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Uncle Skillet Rides Again
[Fiction] A born-again adolescent takes a joyride with his wandering uncle:
"My parents and I had been waiting for Uncle Skillet to show up for five hours, wasting an entire Saturday as far as I was concerned, and not just any old Saturday but a glorious early summer one of God’s pure sunshine and chirping birds, a day so perfect that kids who were allowed to wear next to no clothes would be at the swimming pool all day long, and I’d have the perfect excuse to push the lawnmower by and get a look at Sage Ekhart in a bikini laying on a towel by the Coke machines. I was not allowed to wear next to no clothes, was not allowed to go to the pool. I was spending this Saturday in church pants with suspenders, my shirt tucked in, wearing loafers, pretending to watch television while we waited on Uncle Skillet."
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AUTHOR:
Baker Lawley
SOURCE:
Atticus Review
PUBLISHED:
April 20, 2012
LENGTH:
23 minutes (5897 words)
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