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J. M. Jones
J. M. Jones works as a writer and editor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His essays and fiction have appeared previously in Passages North, The Southeast Review, The Portland Review, Barrelhouse, and The Normal School.
Personal Time: Chapter One
This morning, someone shit on our lawn. Not something, as I’ll tell my wife. But someone. I’m sure of it. I’d gone to pull the car out of the garage, and when I stepped from the driver’s side, I saw it near the hedges, a brown smear. It might have been a dog. That was my first thought. But then I spotted the soiled paper towel tangled in the branches and thought, Son of a bitch, and turned to get the hose to wash it into the lawn, spread it out, dilute it. A couple flies darted off when I hit it with the spray, but they returned, taking up trace amounts I couldn’t clean off. As for the towel, I went inside for a pair of plastic gloves to pick it up. Then I took it to the trashcan, folded the band of latex over it, and dropped the whole thing in.
Issue 14, June 2018
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