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Monday, January 29, 2018

Dictionary Stories

An A to Z collection of atmospheric short stories composed entirely of example sentences from dictionaries.



Designer and illustrator Jez Burrows turns an artist’s eye to these delicate, intricately constructed microfictions. It started, he explains in the introduction, with a single line, culled from the definition of “study” in the New Oxford American Dictionary: “He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery.”

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