The blood tasted just a coppery as it smelled. |
| The Time it Took |
| Submitted: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Status: Pending In the time it took my wife to go to the restroom, my 15-year-old daughter and I spontaneously decided to get our ear-cartilages pierced. |
| Hold Please |
| Submitted: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Status: Pending My son told me "hold please" while we were texting back and forth. |
| A Little Taste |
| Submitted: Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Status: Pending I bought a new knife the other day and cut myself on it before it was even out of the package. |
| Five Tries |
| Submitted: Friday, July 29, 2011
Status: Pending After five tries, they finally got my glasses correct and I can see to write again. |
| Peepless Easter |
| Submitted: Monday, March 14, 2011
Status: Pending My recent diagnosis of diabetes has sentenced me to a lifetime of peepless Easters. |
| Carwash |
| Submitted: Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Status: Pending It was bad enough that I left the gas cap off when I filled up this morning, but going through the carwash with it open just led to all kinds of car trouble. |
| Seventy-Eight |
| Submitted: Saturday, February 26, 2011
Status: Pending My dad would have been 78 years old today. |
| Home Ownership |
| Submitted: Friday, February 4, 2011
Status: Pending It's times like these that really make me regret becoming a home owner. |
| Old Wedding Rings |
| Submitted: Sunday, January 30, 2011
Status: Pending I collect old wedding rings; all of them mine. |
| Sleeping In Christmas |
| Submitted: Saturday, December 25, 2010
Status: Pending I just discovered that if you open all the presents on Christmas Eve, the kids will let you sleep in on Christmas Day. |
| Remember |
| Submitted: Thursday, December 23, 2010
Status: Pending The next time you intentionally try to make me mad, you should remember that I don't get over things as quickly as you do. |
| Christmas Bailey's |
| Submitted: Sunday, December 19, 2010
Status: Pending It was the first day of my Christmas vacation and I was saddened to discover I didn't have any Bailey's for my coffee. |
| Toilet Paper |
| Submitted: Thursday, December 9, 2010
Status: Accepted and Published! Wednesday, February 7, 2011 Click here to read it on One Sentence. Although my wife and I have never talked about it, whenever she replaces the roll of toilet paper, she always puts it in so the sheets come off the backside by the wall while I always put it so the sheets roll down the front. |
| Tattooed Toes |
| Submitted: Sunday, December 5, 2010
Status: Pending If you're going to wear flip-flops to work, you may want to reconsider getting tattoos on your toes. |
| Birthday Flu Shot |
| Submitted: Saturday, November 27, 2010
Status: Pending We made our daughter get a flu shot on her birthday; is that wrong? |
| Litter Slinger |
| Submitted: Monday, November 15, 2010
Status: Pending I have one kitty who's a litter slinger. |
| Back it Up |
| Submitted: Friday, November 5, 2010
Status: Pending Trust me; you're going to want to back up that NaNoWriMo novel! |
| Bailey's in my Coffee |
| Submitted: Saturday, October 30, 2010
Status: Pending Maybe if I'd put Bailey's in it, I wouldn't have forgotten the now-cold cup of coffee that was sitting right beside me. |
| Learning to Type |
| Submitted: Monday, October 18, 2010
Status: Accepted and Published! Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Click here to read it on One Sentence. I learned to write on my own but my mom taught me how to type. |
| More Creative |
| Submitted: Saturday, September 19, 2010
Status: Pending I'm hoping that my new job will allow more of my energy to be devoted to creative things. |
| Too Early |
| Submitted: Saturday, September 4, 2010
Status: Pending I got up way too early for the beginning of a long weekend. |
| Parking |
| Submitted: Thursday, July 1, 2010
Status: Pending It's amazing how good the parking is when you get to work an hour and a half early. |
| Not Prepared |
| Submitted: Thursday, June 24, 2010
Status: Pending I am really not prepared for the agent and editor's conference this weekend. |
| Iron Man 2 |
| Submitted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Status: Pending I swear I'm never going to get to see Iron Man 2 in the theater! |
| Rubik's Cube |
| Submitted: Friday, June 4, 2010
Status: Accepted and Published! Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Click here to read it on One Sentence. I was Forty-six years old by the time I solved my first Rubik's Cube. |
| Times Square |
| Submitted: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Status: Pending I was right next to the car that didn't explode in Times Square. |
| Death and Dying |
| Submitted: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Status: Pending After traveling 550 miles, we finally made it home from my father-in-law's funeral only to find our cat dying on the living room floor. |
| Family Squabble |
| Submitted: Friday, May 7, 2010
Status: Pending There's nothing that can make siblings squabble like the death of a parent. |
| Cockroach |
| Submitted: Sunday, April 25, 2010
Status: Pending I just saw a huge dead cockroach on the floor at work and I guess I'm just thankful it wasn't alive. |
| Green Porch |
| Submitted: Friday, April 16, 2010
Status: Pending My porch was green this morning from all the pollen knocked out of the air by last night's rainstorm. |
| My Surprise |
| Submitted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Status: Pending Imagine my surprise when I went out to One Sentence yesterday and discovered that one of my submissions had been posted! |
| Enough Vacation |
| Submitted: Monday, April 12, 2010
Status: Pending I'm looking forward to accruing enough vacation at work so I can take every Monday off. |
| Veggi-Burger |
| Submitted: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Status: Pending In an effort to eat healthier, I found that eating veggi-burgers makes me fart. |
| Daylight Savings Time |
| Submitted: Friday, April 2, 2010
Status: Pending Almost a month after Daylight Savings Time started and I still haven't changed all of the clocks in the house. |
| Hot-Air Balloon |
| Submitted: Monday, March 22, 2010
Status: Pending I saw a hot-air balloon on my way to work this morning. |
| Living in Texas |
| Submitted: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Status: Pending Living in Central Texas was the right career move, but it was a horrible choice for my allergies. |
