Joshua Gayou - Commune - Book One

“We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout. We’ve been talkin’ ‘bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out. I’m go-in’ to Jackson, I’m gonna mess around. Yeah, I’m go-in’ to Jacks-DAH, sonofafuckbitchcocksucker!”

He hauled on the wheel again, narrowly missing a washout on the road by scant inches. He got the bus straightened out on the other side miraculously with only a minor squealing of tires, the backend fishtailing in sickening fashion. He coughed and took several deep breaths to calm himself. Jesus!

Having thus regained control, he couldn’t help but finish his initial thought: “Look out Jackson town.”

This completes the first volume of the history of the Jackson Commune, comprising the early days of its founders, how they found each other, and how they came to settle there.

I have taken some small liberty in the narrative flow of this document for the purposes of grammar and readability. This was done mostly to help obscure the usual ticks and placeholders that people employ in common spoken language (Jake Martin tends to make frequent use of the words “right?” and “you know?” in his conversation, whereas Amanda uses variations of “like” or “I was like” often). In transcribing my notes into a final written form, I found early on that such usage would have to be cleaned up and elected to do so in favor of readability, accepting the minor hit to accuracy. I have secured the approval from my interview subjects before making any changes to their narrative; the initial intent and feeling behind their words has, I feel, been carried forward into the final product.

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JOSHUA GAYOUlives in Southern California with his wife Jennifer and son Anthony.

When he isn’t writing, he divides his time between being a senior engineer at a prominent In Flight Entertainment (IFE) company, accomplishing tasks around the house as assigned by his wife (The Boss), building stuff out in his wood shop, playing board games with his kid, and whatever else his twisted little mind takes an interest in.

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COMMUNE BOOK 1

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