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The Spare Key
$15.00
When a woman finds her ex-husband’s key buried in her junk drawer, what begins as a simple act of returning it turns into a journey through memory, closure, and grace. Bittersweet and sharply funny, “The Spare Key” is a story about what we keep, what we let go, and how some doors only close when we finally stop trying to unlock them.
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From The Art of Almost Collection
In The Art of Almost Collection, J. J. Jonas captures the hilarious and heartbreaking contradictions of the quarter-life years — when love, career, and identity are all under renovation. From a young man learning stick shift from his mother’s first love (Manual Transmission) to a divorced couple sharing custody of a dog (The Custody of Mondays), to a thrift shopper who finds grace tucked inside an old blazer (Thirty and Thrifty), these stories shimmer with humor, vulnerability, and quiet revelation.Wry, hopeful, and deeply human.
Other short stories from The Art of Almost Collection:
- The Couch on Craigslist
- The Custody of Mondays
- The Latte Rebellion
- Manual Transmission
- The Meeting that Changed Nothing (and Everything)
- The Neighbor’s Garden
- Performance Review
- Return to Sender
- Thirty and Thrifty
Titles shown above in The Art of Almost Collection are available seperately. See “Prose Short Stories” in the Online Store.
