Guys Read: A Fistful of Feathers: A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
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Sam has a problem: his dad doesn’t think he’s “man enough.” So Dad decides he’s going to toughen Sam up by getting a turkey to raise in preparation for Thanksgiving. But no one is prepared for the place Travis the turkey finds in the family, and Sam soon realizes the frightening truth: it’s him, or the turkey. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.
David Yoo
David Yoo is the author of the teen novels Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before and Girls for Breakfast. He is also a contributor to Guys Read: Funny Business. He spends his spare time staring unblinking (in either wonder or abject horror) at his newborn son, Griffin. David lives in Massachusetts, where he teaches in the MFA program at Pine Manor College and at the Gotham Writers' Workshop.
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Guys Read - David Yoo
A Fistful of Feathers
By David Yoo
A Short Story from
Guys Read: Funny Business
Volume 1 of the Guys Read Library of Great Reading
Edited by Jon Scieszka
With an illustration by Adam Rex
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A FISTFUL OF FEATHERS
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A FISTFUL OF FEATHERS
BY DAVID YOO
One night in the fall of fifth grade my dad finally got fed up with me and decided it was time to make me a man. Translation: My dad thought I was positively girly and was worried that I’d get bullied once I got to middle school the next year. He had been appalled earlier that day to see that only girls had been invited to my eleventh birthday party, and that night he glared at me all through dinner as I nibbled on a tofu burger (I’d been a vegetarian since the third grade, when I bit into an unbelievably purply, bloody Chicken McNugget at McDonald’s), before finally announcing, That’s it, I’m making you my special project, Sam. We’re going to right this ship starting tomorrow.
Had I been born in previous generations, my dad telling me he was going to make a man out of me would have meant taking me hunting for the first time, or letting me take a sip of his beer as we watched baseball on TV, or spending the fall making a soapbox racer together, but he had other ideas for how to make me less girly.
Before I continue, let me make it clear that it wasn’t so much that I was girly as it was that my dad was the manliest boy growing up, ever. His own father was a lifelong military man, and my dad was born macho. He was that kid who never said no to a dare, rode a mini motorcycle at age eight (without a helmet, even), was the star linebacker of his Pop Warner football team. He shot BB guns and got into fights, and he was obsessed with fires—if he wasn’t setting them for fun, he was pretending there was one and pulling the fire alarm at school.
I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t a spitting image of my dad, not by a long shot. I didn’t like to kill things with BB guns. I wasn’t into pulling fire alarms and aimlessly riding bikes all over the neighborhood all day, and I didn’t get a thrill from jumping off really high things for no good reason. Even if something was on fire or