The Elephant Jumpers by DJ Kinney
DJ Kinney is the author of The End of Oranges, an unpublished collection of short stories that examines themes of love and calamity under difficult, often surreal circumstances. Stories from The End of Oranges have been published in Eureka Literary Magazine, Eclipse, Puckerbrush Review, Allegheny Review, Vincent Brothers Review, Philadelphia Stories and others. DJ Kinney received an MFA in fiction from the University of Florida in 2005 and currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon with his miniature dachshund, John Crichton.
Burned out and bored by her life in corporate America, June Morgan searches for romance and excitement, eventually discovering “Elephant Jumping.” This little-known hobby–or habit–thrives on spontaneous, whirlwind travel without a destination or purpose. June quickly trades the humdrum of Cleveland for full-time Jumping, but as the miles add up and the money runs low, the life of the Elephant Jumpers takes a dangerous turn. After a botched robbery in Amsterdam, June and the Elephants travel east, from Holland to Paris, to Istanbul, India, Thailand, and Tokyo. As she runs from the law, she surrenders the last tenuous connections to her old life and finds herself alone one morning on a beach in Goa, stripped of everything, without a destination or a place on Earth to call home. Read the novel here.
