Entries by jasonpartin

Neighbor Carl

“And Kennedy made him a national hero,” my neighbor, Carleton summarized, “and that’s the only reason he didn’t go to jail for rape, murder, kidnapping, and, ironically, perjury? Just to get Hoffa?”

Joyce Hicks Rothdram

Granny spit blood into her Kleenex, sipped her watered down Scotch on the rocks, and tried to take a drag off her cigarette. She coughed up bloody phlem, and these were her final words to me:

Aunt Janice; and Tiffany

Not long after the pandemic shut down the world, Aunt Janice called and I answered my iPhone. “Hi, Aunt Janice,” I said into the void. “I’m happy to see that it was you, calling.” “Jason, I’m so hurt by you!”