Anthony Brown

They gaggle into the pool hall trailing black feathers every Saturday after work, not really girls but women. But I am so old, women that young are still girls and my twenty-two-year-old coworker is Son, can you get me the broom. Don’t “Son” me! Javier says. What do I know? They arrive, the five of …

Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: In 2022, we featured Sean Thomas Dougherty in our Writers’ Day Jobs series, where he discussed his position at a residential facility for traumatic brain injuries. In that feature, he pointed out that “the art of caring means you as staff, your ‘feelings,’ really don’t matter, you are trained with professional …