Includes rough draft pictures:
As told by Jake Johnstone…
From the mind of a grief stricken one…
Jordan Pebblesmouth
” AVALANCHE “
” It’s just grief! That’s it! Grief! Funny thing is ‘ Good – Grief ‘ was the last thing I recall saying before I picked up the phone that day I got the call my Dad passed! Heat-stricken-lunch-ruined Wednesday November 9 2008 is the last time I remember any interaction with Dad. Dementia just took him but storage space lock wasn’t put on right? No big deal! ‘Let me eat’ so I ignore his 8 calls while I’m eating with then girlfriend Jasmine. Now married to Jasmine. That day after we both ignore multiple calls where I’m eating … someone, well an employee there … announces ” Is there a Jordan Pebblemsouth here?! ” so embarassed I just ran to my Volskwagen Jetta I had then … Put my lil’ earbuds in and called Dad … Mind the fact that he’s called 8 times already to my phone and Jasmine’s as well … Yet somehow he knew we were eating at local Panera Bread! Oh my god that was just so embarassing! Still trying to get over that … Not showing all the devil in the details in that haunting of a memory but … fast forward to now 2018 and the call I just received is my dad killed himself at the mental ward he was stationed at. Stationed? He was admitted! I’ll be frank here … Oh the horror I can’t understand … The devil was in him? I’m not even sure, but the dementia felt more evil … I just never wanted to believe it! None of it! Ignored anything mom would tell me before she passed from Lupus back in ’09! Just my sister Paige Mandy Pebblesmouth to try reason with me, or should I say inform me of the horrors in my Dad?! The devil is in the details I say! That saying I never could get! Sunshine left me … Sunshine left my presence about a year prior to this writing. Dark days make up the norm these days. Black shirts. Black pants. Black socks. Black shoes. Greys with baloon-bulletholed heads. I would call you crazy if you saw them … Yet my sister told me the following in a voicemail she left me just before my Dad’s suicide! … Sure enough I didn’t listen until after I found out my Dad died but … “
[ voicemail from Paige Mandy Pebblesmouth ]
Paige Mandy Pebblesmouth: ” Hey lil’ bro! Your older sis’ Paige here just informing you the devil is in dad! I know you won’t believe me; but an exorcism is what he needs! Please call me back as soon as you get this! I’ll explain all when you call! “
” Voice-mails are getting claustrophobic the way my phone’s memory couldn’t breathe. By the time I listen to the voicemail from my sister my thought is stuck on the 9-1-1 call the day Dad died … I’m watching tv but I wasn’t really watching … I just left it on that morning … abc Good Morning America I watched with breakfast before the 9-1-1 call … As I answer an avalanche is shown on the news to have wiped out 70 people! Confused; but grief stricken man is seen telling his memories of his friend ‘ Fiore ‘! …”
This story continues in …
” Scorpion Crawling Mirage ”
Peace,
” Creativity with a passion, for a purpose! … To entertain! … To motivate! … To inspire! … “
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