Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock
Bio
Retired Ordained Elder in The United Methodist Church having served for a total of 30 years in Missouri, South Dakota & Kansas.
Born in Watertown, SD on 9/26/1959. Married to Sandra Jellison-Knock on 1/24/1986. One son, Keenan, deceased.
Stories (116/0)
Just Another Squatter
His name is Conrad & he’s my friend. He lives five miles north of town on the narrow, paved road leading to Nebraska & another two miles east over gravel & dirt. He has taken up residence in an old, abandoned farmhouse at the end of the road. He scavenges for things he needs, things we take for granted. We flip a switch; he sets up solar panels he’s acquired over the years to charge batteries for two hours’ worth of internet access on a computer so old it’s a wonder it still works. We turn on a faucet; he fills buckets with rainwater or from the irrigation systems so ubiquitous in our area. We head to bed; he heads to a pile of worn-out blankets on the splintering, bare wood floor of a room where, when it rains, it doesn’t leak too much &, when it blows, it only whistles through the cracks in the wall a little & rattles the dust-covered windowpanes.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock3 years ago in Humans
One More Time
The barn would be the place. Definitely the barn. No one else is home & mom has this thing about entertaining when we are home alone, especially when the guest is of the opposite gender. She would say, “It doesn’t look good. The neighbors will talk.”
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock3 years ago in Fiction