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Who better to write about the Covid pandemic than a retired physician, a prime target for the deadly virus?
Dr. David Margolis wrote these tales during the worst time of the pandemic, cooped up in a house with only his imagination as a guest. He has produced a remarkable collection of stories, combining sadness and loss with medical knowledge and distinctive humor
The protagonist of the first story is a superstitious old woman who believes that Covid was sent by the devil and who can prove that it wasn't? We read about a muddled septuagenarian whose imaginary friend from childhood replaces his dead wife. There's an autobiographical sketch written by the virus itself, a play by play description concerning the invasion of Dave's nose. There's a sad dog with large hairy ears who waits for his master to return after he's taken away on a stretcher. We encounter a klatch of washed-up Gods sipping coffee in the heavens, who kvetch about irreverent humans and are delighted that the Covid has come. There's a misogynist sinner whose ashes are taken to a rundown cemetery and dumped in a cluster of weeds. The final story, Meltdown, is a dystopian tale about a super virulent Covid virus that kills most of the Earth's population, leaving only a few desperate humans to argue amongst themselves.
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The stories and poems of David Margolis MD have appeared in The Canadian Medical Association Journal, JAMA: Internal Medicine, Missouri Medicine, HumorPress.com, Long Story Short, Still Crazy, The Jewish Light of St. Louis. His genre is humor, and magical realism. He's published three novels, "The Myth of Dr. Kugelman", "The Plumber's Wrench," and "The Misadventures of Buddy Jones" which won an eLit award for humor. In 2019, "The Misadventures of Buddy Jones" was presented at the Jewish Book Festival in St. Louis MO. He's also written a book of short stories, "Looking Behind: The Gaseous Life of a Gastroenterologist."
