oddments

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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Together these wide-ranging collections gather stories, essays, book reviews, journalism, poems, playlets, recipes, comics and numerous other Sladekian oddments.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2019

It’s easy to become beguiled by the quirky stories of these often disputed oddments of land.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2016

The bond is inevitably looser than the real thing, generally fleeting, and yet there is something telling about the random oddments of criteria that contribute to the choice.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2015

Catelyn had ordered garments sewn to her measure, handsome gowns to suit her birth and sex, yet still she preferred to dress in oddments of mail and boiled leather, a swordbelt cinched around her waist.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin