Sorrowful Joe

By Mary Quijano

Strange happenings in a big city soup kitchen: A horribly deformed man inadvertently plays havoc with the social order until the vision of a blind girl reveals him to be much more than he appears.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary Quijano
• Release date: Nov 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301397433

Mary Quijano

Mary Quijano is a published author of 5 novels, 2 novellas and 3 screenplays. She has 5 children, 9 grandchildren, 1 dog, 2 cats, 2 goats and a plethora of wild chickens, and lives in the most beautiful place on earth. She teaches 6th grade students at a small public charter school near Hilo Hawaii, spends weekends surfing in the lush country setting of Pohoiki bay near her home in Pahoa, travels once a year to Hillsong Conference in Australia, once a year to Cali to visit her grandchildren and children, thinks too much, rests too little, laughs a lot and always takes a chance when it comes along. Good life!.

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Sorrowful Joe

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Sorrowful Joe

If he wasn't so ugly I might have pitied him, but who could be expected to feel other than utter revulsion toward such an atrocity of nature as he? My initial reaction had been thus, deeply instinctual, and no amount of intellectual or moral argument seemed able to dispel this gut reaction, not until it was too late.

The first time I laid eyes upon the man I nearly dropped my ladle into the cauldron of hot pea soup I was serving, he was that ugly. He shuffled up along the great wooden serving table, blue plastic bowl in hand, just another of the endless line of homeless derelicts that brought their hunger to the 53rd Street Mission each day. His head was bent over so far that his face was almost fully hidden between the overhanging brim of a shapeless felt hat and the turned up collar of a stained khaki overcoat. I looked up in greeting with my toothpaste-ad smile, but when the face beneath peered out from its cover and attempted shyly to return my grin, my expression transformed of its own accord into a grimace of horror, a small