Bikers Stories
The Biker Diane Tried to Throw Out Had a Folder for Her
A biker rolled up to our block party and nobody had invited him. Diane grabbed…
Category: Bikers Stories
Bikers Stories
For Nine Years I Waited in the Truck Outside That Gate
Travis died on a Tuesday, nine days after a heart operation the surgeons put at…
Bikers Stories
A Car I Did Not Know Was Parked Behind My Barn Before Sunup
"Put your name on it and the truck moves, Pop." Warren had backed a gravel…
Bikers Stories
I Moved $4,100 a Month Into That House From an App on the Bus
At 3:12 in the morning my phone lit up with my father's name, and the…
Bikers Stories
The Front Row Chair, and the Fishing Line He Sewed His Colors With
Marshall asked me in the gravel behind the tire shop on a Tuesday, four years…
Bikers Stories
The Paper My Son Pulled Out of His Hoodie in the Shop Lot
I was eighteen when the twins came, and the girls I graduated with were picking…
Bikers Stories
I Brought an Index Card to That Chicken Dinner in a Borrowed Clutch
The Placement Supervisor Saw the Brass Tag Under My Collar and Laughed Out Loud. "Come…
Bikers Stories
I Had Four Hours Left on My Shift When Those Bay Doors Opened
At 2:52 in the morning the bay doors banged open and the first thing I…
Bikers Stories
His Mother Is Seventy-One and She Rode Her Own Bike to That Wedding
At 11:15 the barn's front desk rang my phone, and then it was my daughter…
Bikers Stories
I Sold My Father’s Shovelhead for a Deposit My Daughter Thanked Somebody Else For
My daughter called me USELESS at 6:12 on a Thursday, and the back room went…
Bikers Stories
Fourteen Motorcycles at the Fence, and Krista Came to My Car Window
Josie was four when her dad's bike went under a truck on the Sedalia road,…
Bikers Stories
The Little Brother Is Five and Nobody Has Taken His Statement
Cody had been in our house five weeks and had never once asked me for…