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Michael Jai Grant

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The Limited Edition Bicentennial Cadillac Convertible Joy Ride

The Limited Edition Bicentennial Cadillac Convertible Joy Ride

A teenager and an elderly woman seek to rectify their family wrongs. Their getaway car is the narrator on this adventure of two lifetimes!

2023

Stories

Published in
MuddyUm

Checking In on Michael Jai Grant

How are you? is a complicated question

Jul 29

Bitmoji image of the author in front of a rubber stamp stating OK in front of a forester putting on a five-part belt with grapple hooks, carabeeners and straps, implying a sense of security.

Jul 29

Published in
Age of Empathy

I Settled My Lawsuit and This is How I Feel About It

There are many sides to the same box.

Jun 3

A cartoon of the author Michael Jai Grant standing in front of an illustration of a massive wrapped box.

Jun 3

Published in
MuddyUm

The Irony of Ironic People Who Don’t Understand Irony

I can’t even parse my own ironic thoughts

Mar 11

A cartoon image of a highly decorated pink elephant prancing through a field shouting “I’m Ironic!” with a bunch of dancing cartoon vegetables in the lower right corner screaming, “No, We Are!”

Mar 11

Published in
MuddyUm

I’m Not Saying it was Bono’s Fault I Couldn’t Breathe

The laugh attack I’ll never forget

Mar 8

Three cartoon images of the author rolling on the ground with laughter, clutching his stomach with tears while laughing, and on the verge of passing out on the ground with his hand on his head, accompanied by an oversized laughing emoji

Mar 8

Published in
MuddyUm

Porn and Scissors

A story from my childhood

Mar 5

Image of antique scissors in the background, overlaid with simple silhouette graphics of cartoon people having sex in various positions.

Mar 5

Published in
MuddyUm

I’ll Watch Your Dog, But Not Your Kid

Take your children with you, for their sakes

Mar 3

Image of a cute dog on the left with a green checkmark indicating this is good, and a child on the right with a red X indicating it’s bad.

Mar 3

Published in
MuddyUm

Thrill Seeker Alert—You Too Can Be Weightless and Witless

I jumped out of a hot air balloon because that’s, like, what you do

Mar 1

A beautiful blue sky with puffy white clouds, a colorful hot air balloon is at the top and upside down legs at the bottom, connected to the balloon with a very thin bungee cord, showing someone jumped off the hot air balloon.

Mar 1

Running for the Train

A lesson remains unlearned in remote India

Feb 17

A railway station in the afternoon in a remote part of India. The image is divided into four quadrants with tracks and the platform on the bottom, the roof of the platform and a blue sky above, and everything meets at the vanishing point directly in the center.

Feb 17

I Felt Special

Stephanie, once again I am awestruck not only by your insight but the profound way in which you tell it. I love your Grandpa. And his…

Dec 6, 2023

Dec 6, 2023

What if? How come?

My sister and her family live in northern Israel where it's quiet, for now. She has a teenage girl and three older boys. The eldest was an…

Oct 16, 2023

Oct 16, 2023

Michael Jai Grant

Michael Jai Grant

Book Author

I wrote a novel! A good one! www.MichaelJaiGrant.com

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