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Holy Sun-Tanned Left Forearm,
or, ‘How’s My Driving? Call Thee 800-HOLYJOE’

by Joseph Pravda

priest former truckerThe Brotherhood of Overland Haulers annual convention packed the bedecked hotel ballroom to hear a special guest, the beloved Father O’Hanley, himself a former trucker, who had just ‘hauled-in’ the vaunted Mack Truckster Prize for his bravery and quite incidental discoveries in biblical archaeology whilst serving as a private contractor in the Middle East.

“And in those days a young carpenter of the House of Joseph was wont to make deliveries of sundry household necessities, hand-carved, some swore, by the young man himself; in the fullness of time, it came to pass that, on one such occasion, not far from the village of the Nazarenes, a very large crowd had gathered to witness the feats of manipulation—called by the elders thereof ’miracles’—that seemed to accompany him: and, as the young man began unloading an especially heavy, valuable table, destined for the upper room of a dwelling for a ceremony involving what was rumored to be the ’last supper’ of some local worthy, the people were in awe of the hand-truck he used to do so, not to mention the powerful hydraulic ramp of the eighteen wheeler.”

Joseph Pravda is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism and was recruited to serve as a lawyer with the federal government during the Watergate scandal where he immediately “Felt” something was amiss. He has also worked as a lobbyist and a private businessman. Since retiring he has written in many genres. He is also an artist. He writes a column for And Magazine.

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