[Maryann Corbett]

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"WHILE AN APHORISM aims to express universal truth, the goal of an epigram is brevity, wit, and longevity.
Epigrams often take the form of rhyming couplets, and one written by Coleridge expresses its role well:

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole;
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Oscar Wilde, however, produced a vast collection of nonrhyming epigrams:

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

This week, Puzzler challenges you to an epigram competition.

Send your epigrams to Puzzler by Monday noon, Pacific standard time. You may send as many epigrams as you wish."

The address is: puzzler@narrativemagazine.com