David Abrams

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Novelist (“Fobbit” & “Brave Deeds”), husband (42 years), human father (3x over), Cat Daddy (3x over). Avid reader. Founder and curator of #SundaySentence. Author of Van-ishing America on Substack: https://davidabrams.substack.com/

A watercolor painting of a barn at the edge of a field.
The first-edition cover of "Three Blind Mice and Other Stories" by Agatha Christie shows a sprung mousetrap with a scrap of something unidentified bleeding out of the trap wire with the book's title printed across it.
A library hardcover edition of "Endless Night" by Agatha Christie showing the title in a white band in the upper portion of the jacket design, while the rest is in a blood-red color with Agatha Christie's name prominently displayed. In the lower right-hand corner, there is the black silhouette of a bird being stabbed by a knife.
A blue Buddha statue sits next to a copy of “The Best American Short Stories 2025” with other copies of previous Best American Short Stories in the background on the shelf.
The cover of SWEET HUSK by Corrie Williamson
A grey cat does a "face palm" ("face paw"?) as he sits next to a copy of The Annotate Christmas Carol. Today's #SundaySentence comes from the Introduction to this W.W. Norton annotated edition.
A copy of "Bloomland" by John Englehardt
A man in full makeup (green hair, white face makeup) and dress (purple jacket, green vest and tie) as The Joker from "Batman" smiles at the camera.
The cover of “Bloomland” by John Englehardt, winner of the Dzanc Prize for Fiction
The cover of "A Mountain's Idea of Time: poems" by Charles Finn lies on a porch deck surrounded by crisp, dry fallen leaves.
An old paperback copy of "As We Are Now" by May Sarton rests on top of a vintage scale.
Two grey cats hug each other
A replica of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Texas, is seen illuminated at night. On top of the tower is a giant, cherry-red cowboy hat.
A paperback copy of HOPE IN THE DARK by Rebecca Solnit, with sunlight beaming across the black and white cover.
The cover image of "We the People: a History of the U.S. Constitution" by JIll Lepore is shown on the screen of a Kobo e-reader.
Bright green moss covers a limestone wall at one of Eureka Springs, Arkansas’ many natural springs.
A cover of a book of Countee Cullen’s selected poems. Shows a photographic portrait of Cullen on the cover.
A man pretends to push a car-sized boulder up a hill--a Sisyphean task.
A man and a woman wear black cat masks while holding one of their cats. The grey cat looks mightily confused.
A near-perfectly rounded boulder sits at the base of a cliff. This is known as a Concretion Cannonball. The photo was taken in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Two women stand in a yard, smiling up at the orange sunset overhead.
A vintage photo shows a young girl, Helen Keller, seated in a chair while her adult teacher, Anne Sullivan, reclines on the ground next to her. Both women are dressed in white. Helen holds a doll in her lap.
A vintage photo showing a woman (Helen Keller) in a high-collared white shirt seated next to a tall man with a bushy mustache and twinkling eyes (Mark Twain).
A grey cat, wearing a bright red harness and leash, stands on a sandy shore and looks out at Lake Michigan.
A brightly colored cover of Roughing It by Mark Twain, showing miners digging in a rocky landscape.
A grey cat stands on a table and gives his human a fist bump (paw pound?). It’s adorable and happens all the time in our vanlife close quarters.
A bluebird perches on a rearview mirror
A Penguin Classics edition of Roughing It by Mark Twain showing a colorful painting of men mining back in the 1800s
A person sets off sparklers on a street while the sky burns with a sunset.
A white 17-foot Winnebago Solis Pocket campervan is parked by the side of the road overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Monterey, California. The sky is a brilliant shade of sunset.
A paperback edition of THE INNOCENTS ABROAD by Mark Twain
Sandstone cliffs shine under a turquoise-blue sky, rising above sagebrush in the foreground.
A grey cat snuggles under a blanket next to a window in the back of a van. The blanket is a rich, royal blue.
A grey cat sits in a statuesque pose, staring directly at the camera in a half-hearted, menacing way, while dramatically underlit like one of those evil mad scientists you used to see in those classic horror movies. This grey cat thinks he's All That, but really he's just a sweetheart deep down in his soul.
A copy of "Georgia O'Keeffe: a Life" by Roxana Robinson on an e-reading device is perched on a rock overlooking Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. There is a glimpse of the desert behind the book and a swath of blue sky.
A Colorado sunset behind silhouetted mountains.
A vintage poster from Rocky Mountain National Park showing an icy stream with mountains in the near background.
North America’s tallest sand dune rises up into a clear blue sky at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. There are thousands of footprints in the sand in the foreground.
A grey cat wearing a red harness and leash sits in tall green grass while a herd of cattle walks past him. He is unblinking and courageous.
A dark colored chunk of gneiss at the Mesa Verde visitor center
A silhouetted cloud floats toward a sharp mountain peak near sunset.
A copy of “Be a Man” by Russell Rowland is perched on a large rock, bathed in sunshine.
A big red arrow on the right with the words Mexican Food points to a white bus and a portico for diners at Fiesta Mexicana in Dillon, Montana
A black cat stares out a screen window
Two cats lay on top of a tabletop while a third cat sleeps underneath the table on a blue cushion. To the left of the cats in the picture is a pink round pillow with a smiley face on it.
Text from a poem which reads: “The greenest pasture is always the one I am in.”
A grey cat sits on a bed next to a paperback copy of ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
A hand holds out a paperback copy of THE RATS by James Herbert to a grey cat. He’s having none of it.
Two books of poetry by Marie Howe lie on a white, cloudlike comforter: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time and The Good Thief.
A sleeping grey cat, gently awakened by a well-meaning photographer, cracks open his eyes and glares at the camera.
A cat sits on a bed next to a paperback copy of On the Road
A woman holds two sleeping cats on her lap while riding in a van.
Four paperbacks of Mark Twain novels are fanned out in a hand with a sandwich board in the background which reads “Second Edition Books.” The titles are Pudd’nhead Wilson, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Prince and the Pauper, and Tom Sawyer Abroad/Tom Sawyer Detective.
A grey cat sits on the edge of a bed staring at the camera with a serious expression.
A photo of a paperback copy of Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, propped up on the front seat of a van.
A grey cat sprawls across a backgammon board, seemingly unconcerned he is interrupting the game play.
A portrait of Maya Angelou when she was in her thirties. She is wearing traditional African blouse and head wrap.
Three men stand facing the camera for a family portrait: oldest son (me), father (90 years old!) and younger brother (Jon).
Director Hal Ashby (in the lower left of the photo) peers into a swimming pool where Harold is floating in a dark suit. Ashby is crouching just over the pool.