Growing Up Next to the Mental | Brian Callahan
Wish Mooney's earliest memory in life is finding a corpse in the Waterford River. Jarring stuff for a four-year-old, yet far from the most shocking or bizarre event he would witness growing up in west-end St.John's, next door to the Waterford Hospital. Or, as it was unabashedly labled before the advent of political correctness: The Mental. Little did Wish ever consider that any or all of that would come full circle later in life when, as the court reporter for the St.John's Daily News, he's thrust into the middle of his own life story, replete with shocking conclusion.