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Of course it was hard work being a rooster, but Barnes seemed the happiest creature she had ever known. Probably because when you’re doing what you really want to do, it isn’t work. No matter how dull things got on the farm, she could watch ...more
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Brian Kiteley
“HUMOR, LIKE METAPHOR, is simply two things placed side by side that don’t belong together.”
Brian Kiteley, 3 AM Epiphany

Elizabeth McCracken
“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

Peter Orner
“That spring when I had a great deal of potential and no money at all, I took a job as a janitor.”
Peter Orner, Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin

Elizabeth McCracken
“Look at the evening grackles strung on their overhead wires like Morse code! Impossible not to believe they spelled out something. But they didn’t; they were meaningless, in their numbers and their prattle. The call of a grackle is known as a grackle: in the gloaming, the grackles grackle. Maybe they don’t want anything. Maybe they stare because they wonder what you signify. What brought you here, to their front lawn?”
Elizabeth McCracken, The Souvenir Museum

Hilary Leichter
“Here I am, here to please, to knock on your heart, tug on your sleeve, and sir, do you have a moment to discuss your life goals? The state of the economy? The state that wants secession? The recession of hair, of tides? The ceasefire and the forest fire and the brand-new flavor of fire-roasted pretzels? The exegesis of today’s front-page headlines? The story of how the world will end, slash, how the world began, slash, what kind of world is this, anyway, slash, how ‘bout that certain team that plays that certain sport? How about the environment? The economy? The bathroom? As in, can I use yours? Do you like comedy? Would you perhaps consider a list of vintage novelties you played with as a child? A listicle of popsicles you ate as a child? The story of your inner child? The story of the baby and the bathwater? The story of the baby otter and the baby giraffe and their unlikely friendship? “Can you just skip the stories and give me the pamphlet?”
Hilary Leichter, Temporary

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