Welcome to this collection of Jay Duret’s writings. Jay is a San Francisco based writer. His work has appeared in numerous print and online journals including The Citron Review, Folliate Oak, The Stone Path Review and Fiction Vortex.
This collection is divided into Little Pieces - sketches and random conversations; Stories and Longer Pieces - stories and, well, longer stories; San Francisco – sketches and stories of life in San Francisco; Occupations - notes from visits to Occupy sites in U.S. and Europe; and Yelpings - sadly, just what they sound like. Recently:
Name That Band
“You don’t even know that that’s Jack Johnson? That’s pathetic.” Ajax said
The Big Two Breasted River
“The feel of cigarette butts beneath his feet was good after two days on the train”
Dance Class
“She called you a jerk and a butthead?”
Car Pool
“This is boring,” I said, “anybody have any jokes?”
Bench Press
“I just knew she would do it; she can’t resist, she just can’t resist…”
English Kitchen
“… he decided we should move to France – but then the tax stuff started and he decided we had to move out of France because of the tax…”
Second Chances
“He didn’t even notice the book on the car…”
Ordinary Life
The younger man continued to inspect his face…
The Streets of San Francisco
“You can’t really drive in San Francisco if you can’t execute a Divisadero under pressure…”
Counting Cards
“You have to count the cards…”
Neck Business
“Is this really about your boss’ neck?”
Stitching The Dwarf’s Toga
(Feat Martha Slaughter)
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Operator Error
“I tried to imagine how he could have gotten…”
SideCar
SideCar is the People’s Uber.
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San Francisco Realtor
“You’d gut it; its a real grateful dead situation…”
Reservation
“There was no way to get a reservation at Moziki…”
Iguana Walrus
Drawn By Martha Slaughter
