Jennifer McMahon
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.Collection: Medical
Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.Collection: Easter
Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.Collection: Forgiveness
All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.Collection: Hero
Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.Collection: Worry
I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.Collection: Baby
...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.Collection: Missing
What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?Collection: What If
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.Collection: Stories
The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.Collection: Baby
If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?Collection: Snow