Krista Jayne

The Long Haul

After 41 years of too much Wildhorse tobacco, too many what’s-her-names from where’s-that-towns, and never meeting a single person more loyal or honest than the Doberman Pinschers named Kallie he’d had over the years, Jerry Bell was pulling his Kenworth into the parking lot of the truck shop for the last time. “Retirement”, Jerry always used to say, “is just the last step before the grave”, yet here he was, living up to what he always swore he would not.