eBook - Death At A Hell's Angels' Funeral
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- Published on Saturday, 17 December 2011 18:28
My newest essay ebook, Death At A Hell's Angels' Funeral: Driving Past The Memories, is now available
The death of Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew, the 54-year-old president of the San Jose chapter of the California Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, gunned down at a Nevada casino on Friday, September 23, 2011, meant nothing to me. A curious news item among many that caught my attention on that particular day while browsing a dozen news websites to satisfy my news junkie habit. Since I write speculative short stories, and I started focusing my efforts on becoming a California regional writer (i.e., the West Coast version of Stephen King, although much poorer and less prolific), I filed this news item away in the back of mind and forgot about it. The best ideas always float up like a dead body in a calm lake to demand to be written into a short story. Besides, I haven’t thought much about the Hell’s Angels since the early 1970’s, where they were less feared than the sheriff deputies that patrolled my childhood neighborhood.
This 3,635-word personal essay is about being stuck in a traffic jam outside the cemetery where 3,000 Hell's Angels attended a funeral and a shooting in Silicon Valley on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
