Jukie

Bad customers, late fees, and forgiveness.

This essay originally appeared on Substack.

We called him Jukie on account of how he moved in the hallways at school.

His real name was Cody, and he was maybe eighty pounds soaking wet, all of four feet and some odd inches tall. He had this timid, tiny little mouse voice with a quavering lilt to it that made him near goddamn…