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• W2023869969 abstract "EARLY MURPHY: EIGHT SKETCHES / Mark Costello The Neighborhood APLACE OF shouts, swats, suet and sauerkraut, Murphy's neighborhood was pure German. All up and down the block the mothers were fat, loud and from Milwaukee. In aprons, rolled-down hose and shoes with powerful heels, they were porch stompers, lawn shakers, Wiener schnitzel screamers. But their husbands were not. Furtive, small and often shell-shocked, they were skinny men of undershirts, stiffened knees and razor straps. On their cars they carried the red, white and blue license plates of the Disabled Veteran, on their garage doors they nailed the heads of mackerel, pickerel, gar and bass, in their basements and in pre-fabricated shacks at the back of their backyards, they kept the blowtorches, soldering irons, stopped clocks and bug-blue fluorescent lamps of their fix-it shops. Bald, bitter, handy and foreign, they cursed in German and sired nothing but sons whom they named names as strict as Hiles, Hans, Fritz and Victor. These kids filled the neighborhood and from their names alone they seemed to take the cue that made them take things from Murphy. First they took his pearl-handled pistols and lever-action Winchesters, later they took his footballs, basketballs, autographed baseballs. Though his father bought these things for Murphy, it was his mother who kept inventory. And she was the one who sent him out, Without fail young man, to bring them back. Usually it was Saturday afternoon and Murphy didn't like the task. Time and again he'd try to make a fist, but his fingers were too cold, his palms too damp. So he'd quit and go to confession instead. Back by the holy water fount and banks of blue votive lights, he'd catch a whiff of liniment and Mennen's After Shave, feel that his father had been there not too long before to say his rosary, know that if he'd gotten to church just a little sooner, he could have spent the afternoon as he and his father often spent their Saturday afternoons, running a kind of geriatric taxicab, a slow shuttle service for the elderly back and forth all over the town. Shuffling along the street or waiting for a bus on the iron islands of the transfer house, they'd see the aged and stop for them. Giving first one then another a ride home, Murphy and his father would empty, before the afternoon was out, the entire uptown of old men and old women. Because they were powerless and without influence, ex-mayors with Elks' teeth watch chains and suits the color and smell of tobacco The Missouri Review · 91 juice, dead priests' housekeepers with hearing aids, bird hats and goiters, citizens so senior they were too old even to vote, there'd be something pure and circular about the way Murphy and his father would drop off one, only to see and pick up another, walking them with grocery sacks and shopping bags to the doors of small, stained houses close to coal yards, water towers, whitewashed laundry plants. But that afternoon, Murphy knew, would be another matter. To the clatter of the priest's screen sliding shut on his, God bless you father, Murphy rose from the confessional to pursue he who had stolen from him, some broad-shouldered Hiles, Hans, Fritz or Victor, some freckle-fisted Schultz or Schmidt whose house would smell at that hour of his mother's dumplings. It would be a boiled and suet smell, full of cartilage and cabbage, a smell they'd brought down somehow from Wisconsin. From the alleyway Murphy sniffed and followed it toward their closed back door. Even as he slid along in a kind of crouch, Murphy could feel the sanctifying grace slipping out from below his sternum, being drawn like fog from between his ribs. Before he was halfway there, somewhere under a clothesline or the guy line of a telephone pole, Murphy heard what he'd been hoping all along to hear: the Saturday afternoon sound of someone blond being beaten in a basement. Murphy could not help it, he was thrilled and pulled into the hollyhock shadows at..." @default.
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