Norm Jenson

“You could think a grackle was somebody you’d lost, or wronged, or owed a favor to, come back to settle accounts.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Souvenir Museum

“The single drop of pee made a pitiful splash. Fred sighed as he stood over the cracked toilet bowl that, like him, had seen better days. The public restrooms at Wattle River Reserve weren’t as dirty as he’d feared, though the walls hosted a colorful array of aging graffiti. Another couple of measly drips. Was there a job in the armed forces for people who could urinate in Morse code? If so, he’d be an ideal candidate, though it was unlikely they’d accept eighty-two-year-olds.”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

“HUMOR, LIKE METAPHOR, is simply two things placed side by side that don’t belong together.”
― Brian Kiteley, 3 AM Epiphany

“Nearby was a box of thick seventy-eights, grackle black and grackle brilliant. Thea thought the cliff might come down. But the woman was goat-footed; she got to the top and came back down and handed over the doll.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Souvenir Museum