| Mother's Keeper |
| Submitted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Status: Pending I am not your mother's keeper. |
| Evil Twin |
| Submitted: Friday, March 5, 2010
Status: Pending If everyone really does have an evil twin, I wonder whose evil twin I am. |
| Remember |
| Submitted: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Status: Accepted and Published! Thursday, April 8, 2010 Click here to read it on One Sentence. Sometimes I forget, but today as I watched my daughter going into the school, she stopped and held the door open for the boy behind her who was in a wheelchair, and I remembered that she's a pretty darn good kid. |
| Lucky |
| Submitted: Friday, February 19, 2010
Status: Presumed Rejected. Wednesday, March 31, 2010 I came into the house and got into bed without waking her. |
| Considered Lucky |
| Submitted: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Status: Presumed Rejected. Wednesday, March 31, 2010 I consider myself lucky when I find a pistachio without the shell. |
| Bringing Me Wings |
| Submitted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Status: Presumed Rejected. Wednesday, March 31, 2010 My wife stops at Hooter's to bring wings home to me; there's just something wrong with this. |
| Marzena |
| Submitted: Friday, January 22, 2010
Status: Accepted and Published! Friday, February 12, 2010 Click here to read it on One Sentence. With a name like Marzena, how could she be anything but high maintenance? |
| Thursday |
| Submitted: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Status: Presumed Rejected. Saturday, February 2, 2010 It's only Thursday and it's already been a long week. |
| Laid Off |
| Submitted: Sunday, January 3, 2010
Status: Presumed Rejected. Saturday, January 30, 2010 We had to do more with less until they laid me off and now they have to do more without me. |
| Salt |
| Submitted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Status: Presumed Rejected. Saturday, January 23, 2010 My forty-year-old, educated wife still throws salt over her left shoulder when she spills some; usually when we're drinking tequila. |
| Beer Pong |
| Submitted: Sunduy, December 20, 2009
Status: Accepted and Published! Tuesday, December 22, 2009. Click here to read it on One Sentence. I wasn't exactly sure how to take the news that my son was in a championship beer pong tournament. |
| Farmville |
| Submitted: Sunduy, December 13, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. I have almost 1300 friends on Facebook and all of them play Farmville. |
| Compromise |
| Submitted: Sunduy, December 6, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. I don't know if she realized she was being mean, or if it was because I succumbed and pulled into a hotel for the night, but either way, we made it home from Houston in one piece and still married. |
| Get 'er Done |
| Submitted: Sunduy, October 25, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. I can't be held responsible if my boss says "get 'er done" one more time. |
| Feeling My Age |
| Submitted: Saturday, October 17, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. I've never felt as old as I did when I went into a college bar on a Friday night after turning forty. |
| Morning Coffee |
| Submitted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. Even after three years of making the coffee, my wife still remembers to thank me for it, each and every morning. |
| Nothing to Write |
| Submitted: Sunday, October 4, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. I've written six complete novels, but I can't seem to think of anything to put in one sentence. |
| Work |
| Submitted: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. My great-grandfather went for over 30 years without missing a day of work; my record isn't as stellar. |
| Royalty |
| Submitted: Thursday, September 17, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. With my affinity for the color purple, I like to think that I was royalty in a past life. |
| Tequila |
| Submitted: Sunday, September 13, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. It's sad that I feel I have to make a run to the liquor store when I'm down to my last two bottles of tequila. |
| Hidden Message |
| Submitted: Saturday, September 5, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. She thinks it's cute that her cat always pisses on my side of the bed. |
| Our Daughter |
| Submitted: Thursday, July 30, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. I thought it was ridiculous, the way that all of her previous boyfriends doted over her daughter, until I met her and fell in love myself. |
| Stepdaughter |
| Submitted: Saturday, July 4, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. I didn't know how much my stepdaughter had worked her way into my heart until the day she broke her nose at school and I wasn't there to catch her fall. |
| Believed |
| Submitted: Friday, June 26, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. We believed him because he was one of us, but if our view of things had been broader back then, we would have known he was full of shit. |
| Good Coffee |
| Submitted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. Sitting there, forcing myself to drink her terrible coffee, reaffirmed my belief that learning to make good coffee is an essential part of the mating ritual. |
| A Choice |
| Submitted: Friday, June 19, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. She told me she was getting an apartment as she walked out and slammed the door, as if that were an option. |
| Motorcycle Wreck |
| Submitted: Saturday, March 7, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. My wife and I stowed our leather jackets in the saddlebag and filled the tank with gas just a mile before a car ran the red light and sent us to the hospital, totaling our motorcycle. |
| Christmas This Year |
| Submitted: Sunday, February 15, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. For a variety of reasons, there wasn't a present or even a card for me under the tree this year, but amazingly that didn't bother me when I saw how excited the kids were to open theirs. |
| The Woman I Would Marry |
| Submitted: Sunday, January 4, 2009
Status: Presumed rejected. Had I known that the woman climbing onto the back of my motorcycle was going to become my wife, I would have been more excited than I already was. |