chapter 9: burglar with red socks
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These are excerpts from Good Bye Joe, a book about my family. As I am currently in the market for a publisher,
I can only post a paragraph or two. If you’d like to read more, shoot me an email at yobodish@yobodish.com.
I was deep asleep when what I thought was thunder woke me up. I listened for it but didn’t hear anything so I started to drift off again when I heard my dad shout, “Stop! I shoot you!”
It was one of those bitter cold winter nights and the streets were thick with ice. Several inches of snow had fallen for two days followed by sleet. No one ventured out and the streets were quiet.
It was close to 2:00 a.m. and Haes was the only one up watching TV. She heard the bathroom door that was connected to her room open and shut. She saw the light turn on but there was no sound. She didn’t think anything of it and continued to watch her movie. Several minutes later, she heard loud rustling and sounds of drawers and cabinets being opened and shut.
She called out, “Hae Jin, what are you looking for?” The rustling stopped and there was no answer.
She got up and knocked on the door and asked, “Hey, what are you doing?” Still no answer. She tried to open the door only to have it slammed back in her face. She crouched down, peeked underneath the door and saw two huge feet clad in red socks.
There was a stranger in the house.
Chapter 5: Americans Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving
Chapter 6: Paper Dolls and Airplanes
Chapter 7: Days of Summer
Chapter 8: How Do You Spell Kitchen? C-H-I-C-K-E-N
Chapter 11: Not It
Chapter 12: Batman v. Superman
Chapter 13: The Road Trip Test
Boomer Sooner Chicken Quesadilla is packed with shredded chicken steeped in chili, cumin, adobo sauce topped with gooey, melted cheese and crispy tortilla.
Pho Ga But Not the Veggies has a soothing broth punched up by the aromatic herbs and spices of basil, cilantro, sriracha sauce and jalepeno peppers.
That Ain’t No Quesadilla Veggie Quesadilla has fresh tomatoes, portobello mushrooms, onions and avocado topped with melted cheese and sour cream.
NYC Days of Fried Chicken with Yellow Rice and Black Beans is infused with tumeric, cumin, garlic, cilantro, parsley, just to name a few.
Sisters, nephews, niece and me at the “before F5 tornado house.” We went back home to Oklahoma every year for Christmas. The holidays in Oklahoma tradition has moved to NYC.
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