Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal

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Black text on a white background. Quote mark opens: “It’s like she had a verson of me that exists in her head, and every time I speak. I remind her that that Holly doesn’t exist.” Quote mark closes. By Holly Bergman, from “Not Speaking Ill”
Black text on a white background reads: “Just get through it, that’s all. My physical form will carry itself from one experience to another, and I don’t have to think about anything at all.”
Black text on a white background. The quotation mark opens. I was told I mattered because I was made in God's image, whatever that meant, but God was faceless, which is what I most feared becoming. By Kelly Foster Lundquist, from "Stage Makeup"
Black text on a white background, open quotation. "Emily took these words and held them very close, sometimes taking them out to hold them up to the light, turning them this way and that. By Jessica Hwang. From "Her Father's Daughter."
Black text on a white background, with an open quotation mark, reads "There is only a yawn of space so immense it gulps me as if I were nothing more than an intruder, its fangs sinking into my stomach."
I lie on my back at night, trying not to move when I sleep. Above the house, Horologium's faint stars quiver in the shape of a clock.
open quotation. Bold red locks fallen from the grace of God. Red lips, red dress Personal pleasure supersedes social duty. Fiction stirs a provocative promiscuous siren. Close quotation. Deborah Bacharach Listening to Women
there is only a yawn of space so immense it gulps me as if I were nothing more than an intruder, its fangs sinking into my stomach
Writing prompt: Pick the book closest to you, and read the last sentence. Make this the first sentence of your piece.