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Yugo Joe Forgives Miguel Neves

Yes you were right Miguel: YUGOSLAVIA $UCKS

Joe Jukic leans across the table, shaking his head like he’s remembering a war story.

“Listen, Miguel,” he says, tapping the surface for emphasis, “that Yugo wasn’t just cheap—it was engineered to test your patience. You’d buy it once, but you’d pay for it a hundred times after.”

Miguel Neves raises an eyebrow. “You really think Josip Broz Tito planned that?”

Joe smirks. “Planned? Maybe not like some mastermind villain. But the system? It didn’t exactly reward perfection. You had factories like Zastava Automobiles pumping these things out fast and cheap. Quality control? Let’s just say it wasn’t the top priority.”

Miguel chuckles. “I heard they break down just looking at a hill.”

“Exactly!” Joe snaps. “You’d hit the gas, and the car would start negotiating with you. ‘Are we really doing this today?’ Meanwhile, mechanics are rubbing their hands together like it’s Christmas morning.”

He leans back, grinning.

“But hey, I’ll give it this—it got people from A to B… eventually. And if you made it there without something falling off, you felt like you won something.”

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Eastern Promises

Joe thanks Nelly for trying to rescue him at the Invictus Games, where broken warriors try to piece themselves back together. But his heart, he tells her, is still entangled in the Eastern promises he made long ago — to family, to country, to the ghosts of Yugoslavia that won’t let him rest. The time has come. He can’t ignore the calling anymore.

He’s out here trying to collect enough loot — one job, one hustle, one favor at a time — to buy his way to Munich, to see her again. Will it be war or peace? Salvation or destruction? They’ve both danced at the edge of both. Joe doesn’t know.

But one thing’s been gnawing at him: Will Nelly come back to her Catholic roots? Back to faith, family, and mystery? Or will Toronto’s cosmopolitan blur — its Sex-in-the-City nihilism — keep her numb and distracted?

Our Lady of Medjugorje awaits.
Maybe she still prays for them both.
And the world — for once — will hold its breath.

JCJ

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Delete Button Dilemma

Joe stared at the glowing screen, his finger hovering over the delete button. The posts were all there—comments he had made years ago, pictures he had shared, memories he thought were harmless. But now, they were ammunition.

“Stalker,” they called him.

He let out a shaky breath and sank deeper into his chair. It wasn’t fair. He had never crossed a line. He had never followed her home, never lurked outside her shows, never sent her anything uninvited. The last time he had seen her in person was 2013—a meet-and-greet, back when she was just starting out. She had been kind, smiling as she signed his poster. It was a fleeting moment, but one that had meant something to him.

Now, years later, her fame had grown like wildfire, and Joe had stayed where he always was—a quiet admirer. He had cheered her on from afar, liking posts, leaving the occasional comment of support. That’s what fans did, right?

Except now it wasn’t okay.

“You’re obsessed,” someone had written under his latest comment.

“Creepy.”

“Get a life, stalker.”

The words burned, each one a stone added to the weight in his chest. Joe had spent the entire day replaying the accusations in his head, trying to figure out how it had come to this.

He wasn’t a stalker. He had kept his distance. But what was he supposed to do? If he stayed silent, he’d be accused of ignoring her. “Fake fan,” they’d say. If he spoke up, he was a stalker. It was a trap—a cruel, invisible box he couldn’t escape.

“Catch-22,” he muttered to himself.

He’d seen the same thing happen to others. Fans who got too close, fans who stayed too far. There was no winning. It was as if the moment she became famous, the rules had changed, and no one had bothered to tell him.

Joe sighed, his finger still hovering over the button. Deleting the posts felt like erasing himself—as if he had never been there, as if the years he spent rooting for her didn’t matter. But maybe it was better that way. Maybe if he disappeared, they’d stop calling him names. Maybe she’d forget he ever existed.

“I never wanted this,” he whispered.

The cursor blinked, waiting. His finger trembled.

Delete.

And just like that, the posts were gone.

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