Tits or Wheels
By Jethro There’s a framed quote on a wall in my doctor’s business office that says If it has Tits or Wheels it will give you Problems. I knew what that meant. I thought of my second ex-wife and my...
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By Jethro I know a guy from work who rides his twenty-nine-year-old Kawasaki on nice days to get his rebel on. He’s not a biker. He bought the bike cheap and for years it ran great. He rode it to work...
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Hummingbirds
By Jethro I was told once that hummingbirds never rest. That they beat their wings constantly and that’s why they need so much sugar for energy. This was when I was a little kid. I grew up thinking...
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Man Strangled While Choking Chicken
By Jethro When something really bad happens to someone we barely know humor is the only thing we can hide behind in public without feeling like frightened little boys. We joke to keep the bite of...
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Spare Change
By Jethro I put quarters in a jar with a top that has a counter in the lid. The display is stuck at $193.37. A blue, fist-sized rubber pig I got free at my bank is stuffed nearly full of dimes....
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By Jethro About two years after my fiancé, Llu, died, my friend Woody and I were on a run to Dekalb, bringing a little bag of joy to his younger cousin who was in college there. We rode along the Fox...
View ArticleDecisive Moments
By Jethro I had sex with a woman who was twenty years older than me after my first divorce—Jacquie. She was the first woman I ever French-kissed the way I will always think it should be done. In fact...
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Starlings
I killed a starling. Starlings are not a native species in North America. I looked it up. They were brought here from England in the late 19th century and released in New York’s Central Park by a man...
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Small Parts: APRIL FLOWERS
By KNR Llu created my second life. It started when I met her in a chain deli near a mall not far from Chicago. It ended two and a half years later when she was killed by a tumor. Her cremains rest...
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LUCK
Cate, Jesse’s widow, laid the gremlin bell off Jesse’s bike on top of his coffin before they lowered it into the hole. “Better luck in the next life, baby,” she said, crying. As the top of the casket...
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