JAUNT FIELD REPORT: TORQUEJUNTA, BRAZIL, 2/14/2001

Tell the boys back at Hondo that after eating a barge load of beans, I am 100% back on track, and ready to deliver the grand slam…tell them that. I would scare you by divulging more of the parameters of the story, but that would be mean-spirited. Just one question..why have you sent that infernal Boo Wiles to follow me? Are you planning on letting him tell the tale of my misadventures? If so you are a deceitful gypsy. And to think they let you run a magazine.

Tell them that,

Boo Wiles

P.S. Fuck the double nickle.

Meanwhile, as Boo was wading hip-deep through mud-filled jungle situations, sending madhouse communiques from outposts, Luke and Melco were relegated to domestic duties. The magazine needed promotion, as well as revenue. In the spirit of the thing itself, they hopped a Greyhound bus on a convention tour, with the intent of gathering sponsors and putting Jaunt on the map. It was a far separation from the jungle, but they managed to make it count none the less. And in the end, as usual, it made a good story.

Sideshow Utah: a short story (Jaunt Magazine, Spring 2001)

By Luke Schuter