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    Fester: Duty Calls
    Fester: Duty Calls
    Fester: Duty Calls
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    Fester: Duty Calls

    By JL Civi

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    Newport. Woodstock. Lollapalooza. Coachella. Fester.

    A life changing weekend of peace and music. That's all Shawn Smith (no relation to the musician) wanted.

    This road trip was supposed to be the highlight of his summer. Drink some beers, hear some tunes, meet some girls — and finally see Stephen Malkmus live. What could go wrong?

    Thirty-seven prank phone calls help turn Fester into a festival Shawn will never forget.

    An ode to summer music festivals by the author of Timely Persuasion, "Fester" is a fun comedy of errors — and also a teaser for the future novel Duty Calls.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTowform
    Release dateSep 2, 2012
    ISBN9781476248004
    Fester: Duty Calls
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    JL Civi

    Music aficionado and author of the rock and roll time travel novel Timely Persuasion.

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      Fester - JL Civi

      FESTER

      A Duty Calls Juror Story

      by JL Civi

      Copyright © 2019 JL Civi

      All rights reserved.

      Published by TOWFORM

      This edition has minor changes versus the 2012 original to better fit the larger Duty Calls story and universe.

      Learn more at www.JLCIVI.com

      ABOUT DUTY CALLS

      DUTY CALLS IS a tale about jury duty.

      More accurately, it’s a tale inspired by jury duty.

      Back in 2008 I was a juror on a two-month trial. One thing I learned is that even though a trial lasts two months, the jury isn’t actually doing two months worth of work. There is a lot of waiting. Way more waiting than anything else.

      Waiting in the hallway. Waiting in the cafeteria. Waiting in the lounge. After a week or so you start looking for ways to pass the time during the numerous recesses or the ninety minute lunch breaks. So you hang out with your eleven partners in justice (plus alternates) and talk about anything and everything with the exception of the trial. That topic was off limits, but nothing else was.

      All that time spent chatting with my fellow jurors gave me an idea for a different kind of jury story. One where the case is the least important aspect — maybe even a non-existent aspect. Create twelve characters. Give each one a featured flashback of their life outside of jury duty. Put them in the waiting rooms of justice to kill the boredom by shooting the shit. And give them a mystery to solve that requires teamwork.

      These flashbacks form a series of loosely connected short stories set in the same universe. They can be read in any order and work on their own, but you’ll find some common references and easter eggs that start to unify them.

      One day in the near future each character will receive a summons to serve on a jury, collecting all of their tales into a novel interspersed amongst a courthouse mission.

      Until then, duty calls…

      Fester

      A Duty Calls Juror Story

      SORRY, WRONG NUMBER

      SHAWN WAS ASLEEP the first time the phone rang. And the second. The third set of rings stirred him from his slumber, but since to him it was only the first he ignored them. When it immediately started again he groaned, got up and stomped into the living room where he had left his phone the night before.

      Four missed calls? he said out loud to nobody. Phone in hand, he disconnected the charger cable and walked back towards the bedroom to see what time it was. Halfway there he realized the effort was unnecessary since the phone had a built-in clock.

      6:33am. It must be an

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